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Microbial physiologist working on phototrophic and soil microbes at UDelaware. Come for the microbiology, stay for other random commentary. https://sites.udel.edu/hansonlab
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@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov Please stop the assault on science funding. The #NSF is the latest with a cut of Indirect costs to 15%, a moratorium on new awards, and cancellation of existing awards.

We’re living through the most destructive & incompetent sprint of any presidency in modern American history. But this moment is about more than two political parties—it’s about two fundamentally different visions for America: One of fear & power. Or one of service & hope. I choose the second.

Thanks DOGE

This is completely false—as a matter of constitutional text, history, case law, and ordinary common sense. Miller is out to destroy our republic.

@coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov So, why are you not painting President Trump with this statement? Your constituents want to know. And Senator Coons, your vote to confirm now Ambassador Perdue was shameful. Soicj for being a firm No on all Trump nominees.

He's not a president, he's a mob boss. "Nice economy you got there, be a shame if someone were to tank it." Pushes the Dow Jones off the table...

One of the best podcast experiences you'll ever have is listening to @sarahmackattack.bsky.social talk about squid - treat yourself! www.alieward.com/ologies/teut...

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The people responsible for this will be remembered as traitors who irreparably damaged, and are attempting to destroy, American leadership in science and technology.

And now for your moment of Zen...

Some moments of coping/cooking over the last few days of governmental fuckwittery.

History always has a lesson.

This.

A rare Op-Ed from Ars Staff because the times warrant it... "Yhose of us no longer within their halls and quads also have a part to play in sharing a more nuanced story about the value of the university system, both to our own lives and to the country." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

@udelaware.bsky.social Food for thought

#flyfishing White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania yesterday. Beautiful day and nice fish.

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Absolutely this. Capital W to the T to the F

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov How can you and your colleagues build on this historic moment? Make it count!

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov Thank you for posting your support of Senator Booker's historic filibuster. Who's got next?

I just tuned into the Booker live feed and after 22 hours he's speaking rapidly, passionately, furiously, and completely coherently. By the way, last week, in impromptu remarks, Trump could not remember the word "criminal" and had to say "people of crime."

Booker is set to erase the record for speaking that was held by Thurmond AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS as multiple state and corporate entities roll back to segregation And people are wondering why this important

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Totally forgot about this until I found it on my lab coat in the back of my car. Last week at #StandUpForScience in DC, a woman took my picture and gave me her button when I complimented it. #resistance

Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca... #AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬

Only Sen Chris Murphy seems to care

There’s never been a plan. Planes are falling out of the sky and this admin wants to fire the people in charge of helping them land safely. All to justify giving their billionaire friends’ companies lucrative government contracts. They’re looking out for themselves, not you.