A Fourier Duck, PhD
@crystalline-entity.bsky.social
Running a Structural Biology and Protein Production group at a Boston biotech. Previously worked in rare disease, but focusing on drug discovery in precision oncology the last few years. Crystallography with a splash of CryoEM and NMR. Opinions are my own.
The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy. Pathetic.
DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.
To my biotech and biopharma colleagues, this means you too!Unless you don't care about your Scientific Advisory Board, academic consultants, and academic collaborations.
Sarah Gollust@sarahgollust.bsky.social · 4w agoDid you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times. www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
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Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
elizabethginexi.substack.com
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
To RFK Jr. and all the anti-vaxxers: this is your handiwork. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles
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If your representative is Mark Pocan, go ahead and give his office a call and tell him he’s a turd for this mess. Here’s his DC office number: (202) 225-2906
Action item: The Department of Education proposed a rule that would limit who counts as a professional degree. This affects loans students can get. Under the new definition, nurses and educational degrees are not professional degree. Please comment! Link: www.regulations.gov/document/ED-...
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Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
Do you have a passport? Over half of Americans don't. Do you have a birth certificate and photo ID with the same last name? Nearly 70 million married women don't. If you answered no to both, you would not be able to vote under the SAVE Act. This is voter suppression, not protection.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6mo agoRep. McGovern on the SAVE Act: "I have news for Republicans, Americans don't want to be saved by you, they don't want you screwing up the next elections... Republicans have looked to find fraud, and you know what they found? Someone is more likely to get struck by lightning than to vote illegally"
Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process
Republican House bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals
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This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.
In December, I told you about how Trump’s Department of Education is stripping nurses of our professional status and making school more expensive. From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Rep. Lauren Underwood@underwood.house.gov · 8mo agoAs the only Democratic nurse in Congress, I remember how expensive pursuing my degree was. And now, Trump’s Education Department is moving to make it even more expensive. Here’s how you can help.
Oh look, according to Peter Attia MD “pussy is low carb” something that is totally normal for a doctor to say to Epstein, who had previously been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution
Booooo Thermofisher! Booooo Agilent! Time to order from elsewhere.
Constantinople lab@constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
End Qualified Immunity now. Hold the ICE officer who blocked aid accountable for Renee Good’s death.
This appears to simply be their best idea to have gun violence no longer be the top cause of pediatric deaths.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: CDC announces an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule, a significant shift that recommends fewer shots for all kids.
Is there a single day—1 single day—when RFK Jr does NOT do something to dismantle public health? This one is exceptionally grim—IMHO, the USPSTF is world-leading As Dr Caroll says, if you ever got a free mammogram, colonoscopy, or HIV test, you can thank the USPSTF www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Kennedy Weakens U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
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Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet
Every year @erininthemorning.com puts together a list of trans Girl Scouts that sell cookies. If you’d like to purchase some, please consider these girls. Trans youth have been under a vicious attack so it would be nice to show some support. Thanks 🩵🤍🩷 www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals
I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe
Donate to Honoring Sarah James Through Education, organized by Joe James
Honoring Sarah James & Supporting Her Children’s Future On Christmas, our com… Joe James needs your support for Honoring Sarah James Through Education
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 9mo agoCDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Nah. Can’t be ‘united’ if the political party is a laughably incapable opposition that is now just kicking the can down to midterms.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov · 9mo agoThe sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
