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"The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee...Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."

submitted 3 hours ago • 93 comments

these fucking ghouls

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I hope to see lots of plant virologists at the American Society for Virology Meeting. asv.org/2025/05/09/p...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 1 day ago • 1692 comments

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Jesus. I’d be happy to take that $2.1 million dollars to give you the answer that it absolutely fucking does not.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

that's right

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Breaking: Trump just issued a sweeping new travel ban.  The ban fully restricts people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban partially restricts Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

End of our COVID-19 Era. We are leaving the laboratory space that was established in February, 2020 to increase our capacity to do COVID-19 research.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder a child is gonna drag you for many things, being gay will never be one of them 😭 Niece asked why I never kiss girls, I told her I liked boys and this lil demon gon say “I ain’t seen no boys either though!” 😭😭 double homicide

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

Happy Pride! #transmemes #transrights #transgender #trans

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The cruelty is just unconscionable.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Dear God.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

theonion.com/poll-finds-m...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

NO.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Abominable.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why has the UNC Board of Trustees has stopped approving all tenure cases in the College of Arts & Sciences? Without any explanation, this inaction by political appointees will undermine academic careers and threaten academic research in North Carolina. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kennedy, Makary, and Bhattacharya announced on X that they are pulling recommendations for Covid vaccines. They will no longer be part of the childhood vaccination schedule, and they're no longer recommended for pregnant people. There's a process for changing recs. It's not posting a video on X.

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

this sucks for me because i can’t get emory healthcare to simply apply my health insurance to $30,000 in medical bills which they are now sending to debt collectors.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

submitted 12 days ago • 325 comments

“… peer-reviewed literature is dominated by articles supporting a zoonotic origin” while lab leak papers “are rare, fringe, and mutually incompatible with each other.” Correct. And it’s not because one side is “censored”. It’s because one side has zero evidence. www.factcheck.org/2025/05/trum...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University sues the Trump administration over ban on enrolling foreign students.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

We live in such a golden age of science with so much potential for discovery and alleviating some of the most severe human diseases. And we are going to piss it all away because … I’m not exactly sure why. No one has made a convincing case why this helps anyone, red or blue or purple.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I’m not sure what else to say except that like the many other actions this administration is doing day after day, this is heinous.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

And this kind of collective shrug from people who say “what’s the big deal it’s just down the street” are why it’s so emotionally devastating

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Tragic. Having to get only one shot that is more effective than getting two shots separately was going to be a huge step forward.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹 But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Striking. SEN. DURBIN: Do you know the #1 cause of preventable death in America today? SEC. KENNEDY: Number one cause…not sure what you're talking about SEN. DURBIN: I'm talking about tobacco. You fired the head of CDC’s Office on Smoking & Health and eliminated their efforts from your budget

submitted 17 days ago • 48 comments

Good.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

submitted 17 days ago • 197 comments

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc. And get the money out

submitted 21 days ago • 880 comments

Everyone deserves dignity and equality regardless of who they are or who they love. On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, know that Illinois stands with our LGBTQ+ community. Hate has no home here in the Land of Lincoln.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 7-2 that Trump violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its expedited removal efforts under the Alien Enemies Act. More to come. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

Excited my peonies are finally putting out a lot of flowers! ❤️

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The burnout at the end of the semester is especially dismal this year… to everyone in academia…this all sucks. Prioritize mental health in whatever way works best for you. It’s OK to take extra time for that task and/or time off. We need you all here as the foundation for rebuilding US science.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments