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What will it take for SenBill Cassidy to call for the dismissal of the HHS Sec?

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#medsky

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Fraudsters target immigrants seeking legal help In Illinois, immigrants have lost thousands of dollars to notarios offering legal assistance they’re not qualified to provide—as well as other impostors. Nationally, the figure is at least $1.2 millio...

A months-long investigation by @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell examined how immigrants who are trying to follow a legal path to residency can be defrauded by unscrupulous “notarios.” With @typeinvestigations.org

Nursing faculty and students react to loss of ‘professional’ degree status The U.S. Department of Education's redefinition of "professional degrees" will affect federal loan limits for nursing students, causing concern among students and faculty at the University of Michigan...

"Physician assistants, physical therapists, architects, educators, audiologists, accountants and social workers also are no longer classified as 'professional'c

It's the opposite of "the buck stops here". He is selling out Admiral Bradley and sending chills down the spines of his chain of command, who now know their boss will sell them out if he is taking heat. A case study in how not to lead.

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Every workday is a 14 hour workday when it gets freaking dark at 4pm

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.

Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Holy shit

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FYI:
USDA's NRRL now requires PPQ 526 permits for *all* bacterial strain requests

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.

“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

I am once again asking United States Senators to take a trial ad class to learn cross examination and witness control techniques plz

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

The WHITE HOUSE 45 47 K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP The White House January 20, 2025

The WHITE HOUSE Offender Hall of Shame A record of the media's false and misleading stories flagged by The White House. Scroll for the Truth. The Washington Post EXPOSED OCBS NEWS EXPOSED EXPOSED i msnbc

How it started / How it’s going

Bienen is living in fantasy land if he believes that a deal dictating a bunch of rules about admissions and hiring that go well beyond what the law actually requires amounts to preserving control over admission and hiring. Or he thinks the faculty are illiterate

TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?

The mob-style shakedown continues

Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration

"Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration"

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People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.

My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.

The National Guard should never have been deployed to DC. They are being used to carry out an entirely political agenda that has no grounding in reality and now two members have been severely wounded. President Trump is ultimately responsible for creating this situation. This blood is on his hands.

Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!!

Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!

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#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio

An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine Multiple genetic codes developed during the evolution of eukaryotes and bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code is known for archaea. We used proteomics to confirm our prediction that certain archae...

Some archaea—an ancient group of microorganisms—have an entirely novel genetic code, according to a new study in Science.

The findings expand our understanding of how alternative genetic codes evolve and hint at new molecular tools for biotechnology applications. https://scim.ag/4omApQ7

No, scientists do not.

The biology is hard to scale, the chemistry is hard to scale. Currently the field is benefiting from data scale in other fields but is still woefully lacking in enough good data of most types.

Pfizer's solvent usage in the 80s 🤣

"A 1000 gallon fermentation was recovered by extracting the whole broth at pH 9.2 with 200 gallons of methylisobutyl ketone (MIBK)."

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"One thousand gallons of the whole broth of fermented...was extracted with methyl isobutyl ketone"