Killian Campbell

was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files

Attention devotees--especially newcomers--to microbial single carbon metabolism!!! 📣📣📣 The 2026 Microbial One-Carbon Metabolism Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) & Conference (GRC) are seeking applicants! 🧪🔬🧫🦠 Come present your research and network with a fantastic community of other scientists!

" I'm a member of mensa but I still do stupid stuff"
Lmaoooo

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

Great city

Excited for this new preprint from former postdoc @caitlinkowa.bsky.social identifying unexpected functions for the bacterial stringent response in antimicrobial fatty acid susceptibility in S. aureus #microsky

New work from the Barber lab crew ft yours truly 😉

Congratulations to new prof @caitlinkowa.bsky.social for driving this impressive project and roping me in to contribute

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Only under the model you propose

How does the strength of genetic drift evolve over long times?

New preprint out 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So who in the lab gets the first author on the one great paper huh

New lab preprint! Andrew Frando, Bobby Parsek, and Graham Roberts describe how components of the quinolone quorum sensing circuit of P. aeruginosa interact in competition with another Gram-negative bacterium, S. maltophilia -- it's a three-component AND logic gate.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

This is better than nothing. Good fucking riddance to the micro nazi. Let's hope Noem and Miller are next. Keep calling your politicians. They are clearly feeling the pressure.

Goodnight

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

They were not, in fact, greeted as liberators.

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.

people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Signs that you might live in a police state, albeit one where civil society is still strong

US Congress set to reject Trump’s sweeping science budget cuts Lawmakers announce legislation that would actually increase funding for basic research by more than 2%.

Nature story about the appropriations "minibus" bill and NIH

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/4

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

The Times went to non urban Minnesota to ask people why they dislike urban Minneapolis. If someone were to ask me to teach a journalism school course on helicopter reporting, this story - so cliche it’s almost hard to believe they really did this - would immediately go on the syllabus.

Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

James's Fundraising Page at Ski for All

I’m doing a fundraiser again this year for Oregon Adaptive Sports.

Donations help raise funds that support adaptive equipment, instructors, transportation, and scholarships so everyone can access outdoor recreation year-round.

Donate here:
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org/ski-for-all/...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.

WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

We Are on Our Own From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates.

DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

[transition glasses fade to black]

U.S. job market ends a woeful year on another discouraging note If this is “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” as Donald Trump recently insisted, why has job growth slowed to a 16-year low?

"If this is 'the greatest economy in the history of our country,' as Donald Trump recently insisted, why has job growth slowed to a 16-year low?"

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.