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Stanford stands with Harvard stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

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Nice article by MD/PhD student whose funding was terminated. Claims vs Realities broken down in easy to understand terms. apple.news/AC6GvFGfmRj2...

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“Devastating storms brought tornado damage and floods to a wide area in the South and Midwest the day after the CDC cut its team that responds to such disasters.” apple.news/Aed05_bdDS3q...

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Pull up, Dorks! Ready to join like-minded SUFS’ers in our Summer Campaign? This action info session is for you! This week’s national virtual gathering is Wednesday 7:30pm ET – sign up here for a Zoom link & see you there: bit.ly/SUFSActionIn... #StandUpForScience #SummerCampaign #SummerSendoff

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More discoveries around #glycoRNA #glycotime

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Could or is crumbling? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Harvard steps up www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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In the past eight months, 3 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) have been diagnosed in one Oregon county; 2 of them have died. CJD is the human form of mad cow disease. It’s caused by prions and it’s not known how they developed it. CJD is 100% fatal. There is no treatment.

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The Lim Lab at the @crchum.bsky.social is recruiting PhD students or Postdoctoral Fellows to study the roles of 14-3-3zeta in #adipocytes or pancreatic #betacells. Projects are supported by CIHR, NSERC, or Diabetes Canada. Please share with people who might be interested! Thanks!

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www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

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As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm, says João Vieira https://go.nature.com/4jRn6FB

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Not an academic but everyone could do this...publish in local media. Little testimonies.

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A couple weeks ago after one of my many “publish locally!” rants, I started corresponding with this author about writing for her dads local paper in Montana. Just a perfect example of the form: www.boulder-monitor.com/featured_con...

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It turns out there are a lot of dire wolves out there

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Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdoctoral fellows to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to [email protected]. Please share and repost!

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≋B≋A≋C≋T≋E≋R≋I≋A≋L≋ ≋S≋P≋E≋E≋D≋ The spirochete that causes Lyme disease was clocked at 2,800 µm/min moving back and forth across a platelet—100 times greater than the speed of a neutrophil, the fastest human cell Petition to rename: "𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙍𝙄" Ref: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001633

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Boop

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Pieces like this in local and regional newspapers are priceless! We need our neighbors to learn how these cuts will affect them and their communities. Each of us can write one!!!

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Some good news - an NIH lab hiring.

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In my course on evolution and medicine I was discussing why—if fever is an evolved defense—we so often use antipyretic drugs to reduce fever. (FWIW, I think it's generally fine to do so.) "No one would prescribe an immunosuppresant to treat a deadly viral infection", I said. I forgot about RFK Jr.

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p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt... Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.

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🧪 #medsky #pedsky #idsky Skeptical Raptor is an excellent resource for accurate information about vaccines, focusing on current rumors and claims getting attention. However, it is dependent on fundraising. Please consider donating. Resources like this are more important than ever.

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Does the U.S. administration know there might be migrants from Heard Island who have infiltrated our universities bowling teams? And they are winning national championships. Raise the tariffs. @heardislandgov.bsky.social

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“Why? What, truly, is the goal of so much cruel and clumsy destruction? Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated. American interests are not being protected. And the quest to cure diseases or improve human health is not being advanced.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

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My quote of the day (A long one) Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top. 1/n

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This is a great thread with super practical advice: pre-tenure PIs need to emphasize any and all wins and more senior PIs need to push back on unrealistic expectations about productivity. Despite all that is happening, we can still be a community that takes care of each other

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Some good news - an NIH lab hiring.

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I'll be there. Hope to see many of my OSU colleagues there too!

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Excellent thread and I can only hope my letter writers are so mindful of the circumstances of my own peer group who started with COVID and are going up for tenure in this mess. 😭

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Every single “investment expert “ is emphasizing diversification to include investment in other stock markets. And that will extend to private markets and start ups. It’s possible to export your smartest people, hire overseas , and fund their business at a fraction of costs you face here. Insane

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This is amazing. I had no idea. 🤯🧪

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If Colossal makes a horse with a midline horn and says they've made a mythical unicorn while cancer trials are being defunded, may self-immolate.

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The more I learn about what's happening/happened on the ground of the measles outbreaks the more insane it gets. - One of the doctors RFK Jr. praised (Ben Edwards) was seeing patients in clinic WHILE HE ACTIVELY HAD MEASLES.

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