Harmit Singh Malik

I love Mariners gallows humor 🫠

Mariners pitching employing the long term strategy of tiring out the Blue Jays hitters in Game 3 so they’ll have less in the tank for the next few games

Jeannette Tenthorey • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation A staggering 8% of the human genome derives from endogenous retroviruses, ancient evolutionary fossils that have been dismissed as vestiges. Yet recent work has revealed that some of these viral genes...

Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Day 2 of Marker lectures visit to @pennstateuniv.bsky.social with some amazing meetings (including with @szparalab.bsky.social)

and yummy food

Plus I also gave a seminar.

Dear funding agencies,

I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.

Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.

Dr. Melanie McReynolds, queen of all things NAD+ in biochem dept at Penn State

Selfie with Dr. Seth Birdenstein, direction of microbiome institute at Penn state

Selfie with Dr. Seth Bordenatwin showing off some nice swag (socks) that advertise the microbiome center at Penn State

Selfie with Dr. Nikki Crowley, director of neuroscience institute at Penn state

Excellent first day at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social for the Marker lectures hanging out with science celebrities @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social @drohsopretty.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social
plus several more folks I was too shy to ask for selfies

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

How is Trump Weaponizing USCIS for the First Time? USCIS once managed legal immigration. Now, Trump is weaponizing the agency—turning America’s immigration system into a deportation machine.

The Trump administration is weaponizing the agency that processes immigration applications into another arm of ICE.

Immigrant communities shouldn't have to fear being arrested when seeking lawful immigration status.

“This year’s award comes at a time when funding for scientific research is under threat in the US…. “It’s a very timely message when we’re seeing the US undermining so much of its science base,” says Coyle. Aghion said, “Openness is a driver of growth. I see dark clouds accumulating.”

The Mariners-Blue Jays has not been a good showcase for umpires calling balls and strikes. Some howlers in both games and against both teams

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Toward the end of her life, Linda Pastan sent me this. ❤️

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Off he is ...

Ulrich is one of the most remarkable scientists I had the pleasure to work with. I learned so much from him about biochemistry, proteins, structural biology, and so much more.

Great people make great things happen.
The really great people are rare.
Ulrich is one of them ...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

“The scientific Nobels announced this week underscore that point. All three awards — granted each year in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research…Decades of inquiry paved the way for the technology, treatments and toys of tomorrow.” 🎁

This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 11
Prompt STING
Pdb: 6MZT

Scorpion venom protein Urotoxin.

Next:SHREDDED
Suggestions?

Virus driven Disruption of Transcription Termination (DoTT) generated cellular Z-RNAs are bona fide ZBP1 ligands driving cell death as a host response to counter viral disruption of the cellular transcriptional machinery @nature.com @foxchasecancer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

I don’t know about the ICE arrests but you are a random person social media whom in prefer to not engage with any more.

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

The 2nd of 6 faculty positions open at UNC Biology is for an Asst Professor studying critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology, focusing on molecular mechanisms illuminating fundamental aspects of plant biology, including interactions with other organisms 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

This is the single best thing anyone could ever send to a writer. I'm holding back tears.

Either one person is lying or hundreds of people are lying about the streets of Portland being overrun...

...by people in adorable inflatable animal constumes.

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

To keep verisimilitude with current events, half of this season's episodes of the CBS show "FBI" will feature actors driving around in masks picking up random folks off the streets in darkly tinted SUVs, instead of dealing with terror threats & serial killers

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.