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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 3 days ago • 395 comments

This Thursday! Join for this great seminar OBS #Immunology Seminar Neutrophils and regulation of skin physiology 📆 Thu, 10th April, 12 pm EDT/ 6 pm CET 🎙️ Speaker @alazozcan.bsky.social Ozcan - Yale University Registration us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

💯America is in a recession of shared responsibility. Personal choice has been weaponized to undermine public health. #CDC #NIH www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m... via @statnews.com

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Good tutorial on how measles infections work, fortunately all of this is avoidable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 7 days ago • 1030 comments

You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."

submitted 9 days ago • 311 comments

We are #Hiring! Please share! #ImmunoSky 🧪 Join our multi-disciplinary B-cell team @Emory/ATL to lead exciting projects on human immunology funded by the Gates Foundation and the NIH (Position fully funded and not dependent on future grants). ghosnlab.science/join-us #BYourCell

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

New pooled libraries available from the @alejofraticelli.bsky.social lab! These plasmid libraries can be used by scientists to produce lentiviral barcoding particles to barcode mammalian cells for clonal and state-fate analysis, using single-cell RNA sequencing www.addgene.org/pool...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

Our economy is far larger than it was decades ago. Where have most of the gains gone? To the top. Any path forward must include a fight to restructure the economy toward more widely shared prosperity. This isn’t a blue state vs. red state phenomenon. It’s a class phenomenon.

submitted 13 days ago • 471 comments

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

submitted 13 days ago • 171 comments

Every year, the IRS loses over a 100 billion dollars because it doesn't tax businesses called "churches." Look into that waste, Elon! youtu.be/37cZqx349xU

submitted 40 days ago • 299 comments

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over. Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk. My story:

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

The @jimmunol.bsky.social invites submissions of clinical and human immunology research papers for an upcoming special collection. Editors seek manuscripts presenting novel findings that derive from studying human subjects and/or human tissues. For more information 👉 ow.ly/4uI950VqswR

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 209 comments

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 16 days ago • 270 comments

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

submitted 17 days ago • 290 comments

The NIH plans to resume posting notices of new solicitations for grant proposals. But there’s a catch: The HHS and DOGE will review each draft notice to ensure the research that will be funded aligns with the priorities of President Trump’s administration, Science has learned. scim.ag/3DJsafL

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

"Without this guidance, the world risks losing one of the most effective tools for disease prevention, ultimately jeopardising decades of progress vaccines have contributed to global health." New letter—'Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO' tinyurl.com/5n99dpsw #MedSky

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund. #defendhighered #academicsky

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

We are excited to be launching the next phase of our Fast & Fair peer review initiative: offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days. #fastandfairpeerreview Read the Editorial by EiC Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social at: bit.ly/4kYD1mL

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

submitted 53 days ago • 46 comments

We urge all leaders, for the good of their nations’ health, not to ignore or contradict advice that is supported by a consensus of evidence from research. https://go.nature.com/43Rfr5a

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

A very needed thread in these times!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 22 days ago • 753 comments

"Right now, we’re placing our biggest bets on resistance from the judiciary branch, which has stood up to several of the efforts that the executive branch has been making to disassemble and undermine research. But that’s not enough. We need Congress to be speaking up as well" - Harold Varmus

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

submitted 23 days ago • 623 comments

2023: mRNA vaccine scientists win the Nobel Prize 2025: US government cuts research on mRNA vaccines

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

The good news is that there are people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

submitted 24 days ago • 1212 comments

Jon Stewart, @sohrabahmari.bsky.social & @adamtooze.bsky.social discuss the need to realign the system that protects the billionaires over working families. #TheWeeklyShow

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Hearing about some US universities advising their international scientists (green card holders & visa holders) not to leave the US for the time being for fear that re-entry will be non-trivial even with all the necessary documents in hand. Is this happening at your institution?

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

"Better education and communication of scientific method and fact is required to immunize the public against horse whisperers peddling alt facts " well said!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve covered so much ground, so fast! In just one month since launching, we’ve reached thousands of Americans. But there’s more to do. Join us at sciencehomecoming.com to see our map of published articles and learn how you can contribute. 🧪🏠

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions. This is a competition for scientists themselves. Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature. Deadline - March 28th @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/sc...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.

submitted 27 days ago • 819 comments