David Sedaris on undecided voters

Long live the day I girl bossed too close to the sun and managed to get my email address on the main account for the entire university so every month I get everyone’s QIAGEN invoices for my entire university. 🤘

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

Live look in to your university’s administration

Mr Bean Listening: Funny Ear Plugs

Alt: Mr Bean Listening: Funny Ear Plugs

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Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Our department has collected $750 in doordash gift cards and has already filled 3 weeks of a meal train schedule for our ill student. My heart is full, hopefully so is their belly.

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It’s a quintessential French experience when your institution is blockaded by protesting students. This is precisely what American students should have done when their institutions began capitulating to the Trump regime.

In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Maitreya Dunham@maitreya.bsky.social · 2w ago

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”

The problem with the lack of an algorithm is that we are going to keep seeing people independently discover this trash of a movie.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Let's do this! We're watching The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood doesn't understand how bodies work and this movie doesn't understand how higher ed works. Should be an amazing time. If you want a hint of how bad the higher ed is, just watch this trailer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwda...

Just day drank with the grad students. We were all at a 5K fundraiser and I had already grabbed a table to manage food and beer and told them to join my friends so they could do the same. Gotta look out the kids, right? Gave one of them my wristband for more beer.

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

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I see one positive change. At present, changes to IBC permit (eg. addition of BSL1 organism or even protein expression plasmid) requires the full IBC meet (which only happens monthly here). This change would allow one or a subset of IBC members to approve certain changes.

Hey Microbiology folks, 🦠🧫 Have thoughts about the new NIH Policy For Research Involving Biohazards? They are accepting comments! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hey Biologists : Have you made any comments on the NIH Biosafety Policy for Biohazards? Because some of the changes are REDONKULOUS - and there are only 40 comments on file - Submit comments by Oct 19! osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form.... 🦠 #microsky

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

ATCC Genome Portal Q3 2026 Release out Monday! genomes.atcc.org previews... New genome assemblies: 207 bacterial, 24 fungal, 15 viral. Plus new RNAseq datasets for 51 human cell lines and organoids (255 total samples, typically N=5 per line) #genomics #bioinformatics #aixbio #referencedata #NGS

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

My sourdough wasn’t breading right during shaping. So focaccia we go!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"

#eldercare realities. Dad’s condo got packed today. Of course even with me telling him 5x to pack an overnight bag and put it in his car, I got back from class to find that they had packed ALL of his clothes and he had no PJs or shirts for tonight or tomorrow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

Made the poor decision to watch "The Love Hypothesis" this weekend and if you have any experience in academic science environments I strongly urge you not to. If the author, as claimed, indeed has a PhD in neuroscience from an accredited university I can only conclude that they wrote it as rage bait

Pls share: Two tenure-track positions in Molecular Microbiology at Virginia Tech. I had a great visit there a couple of years ago! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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WTAF with the plot of the Love hypothesis being a grad student dating a professor. At least they bring up title IX and then completely ignore it. 🤦🏻‍♀️