Overflow room needed for packed #ASCO26 joint session with @theaacr.bsky.social on the story of targeting KRAS, clinical updates on KRAS inhibitors, and novel approaches to targeting KRAS chaired by ASCO President Dr. Eric Small & AACR President Dr. Lillian Siu. Livestream going in room S100a.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Aaron J. Waltke@goodaaron.bsky.social · last yr.

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

One of the most original stories I have heard in the @femsmicro.org Congress thus far is the proposition by Rachel Armstrong to develop bioreceptive construction materials for functionalizing built surfaces eg catalytic walls with natural or genet eng microorganisms 😱

#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT 167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI @jcvi.org 168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ. @cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social Zoom for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

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Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !

Phil Holliger@philholliger.bsky.social · last yr.

We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/r... ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

We updated our website supervised-morphogenesis.eu! New links to data-sets, code & publications. Check it out! #EIC #EICPathfinder #HorizonEU #gastruloids #embryomodels #EngineeredLivingMaterial @bgerratana.bsky.social

Finally, thanks to the funding that made this dream project possible: @maxplanck.de, Bf3R, Stiftung SET, EIC #EICPathfinder @ec.europa.eu @bgerratana.bsky.social

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ALT: a group of people standing in front of a building with the words grant secured

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Mr. Trump—I’ve known Chris Van Hollen since the last century, and the last thing anyone who knows him would call him is a grandstander. He’s a defender of human rights. You should meet with him—you could learn something. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump White House Lashes Out At Senator Who Visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia In El Salvador

"GRANDSTANDER!!!" the president wrote on social media. He later smeared the Maryland immigrant's character, as well.

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While we're embedding biofactories in contact lenses to make them smarter, others are integrating electronics and sensors. At our Techtransfer day event, we'll meet the pioneers in this sector and talk to industry experts on their vision of the future! www.linkedin.com/events/techt...

TechTransferDay - Smart Contact Lenses: Embedded Technologies beyond Vision | LinkedIn

Tomorrow’s contact lenses will leverage our capabilities to perceive and interact with the world around us. Augmented reality contact lenses will enable navigation and communication without the need o...

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Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj

Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation

Lisa Jarvis@lisamjarvis.bsky.social · last yr.

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply! Deadline: April 14, 2025 Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available. Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

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Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London 🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖 If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador, arguing that the court should end its “continued intrusions” into the authority of the executive branch.

Justice Department resists judge's demand for more details on deportation flights signaling legal showdown

It’s the latest development in a showdown between the Trump administration and the judge who temporarily blocked deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration.

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RFK Jr. suggests the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune.

RFK Jr. Unveils Disturbing Plan to Combat Bird Flu

Trump’s health secretary has proposed the worst idea, as egg prices continue to skyrocket.

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Trump’s new economic constraints on the NSF and NIH deliver another self-inflicted wound to American progress—derailing decades of biological and biomedical research. Doctoral candidates nationwide are already feeling the sting.

Put American innovation first by funding the NSF and NIH

The Trump administration is risking Americans' health and safety by cutting science and research funding.

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Ben & Jerry's alleges its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker's social and political activism.

Ben & Jerry's alleges parent company Unilever removed its CEO over social activism

Ben & Jerry’s says its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker’s social and political activism.

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Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs. I'm reproducing the text of the email here:

Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing

Bye America, Buy Canadian: Consumers, Retailers Change Tack to Counter Tariff Stresses

Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing.

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More than 600 NOAA workers were laid off. This week, federal government reinstated some of them, but they were placed on administrative leave and have not been asked to return to work. No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj

Fired workers are reinstated at NOAA, creating confusion on the heels of severe storms

The agency had already halted several services because of staffing issues following the cuts, including some weather balloon launches. It is not clear whether those will resume.

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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…

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This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed. And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Alex Wayne@aawayne.bsky.social · last yr.

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”

Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie

We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”

"Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns

‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’

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