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I’ve got some free time this afternoon - let’s do a quick Q&A. Share your questions below, and I’ll answer as many as I can.

We are recruiting #postdoctoral scientists to join @giampazolias.bsky.social and our Cancer Immunosurveillance group 🧪🥼🧫🦠 For full details of the position, please visit our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/mi-24... Closing date: 4th April #OncoSky #CanSky #CancerResearch #microbiome

Complement activation in tumor microenvironment after neoadjuvant therapy and its impact on pancreatic cancer outcomes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brilliant lab manager in my dept will likely have her only PhD offer rescinded due to reductions in funding. Her visa runs out this summer so this has turned her world upside down. If you know of any post-bacc psychology jobs that would sponsor an international applicant (H1B/J1) please share. 🙏

President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.

NEWS: On Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm, I'm hosting a town hall in Downers Grove. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/downers-gr...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

Congratulations to winners of The Brain Prize 2025! Professors @michellemonje.bsky.social, @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and @hhmi.org Investigator, and Frank Winkler, Heidelberg University Hospital, have pioneered the field of Cancer Neuroscience. Learn more: brainprize.org/winners/canc...

It is important at this pivotal moment to @standupforscience.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on why this should be a national priority at tomorrow’s rally in SF:

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

🔥🔥🔥 I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity “If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days. The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”

🚨 Stand Up for Science Buffalo rally update! New confirmed speaker: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz! He will be taking the "stage" at 2:45PM! Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word! @markpoloncarz.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Dear @mdanderson.bsky.social community, We are excited to invite you to our dept. seminar featuring Dr. Katherine Chiappinelli (@chiappinellilab.bsky.social) tomorrow (Thursday March 6) at 4:00pm in auditorium room 4SCR1.1110. Drop by to learn about TEs as therapeutic targets in (ovarian) cancer!

Colorectal Cancer Prevention: What You Need to Know Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable — and treatable — cancers, but only if it’s caught early. Alarmingly, rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially in younger adults. As a physician and advocate for cancer prevention, I…

This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

BREAKING: Ontario’s terminating its $100-million deal with Starlink, and US companies will be barred from future contracts. They warned NY, Michigan, and Minnesota if the tariffs persist, Ontario will impose a 25% surcharge on electricity and may cut off the supply entirely.

Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA2 suppression of T cell immunity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.

“Perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment, or not willing to come to work,” said Trump’s top lawyer Alina Habba.

Conservation biologists are using dogs' super-powered sense of smell to help their research – on land and at sea.

Supreme Court overrules Donald Trump: two billion in foreign aid unblocked

‘Prepare for the worst’: northern NSW warned Cyclone Alfred’s impact could rival devastating 2022 floods

Commentary: As the saying goes, you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. The mayors of four sanctuary cities — Boston, Denver, New York and Chicago — who will be appearing before the House Government and Oversight Committee should heed this timeless advice.

In Opinion: Faculty members are withdrawing from certain aspects of the job or, on a more emotional level, from the institution itself, write Kevin R. McClure and Alisa Hicklin Fryar. chroni.cl/4ikVrfe

I'm looking forward to catching up LIVE with Stephen Colbert tonight. Feels like there will be plenty to discuss! Tune in to the Late Show at 11:35 pm ET.

Good idea to refresh on your rights as a protester in prep for this Friday's @standupforscience.bsky.social h/t to @jacasiegel.bsky.social for sharing this #academicsky #psychscisky www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

The @americanbar.org has released another statement calling out the Trump Administration’s attacks on the rule of law: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Stand Up for Science!! Friday March 7th 1-3PM San Francisco Civic Plaza Carolyn Bertozzi will be speaking!

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

trump adviser says the veterans trump has fired from jobs in the U.S. government are "perhaps not fit to have a job" www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...

The irony of my column on a promising new data on personalized mRNA-based vaccine for pancreatic cancer coming out the same day that Iowa gets closer to banning "gene-based vaccines" is not lost on me. gift link:

We are recruiting a #postdoctoral researcher for our Cancer Inflammation and Immunity group headed by @santiagozelenay.bsky.social For all the project details, research background, information about the position and the Institute, please visit: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/mi-25...

You remember when Musk freaked out over people publicly criticizing his DOGE bros? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I took some time today to speak with Kathy, a mom from Northwest Philadelphia whose daughter relies on Medicaid. She told me Republicans’ proposed cuts feel like "an unfathomably cruel abandonment." Listen to our conversation below.

Trump's first round of staff cuts to federal agencies eliminated dozens of positions at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, in charge of implementing the No Surprises Act.

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Ecstatic to see our paper "Long-read RNA sequencing atlas of human microglia isoforms elucidates disease-associated genetic regulation of splicing" now published in @naturegenet.bsky.social with @trajnp.bsky.social and @panosroussos.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

Some employees who were previously fired received emails saying they're "clear to return to work."

Update on the Buffalo rally! We have 25 speakers confirmed! Scientists, community leaders, educators, political leaders! Science is for everyone, so everyone has a voice! See you there!

did you want a shirt that says "Elon Musk cheats at video games?" because we made a shirt that says "Elon Musk cheats at video games" store.indivisible.org/elon-musk-ch...

everyone has been asking us for a list of Republican town halls. Turns out, official orders went out to Republicans instructing them to hide from their constituents. But we're showing up anyway - check out our toolkit for the March recess 3/15-3/23 indivisible.org/muskorus

Deutsche is Going There, noting the lack of a big USD rally on the latest tariffs shock

First (and only) #SCOTUS ruling in an argued case is in San Francisco v. EPA. For a 5-4 majority (Justice Barrett joined the Dem. appointees in dissent) Justice Alito holds that two provisions EPA imposed on a discharge permit are *not* authorized by statute: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in an unusual case that featured sewage and an effort by one of the nation’s greenest cities to take on the Environmental Protection Agency.

In #NextGenSequencing news, China now outright bans the imports of Illumina $ILMN machines in US Retaliation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...