Jeremy Kamil

The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

🧪 @carlzimmer.com on new results revealing the Cyclopean invertebrate origins of the human / vertebrate eye 👁️ 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
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Brilliant

Slow Release Of Federal Science Funds Holds Up Research Podcast Episode · Science Friday · March 4 · 13m

Thanks @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to talk about federal research budgets. TLDL: Congress voted to reject the president's big science cuts, but the White House is slow to release those approved funds. 🧪

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Delays in awards and funding calls worry NIH-funded researchers Many programs may be pushed into the next fiscal year, and some could face funding gaps

These NOFO delays have created so many gaps in longstanding programs, including programs that are congressionally mandated.

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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

🐦 🧪 Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

This is a graph of the death of US science.

Given that clonal biofilms of single bacterial species rapidly diversify into niche specialists, how do biofilms of multiple species evolve?
A 🧵 featuring new collaborative pubs:
1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections Voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Review @annualreviews.bsky.social @gabyrabi.bsky.social
Glycan-Binding Proteins in Immunity
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For those interested!

A third position for a PhD/Research Associate with @ferencmueller.bsky.social is open as well. Details: shorturl.at/O9eKd

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren - Christina Jewett www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”

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Can confirm

An mRNA Refusal to File

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"

Indeed.

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I know there are fires everywhere we look. Sorry to bring your attention to one more:

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is how a child dies of #measles 🦠 🎁 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary University votes to consider ending all studies at Oregon National Primate Research Center. But cost and feasibility are still in doubt

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Donate to Stand with ONPRC: Fight Misinformation, organized by Andrew Sylwester The Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) is a world-class biomedica… Andrew Sylwester needs your support for Stand with ONPRC: Fight Misinformation

🧪 🫡 gofund.me/bc68fd2dd (backstory down-thread 🧵)

🧪 What a colossally destructive mistake to close OHSU’s primate facility, ONPRC www.science.org/content/arti...

Watched this happen on the iced-over Monongahela river Friday from my window at work. #Pittsburgh #Pgh #Heron #Birds 🧊 🎣

Bravo and kudos, Italo!

My quote of the day

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

📰 A few years ago I saved to my iPhone home screen (as an icon) this “text only” #News Feed from NPR @npr.org. It hasn’t disappointed. Highly recommend getting your news sans ads & graphics/ advertising bs. #ProTip here’s the link text.npr.org

"I hear the anger from many of my constituents" Contacting lawmakers works. Red district or blue district, state or federal, it doesn't matter: if you oppose this, tell them

Wife and I in tears reading this…