Dr. Thomas Martínez

🥳 🎉 New preprint from the lab is out!

It's time to officially introduce the world to the Nucleolar Integrity and Stress Microprotein (NISM)!

Check out the preprint in the link below

It’s the ribosome’s world and we’re just living in it

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

🥳 🎉 New preprint from the lab is out!

It's time to officially introduce the world to the Nucleolar Integrity and Stress Microprotein (NISM)!

Check out the preprint in the link below

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

congrats!

Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.

Ooooo

Labneh is a constant stock in my fridge! Always arab brands. 🙂 never heard of the mexican fusion though!

I had no idea thats a thing! Def need to find that now

What does a Mexican-Arab guy bring to the super bowl party? Homemade guacamole and hummus, of course.😄

Bawling my eyes out at this. THIS is why we need art and culture. THIS is why language and literacy is so important. It’s all there, to be gleaned. As he says, 400 years ago! Twas ever thus.

A line plot with the numbers of NSF awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is quite a bit lower than those for 2021-2025 while the curve for fiscal year 2026 (in red) is much lower than all through the same date.

But, as they say, there is no time like the present

[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]

But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!

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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

A drawing of an aluminum fluoride glyphosate complex, that makes no sense whatsoever.

BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...

Read the Save HHS open letter!

www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...

First they came for the brown people, and I said nothing

Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up

And am utterly sickened and heartbroken by the state of our country.

Members of my family have resorted to carrying their passports with them everywhere. I do, too. If you don’t understand why, or think we’re paranoid, or have never once thought to do the same, consider yourself lucky. I am so sick and tired of worrying about proving we belong here.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please ...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Good and Pretti.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Effective immediately, NIH funds will no longer be used to support research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions. The policy applies across the NIH Intramural Research Program and all NIH-supported extramural research, including grants, cooperative agreements, other transaction awards, and research and development contracts. This action supersedes prior NIH guidance and reflects a clear shift toward next-generation, validated research models better suited to today's rapidly evolving scientific landscape.

Well this about to be a disaster. Forget hESCs, hope nobody needs HEK cells or WI-38s or MRC-5s or or or 😩🧪

Why Bernice King sees MLK Day as a 'saving grace' in today's political climate Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter says the holiday honoring her father's legacy is a “saving grace” amid political division. The Rev.

apnews.com/article/mlk-...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s final college speech was in a somewhat unlikely place: Kansas Martin Luther King, Jr. would start 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in American history — with an event at Kansas State University. Just months before his assassination, the speech was his last on a college campus.

On this day 58 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his last speech on a college campus at Kansas State University. King didn’t have his speech written down, just notes. It was a powerful example of homiletics, the art of preaching without a script.

why oh why is there yet another new biosketch format so soon. And with no obvious place to link your My Bibliography page??