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submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social is expanding and looking for ML-oriented computational biologists. Join our team based in NYC to work on cutting-edge single-cell & spatial transcriptomics methods in collaboration with leading research labs. bit.ly/4lTEr2t

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NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory. We got video. www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...

submitted 17 days ago • 47 comments

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 323 comments

Yeah, just got this notice. We were hoping to find funding for our initiatives from these mechanisms... All the work on that grant just got thrown out. Science is breaking in America.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The Department of Justice announced on Monday it had charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a new immigration detention center in Newark and was dropping a trespass charge against the city’s mayor that emerged from the same episode.

submitted 17 days ago • 206 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 22 days ago • 10 comments

If Walmart’s eating the tariffs, then what is the alleged purpose of the tariffs? To lower our national trade deficit with…Walmart?

submitted 19 days ago • 155 comments

#Medsky🧪 #neurosky #publichealth #Acetaminophen is a widely used pain reliever that was first synthesized & characterized in the latter half of 19th century & well into 21st century, #acetaminophen’s mechanism of action remains a mystery @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

After NIH staffing cuts, cancer patients in clinical trials worry they may lose crucial time. www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

If anyone who had a grant terminated (at Harvard or elsewhere) would like to partner with my scicomm channel (LetTheDataSpeak across platforms), I’m happy to work with you. I will feature an elevator pitch of your exciting science, then end with “this project was terminated” and a call to action.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

submitted 23 days ago • 2296 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 23 days ago • 1294 comments

The mayor of Newark was arrested today while protesting at a federal immigration detention center operated by GEO Group — a private prison company and major Trump donor. Kudos to Ras Baraka for standing up to this authoritarian regime.

submitted 27 days ago • 183 comments

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

submitted 27 days ago • 896 comments

Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un

submitted 27 days ago • 396 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

To honor Ann Telnaes for winning the Pulitzer and embarrassing Bezos, I’ve taken down the paywall from my interview with her so everyone can watch it.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

submitted 31 days ago • 561 comments

The MBL hosts the National Xenopus Resource, which serves as a national stock center for X. laevis and X. tropicalis. 🐸 Our frog ranchers raise thousands of individuals and develop new experimental tools and husbandry techniques to support the research community. 📷: @mollyherring.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

A juvenile colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time deep in the South Atlantic Ocean. Considered to be the largest invertebrates on Earth, adult colossal squids can measure up to 23 feet. bit.ly/42AADLW

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

submitted 40 days ago • 408 comments

Interested in Developmental Mechanics??? We are organizing a mechanobiology workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23, 2025. Come join us (and please help us spread the word)!!!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

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

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Tourettes, alá Georges Gilles de la Tourette 1857-1904. Descriptions of narcolepsy from Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau in 1880. The first formal description of ADHD, or at least a condition resembling it, dates back to the early 1900s with the work of British pediatrician Sir George Still.

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

RFK Jr.’s aunt Rosemary Kennedy was institutionalized and kept away from the family. Her own father never visited and her mother didn’t see her for 20 years. That might explain why Mr. Kennedy didn’t hear these terms when he was a kid.

submitted 44 days ago • 28 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 45 days ago • 1240 comments

How disgraceful for an elected official to attack a man who, just yesterday, offered an Easter message of compassion for the most vulnerable… Rest in peace, Francis. You truly did all you could.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Pope's words, yesterday, feel distant now: “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God! “

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Easter from the Antichrist.

submitted 46 days ago • 3382 comments

Over the course of an hour on Monday morning, the Vatican’s main piazza transformed into a gathering point for people mourning the pope. Tens of thousands arrived in the square, with many saying they had changed their plans for the day the minute they heard. wapo.st/42TZ6M7

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

submitted 45 days ago • 159 comments

The Accidental Harvard Letter The Accidental Deportation The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers

submitted 47 days ago • 69 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 47 days ago • 183 comments

Journal editors are now receiving such letters from the US government. The entire scientific community must unite to support our journals in flatly resisting such illegal interventions.

submitted 49 days ago • 19 comments

A new 2D gene expression map of the mouse brain during early development.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

submitted 60 days ago • 32 comments

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.

submitted 64 days ago • 71 comments

🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions. The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 69 days ago • 34 comments

hear hear

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Science is being actively destroyed, and it feels like no one cares. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Oligarchs buying elections with million dollar giveaways. Hopefully people in Wisconsin won’t allow the South African to purchase a seat on your Supreme Court just like he bought the US federal government.

submitted 69 days ago • 2484 comments

My lab studies mechanisms of pediatric glaucoma and the development of tissues affected (Schlemm's canal and trabecular meshwork). I am getting creative with fundraising because, well... So if you know someone who might be interested in funding our work: joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/index.cfm?fu...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 70 days ago • 411 comments

Serious issue: Steve Witkoff was on the Signal chat -- while in RUSSIA Was he using a VPN while on Signal? If not, then Russia likely had FULL ACCESS to the entire group chat.

submitted 72 days ago • 186 comments

How many Signal chats with sensitive information about military operations are ongoing within the Pentagon right now? Where else are war plans being shared with such abject disregard for our national security? We need answers. Right now.

submitted 73 days ago • 2795 comments