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Listen I know we've got bigger fish to fry but my NIH MIRA got renewed today and I'll take the win ✌️😎

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

The work on TE invasions in D. melanogaster continues! We found three more recent invasions, one of which occurred in ~3 years worldwide. Another great collaboration with @rpianezza.bsky.social @rokofler.bsky.social and others

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Citizen shot at point blank range

submitted 2 days ago • 313 comments

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Boosting this for good measure. To quote the CNN piece: "Homan accused Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of creating “a sanctuary for criminals,” adding that neither are exempt from potential arrest." This should alarm the hell out of all of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

CALIFORNIA. Fucking California. My people. Stay strong.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This moves closer and closer to dead civilians on the streets.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY! At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

all this to arrest a couple guys working in the kitchen at carrabas

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Federal agents in tactical gear armed with military-style rifles threw flash-bang grenades to disperse an angry crowd near downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they conducted an immigration raid on a clothing wholesaler. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Everything is on fire but we have an awesome new lab logo from @nepeteaa.bsky.social who you should definitely have make one for your organization!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ummm what is a phylad

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Everyone in Congress is complicit

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

What. The actual fuck.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Is passing on the exact protocol you've been carting around since your second year of grad school in the kopp lab sort of like a legacy

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet became a trash machine like really quickly

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 33 days ago • 161 comments

Very bad www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

New rule if I'm trying to decipher your handwriting like I'm staring at a circos plot you don't get any credit

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Idea: take home exam where the Google AI summary is the wrong answer for every question

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Our university is part of an (APLU) lawsuit challenging the #NSF cut to the overhead reimbursement rate to 15%. No proposals are being submitted. "The hope is that a temporary restraining order (TRO) will be issued soon blocking the action and preventing the F&A cap from going into effect." #NDSU

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

submitted 43 days ago • 61 comments

Is it normal for reviewers to be rude to the editor in their response or is that just extra special for me

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Comprehensive mapping of protein-protein interactions in the Drosophila piRNA pathway reveals how adaptive evolution contributes to rapid diversification of this genome-defense mechanism Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social and collaborators www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Microscope room is freezing for no reason. Dissecting is now an extreme sport

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Retroelement expansions underlie genome evolution in stingless bees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.12.648530v1

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Dissecting what are supposed to be wild type ovaries and they are weird and unstructured. Almost shaggy? Eggs sticking out everywhere.

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come visit fargo, they said, we can schedule in spring when the weather's nice, they said. (nevertheless, still looking forward to visit @signor-molevol.bsky.social NDSU !)

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Hey that's my alma mater 😀

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes (drosohila 🪰) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #TEsky

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for fruit flies at the San Diego city dump #dros25

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

great job Binglong Zhang sharing his latest on miRNA/target function in nervous system. 1 more day #Dros25 to see posters, inc from Lai lab and collaborators: 🪰 🧬 292T George Boateng-Sarfo (m6A) 324T @signor-molevol.bsky.social (TEs) 596T Binglong Zhang (ELAV/Hu RBPs) 926T Becky Stewart (miRNAs)

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

@gavinrrice.bsky.social always blowing my mind with his work on the evolution of novelty #dros25

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

My graduate student George got to meet some science giants 😁 #dros25

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Such a great poster session at #dros25. Need to refuel before everything you want to know about sex

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Lab boating #Dros25

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

looking forward to sharing my PhD work with Alexei Aravin @caltech.edu at #Dros25 tonight & meeting old and new friends throughout the fly meeting 😀

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

The world is melting but the lab is headed to #Dros25 and I've got a purse full of fermenting bananas #goodtimes

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It's not a question of whether or not you will be targeted if you keep your head down, the question is when

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment