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Congratulations to Dr. Christy Montano on a fantastic defense. We are all incredibly proud of you.

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

A very moving read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary.
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty.

This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

This article presents the end of the PPFP as a done deal, but it’s not—until the chancellors’ meeting this afternoon.

We are very proud of Valeriya for obtaining the Pfizer trainee award for her work on Gaplinc #Cytokines2025

#Cytokines2025 has begun- looking forward to a few days of networking, especially with #IFN friends from outside 🇨🇦 when it has been too long 😀
Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎

#Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social

We are excited to share our recent results on a new lncrna that functions to regulate proliferation in thp1 cells. This is the thesis work of Christy Montano.

🧪#Immunology

These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Lysenkoism 2

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired “I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.

The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

How RNA, Not DNA, Controls Your Genes and Daily Life DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives

www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-t...

After 56 years, KION shutters its local TV news operation In a move that stunned staff and viewers alike, Salinas-based KION abruptly shuttered its newsroom Tuesday after 56 years, leaving the Central Coast with just one local TV news outlet and raising questions about who will tell the region’s stories.

In a move that stunned staff and viewers alike, Salinas-based KION abruptly shuttered its newsroom Tuesday after 56 years, leaving the Central Coast with just one local TV news outlet and raising questions about who will tell the region’s stories.

Timeline 'R' Us — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.

A reminder that vaccines are among the safest and most effective medical treatments ever developed.

Here's an interactive timeline to explore the history of devastating infections and the scientific and medical advances to fight them.

#VaccinesSaveLives

My quote of the day

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

"I have been put in a position where I cannot accurately and with integrity mentor junior faculty about what they need to do in order to have a viable tenure case.”

This is an amazing resource. Thank you!!

Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome:

The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu

This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues.

Uses cases 👇

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Antiscience Is an Existential Threat The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

Our new opinion piece in TIME based on the release of our new book #ScienceUndetSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

time.com/7317436/scie...

Striking indictment here of those who HAVE remained silent, HAVE agreed to the demands and kept their office and title

An August #TopRead from @carpenterlab.bsky.social demonstrates that heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2B1 is essential for optimal macrophage function, highlighting the role for RNA-binding proteins in mounting effective immune defenses. Read more: ow.ly/NSx150WTnSr.

‘ICE’ places Irish grandmother and green card holder in US isolation cell over $25 cheque Donna Hughes-Brown (58), who lives in Missouri with US husband, was detained after landing in Chicago on flight from Dublin in July

‘ICE’ places Irish grandmother and green card holder in US isolation cell over $25 cheque

“This isn’t just about 211 missing R01 grants. This is about the 211 PIs (or multi-PI groups) that are not getting a new grant. This is about at least 422-844 non-PI level investigators who are not having their salaries covered.”