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RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

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NEW! My June Field Notes from Space-Time in @newscientist.com is about the future of 🧪🔭⚛️ and culture: "The US government is dispensing with publicly funded culture, throwing it into a black hole . . . A whole future is being disposed of." Your library can help you access!

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DEMOCRACY: "Every time we’ve had a chance to turn the corner together, business-suit swindlers would froth up racism and distrust all over again to force us back into our corners," Donna Ladd writes.

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Trump’s 2026 budget proposal would cut NASA funding by nearly 25% and kill the Space Launch System based in Huntsville. That’s 15,000 Alabama jobs on the line. This isn’t just numbers on a page. It’s our economy, our innovation, and our future. #UnmuteAlabama www.alreporter.com/2025/06/02/p...

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Berg testifying in Congress. Thank you for your energy and effective defense of the NIH mission!

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Disappointing to hear my city moving ahead to remove fluoride, despite over 70% of comments supporting keeping fluoride in. I was so glad to hear from so many people supporting good science in the board meetings, but it fell into deaf ears.

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it’s monday

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Marmot taking a shower just because www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wdd...

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youtube.com/shorts/CuSwN... I made some people big mad with this one

submitted 39 days ago • 52 comments

Definitely got a little teary eyed reading this story. Fish are smarter than most people think! 🐟❤️

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So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

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I can't recommend DRIVE enough - a beautiful mix of sci fi fun, comedy, and has a lot of heart. The Vinn from this series has definitely snuck into a ttrpg I run

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how I feel using the keyence

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Ok, the lack of almost all amenities is kinda wild, but I hope this trend of smaller EVs continues.

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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I am considering having a class dedicated to “busting microbiological/molecular biological myths”. Please comment with ideas! Concepts should be things we all are/were told but in reality are more complicated. Example: “Eukarya have their DNA within a separate membrane bound compartment,…

submitted 58 days ago • 37 comments

This is a good layout of what the body of scientific research actually is instead of what opponents believe science is. It's hard to wrap your head around the wildly collaborative and parallel process that is the entire body of science work.

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Huntsville, AL showed up for #HandsOff with a crowd estimated at 2000! Great, peaceful protest with the message to keep hands off our: Economy Health & vet’s care Natl Parks Education Genders Bodies Freedoms Jobs Safety Social Security Medicaid USPS Everything! @indivisible5al.bsky.social

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Let me take a big ol swig of coffee and check on my retirement account this morning

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I am going to lose my mind. Every previous coronavirus spilled over from animals. A novel virus has never leaked from a lab. Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something which has never happened is the occam's razor explanation. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...

submitted 79 days ago • 218 comments

I don't know why you had to call me out like this My garden is survival of the fittest. Which is why I'm my most successful crops are chives, okra, and oregano. Which can't be killed.

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We have been saying this from the start. Journalists should never simply repeat the framing of cuts as “savings”. They never were. And the costs go well beyond direct economic ones because of the harm to livelihoods and public health.

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“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.” New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes” Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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I hate that this is accurate

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Plucky shrimp has just about HAD it. She’s breaking bad rules and you should too.

submitted 97 days ago • 8 comments

Mahmoud Khalil’s story, told in his own words, from an upcoming film:👇🏼

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social

submitted 103 days ago • 66 comments

Heck yes, now we're talking. I want my car to look like the apple car from Richard Scarry books and I'm not even kidding

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Telo’s electric MT1 mini-truck gets a new preproduction prototype

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All microbiologists have fond memories of spending hours in lab kitchens preparing synthetic media. In this work, authors show that by adding trace elements to the mix greatly reduces technical variability in microbial growth experiments. Cool stuff! 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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📣📣📣📣📣

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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 108 days ago • 67 comments

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 107 days ago • 8 comments

Here's a good thread and an article about how the different international genome databases are synced. Reading this is bringing down my stress quite a bit, even though we still have a lot to fight for

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of stuff we need to be communicating to our circles and local papers. I don't care about shaming, but people need to know what their tax dollars and scientists are actually achieving!

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

That was a nice medical center you all build there, Alabama. Too bad you all were so ignorant as to go all in for MAGA. You even elected that fool Tuberville who is cheering the cuts. You are going to have a lot of regrets going forward.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Last weekend I wrote a letter to the editor to my hometown newspaper as part of the Sciencehomecoming.com movement. I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me. 🧪 #microsky

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