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Reminder for when we talk about improving NIH grant review. Huberman brought blind review up with Bhattacharya. “redaction caused applications from White scientists to score worse” elifesciences.org/articles/71368

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The @erc.europa.eu & Horizon Europe have to take this into account: these fees should not be allowed to be levied on any researcher or their immediate family members supported in projects supported with EU funds.

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The core question should be what is right. (The legal constraint is a second order point). It would be extremely weird to have an identical threshold for work visas from abroad & British citizens getting married to people from abroad inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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What standing up to ICE looks like. #Resist

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NY's finest

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Alemanha, França e Itália "empregam cerca de metade dos trabalhadores do sector privado europeu, mas esse peso sobe para quase dois terços em sectores industriais tecnologicamente avançados, como a química, o fabrico de máquinas e equipamentos, a electrónica e óptica, e o material de transporte."

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“What’s happening right now with the fall semester just around the corner is that some international students may withdraw, delay or switch to applications elsewhere. The bigger implication will be in 2026.” www.ft.com/content/65b4...

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Fantastic story (in French) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BokW...

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So if your list of worries included reviewer #3, a cancelled funding round, murine hepatitis in your animal house, low sorting purity or cross reactive monoclonals, you can apparently now add a Kardashian driven shortage of salmon sperm DNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgg...

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'Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years. Dr. Patapoutian declined (...) Many scientists just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave."

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'As I see it, the philosophy of physics is in fact somewhat akin to art criticism – but where the subject matter is not music or visual art or architecture, but the theories of physics constructed by some of the greatest and most creative minds of all time (from Galileo to Newton to Einstein).'

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'There are now hundreds of talent-recruitment policies at the central, provincial and city levels, says Wang. The initiatives are tiered, from highly competitive programmes seeking to attract elite researchers and innovators to those encouraging skilled workers to move to specific cities or regions'

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'The school, founded by George Soros, was once an example of academia flourishing in post-Soviet Europe. Now, less than a decade after Hungary’s right-wing government forced it to move out of Budapest, people there are sounding warnings as P. Trump seeks to bring America’s top universities to heel'

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'Em declarações à agência Lusa, o presidente do IPO do Porto, Júlio Oliveira, avançou que o principal objectivo é promover a capacitação do país para passar a ser possível produzir células CAR-T em Portugal, ou seja terapias médicas avançadas.' www.publico.pt/2025/06/09/c...

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'And there are definitely people in the administration, led by Stephen Miller, who simply hate immigrants — legal or not, it doesn’t much matter. White South Africans seem to be the only exception.' @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally...

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Excellent validation for building a physical movie collection.

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CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

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TRIF-mediated HIF-1α regulation exacerbates inflammasome activation under hypoxia in response to periodontitis-related bacterial infections, contributing to the progression of autoimmune diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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Help make sense of murky statistics for your readers, look at who participates in clinical trials, and talk to people with dementia as sources, not subjects, writes @marionrenault.bsky.social in this guide with @lizseegert.bsky.social, @charlespiller.bsky.social and others. 🧪

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Data-integrity expert Elisabeth Bik noticed repeat structures in a 2019 Nature Communications paper by Peixin Yang. A deeper look revealed “multiple” issues across more than 20 of his papers. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/academia/mor...

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ICE agents seen prepping in the parking lot of the Riverhead Fire Department this morning on Long Island. This comes a week after people in Huntington inquired why ICE was using the FD parking lot there to stage.

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Current genomic deep learning models display decreased performance in cell type-specific accessible regions

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One thing most of these tech oligarchs have in common is that they mostly got lucky with one idea just before or just after the dotcom bubble burst, and they've coasted on that success ever since. They mostly grow through buyouts rather than innovation. Yet they're treated as oracles and sages.

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fun coincidence that ChatGPT goes down right before this story is released www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt...

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ICE started raiding the hotel they were staying in - interrogating cleaning ladies Good luck housing ICE agents in Los Angeles now

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POLITICO-EU says that the renewed interest among European and Anglosphere countries towards sanctions and economic measures against Israel are a result of Arab pressure and the de-prioritization of recognition of the State of Palestine.

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The Guardian is trying to send a mob of parents after Spielberg: 'Perhaps most notoriously of all, Korean company Pinkfong’s version of the children’s song Baby Shark is the most watched YouTube video of all time, racking up 15bn views and counting. No great white has ever caused that much trauma.'

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BREAKING: The Pentagon said the deployment of National Guard members and Marines to protests over immigration raids in LA will cost $134 million.

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Just out in Nature Reviews Genetics! From twin studies to microbiome GWAS to cutting-edge transcriptomics, we explore the cross-talk between our genes and the microbiome! Fun working together with @pamferretti.bsky.social @blekhman.bsky.social Kelsey Johnson www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Excited to present the first review from my lab! Which mutations allow H5 influenza to jump into humans or other mammals? How close is H5 to a pandemic? This review has the answers and explains the molecular mechanism behind the mutations. Led by @fcapelastegui.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1099/jgv....

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So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

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Registration is OPEN for the 28th Signal Transduction Society Meeting—first-ever #CellCommSummit! 🗓️ November 3–5, 2025, Leonardo Hotel, Weimar Join us for talks, poster sessions, and networking. Travel grants for young researchers available. 🔗 www.sigtrans.de #SignalTransduction #CellCommSummit

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Everybody in teaching: There is a brief window to hand out essay assignments

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www.paho.org/en/news/27-5...

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Round Clipped Shrub in the Public Garden, 1888 #vincentvangogh #postimpressionism

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Here’s the EMBO Journal highlight on our paper!

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In which West Point's John Spencer, who claims to hate radical Islam & terrorism, defends & promotes Israel working with ISIS affiliates in Gaza because it worked so well in... checks notes... Iraq (!) Never take this Israel shill seriously on anything ever again.

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This is pretty shocking, even now.

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10 de junho dia de Alcindo. Na noite de 10 de junho de 1995 Alcindo Monteiro ia para o Bairro Alto dançar. Foi barbaramente assassinado quando um grupo de supremacistas brancos vindo de um jantar comemorativo do dia da Raça (branca) se cruzou com ele e o agrediu mortalmente.

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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

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'Em declarações à agência Lusa, o presidente do IPO do Porto, Júlio Oliveira, avançou que o principal objectivo é promover a capacitação do país para passar a ser possível produzir células CAR-T em Portugal, ou seja terapias médicas avançadas.' www.publico.pt/2025/06/09/c...

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'The school, founded by George Soros, was once an example of academia flourishing in post-Soviet Europe. Now, less than a decade after Hungary’s right-wing government forced it to move out of Budapest, people there are sounding warnings as P. Trump seeks to bring America’s top universities to heel'

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'There are now hundreds of talent-recruitment policies at the central, provincial and city levels, says Wang. The initiatives are tiered, from highly competitive programmes seeking to attract elite researchers and innovators to those encouraging skilled workers to move to specific cities or regions'

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…Demonstrating that he was worthy of the prize both as a scientist and as a member of the community of science.

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Our paper shows that most ectomycorrhizal fungal species (83% of OTUs) are "dark taxa": species we detect in DNA, but can't match to known species names. We map global "darkspots" - the parts of the world most in need of more research. @spun.earth @ethz.ch www.cell.com/current-biol...

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My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

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If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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