Coleen Murphy

“but he was legitimately elected”

yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy

just because people made a mistake doesn’t mean we can’t fix it

Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!

If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?

A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.

My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized.

Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”

Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.

Badass

Me three months ago:

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

One might think that undermining trust in the economic reporting of the United States would trigger an impeachment investigation. This is literally bringing the word of the United States into question.

Personally, I would rather spend $200M on cancer research than on an effing ballroom, but maybe that’s just me. 🤬

NPR and PBS. A national tragedy and travesty. Just unimaginable.

Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.

The United States had huge excess mortality during COVID due to income inequality and right-wing anti-science bias

Rewriting history to make it about non-existent vaccine injuries is a desecration of the memory of the dead

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

A football field is 57,600 square feet.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

I’ll take every bit of good news I can get. “Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health… in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending.”

President Trump is stealing our money. One thing I'm looking for in a future candidate - how far will they go to try and get it back from him, his company, his "organization," his family.

More than anything else, this is the thing that persuades me that Trump does not plan on leaving in 2028

They ended cancer research for this.

Investigations of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans The traditional view considered forgetting as a passive process where memory traces gradually fade due to the natural weakening of neural connections.…

Great new review of forgetting mechanisms in C. elegans -- lots of cool research I had missed (or maybe forgotten about?)

#neuroskyence

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?

🧪This is horrific:

Scientist and green-card holder detained at SFO for more than a week, lawyer says A Texas Lyme disease researcher faces deportation after being detained in San Francisco after returning from his brother's wedding in South Korea.

We are failing to meet the promise of this country's founding documents, and it hurts all of us.

Will's story is here in the LA Times:

Motherfucking wind farms…

your opponents are nazis, you have the moral high ground by default

and the moral high ground and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee

Jonathan St. Ange Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2025-2026 Jonathan St. Ange, a Ph.D. Student in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to conduct research in Molecular Biology in France for the 2025-202...

I somehow missed this piece about Jon in my lab: molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/jo...

I’m just a girl screaming into the void that the destruction of our institutions WAS THE ENTIRE POINT.

This is why @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s *SECOND* (of 21!) lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Defend Institutions”

NIH is shrinking the number of research projects it funds due to a new Trump policy NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

Few outcomes from NIH funded research include
-99% FDA approved drugs entering the pipeline
-104 Nobel prize worthy discoveries
-34% reduction in cancer deaths since 1990

Future advances like these will be reduced.

NIH funding is already competitive.
🧪🧬🔗 www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

Tomorrow SCOTUS quietly decides if Trump administration can illegally cut grants tied to DEIA. This and today's bombshell announcing no new NIH grants is an orchestrated assault. We need to scream from rooftops.

Senator Murray Slams Trump Admin for Choking Off Lifesaving NIH Medical Research - Senator Patty Murray Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on reports today that President Trump’s Office of Manageme...

BREAKING: Trump wants to illegally cut off $15 billion in lifesaving NIH research.

Research to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so much more is on the line.

These people are LYING about waste, fraud, and abuse at NIH to justify attacking medical research—we all need to say so.

My full statement. ⬇️