Do you want somebody to blame? Start with Russell Vought at OMB, Jay Bhattacharya, Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch at NIH. These are evil, small minded men. I hope one day they’re held accountable for the destruction of biomedical research in the United States.
The White House is blocking the FBI and top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about new terror threats to the homeland tied to the war with Iran.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
If you’re in the USA, there’s a whole bunch of “Stand Up For Science” rallies and protests happening this Saturday you could join.
Check it out. 👇
And share it around.
#uspol #ClimateSky #EnergySky
National Day of Action, this Saturday March 7, with dozens of events taking place in communities nationwide.
New reporting via @meghanbartels.bsky.social with key quotes from @cdelawalla.bsky.social & @mtosterholm.bsky.social on the moment we face.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
Danny Kim in the Planet lab (@pjplanet.bsky.social) defends his thesis tomorrow!
Source-independent enrichment of light lanthanides: microbial mobilization, selective uptake, and intracellular storage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.03.709224v1
"The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership"
"And by understanding the history of an unqualified person driving nonscientific decisions in scientific public policy, perhaps we can avoid another disaster."
skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
Don’t listen to anyone trying to suggest the FY2026 budget bill saved science.
The bill has some wins (and I am grateful to those you worked with and from within Congress for those wins).
We have a lot of work to do before we rest.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
Every American needs to watch this:
Just a bit…
Powerful Shakespearian monologue from Ian McKellen on Colbert.
Just a bit applicable to today...
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If you need to find a figure skater to cheer on during the Olympics, here’s a great one from my small town in CT
#TeamUSA
In brief, this maneuver:
- effectively converts employee status to "at-will" (meaning they can be fired for any--or no--reason),
- redirects whistleblower complaints to internal agency counsel,
& takes away these civil servants' rights to appeal adverse personnel actions.
Without the Washington Post health and science team the public would have known far less about what’s been happening at NIH and CDC this year.
Post reporters have done absolutely key reporting, for example a profile on NIH cancer researcher Steve Rosenberg speaking up about damage to his work.
An email from the Internet Archive staff indicating that they have good backups of the NIH Record.
Good news.
I reached out to the Internet Archive folks to let them know about the discontinuation of the NIH Record.
As I have found on numerous occasions over the past year, they are "on in".
A great organization and an increasingly important resource.
Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
“We will not be intimidated into silence.”
—Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M
This fight is bigger than Texas A&M—it is about whether public universities will serve democracy or fear it.
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@movetexas.bsky.social
Just donated on behalf of @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social & myself ✊Let’s goooo!!
Ok people!!!
I believe we may be taking March 7th NATIONAL!
This will require financial support. Last year, nationwide, the protests cost $75,000. We need all the help we can get!
Help us fuel the fight here: www.standupforscience.net/donate
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
US science after a year of Trump
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com/immer...
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A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...
😱🙀
William Herbert Foege .... you should know him: one of the foremost persons responsible for eradicating smallpox. He died yesterday, January 24, 2026 ..... the day the USA pulled out of the WHO. It is all so terrible sad and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/2026...
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Today’s retreat is absolutely an attempt to take pressure off of Congress to rein in ICE so that a funding package can get through.
That pressure has been effective. We can celebrate Minneapolis’ win but we need to keep the pressure on. They’re not going to stop forever.
Flyer with announcement of the FEBS advanced course in Amsterdam
Join us in Amsterdam for a FEBS advanced course on "Functional Imaging of cellular dynamics" from 31st of May - 6th of June 2026
Info: microscopy2026.febsevents.org
“Instead, build your reputation on substance. Do good work that matters to you and can be explained to others. The format and funding will change. The value of your genuine contribution won't…the quality of your thinking and your approach will always matter.”
Nearly 15% (over 10,000 people) of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math or health fields employed at the end of 2024 left their jobs in 2025. This is a science extinction event in the US. Rebuilding the lost expertise will take decades
