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Hey, I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but when you're doing Trizol RNA extractions from tissues stored in RNALater, and the high ammonium sulfate content causes a salt phase preventing pelleting of the RNA, you can solve this by diluting out the salt with 50/50 isopropanol solution.

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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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FLYBASE. Losing this resource would be actually absolutely devastating to science.

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What happened to Keri happened to my former roommate, too. Fired, reinstated, unreinstated, and health insurance cancelled retroactively.

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These are my favorite people in the world. The folks at the NCI that I've worked with are diligent, productive, passionate, and good to their bones. All my love and support.

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Public science data is quietly disappearing—with big consequences for research and innovation. We’re gathering global input on how this affects your work and what action is needed. Take this anonymous survey by June 2 www.surveymonkey.com/r/BioITPubli... Let’s protect the data that powers discovery!

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This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout | WIRED www.wired.com/story/lenaca...

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What was the first album you bought with your own money? It was definitely this Ace of Base - The Sign. I wanted to think it was Poe's "Hello", but that would have been a couple years later.

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Best follow

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”Why aren’t [Democratic leaders] taking the fired federal workers who are sharing their heartbreaking stories—the ones that Musk says were being paid to do nothing—and making them famous?... [Such as] the cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough?" Good question. 🧪

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yes, this is true. a friend of mine with a terminal illness is not paying attention to any of this. and why should they? it may affect them, sure, but not as much as the other things they are handling day to day.

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My dream is to have a session at the ESA where three people give ten minutes talks about their bug research and then my improv troop does a Harold based on them and I think that this would be really good for collaborative research and all I need is a small grant from the MacArthur foundation

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(also please invite me to come do a comedy set based on your research, it'll be so good, and also I'll do it for like, five dollars and thirty minutes on your dissecting scope looking at some of these big dumb things)

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Jimmy Bernot is still out here trying to gaslight me into believing that all of these things are copepods. Come on, @jimmybernot.bsky.social , you're not fooling anybody. Copepods are tiny crustaceans, Professor (if that even is your real name).

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I'm going to make time today to call my representatives' offices. I live in deep blue CT, so it'll still be preaching to the choir, but they do need to know what their constituents want. They can't guess. Call them if they agree with you and call them if they don't.

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Black History Month Stories. Today I'm very excited to cover one of my favorite Black Civil War heroes and one of the most badass negroes to ever live: Robert Smalls! His story is one of almost unimaginable bravery and intelligence. A story that embarrassed the fuck out of the confederacy.

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However, I did go to my first long form class last night, and good fucking God was that fun. There is just nothing better than playing pretend with several endlessly creative adults for three hours. Guys go do improv.

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Week two, now, that my NIH-sponsored scientific engagement job can't really happen; can't hold (highly attended) office hours for the program we run. Other folks are being hit way harder than we, but it is demoralizing. Talking to researchers is the best part of my job.

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This is really important. Sure, peer review can be bitingly incisive, but it should never be rude. We're all extremely accomplished scientists. I have only once outright rejected a paper that truly was bad, but I was very kind about it. IT DOESN'T COST ANYTHING TO BE KIND.

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It's almos as bad as my least favorite error, the blank red popup that just has an "X" on it.

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It's important for federal employees to know when they are being given an illegal order. In many of those cases, the thing to do is to express in writing that they are refusing to follow that illegal order. Example below.

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well, l will always repost Mimulus.

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new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

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"federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work." <-- that describes every single Fed I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

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Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

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Fuck this, imma go to an improv class.

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This is just a short love letter to PubMed: absolutely one of the best things US agencies have ever done for science. 'When I were a lad': we had databases of articles (Science Citation Index Expanded or Medline) but the only way to access text was to find the physical journal then photocopy it.

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