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To [email protected] 1. I saw things you people wouldn't believe. 2. I monitored attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. 3. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. 4. I lost moments in time. 5. I memorialized tears in rain.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

A reminder that dogs’ noses look like angry aliens.

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We need to make sure that everyone understands how important science is for EVERYONE not just for scientists...

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New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Read ASM’s statement on the sweeping removal of federal health agency staff, which will be catastrophic for American science and technology. asm.org/Press-Releas...

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 ASM welcomes new Editors-in-Chief for our journals starting July 1! 👏 Join us in thanking our outgoing leaders & congratulating Romney Humphries, Marvin Whiteley, Ashley Shade and Ira Blader! Read more: asm.org/Press-Releas...

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

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Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

This will change things. Direct costs will have to cover some essentials like access to compliance (IACUC, IBC, IRB) support on campuses

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Joey Votto's classic description of why it's so hard to hit a front door two seamer: "For those of you interested, out of the hand the ball appears as if it’s going to hit you, then it gets jiggy with it." 🤣

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The perfect tote bag does not exis….

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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

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He did so back in 2011, along with nine other councillors, over concerns it was too expensive to pump the mineral into the drinking sources of Calgary, Alberta. Since then, the 1.4 million people who live there have been without fluoridated water, and it appears to have come at a cost.

submitted 26 days ago • 70 comments

Funny. Got a reminder that I have a progress report due to the NIH. Dead letter office vibes....

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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

submitted 26 days ago • 167 comments

🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

🧵 🙌🏾 Congratulations #Guinea for eliminating sleeping sickness (gambiense form) as a public health problem in the country! bit.ly/3Cgp0zq 1/3

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

MJ Lenderman did a tiny desk. The Dads are ecstatic youtu.be/gAY74NyLMGs?...

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Let’s play around with cosmic distances shall we? Because I don’t think the human brain can actually understand it. But I’m gonna use rice, and say 1 grain = 10,000 miles (~16,000 km). That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)

submitted 31 days ago • 19 comments

A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm bit.ly/40NkIc0

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

submitted 35 days ago • 51 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 35 days ago • 835 comments

It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks, particularly if you are fascinated by trypanosomes.

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rdcu.be/d5o3U it's out!!

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" ~12 million Americans are believed to have “neglected” parasitic infections –called neglected because of their prevalence, disabling symptoms and links to poverty.' The poor living among the wealthy in G20 countries account for most of world’s neglected diseases www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Chainsaw-Wielding Man Shot By Officers At Assisted Living Center theonion.com/chainsaw-wie...

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This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

submitted 66 days ago • 46 comments

slim dunlap #rip

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Happy 45th birthday to London Calling. Released by The Clash on this day in 1979 ▶️ open.spotify.com/album/6FCzva...

submitted 75 days ago • 124 comments

B CELL FUN FACT: Secrets of the GC #2 There are 300 billion B cells with total mass of 60g in the human body. That is 3 times the number of stars in the Milky Way! Naïve B cell express >10 million unique antibodies to protect us from this universe of possible antigens! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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🚨 Joint #Parasitology Meeting Registration & Abstract Submission OPEN! 🚨 - Our 1st time hosting the BSP Spring meeting outside of the UK and with our friends at the Swiss STMP and Deutsche GP! - 11-14th March 2025 - Abstract submission at: tinyurl.com/5c2jn5zs #BSP2025 #Parasitology #NTDs

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Our latest discovery of “lowest recorded temperature for eukaryotic cell motility” going all the way down to -15deg C. Come for the crazy cold Arctic & stay for diatoms. Will write longer thread - but enjoy video below of diatoms gliding on frozen ice surfaces. Congrats @zqing.bsky.social & team.

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Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

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