Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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This summer we had the privilege of hosting 5 very talented young scientists. Three of them presented their research yesterday and today. Grateful to them for their hard work and to all of the senior group members for their help guiding them! #proudPI

@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Hey, remember that video Trump posted showing him shitting all over the country? prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...

How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect

The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.

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“Mean green”

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Just published, and already one of my favorite stories of the year. A fascinating story expertly told by @samkean.bsky.social for @science.org

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. 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...

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Great op-ed from my former colleagues and fellow Bethesda Declaration signers, Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, on how censorship is becoming insidious at NIH and across the scientific community. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)

At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.

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Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

Beautiful day to celebrate the hooding of Dr. Arkanil Roy @arkanil.bsky.social with current and former group members

Congratulations to all our newly minted PhDs and their advisers! #UTDPhysics @utdallas.bsky.social

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.

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I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Dr. Upeksha Dissanayake @upeksha.bsky.social on a fantastic defense! Upeksha is the 16th PhD from our group

Wow this says it all PLEASE READ newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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"these attacks were designed to set up the Trump administration to act with impunity. [They] laid the groundwork ...[to] make decisions based on ideology rather than evidence; remove staff, scientific findings, & regulations that could have been roadblocks to its agenda" blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...

One Year in, the Anti-Science Agenda of the Trump Administration Is Evident

We are now more than a year into President Trump’s second stint in the White House, establishing a grim and undeniable record of attacks on science. Every month that has passed since his inauguration ...

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@arwalker.bsky.social Alice Walker crushing it at #ACSSpring2026

First talk of the first session of the symposium celebrating the 65th birthday of Prof. Weitao Yang #ACSSpring2026

Another excellent Substack from Elizabeth Ginexi on a near-stoppage of release of Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) at NIH and why it matters open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14

How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

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How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Latest preprint, great collaboration with Deyu Li and Evans Boateng, with contributions from Shubham Chatterjee @shubhamchatterjee.bsky.social and Jose Madriaga on the kinetic and mechanistic analysis of AlkB:

A well-played meme by Jeremy Berg in response to Stuart Buck and Aishwarya Khanduja on their R&D funding piece : https://goodscience.substack.com/p/a-reality-based-view-of-government

A Reality-Based View of Government Funding of Science

Getting the diagnosis right before designing treatments

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Always an honor and a pleasure to host JHU Prof and @acs.org president Dr. R. Hernandez. Thanks for the fascinating science and all advice and wisdom shared. ¡Gracias Rigoberto!

Waiting to see how long it takes institutions reinstate the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs they shut down, re-hire those they pushed out, and rewrite all the language they rushed to change. Something tells me it'll likely be a long wait.

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - this looks super cool, but does it really relate to the origin of life?

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

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This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski. 🧵 1/12

🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.

Opening night of the Dallas Opera’s production of The Little Prince with the Greater Dallas Choral Society (GDCS)

Really enjoying Colbert's final season of "fuck it, we're going down swinging" tour.