Great news! Physics Girl is making videos again!
Bad news: Attacks on science are so bad I need to talk at a rally on Saturday.
Interesting news: We need to find more near-Earth asteroids.
And it's all here!
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We are starting Bay Area Chromatin Club up again in 2026! Fist event March 5th at UCSF Mission Bay! Details and registration HERE: If you like to nominate a person for a talk- DM me. It's been a great experience in the past.
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wow! congrats!
10.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 01/ 🚀🧪🤖 Big update for #Omega — the LLM-powered autonomous agent for bioimage analysis in @napari.org ! Custom LLM endpoints, layer actions, plugin extensibility, agentic widget maker, modernized UI, & 30+ fixes. Here's what's new in version *2026.2.8.2*:
09.02.2026 06:40 — 👍 53 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1Wow! Congratulations Takashi!!
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Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.
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I’m shocked.🫤
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21.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0actually, I think that's when it the funding level really matters.
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This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
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Sea star wasting syndrome killed billions of stars, including sunflower stars. Thanks to a cohort of scientists, a cause of the syndrome is now identified. Each day, new science is emerging that will help our efforts to restore the population! Read more about sunflower stars: mbayaq.co/3ZlFtKf
20.01.2026 22:11 — 👍 354 🔁 79 💬 3 📌 3When your A1 gets ND, it doesn't matter if it's 200K, 20K, or 2.
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My first post for Round 3 of Slate Movie Club was written the day after the news of Rob & Michele Reiner's deaths. So I knew it would be published two weeks after that "news cycle" (ugh) was over, but I couldn't not write about all his work meant to me & to so many others. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Gift link:
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Worth a read, like everything @katherinejwu.com has written about the savaging of NIH and other HHS and science agencies.
17.12.2025 21:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Nice work! Note that the AtTIR1 we expressed in C. elegans (which I think was adapted to engineer AID2) includes 2 gain-of-function mutations identified in a screen by the Estelle lab (D170E and M473L). For traceability it may be worth including these in the allele designations.
17.12.2025 01:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where does it say that clients must not (or do not) affect the thermodynamics of the scaffold? This seems to be a straw man fallacy.
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The utterly fucked thing about this is that if any of that happens it's because of basic life science research investments (currently being gutted), not because of large language models.
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
now switch to DMSO!
14.11.2025 01:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I folded early
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One of the wilder Texas Hold’ em hands I’ve played. (I did not win.)
12.11.2025 03:51 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0FFS🙄
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The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n
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It actually causes more deaths; a study showed that hurriances given female names are more deadly because people take the threat less seriously.
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If you are pissed at the recently publicized demand letter from the Trump admin to UCLA, I warmly invite you to join us tomorrow at noon. We need everyone to fight this with everything we have. There is a plan, and you won’t hear it from administrators.
26.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 45 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1Generous
24.10.2025 04:56 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🥳🙌🏻🏀
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BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.
Stay tuned! 🍿
#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack
Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!
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