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I've worked on all of science, from T cells to B cells. https://fellowsherpa.com
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A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

I feel like the last person on earth who has never used ChatGPT, though I read plenty about it. This interaction blew my mind.

maybe having discount stormtroopers randomly arresting foreigners is bad for tourism.

“No matter what (Jay Bhattacharya) tells himself to sleep at night, people will suffer and potentially die because of the policies he’s allowing at NIH under his leadership.” www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

'These results support the hypothesis that advanced age worsens #sepsis severity and outcomes and delays recovery, emphasizing the need for aged models and multi-organ evaluations to develop effective therapies for this vulnerable population.' #preprint #immunology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lovely highlight (in her own words) on the recent paper by @madalenamrp.bsky.social et al. 👩‍🔬🐟

Sequence and parent-of-origin dependent m6A contribute to allele-specific gene expression Guan-Zheng Luo and colleagues www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Spain has cancelled a deal, with an estimated value of 285 million euros ($325 million, for anti-tank missile systems that were to be manufactured in Madrid by a subsidiary of an Israeli company, in a bid to move away from Israeli military technology, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

From Wolfgang Munchau's "Kaput" literaryreview.co.uk/bumps-in-the...

'In an echo of the current moment, he became a target of the hysteria around Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare because he was a Chinese national and a scientist. He was humiliated when his security clearance was revoked. The price paid for shunning Dr. Qian has been dear.'

'The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine. Officials (...) delivered the news on Friday to the program’s two leaders, at Duke University and the Scripps Research Institute.'

'If implemented, Brazil’s will be the first public-private partnership that allows citizens, rather than companies, to get a share of the global data market, currently valued at $4 billion and expected to grow to over $40 billion by 2034.' restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

'Transportation infrastructure is expanding, cultural programs are evolving, and landmarks, such as the Notre-Dame de la Garde, will soon shed their scaffolding to reveal newly restored facades. But the city’s wild streak isn’t going anywhere. C’est Marseille, bébé — it’s Marseille, baby.'

'If the government’s new policies come to pass, the route to settlement will now take a minimum of 11 years, not including any time spent in Britain as a student or on other visas that don’t count towards the settlement component.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Os resultados foram sendo distribuídos às pinguinhas sem qualquer critério claro (ou pelo menos manifestado publicamente), se calhar até temos mais ciência aplicada a ser financiada, mas há uma razia tremenda da ciência fundamental.'

'The FEBS Advanced Courses Committee invites proposals from expert scientists interested in organizing a course in 2026 with financial support from FEBS, as part of the FEBS Advanced Courses programme.' www.febs.org/news/febs-ad...

'nearly half of first-year students at the top schools in the US pay full price, meaning the students come from households with annual incomes at roughly $400k or above (...) At the other end of the spectrum, some 16% are receiving Pell Grants, designed to help low-income families pay for college.'

'The French pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $9.1bn in cash plus potential milestone bonuses for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Blueprint Medicines, which is seeking to develop a drug for a wide range of immunological diseases.' www.ft.com/content/27b7...

'Anthropic’s Claude Opus model blackmailed engineers in a fictitious scenario where it was at risk of being replaced by another system. Research from AI testers Palisade last month showed that OpenAI’s o3 model refused explicit instructions to shut down.' www.ft.com/content/2b3c...

O pior aeroporto do Europa strikes again: "General Humberto Delgado Airport is experiencing delays"

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

🚨Out now! Genetic diversity of H9N2 avian influenza viruses across China in poultry and implications for zoonotic transmission #MicroSky #VirusSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science has been the engine of US prosperity since the 1940s. This is now under threat, with massive cuts proposed to the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIH, and other major funding agencies, as my colleague Andrew Dessler notes: www.theclimatebrink....

This guy is such a piece of absolute shit and I really hope New Yorkers are paying attention

In Dozens of Districts, Teachers Can’t Afford to Live Near Their Schools www.the74million.org/article/in-d...

'Here we investigated the hypothesis that prolonged AHR activation either due to inefficient ligand metabolism or due to genetic manipulation may underlie the distinction between beneficial and detrimental effects.' #Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(Reuters) - Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Hello @bsky.app! We’re excited to have made the transition over to BlueSky 🦋 and are already excited to be part of the fantastic #immunology community!

UAB Barcelona

Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of an owl, c. 640 BC 🦉❤️ The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

'The French pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $9.1bn in cash plus potential milestone bonuses for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Blueprint Medicines, which is seeking to develop a drug for a wide range of immunological diseases.' www.ft.com/content/27b7...

'nearly half of first-year students at the top schools in the US pay full price, meaning the students come from households with annual incomes at roughly $400k or above (...) At the other end of the spectrum, some 16% are receiving Pell Grants, designed to help low-income families pay for college.'

There’s still time to sign up for the course “Introduction to Ecological Modelling with a Focus on Trophic Networks (IEM2025)”! 📅 June 16–20 | 📍 Hybrid format 🔗 Learn more and register here: www.ciimar.up.pt/events/intro... #CIIMARtraining

$19.4 million. That’s how much taxpayers have spent so far to defend Andrew Cuomo and his staff in three lawsuits brought by women who allege they were sexually harassed by the ex-governor. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

ICYMI: New content online:

'The FEBS Advanced Courses Committee invites proposals from expert scientists interested in organizing a course in 2026 with financial support from FEBS, as part of the FEBS Advanced Courses programme.' www.febs.org/news/febs-ad...

‘Combined Classics’ - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

'Os resultados foram sendo distribuídos às pinguinhas sem qualquer critério claro (ou pelo menos manifestado publicamente), se calhar até temos mais ciência aplicada a ser financiada, mas há uma razia tremenda da ciência fundamental.'

Post a female character you love

Even if only 12% of parents are vaccinating kids, does that justify taking away the choice from those parents? Shouldn’t they have “medical freedom,” too? Interesting pattern of respecting the rights of some parents (those who reject Covid shots; or those who want book bans) but not other parents.

how it started / how it's going

'If the government’s new policies come to pass, the route to settlement will now take a minimum of 11 years, not including any time spent in Britain as a student or on other visas that don’t count towards the settlement component.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Transportation infrastructure is expanding, cultural programs are evolving, and landmarks, such as the Notre-Dame de la Garde, will soon shed their scaffolding to reveal newly restored facades. But the city’s wild streak isn’t going anywhere. C’est Marseille, bébé — it’s Marseille, baby.'

a sério, alguém leu isto?

“Know your place,” roared the Bolsonarist who cut Silva’s microphone. Brazil's environmental minister Marina Silva said defiantly, “My place is the place to defend democracy, the environment, to combat inequality, sustainable development, to protect biodiversity ....” By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social