Ania Lorenc

“The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business.”

Fucking terrifying, start to finish.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

Don’t travel to the US

3 years ago on this day, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater, which at that time served as a bomb shelter for civilians and had a huge sign "CHILDREN" written in russian in front of it.

Estimated casualties are over 300 people.

I’m crying, this is so funny

WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Assessment of the variant prioritisation strategy for genomic newborn screening in the Generation Study Purpose Genomic sequencing offers the opportunity to screen for hundreds of rare genetic conditions with a single test. To minimise potential negative impact on families and clinical services, it is c...

Our preprint describing and assessing the variant prioritisation approach for genomic newborn screening in the Generation Study @genomicsengland.bsky.social is now on medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I think if not answering an email is a fireable offense then canceling Ebola prevention should be a fireable offense.

Commiserations, hope you bring it down swiftly.
Ouch it resonates, 'hit by a bus' feeling. It is bound to happen from time to time, even if I do my best. These days mostly due to technology issues (any of the elements of the closed loop, human included).

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Cancer-independent somatic mutation of the wild-type NF1 allele in normal tissues in neurofibromatosis type 1 - Nature Genetics Histologically normal tissues of individuals with a germline NF1 mutation exhibited multiple second NF1 hits, unrelated to their tumors, that conferred a selective advantage.

Read ‘Cancer-independent somatic mutation of the wild-type NF1 allele in normal tissues in neurofibromatosis type 1’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @greatormondst.bsky.social, @cuhnhs.bsky.social, and others in @naturegenet.bsky.social here ⤵️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research challenges our understanding of cancer predisposition New findings question assumptions of cancer formation in individuals with the cancer-predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1, and offer hope for a personalised approach to early cancer recog...

Despite what was previously thought, genetic changes alone cannot explain why tumours grow in those with cancer predisposition condition, NF-1 🧬

New findings could help inform monitoring programmes for patients and possibly aid future treatments 🔎

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/re...

Scientific publisher Elsevier made a £1 billion profit last year

"driven by volume growth, with article submissions growing very strongly across the portfolio, particularly in pay-to-publish"

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Darwin Tree of Life Impact Assessment This form is used to share information within DToL about case studies, ongoing research, and funding awards that demonstrate the impact the Darwin Tree of Life consortium project has had on Global and...

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

Three years ago. The lives of millions of Ukrainians changed when Russia began its massive full-scale invasion. Many lives, friends, family and loved ones... ordinary Ukrainians, were lost. Ukraine still stands

Never, ever forget who the aggressor is. Let's keep the support for Ukraine strong(er).

Bitte am Sonntag wählen gehen! Noch nie war eine Wahl so wichtig für Deutschlands Zukunft.
#Btw2025

Just in case no one knows the UK doesn't have a record number of people on benefits, in fact we have higher employment than France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Finland and many more.

It's all just a lie for the billionaires to blame poor people for their mess.

Math is hard

Finally something/someone worth posting on Bluesky: Europe must stand strong behind Ukraine and Zelensky and resist Trump’s love affair with imperialist dictators and plutocrats (the very rich). It’s our only hope.

Quite cool metascience

Be not afraid

The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries).

The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia.

The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

If I ever had people I was looking up to, he was one of those (he died in 2015)

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Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Bar charts of employee tenure, salary, and age from the DOGE website. The y axis is unlabeled, and horizontal lines providing some sense of scale are unevenly spaced

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

The pointless destruction of the world's leading scientific and medical research system No one benefits from this

The pointless destruction of the scientific and medical research system open.substack.com/pub/stevensa...

academics (especially if you are in a “leadership” position”) have been told for years to limit public engagement, stay off social media, avoid controversy, etc. Look where that got us…