Josh Dubnau

A crowd of more than 700 people in Nebraska heckled and booed Representative Mike Flood over the Republican congressman’s support of President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill. Shouts of “Liar!” and “Tax the rich” filled the packed auditorium. nyti.ms/3J2Wjsz

Genocide Debate over whether there’s a genocide in Gaza has special resonance when your family was a victim of the crime that gave the world the term.

This is remarkable. It’s late in the day for him to say this. It fails to fully reach clarity. But it is truly remarkable to see the founder of J-street write these words. I believe the dam is breaking.

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When Israel engineered the starvation of every person in Gaza, it necessarily included Israelis held captive by Hamas. The emaciated captives of Hamas are merely collateral damage of Israel’s genocide. By contrast, the malnourishment of Palestinian prisoners is intentional.

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dok3fu

As a descendant of Holocaust victims, it’s painful to see the silence of the @ushmm.bsky.social (Holocaust Museum) as Israel perpetrates a holocaust against Palestinians. Someday, this Holocaust will also be memorialized, perhaps in the same building in DC. The exhibit will examine this silence.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

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New research from @joshdubnau.bsky.social and @alexckeene.bsky.social labs in #G3journal identifies sleep-regulating genes present in LHLK neurons, thereby revealing novel regulators of sleep-metabolism interactions within individual neurons in #Drosophila. 🪰

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Thanks to you Chanda for turning me on to this! I’m out west, high desert, and am getting some amazing dark skies! These are just raw images. Cant wait to get to a computer to clean them up. 😊

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Urgent Health Update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen - July 19, 2025 — JVP Health Advisory Council Action Items 1. A report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese exposed the big tech companies profiting from Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, HP, IBM and Palantir. But UN Secretary General António Guterres is i

Please read, share widely and do at least 2 Action Items!

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Should people be allowed to crap on the floor in public bathrooms? Depends on whom you ask.

so.... NIH issued a news item clarifying the new use of animals policy.

It seems that the bottom line is that NIH will not issue NoFOs specifically about creation or use of animal models of disease.

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Who's carrying out Southern California immigration raids? The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids.

“Many of them belong to the Border Patrol, the agency that traditionally has policed the nation’s border with Mexico. But the Trump administration sent officers from other agencies to Los Angeles, too, including the FBI and special tactical teams from the Department of Homeland Security”

There is a rally on MONDAY at 4:30 PM to stand up for NIH. Please join.

Many NIH employees signed the Bethesda Declaration, objecting to the destruction of NIH. The Trump NIH Director asked the signers to meet. The rally follows that meeting, in support.

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Genocide is an attempt to destroy a people, their society, culture, historical sites, family structures and memories. This is the most hideous and unspeakable act that can be inagined. Genocide forces everyone to choose between humanity and utter brutality. Do not fool yourself: silence is a choice.

We finally know that international law does not exist. ICC, UN were paper tigers, theatrical stages that powerful countries used to justify their actions as convenient. They got dropped, humiliated, attacked, as soon as tables turned. There is no justice without enforcement. No law without order.

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Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.

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We asked Senator Susan Collins if she knew how many Americans Israeli forces have killed since October 7, 2023. Here's what she said to @premthakker.bsky.social

Israeli forces have killed at least 6 Americans since October 7.

UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best candidate in the race to advance our union’s agenda: to protect our premium-free health care, fix Tier 6, pass the “RESPECT check” bill, implement the class size law, revamp mayoral control and more.

We entrust our city's future to the nearly 200,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors and more of the UFT. Now more than ever, they need a mayor who recognizes their value and has their backs. I am honored to earn their endorsement.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

Well, this happened yesterday...

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I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.

But I am wary about making assumptions...

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Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: ‘The repression is growing, but so is the resistance’ As the administration continues to exploit antisemitism to arrest protesters and curb academic freedoms, more American Jews are saying ‘not in my name’

Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A recent poll by the Jewish Voters Resource Center found that 64% of Jewish voters disapprove of Trump’s policies to purportedly combat antisemitism, and 61% believe arresting and deporting pro-Palestinian protesters contribute to increased antisemitism.

limiting academic freedom and targeting pro-Palestinian international students with detention and deportation.

In response, Jewish organizers are resisting by increasingly confronting Trump.

@alicesperi.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com that, 19 months into the Israeli military’s genocide on the people of Gaza and the resulting US protests, the Trump administration has used allegations of campus antisemitism to justify a broad crackdown on higher education—

Dubnaua, a JVP member and a professor at Stony Brook University, helped lead a protest in which Columbia alumni tore up their diplomas, denouncing the university’s investments in Israel and its collaboration with the Trump administration.

“There are thousands of us who don’t believe in the right of the Jewish people to ethnically cleanse Palestine. There were Jews thousands of years before Zionism, and there will be Jews when Zionism is in the dustbin of history,” said @joshdubnau.bsky.social

I am constantly losing my mind when certain people are praised for 'novel thinking' because they pitch to soft and uninformed audiences.

When the foundation of the 'novel' idea is just a FAILURE TO READ THE LITERATURE.

I hope everyone is having a good Fourth of July break. Here is how I ended up spending some of mine...

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