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Associate Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Lab: https://www.viralecologylab.com/, Hunts wild viruses

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"Federal funding for higher education research should be based not on political litmus tests, but on academic, scientific, and intellectual criteria that serve the nation and the world."

Clear, succinct, and a model to follow.

Pass it on.

It just might be contagious.

07.10.2025 00:58 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Exercise extreme caution when taking medical advice from an administration that sees facts as playthings to be misinterpreted, ignored, overlooked, or overplayed depending on how doing so serves a preferred narrative.

And that won't bring us closer to discovery or cures.

24.09.2025 01:48 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
Impoundment of funds endangers US investment in science and medical research Letter to the Editor

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

17.09.2025 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

08.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...

07.09.2025 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

02.09.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.

"COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far"

Ya think?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Fascinating given that "In Covid's Wake" is unable to grapple with (i) the extent of COVID mortality and morbidity; (ii) lives saved due to interventions; (iii) missed opportunities to align health + the economy.

26.08.2025 02:53 — 👍 29    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Motherfucking wind farms…

30.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 47004    🔁 17695    💬 1149    📌 2380
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Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

22.08.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

18.08.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Is It Too Late For The Climate?
YouTube video by Peter Carter Is It Too Late For The Climate?

Following the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtiQ...

29.07.2025 02:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

24.07.2025 22:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...

Check out the tail on this one! Nice work Adi. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

24.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/s...

23.07.2025 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/c...

23.07.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

23.07.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

23.07.2025 00:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Charlie Rice on This Week in Virology at ASV 2025

From TWiV 1237: Hep C and persistence with Charlie Rice

21.07.2025 16:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He makes everything dirtier

19.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants-but it's likely not enough.

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

19.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 81    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 6

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

18.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 116    🔁 77    💬 4    📌 7
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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Lysenkoism redux

15.07.2025 02:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cuts to federal science spending will cost every American America’s scientific leadership is teetering. The proposed federal budget would send it off a cliff.

To what end?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
scienceimpacts.org
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/cuts-fe...

10.07.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... 👍

10.07.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch).

When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building

nasawatch.com/congress/con...

08.07.2025 01:25 — 👍 218    🔁 99    💬 3    📌 9
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In latest blow, National Science Foundation staff to be booted from their headquarters Trump administration is giving building to housing department but has not said where science agency will go

The National Science Foundation has lost its 8-year-old headquarters building to another federal agency as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the size of the U.S. government. scim.ag/3HYXNUk

26.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 43    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 3
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found

Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ

26.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 119    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 3
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Evidence for Hadean mafic intrusions in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Canada Many questions remain regarding Earth’s earliest crust owing to the rarity of Hadean (>4.03 billion-year-old) rocks and minerals. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) in Canada may be the only known...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt— a complex geological sequence in northeastern Canada—harbors surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust, dating back to ~4.16 billion years old, according to a new Science study.

Learn more: scim.ag/3FXN8sq

26.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 73    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 4
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

06.07.2025 15:13 — 👍 1559    🔁 1016    💬 60    📌 76
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 44    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2

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