Jasmin

If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.

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Our lab opens 2 PhD positions to investigate fungi's evolution: #Barcelona

Wet lab in Biochemistry/Structural Biology of cryo-tolerant fungi
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Computational in Physical Chemistry of cellular processes under extrem environments
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Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun by Sarah Jeong Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"

Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Fig. 1 Applications of proteomics in wildlife immunology. The left panel shows the main drivers of intra- and interspecific variance in immune phenotypes and their influence on larger-scale processes (adapted from Schoenle et al. 2018). Yellow boxes indicate drivers that can be studied using proteomics. The right panel shows three main categories of application of proteomics in ecoimmunology and example questions that have been addressed in the literature. The symbols (+, ●, *) match the drivers from the left panel. The animal silhouettes illustrate particular studies as examples of the wide range of species studied, where (a) Otčenášková et al. 2023, (b) Li et al. 2024, (c) Geng et al. 2015, (d) Kershaw et al. 2024, (e: Chaousis et al. 2021, (f) Gillis-Germitsch et al. 2021, (g) Neely et al. 2018, (h) Mangiaterra et al. 2022, (i) Raposo de Magalhães et al. 2020, (j) Vicente-Santos et al. 2023, (k) Ruengket et al. 2023, (l) Kuleš et al. 2024, (m) Kuleš et al. 2021.

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#Proteomics Approaches to #Ecoimmunology:
New Insights into #Wildlife #Immunity and #Disease
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Amanda Vicente-Santos ,
Natalia Sandoval-Herrera ,
Gábor Á Czirják ,
Benjamin A Neely ,
Daniel J Becker
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My advice to trainees is focus on the science and let those of us in more priveledged positions fight for their ability to have the careers we've had. My advice for colleagues is to STOP BEING SILENT AND DOING NOTHING - FIGHT BACK IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. Sadly most are just keeping thir heads down.

Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.

Scientist Spotted 🦏 Advait Jukar, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology here at the Museum, quoted in a National Geographic article about woolly rhino tissue recovered from the stomachs of mummified wolf puppies in northeastern Siberia:
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🧬 We’re #Hiring a #Bioinformatician/ Computational Biologist!
#Single-cell genomics, #Epigenomics & #3Dgenome biology in #Zebrafish #DevBio 🐟
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This is 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪. Please tell her she's smart, beautiful and important.
She already knows it, just wanted to hear it from you 💁‍♀️

🦇 Sanborn's big-eared bat
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Trump’s ICE Agents Killed a Citizen. Then Damning New Details Emerged. As the ICE shooting horror in Minneapolis gets worse, a writer who focuses on ICE accountability explains why the government’s cover story is full of holes—and what recourse we have now.

The danger of this moment cannot be overstated. Trump/Noem's vile defense of the killing shows that the heavily-armed government agents roaming our cities are unbound/unaccountable even when they kill Americans.

On the pod, @felipedlh.bsky.social and I dig into this:
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The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.

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An exhibition at Yale about eugenics

At the Peabody Museum at Yale: one reason the Trump administration wants to eliminate exhibitions like this on race is because they show that scientific racism is not new but a step backwards to a discredited past.

Screenshot of a news article with the headline, “Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is ‘Domestic Terrorism.’” The byline reads Autumn Billings with a date and time. Below the headline is a black-and-white photo of a heavily armed federal agent pointing toward the camera, with other officers blurred in the background.

Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.

High Quality version of the 60 Minutes segment on the CECOT that was cut but has now been leaked:

www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind “A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...

I talked to a white guy last night who just got an NSF grant while a few Black women colleagues had their grants cancelled -- labeled "DEI". Basically he's like, it sucks and I feel guilty, but I still want to do my work and support my grad students...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Screenshot of a tweet by The Seattle Times on X.com stating that Indigenous actress Elaine Miles from “Northern Exposure” was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop, and agents told her that her Tribal ID was fake. Below is a close-up photo of Elaine Miles smiling.

Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.

A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔

Just thinking back to how I was feeling a year ago.

This is better.

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.

Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”

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Repeated evolution of flowers specialized for buzz pollination | Plantae If you’ve ever looked closely at a tomato flower, you might have noticed that its anthers cluster together in the center of the flower, making the pollen inaccessible to most insects.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Repeated evolution of flowers specialized for buzz pollination (Evolution) @nicrodemo.bsky.social @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/sIToGPO

#PlantaePSRW

How do four-eyed fish see above & underwater? 🌤️🌊 Our new preprint reveals how Anableps rewired its retina for dual vision- evolution at work 👁️👁️ Kudos to @perezlouise.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @keylapruett.bsky.social + team!
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Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board

President Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday — praising his campaign and offering to be a "sounding board" into the future.

Obama said he was invested in Mamdani's success beyond the election on Tuesday.

"Your campaign has been impressive to watch," Obama told Mamdani.

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

The Wikipedia article on bat bombs is full of crazy details. My favorite is the section euphemistically labeled “Setbacks” with a photo of a towering inferno caused by an errant bat carrying an incendiary bomb that escaped, parked itself under a fuel tank, and blew everything up.

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.

UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:

Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.