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Hope for an end to 4 decades of fighting between Turkey and the PKK. I also hope for more rights for Kurds in Turkey and other places . www.aol.com/news/kurdish...

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Raffi was amused as he mused about the difference between an esophagus and a sarcophagus

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The lab is delighted to release the first genome for the giant American vinegaroon! The slowly-evolving order Uropygi captures the strongest signature yet of the arachnopulmonate whole genome duplication. #biodiversity #genomics academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

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Yikes! Staff responsible for nuclear safety fired in the US, and a Russian drone damages Chernobyl, on the same day.

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I spent five years working in another part of HHS. I often worked late, and I was rarely alone in that. What Musk and Trump are doing is not only the dismantling of public functions we rely on, but an assault on tens of thousands of dedicated workers focused on the common good.

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Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

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I was laid off this morning from USFWS as part of the sweeping DOGE cuts to probationary employees across the Dept. of Interior. To say I'm devastated doesn't even scratch the surface-I'm losing my dream job working with pallid sturgeon on the Missouri River. Solidarity with all my fed workers. 💔🐟

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Will Obama tap RFK Jr to head up the Environmental Protection Agency? "This would speak volumes as to where Obama is going with his appointments... A Kennedy appointment is as liberal as you can possibly get." 2009 Flashback www.politico.com/story/2008/1...

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Happy Birthday to Mom, Dad, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin

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This is the kind of simple and direct message we need right now: long-term damage aside, this attack is going to very quickly make it even harder for people to have the jobs and medical care they need.

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Huge congratulations to my graduate students Muna and Nicole, and undergrad Julia! Amazing research into the biochemistry of how the phage protein paratox controls the metabolism of Streptococcus. news.umanitoba.ca/why-streptoc...

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Attention Attention Attention If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri

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I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

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A Trump-appointed judge just blocked his efforts to unilaterally gut USAID www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Litigation update Thursday (Part I of II) New lawsuits: 1. American Foreign Service Association v. Trump (suit against dismantling of USAID) 2. Government Accountability Project v. Office of Personnel Management (Schedule F) Part II ... Four successful administrative stays, injunctions, etc

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

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Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Some people say outrageous things to distract attention from what they're doing. If you let their words trigger you, you won't have the time or energy to respond to their actions.

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Passing of the Aga Khan. End of an era. Still recall visiting his grandfather's mausoleum in Aswan long ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/w...

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Transposable elements (LINEs) and a cephalopod sex chromosome

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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

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BREAKING: Justin Trudeau says Canada struck a deal with the US to "pause" tariffs for at least 30 days. There will be no trade war. Was it always a bluff?

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"Becoming a #Scientist: The Graphic Novel" goes through the stories of my amazing lab members. Every one has a unique pathway, overcoming personal challenges. They are an inspirational #team! www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/bec...

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Ontario rips up Starlink contract as trade war escalates

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Dow Jones Industrial Average falls almost 400 points as the stock market opens with a looming tariff war between the US and Canada and Mexico.

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Ruminant self-medication against gastrointestinal nematodes: evidence, mechanism, and origins [2014🧪] "Ruminants appear to learn to self-medicate against gastrointestinal parasites by increasing consumption of plant secondary compounds with antiparasitic actions" More: doi.org/10.1051/para...

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Identification and expression profile of odorant-binding proteins in the parasitic wasp Microplitis pallidipes using PacBio long-read sequencing [2022🧪] #Entomology More details: doi.org/10.1051/para...

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Plane crash near Philadelphia mall 48 hours after the tragedy at Reagan National Airport local21news.com/news/several...

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According to the FAA, a plane collided with a military helicopter (a Sikorsky H-60) at Reagan National Airport near Washington DC. The plane was American Airlines Flight 5342 (departed from Wichita, Kansas).

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Yes! Our labmates and students need us.

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LibreOffice is indeed a very good open source office sub. The community is a bit snobbier than others re: help forums for more advanced uses, but for everyday stuff it's great.

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Frozen fountain in Jackson Square, New Orleans, after the snow storm

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Fun story: When Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in 1833, he noted the puzzling occurrence of the islands’ sole terrestrial mammal, Dusicyon australis (or “warrah”). 1/n

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Yikes www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Snowmageddon in New Orleans

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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

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If you want to share something good today, please share the link to our application for summer undergraduate research internships at PNRI! Open until Feb 28. Work with yeast, clams, humans, and more. We would love to have you join us!

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After posting my New Orleans snow pictures, my friend in Canada told me about her 10 km run this morning in -27 C weather

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The pardons of allies and supporters, issued by Biden before leaving office and hours later by Trump, shows just how little the people at the top trust the justice system. Regardless of the merits of their concerns, the solution is justice reform, not selective pardons.

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The beautiful thing about New Orleans is that no-one will drive in the snow so the road will look like this for a long time

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Tiktok's back. You can talk about the Streisand effect till you're blue in the face but the people with power never get it.

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Jumping genes helped make your brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Lorien,our 6-year-old avid reader, told me about a character in Dogman whose "strength is cupcakes and his weakness is cupcakes." She initially thought that was impossible,but then gave a long explanation of how his strength could be his weakness, which went totally over my head.

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📢@naturegenet.bsky.social is looking to hire a new editor! Come join our team and help publish the most exciting research in genetics and genomics! Deadline is February 5th. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

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When the Supreme Court rules that government can ban one of the world's most popular social media apps, everyone who believes in civil rights should be disgusted. It has everything to do with the principle of free expression - it has nothing to do with whether you like or dislike Tiktok.

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