My husband received his copy of Pregnancy Interrupted already, but I opened it first! bookshop.org/p/books/preg...

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Considering the issues they had with their “tuna” a few years ago, perhaps they shouldn’t encourage people to speculate on what meat is in their hotdogs

Bullrilla 🐂🦍@bulkingcanuck.bsky.social · last wk.

They're selling what?

We ran our annual presentation skills workshop today. The group was smaller than usual, but I’m proud of how engaged and interactive they were. Special thanks to @aksharasharma.bsky.social for helping me run the workshop.

I’m watching Wimbledon on @espn.com. The sounds from the court are consistently 5 seconds behind the play. The commentary is correctly synced, so this is clearly a production issue. I’m flabbergasted they’re screwing up in such an amateurish way.

Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".

Old School Punk Librarian@kennethf62.bsky.social · last mo.

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7

Opinion | Abolish the NIH

A $48 billion government monopoly should give way to the market.

washingtonpost.com

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Another important thread from @jeremymberg.bsky.social , this time on data showing nih programs to improve minority access to research careers worked.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants

Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.

nature.com

Are you on the faculty job market? Interested in coming to work here at Stony Brook? (You should be!) Physiology & Biophysics (my home department) is looking to add faculty at the Asst/Assoc Prof level: apply.interfolio.com/148377

Hey, Friends! We've got 3 weeks to submit comments to the Federal Register opposing horrible OMB rules allowing political appointees to terminate US scientific & medical research. Resources in this thread make it EASY to write your letter. I also drafted letters for busy friends & family to submit 🧵

Just submitted my letter to oppose OMB proposal. What are you waiting for? actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

actionnetwork.org

Interesting point-counterpoint related to the Matt Ridley "Scientific Freedom" lecture. First, @angierasmussen.bsky.social posted a short comment on The Scientific Literacy Project. geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/15/v... 1/9

Viewpoint: COVID lab leak? Misguided backers of the lab leak theory refuse to give up

hen I learned that Lord Matt Ridley had been invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about his search for the origins of COVID-19 by

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I wonder what that reader would think of “A Clockwork Orange”.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't think 'scrying' is a hard word.

For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.

#OPENACCESS: A robust platform that computes NMR relaxation rates (longitudinal and translation) from MD trajectories, benchmarked on a bunch of proteins. Do you need a magnet for measuring relaxation or not, find out yourself!

MD2NMR: Linking molecular dynamics with NMR relaxation

Accurate prediction of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation parameters from molecular dynamics (MD) simulation trajectories is essential for quantitatively linking atomistic-scale motions to…

cell.com

📣 We’re accepting nominations for “Rising Stars in Bioengineering” (self nominations welcomed)! Deadline: Jun 30th, 2026 forms.gle/mmdzutrPk1fd...

Dinner tonight: pork lo mein stir fry with cabbage and carrots

The 2026 University of Rochester iGEM Team's crowdfunding page is live! Help us reach our goal by donating through the link below. Your donation will help fund lab supplies and get us to Paris for the iGEM Jamboree! Link: give.rochester.edu. @urochester.bsky.social @urochesteradm.bsky.social

University of Rochester

Default page for University of Rochester crowdfunding and online giving initiatives.

give.rochester.edu

The server where my wham code has lived for many years has been retired, and the code has been relocated to GitHub (github.com/agrossfield/...). If you maintain a tutorial that references the old site, it would be great if you could update it. 1/2

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

Quartz (especially synthetic) is very common. It’s apparently a bit easier to maintain than granite, and much easier than marble.

Kate Tuttle@katekilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What are they putting in place of granite now?

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Once again, @dereklowe.bsky.social is not holding back and I am here for it. www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

science.org

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

science.org

Just paused work, because I saw that Sinner is down in the fifth set at Roland Garros. This would be an enormous upset!

Excited to share this paper from @yiechanglin.bsky.social showing how lipids can move between bacterial membranes along the bridge like protein TamB. Also happy to be able to post the cool movie. 🎥🌟 #MDsimulations #StructuralBiology doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

They took down the paywall for this article. I sent a stern email. They listened. Way to go, @slate.com

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...