This is astonishing. “Guys, the answer is No!”
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Trump family has major business interests in the Balkans. So I asked two nominees to be ambassadors to the region if they would use their embassy to push Trump family deals. Watch this for their answers. Just chilling.
Salk Institute’s ‘Harnessing Plants’ initiative was founded be the late great Joanne Chory and colleagues. “Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon” apnews.com/article/clim...
Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon
For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation.
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“I am delighted to inform you that the renowned Dolly Parton passed away at a young age.” — Kathryn Schulz, Sept 7 New Yorker “Dolly Parton for the People”
share.google/MfW7kKP5qy18... Reported originally in STAT+
Trump Officials Busted in Bizarre Daughter Cover-Up
A top Trump official appears to have made some inconvenient comments disappear from a federal website. Russ Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget who eagerly carried ...
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Germany is a dangerous place. apnews.com/article/germ...
A donkey jumps into a van while on the loose, kicking and biting, injuring 3 people in Germany
A donkey named Freddy in northern Germany has attacked two motorists by jumping into their van. Police said the incident on Friday happened south of Cuxhaven.
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Inside NASA’s ‘Big Bang’: A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers Alive www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/s...
How NASA Engineers Are Keeping the Voyagers Alive
A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
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Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences
🧫 IOCB Prague is launching the first edition of the new international #DreamBiologyAward, a competition that offers young scientists from around the world the opportunity to present their ambitious scientific visions in the #lifesciences. 1/4
How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A cool discovery, with a lesson: Pay attention to the outliers!
HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 3mo agoDiscoveries can hide in plain sight. #HHMIInvestigator Steven Henikoff's lab found a surprise when revisiting their old data: a region of ribosomal DNA producing microRNAs that can be associated with cancer, revealing a new role for part of the genome overlooked for decades: bit.ly/3RQwTmy.
What is the point of this AI paper scoring game?
Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 3mo ago5. People ask, “Can you game the score by running your paper over and over?” We intentionally scored the papers in retrospect and analyzed papers that people posted on @openrxiv.bsky.social under their real names. We also have protections to try to prevent possible future gaming.
A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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A great public information initiative by MIT aimed at making the case for the importance of scientific research for the welfare of everyone. www.curiositymission.org
Curiosity Mission
MIT research is transforming energy, health, food, and America's competitive edge. Explore the stories of scientists whose curiosity is changing the world.
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I just finished reading "The Future is Peace" by Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, which I recommend for anyone who has witnessed, with constant feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, the decades-long cycle of violence and revenge between the Palestinian and Israeli people. Go to www.iinteract.org
InterAct
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Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
The best time to reimagine yourself as an activist was years ago, the second best time is TODAY. You can say you messed up and should have fought and then…you can fight with us. The tent is big and we need all the science fighters we can get! SO GET IN, DORKS!
The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision
Since I can’t sleep, here’s another hot take: The world would be a better place if everyone‘s science literacy was much better. There should be more emphasis on teaching basic science at all levels in school. Science isn’t just something nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
With federal research funding uncertain, states debate new science initiatives www.statnews.com/2026/02/20/s... via @statnews.com
With federal research funding uncertain, states debate new science initiatives
A handful of states are considering initiatives to increase funding for scientific research as uncertainty around federal dollars has grown.
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I would appreciate hearing context on this issue. Is the concern that if the patient’s medication is working, and hence their clinical presentation is mild, then they would get an assessment that would result in losing benefits that enable them to get the medication?
Alt National Archives@altnatarchives.altgov.info · 7mo agoFucking hell. Here’s the link to the fucking rule. The comment period runs thru April 20. PLEASE COMMENT. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
thanks @lucksmith.bsky.social 15 years after your key paper with Nelson Lau showing the abundance & widespread nature of piRNAs from 3' UTRs, we now start to get the logic. dissecting how the Yb protein reads out U-content, and talks to the Upf1-related SF2 helicase Armitage, will be interesting.
eric lai@lucksmith.bsky.social · 7mo agoas always, beautiful mechanistic dissection by @86dominik.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social lab, taking advantage of genetics and genomics to get decisive insights into piRNAs! surprising how instructive U content is for piRNA biogenesis, but it makes total sense, the system is very clever! 🪰
Would add to this thorough list of harms at NIH: 1) multiyear funding, Vought’s trick to fund less new research with the same amount of $ 2) presidentializing of NIH, shifting toward a political agenda rather than science. More on that from @markhisted.org: open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
American biomedical science in 2026
Where we are, how we got here, and what to do next
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL@alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 7mo ago@altfda.altgov.info challenged us to list #5Things that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 7mo ago“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
