It will be great to have an MD/PhD in the Senate who wrote the book on Medicare for All global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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Wow. I love papers like this where you start off thinking “what? Sounds fishy” and then the data are so convincing and the paper so well written that is all so clear that you are blown away. Cells have a little aerial to allow them to move toward the anode!!! Galvanin! #PureScience #biophysics

Galvanin (TMEM154) is an electric-field sensor for directed cell migration: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Pleased to share that Kerry Tarrant, Zahra Aminzare, & my paper, Stability and Robustness of a Generalized Pump-Leak Model for Epithelial Vesicles, has just been published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stability and Robustness of a Generalized Pump-Leak Model for Epithelial Vesicles - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Epithelial cells stabilize ion concentrations and volume through coordinated membrane pumps, ion channels, and paracellular pathways, which can be modeled by classical single-compartment pump-leak equ...

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"If you go read the declaration, as Douglass had very carefully, they spent far more sentences defending & justifying the right of revolution, ...You have the right to rise up and overthrow your government if it engages in sufficient usurpations to destroy your liberties." David Blight

What Frederick Douglass warned us about America David Blight @dblight.bsky.social On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti @wbur.org www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

What Frederick Douglass warned us about America

In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered what many consider the best abolitionist speech of all time. He asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” What makes it such a masterpiece — and ...

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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

That lush, green "grass" you see? It's inside your eye. These vivid layers are retinal pigment epithelial cells, or RPEs. Located at the back of the eye in a layer of the retina, they help protect your photoreceptors — the cells that turn light into vision. 📸: NIH

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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...

Fascinating how the Trump Administration always gets its inspiration from the Nazis...

There's an army recruiter at the Iowa City farmer's market lmao good luck pal. You'd be more likely to hit those wartime quotas by staying home and watching antiques roadshow by yourself

Flies vision is tightly intertwined with action, using motion itself to sharpen perception and speed up neural processing. Understanding how biology achieves predictive, low‑delay sensing could inspire new approaches in artificial vision and neuromorphic engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour - Nature Communications

How insects maintain precise vision during rapid motion remains unclear. Here, the authors show that motion-driven photoreceptor dynamics and synaptic high-frequency jumping enable hyperacute, minimal...

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Because when powerful interests write the rules, it takes more than a rally to change them. It takes organized people showing up together and demanding better from those who govern our communities. Friday, May 1 7 – 8:30pm CDT First United Methodist Church, Iowa City www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Iowa City May Day Workers & Families Town Hall · Mobilize

Because when powerful interests write the rules, it takes more than a rally to change them. It takes organized people showing up together and demanding better from those who govern our communities. O...

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Iran War Cost Tracker Estimated U.S. Taxpayer Spending @climatesollab.bsky.social iran-cost-ticker.com

Iran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 Billion

The Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time.

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Today in Iowa City 6pm Vigil Trinity Episcopal Ch-320 E College St. Come together to lament this weekend’s violence on the Ped Mall & recommit ourselves to building the peace every person in our community deserves. Organized by area religious communities & Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”

Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

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An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Anti-War, Anti-Genocide, Rapid Response Rally! Thursday April 9th on the Pentacrest Iowa City, 1 pm to 3 pm

At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8mo ago

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Great to see our rally in Iowa City featured in @nytimes.com Katy Gates, from Voters of Tomorrow, said the crowd was “a lot younger, more diverse and more energetic” than those at previous “No Kings” demonstrations. She attributed the change, in part, to the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies as the Midterms Heat Up

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mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley

Iowa City, No Kings 3, Today. ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS. If You Prefer DEI to (self proclaimed) DEITY Deranged Egomaniacal Insecure Tyrannical Yapster DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

🧪This is important. Russel Vought fact check by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social When a non-scientist says w/ certainty that NIH caused the Covid19 pandemic, it is a red flag & arrogance. His intention is to destroy science & implement Project 2025. Articles of impeachment have been drafted.

In unrelated news, this was spotted near NIH yesterday by a friend (honestly)... #PoopHappens 2/2

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Super article about Mike Welsh - "A central technique we use came from a scientist who wanted to understand how frogs living in fresh water maintain their body’s salt balance." stories.uiowa.edu/curiosity-an...

Curiosity and compassion fuel Iowa researcher’s work

From rural beginnings to groundbreaking advances in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, Michael Welsh has helped reshape what’s possible for patients. Supported by a collaborative academic environment a...

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Beautiful retrospective on Jim Hudspeth by Pascal Martin & Jonathon Howard www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....