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My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US. First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

No words. "…U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students…"

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

submitted 17 hours ago • 119 comments

"cryoEM structure of a displacement loop of human RAD51 that captures the synaptic state when the filament has become tightly bound to the donor DNA" wow🤯🧪😎 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Pricklicious! Every Pincushion Flower seed head looks a little different from all the others. It's a beautiful day, and I urge you to put away the internet, go outside, and study closely all the flowers in your area. Quickly now! #flowers #photography 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑠𝑎

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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Representative democracy relies on the ability of voters to be heard by those they elect to represent them. For several years I've been writing about how generative AI can facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks on this system. @ketanjoshi.co's post highlights a striking case out of Canada.

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Really looking fwd to read this book 🤩 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/w...

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Proud to have signed the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future. A call to transform chemistry, where science empowers human well-being without degrading our ecosystems. Read it. Share it. Sign it. www.stockholm-declaration.org #SustainableScience #GreenChemistry

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked all student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

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I am already developing anaphylactic reactions to the phrase “gold-standard science”. And it’s only May of the first year of this damned administration.

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New report about grant terminations at the University of Tennessee www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

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Why Trump's attacks on libraries are bad news for everyone 📚 Recent events in the US have shown us libraries, and the services and information they provide, must never be taken for granted, writes MU Librarian Cathal McCauley. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

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"the suppression (of A42 aggregation) involved supramolecular copolymerization of TPA polymers with Aβ42, which effectively trapped the peptides within the filamentous structures" very cool #glycotime 😎 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Be sure to visit GIA’s booth in the Exhibit Hall (Hall A) to grab a sticker to identify yourself as a GIA member, and other exciting swag! We of course have our keychains here - come check it out! Also available is the chance to enter a draw for a prize. #Glyco27 #glycotime @glycocode.bsky.social

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It’s a real fuckin’ mystery.

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MADA IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN. Last seen in the off-leash area of Fort Greene Park. If you've seen or found her please do here www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or phone 877-818-0060 and PLEASE RT MADA!

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We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Important reminder that a single denied entry into the US (whatever the motivation may be) has repercussions for entry applications in other countries. Mind yourselves... From the Sydney Morning Herald www.instagram.com/p/DKGfBwGsxX...

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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

I helped draft this open letter about last Friday’s gold standard science executive order. Take a look and consider signing if you agree.

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@standupforscience.bsky.social has created an open letter as a response to the recent executive order attacking science, please consider signing, I already have, it doesn't take long: www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

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To work out if this decision was ideological, simply ask yourself: would the Qld government cancel an already-approved coal mine? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Latest from the lab - Excellent work from Franco Viscarra! Franco used simulations to find the mode of action of a nicotinic "super-agonist" - then supported that with SDM and e-phys. Super-agonist, super-cool! Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The new Walking With Dinosaurs is here! A quarter century ago the original inspired this geeky teenager to study dinosaurs. I hope this series does the same for a new generation! A special full circle moment to work on the series & consult with @arctomet.bsky.social & @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

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Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

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Harvard University can continue to enroll international students. But the respite is temporary.

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"we believe that there is scientific evidence for rich conscious experiences in corvids. For most species, it is a lack of research, not a lack of capacity, that keeps us silent on what their subjective experiences are like" Corvids are my friends ❤️ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Another great Mark Twain quote... Probably my fave one RS

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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Sorry OpenAI president dude, you are not helping anyone 😭😭😭😭

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Did the advent of email instead of paper mail make things easier? No. It gave us more work. Does zoom make things easier? No. It means ever more meetings since they can be blocked back to back to back. Fellow humans, we need to think about whether these advances actually make our lives better.

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"We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired." wapo.st/3FfIHsx

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Yes!

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To arm ourselves against Reform’s rise to power, we need first to recognise the most vulnerable parts of our current political landscape…

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Happy #Caturday

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"Because these predictions are analytical and based on an underlying energy function, they are fast, tunable, and fully interpretable" Very cool @alexholehouse.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻 😎 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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can't wait for the first AI to dust the upper shelves in my kitchen cabinets

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"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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