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These cutbacks in US biomed PhD admissions are a national disaster with multi-generational consequences. For what it's worth, the umbrella PhD program I'm the director of at UMich (PIBS, Program in Biomedical Sciences) has not paused admissions or withdrawn any offers. 💙💛🧪

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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: the story of one student illustrates the many ways that Trump's vision of America is one that systematically excludes people with disabilities. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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The Musk emails asking federal employees to explain their tasks are have already been sent. One described it to me as "a trap." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/military-p...

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Congrats to the 2025 @orssociety.bsky.social #NIRA winners!! 🥳 @cpane94.bsky.social @vgbbrito.bsky.social @robinvroman.bsky.social, Kevin Burt, Priyanka Brahmachary, Alex Brown, Carlos Cruz, Ichiro Kurakazu, Augustine Saiz, Nazgol Tavabi, Robin Vroman, and Enhao Zhang!! www.ors.org/ors-new-inve...

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Tag yourself in this picture

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on how the Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency. bit.ly/3X9VEKd

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"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one." - Sam Rayburn donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years. Our veterans deserve better. If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121 And share your story: www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...

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Preprint day! We are exploring how Candida auris is able to colonize the skin and identified Als4112 and specific host extracellular matrix proteins that drive the interaction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans. I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.

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We cannot trust RFK Jr. to make health care decisions that will affect millions of families.

submitted 13 days ago • 199 comments

What a great #ors2025 in phoenix!!

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A world class hater. I am screaming.

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

Shuffle the cards and kick their ass. Thanks, Sonny. #ors2025

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Now more than ever.

submitted 19 days ago • 448 comments

I’d like to sincerely thank various scholars and activists on Bluesky, especially Black scholars and activists, for giving me the language to express that “anti-DEI” means “segregationist”. That concept has been very helpful in forming my resolve to fight the efforts to re-segregate my university.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Good time to see which people are genuine conservatives vs those who are happy to go along with destroying checks and balances for short-run goals

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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🇺🇸👇👇🇺🇸

submitted 31 days ago • 973 comments

It's not too late to sign up for this week's #MycoTalks with @teresaomeara.bsky.social and Chad Rappleye. 📅Thursday 30 January 🕓16:00 GMT Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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I'm one of these 11,965, and with funding from the NIH and NSF, I've been able to recruit several more full-time employees to MI (many coming from other states!) since 2023. @repdingell.bsky.social, please advocate for us in science, health, and research to continue supporting the michigan economy

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

submitted 34 days ago • 364 comments

Oh no that’s horrible. I sure hope no one else sends fake reports to [email protected].

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

submitted 35 days ago • 1417 comments

"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

Can't wait to see you tomorrow, #OnePride!

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

Tour de force and a full house at Kahn for an amazing PhD defense by @brandontwchen.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Are you a trainee in the @orssociety.bsky.social Tendon Section, and are the presenting author on an abstract at this year's meeting? If you are going to be at the annual meeting, sign up to compete in the 3-minute-thesis competition! $$ prizes will be awarded! forms.gle/WneTNbVpuECP...

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Big congratulations to Shauni Loopmans for her excellent PhD research, now online in @natmetabolism.bsky.social. This study reveals that the pentose phosphate pathway in #chondrocytes is crucial for ER redox homeostasis and cell survival rdcu.be/d5Q65 (1/3)

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Doink

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I’m not interested in tarot until it can tell me what I should have for lunch. Print the burger deck

submitted 48 days ago • 60 comments

Stay safe LA friends

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My message to Zuck

submitted 50 days ago • 3739 comments

👏 Congratulations to all the newly elected ORS Board Members. We thank all members who voted in the election. The new board members will be ratified at the #ORS2025 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ during the Closing Ceremony on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The state erasing the identity possessions of these people has, of course, a direct bearing on their ability to seek help that they are legally entitled to from the state.

submitted 57 days ago • 15 comments

They want fewer Americans going to college to create larger pools of low cost labor. They want to import for higher skill jobs, but handcuff them with work visas. It's a seismic labor grift devised by Bond villains. It's great for them. Not so good for you.

submitted 62 days ago • 345 comments

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion