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Free registration is now open for the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks on September 30th, 2025. We are looking forward to a full program including keynote lectures by Sarah O'Connor and @craigmcrews.bsky.social as well as five additional exciting lectures. (1/2) cvent.me/G1geWW #ChemBio #Chemsky

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Carnivorous plants have evolved over and over again through millions of years. And while some get big, none have ever reached Audrey II size. In my latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, I look into why. 🌱

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In-insect transformation of methylene-bridged [6]cycloparaphenylene demonstrated in tobacco cutworm, Spodoptera litura. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

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Who gets custody of JD in the divorce?

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This article says all you need to know about why basic science is the lifeblood of innovation. It’s the long game but there remains no substitute. Also a favorite example of @jeremymberg.bsky.social The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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🧵🐙🌿Here is your Wednesday Wasp, one of the most fascinating things I saw in Costa Rica. It's a silk wasp, Microstigmus adelphus. They're ant-size, ~3 mm. This nest was maybe the size of a pea. Females produce silk from their abdomen (almost like spiders) to bind organic material for the nest, and--

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An old tree and an old European varietal. I love all the discoveries of heirloom apple trees that keep happening all over the country.

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The Birth of the University as Innovation Incubator spectrum.ieee.org/university-a...

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“Yes, and” 1) Scientists are still widely trusted in society 2) for the people who don’t trust us, nothing we did caused it and little we do can fix it 3) Scientists should communicate why what we do matters more, sure, but also be explicit about “and that’s why NSF/NIH/NOAA cuts are bad.

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The House Republican tax and spending bill extends and expands tax cuts for the rich, partly offset by cuts to Medicaid, climate-related spending, student loans, food benefits, and other essential programs. The bill would add nearly $3 trillion to the national debt over ten years.

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This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

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New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Wild cockatoos in Sydney, Australia have learned to drink from twist-handle water fountains, turning the knob with their feet and using their body weight to keep it open. They even queue to have a drink, waiting to take turns on the fountain, footage shows. www.livescience.com/animals/bird...

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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New paper out at Biological Reviews!! 🥳🥳 "Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024 A joint effort with Franziska Brenninger (now a postdoc ‪@unibe.ch‬) and @kokkonut.bsky.social‬. (1/5)

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"Trump’s assault on America’s top universities and research centers is reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has endured for decades. @alecmac.bsky.social is on the case.

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Did you hear the news 'bout Billie Joe?! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...

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P4S Chief Investigator Prof Ryan Lister and P4S Research Fellow Dr James Lloyd are part of a world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants. Read more about the project, which has received more than $12 million in funding from the UK’s ARIA 👉 lnkd.in/g6CX8JHD

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Remember the ultra-cool scene in the Matrix where Neo can dodge bullets? That's what it's like to be a HOUSE FLY. They defeat all attempts to swat them because they are 'The One': they're seeing your motion on a different time scale. Let's talk about how small animals perceive time differently.

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The first generative AI drug to get to a Phase 2 randomized clinical trial. The small molecule in pill form, rentosertib, showed signs of efficacy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“We are embarking on a major experiment in restructuring the innovative engine in America, and China is the control,” said Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences. “China is not going to cut its research budget in half.”

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A Review in Nature Reviews Microbiology explores the evolution, spread and zoonotic risks of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses, highlights recent unusual outbreaks, and discusses future preparedness strategies from a One Health perspective. go.nature.com/4kKAyLS #medsky 🧪

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A baby platypus is called a puggle (or 'platypup' 😁) And anytime you post a video like this one, someone always points out they have venomous spurs. The adult males DO, but only the adult males! Let's talk about the amazing venom cocktail produced by this adorable little beaver-duck.

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The dahlia the deer can't reach.

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I hadn't seen anything about USDA NIFA/AFRI in the FY26 request so I looked it up. Does this just get rid of Hatch Act funding for land grants? Am I reading that right?

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To meet massive new quotas, ICE has changed tactics nationally -- which will drive more and more immigrants underground; sfstandard.com/2025/05/31/i...

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ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n

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Should be more conversation about how the project 2025 folks orchestrating the destruction of U.S. science- Russell Vought, for example, are evangelicals who have long seen science as a threat to the dominion of the Church. They are creationists, and now they control the budget.

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And that's a wrap to Virtual Evolution 2025. 1 society symposium, 5 sessions of student award finalists, and 20 sessions of regular contributed talks, with speakers from 24 countries (analysis of attendees will take a little longer) Looking forward to seeing many of you in Athens, GA in June.

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“250 million bees are now loose.” A tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over on a country road in Washington State on Friday, releasing an eye-popping number of honeybees, the authorities said.

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This is MAGA's one, big, beautiful healthcare plan.

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Smelly, weird, & wonderful...👃 Read the review by Anwarali-Khan Mursyidah et al. on: 'Dissecting the Biology of #Rafflesia Species: Current Progress and Future Directions Made Possible with High-Throughput Sequencing Data' 🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantBiology #PlantScience

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Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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