Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come:
Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.
Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
REPUBLICAN 2026 PLATFORM:
- Republicans hold the unfettered right to abduct, rape, and murder any American citizen and get away with it.
2026 CENTRIST DEMOCRAT PLATFORM:
- ICE agents just need a little more training. Hugs! 🤗
WHAT AMERICANS WANT:
- Stop murdering us
- Abolish ICE
- Nuremberg trials
A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪
As someone who ended up using non-model systems after doing his PhD with Drosophila, you don't realise just how amazing FlyBase or WormBase are until you try to genetics without them.
The December 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @weiyiqian.bsky.social from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Robyn Allen of @universityofky.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators Olya Yarychkivska and Anthony Galenza. Watch here: youtu.be/yKFlB_nB2lo
🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas📷 Join us on December 19th at 12pm US East Coast Time featuring Ahmed Mahmoud from @sbpdiscovery.bsky.social and Juan Manuel González Rosa from @bostoncollege.bsky.social on #HeartRegeneration🫀 Find all details at isrbio.org/event-6479231
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Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Just gonna put this here for now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
A picture of James Watson notable for its resemblance to Bozo the clown.
James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
You are a Post-Padawan now!
Could not be more happy/proud/relieved to finally see this longstanding study published. Bluetorial to follow. @msarscentre.bsky.social
Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Congrats Lionel and the rest of the authors! It is great to see this out 😁
While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! See my article in Gen News. www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...
So excited that our latest work is out! We have been working to understand how damaged tissue exits regeneration and returns to normal gene expression, and found a major role for the pioneer transcription factor Zelda in flies. Kudos to @anishbose.bsky.social @keatonschuster.bsky.social et al!
Three pods of a sea squirt called the skeleton panda, so named because they have white blood vessels and black stripes across the anterior portion. They look like skeletons of a fish with panda stripes, anchored to colorful coral with red, orange and pink coloration.
Off the coast of Japan live a species of sea squirts, Clavelina ossipandae, the SKELETON PANDA SEA SQUIRT. These ascidians anchor to coral and spend their lives filter-feeding.
Clavelina is Latin for "little bottle", and ossipandae means "panda bones". 🐼💀
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
I’m crying, this is so funny
WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than #PubMed because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research.
europepmc.org
🚨ISRB Webinar - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia & Africa on March 11th at 4pm Central European Time 📷 featuring Uri Frank and Stefano Tiozzo #ColonialRegeneration
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system.
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
