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One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Great turnout at the Birmingham @standupforscience.bsky.social rally!

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Another pic of stand up for science Minneapolis. @standupforscience.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

Same could be said of a lot of work on extremophiles. Why bother sending a guy from Berkeley to sample hot water downstream from a Yellowstone geyser. You can thank that for PCR, and you can thank that technology for an amazing amount of what we now do with DNA.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The 2 fantastic years that I spent in this program launched a life time love for research.

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Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

submitted 68 days ago • 359 comments

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Heterozygoats.

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.

submitted 74 days ago • 63 comments

Genomes assembled from #metagenomes (a.k.a. MAGs) are awesome and have revolutionized our ability to study uncultivated microbes ...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Here is a sneak peak of the new sequencing technology I have been working on together with many others. Much more to come in 2025! www.illumina.com/science/geno...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Making our 2 P2Solos earn their keep! #nanopore direct RNA sequencing

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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