This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
14.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 3225 🔁 833 💬 32 📌 20This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
14.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 3225 🔁 833 💬 32 📌 20Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
09.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 66 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 1
Don’t listen to anyone trying to suggest the FY2026 budget bill saved science.
The bill has some wins (and I am grateful to those you worked with and from within Congress for those wins).
We have a lot of work to do before we rest.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
Every American needs to watch this:
05.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 20516 🔁 10280 💬 579 📌 981Just a bit…
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Powerful Shakespearian monologue from Ian McKellen on Colbert.
Just a bit applicable to today...
www.instagram.com/reels/DUXMaL...
If you need to find a figure skater to cheer on during the Olympics, here’s a great one from my small town in CT
#TeamUSA
In brief, this maneuver:
- effectively converts employee status to "at-will" (meaning they can be fired for any--or no--reason),
- redirects whistleblower complaints to internal agency counsel,
& takes away these civil servants' rights to appeal adverse personnel actions.
Without the Washington Post health and science team the public would have known far less about what’s been happening at NIH and CDC this year.
Post reporters have done absolutely key reporting, for example a profile on NIH cancer researcher Steve Rosenberg speaking up about damage to his work.
An email from the Internet Archive staff indicating that they have good backups of the NIH Record.
Good news.
I reached out to the Internet Archive folks to let them know about the discontinuation of the NIH Record.
As I have found on numerous occasions over the past year, they are "on in".
A great organization and an increasingly important resource.
Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
28.01.2026 23:48 — 👍 6899 🔁 1768 💬 316 📌 317
“We will not be intimidated into silence.”
—Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M
This fight is bigger than Texas A&M—it is about whether public universities will serve democracy or fear it.
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@movetexas.bsky.social
Just donated on behalf of @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social & myself ✊Let’s goooo!!
29.01.2026 23:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ok people!!!
I believe we may be taking March 7th NATIONAL!
This will require financial support. Last year, nationwide, the protests cost $75,000. We need all the help we can get!
Help us fuel the fight here: www.standupforscience.net/donate
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
US science after a year of Trump
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com/immer...
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A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...
28.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 42 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 2😱🙀
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William Herbert Foege .... you should know him: one of the foremost persons responsible for eradicating smallpox. He died yesterday, January 24, 2026 ..... the day the USA pulled out of the WHO. It is all so terrible sad and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/2026...
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Today’s retreat is absolutely an attempt to take pressure off of Congress to rein in ICE so that a funding package can get through.
That pressure has been effective. We can celebrate Minneapolis’ win but we need to keep the pressure on. They’re not going to stop forever.
Flyer with announcement of the FEBS advanced course in Amsterdam
Join us in Amsterdam for a FEBS advanced course on "Functional Imaging of cellular dynamics" from 31st of May - 6th of June 2026
Info: microscopy2026.febsevents.org
“Instead, build your reputation on substance. Do good work that matters to you and can be explained to others. The format and funding will change. The value of your genuine contribution won't…the quality of your thinking and your approach will always matter.”
27.01.2026 05:09 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1Nearly 15% (over 10,000 people) of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math or health fields employed at the end of 2024 left their jobs in 2025. This is a science extinction event in the US. Rebuilding the lost expertise will take decades
27.01.2026 04:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
(next to an image of masked ICE agents) NO KINGS MASS CALL EYES ON ICE: DOCUMENT AND RECORD GET THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS AS FEDERAL AGENTS TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITIES. MONDAY, JANUARY 26 8PM EST / 5PM PST (No Kings logo)
TONIGHT: Join the mass call on documenting and recording law enforcement encounters. We’ll discuss how you can keep taking action as federal agents terrorize our communities. Using our constitutional right to document and record ICE & CBP is more important than ever: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
26.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 1174 🔁 612 💬 26 📌 29
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Bill Foege, a health giant who led the eradication of smallpox and then led the CDC, has died. Bill's commitment to humanity and to selfless leadership contrasts with the fecklessness of today's health leaders who try to undermine vaccines. RIP, Bill. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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AOC IS 💯 CORRECT.......
25.01.2026 08:32 — 👍 1118 🔁 527 💬 41 📌 30Since you may be stuck inside due to the blizzard, today would be a good day to call your senators & tell them how pissed off you are
25.01.2026 13:23 — 👍 114 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 3
This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
