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23 years ago, I dropped out of high school after sophomore year because I was bullied for being queer, & was suicidal. Yesterday, I served as the 2025 PhD speaker for the Stanford School of Medicine graduation. This was not my dream, because I had no dreams. Now I’m almost 40 & full of hope. 🎓 🦠🧪🔬🧬

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Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

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Our new work: ZIKV infection induces autophagy which mediates the downregulation of host entry factors TIM-1 and AXL. This, in turn, promotes sustained ZIKV infection by preventing superinfection and dampening the host innate immunity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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RIP Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social My sincere condolences to his family, friends, current and former lab members, and colleagues.

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The vile assassinations in Minnesota show how easy it is to pretend to be a law enforcement officer to gain trust and access. Now imagine if you were masked, carrying assault weapons, showing no ID, and wearing an ICE uniform that can be duplicated.

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Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits. @takamitsuw.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.

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Interesting to see a new Department Q series of n @netflix.com (Way better than watching some parade)

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History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

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Regarding recent immigration actions and the Club World Cup.

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The world (and my forehead) is on fire, but I am working on editing papers, writing recommendation letters, and listening to ABBA covers on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqQ... You're welcome (to get this respite from the news).

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Until I read the article I thought this was a strange way to hype a CEO resignation letter thttps://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/business/musk-tesla-robotaxi-rollout-austin

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Pretty clear Israel decision to attack Iran against explicit wishes of POTUS, timing it on the eve of his birthday party/military parade. Makes you wonder what kind of diplomatic restraints worked against such Israeli action before and why they don’t now. Because US is so much stronger now, right?

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"I remind those in MAGA world. . . when there are no new medicines to fight your resistant infections, when there are no new biomedical devices, & your life span is shorter. . . you were responsible for the calamity that you brought to this nation." -M. Hadjiargyrou www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/o...

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Harvard Medical School researcher freed after nearly four months in regime prisons www.universalhub.com/2025/harvard... #Boston #ICE

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New from @seeyeunting.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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That’s a bullshit posture Something’s warrant instant ejection, none of this three strikes business

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May the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…

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Seeing people saying this guy is “reasonable.”🙄 April 2020.

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I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

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I brought my six year old son to a talk that I gave today. I think he got a lot out of it!

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I don’t know all the other members of the panel RFK Jr has appointed. But if you agreed to a vaccine safety panel in which all previous highly qualified members were summarily dismissed and now you get to serve alongside Martin Kulldorff & Robert Malone, I don’t hold high hopes for your credibility.

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This has got to be related to the fact that RFK Jr is due to testify in front of Congress again

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Some needed good news: “The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including those who work in divisions that handle cruise ship safety, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and global health.” Keep speaking out!

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If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Thou Shalt Not Fire Reporters for Standing Against Fascism.

submitted 5 days ago • 196 comments

It’s so unfathomly bizarre and tragic that the federal government has been straight up kidnapping people off the streets for months, and when we finally gather en peaceful masse to protect our community, the headlines are about a few cars on fire.

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Helen Chu was among the scientists who first detected COVID-19 in the US. She knows more about vaccine policy than all of RFK Jr cronies combined. When you drive away expertise, you are left with nothing, or worse - like the discredited quacks & dilettantes he has chosen so far.

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Of all the despicable acts… apparently there is no floor to the depravity of the DHS. Remember how we were told it was going to be all the criminals that were going to be deported? From that to straight up kidnapping of first graders. A pox on all their houses, every single one of them.

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When you hear certain people say "1 in 4 Americans don't trust scientists", keep in mind that: * 3 out of 4 Americans do trust scientists * The concerted efforts to politicize and dismantle American leadership in science are having effects, but perhaps not as much as those leading them would like.

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I’ll continue to talk to him but not ask him to resign for lying under oath

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Jay Bhattacharya lacks integrity, seems to have no moral compass at all, & is classless, clueless, out of his depth, a right wing ideologue, & a MAGA/MAHA bro. His censorship of, & political interference in, US science to push Trump's extreme right wing agenda are grotesque, damaging, & dangerous.

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New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

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The good thing about science is that it’s true no matter what you believe. The bad thing about deadly diseases is they will affect you and your loved ones no matter your level of trust in science. Restoring public trust does not mean killing medicines even for those who still believe in science.

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Parenting kids with serious disabilities often doesn’t come with the usual “growing up” milestones. Today my first “baby,” who moved in with us when he was 10, moved out to an adult group home at age 21. We’re so, so proud of how far he’s come. ❤️😭

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BREAKING: We filed a brief in support of Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration. It's unconstitutional to freeze Harvard's federal research funding simply because it refused to bend to the president's political agenda.

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