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Let’s be clear: This isn’t a deal. It isn’t really even an extortion like the previous agreements. It’s just a gift from UNC to Donald J Trump. A love letter to his segregationist vision. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...
U.N.C. Strikes Trump Deal to Keep Federal Funding
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not pay any financial penalties but agreed to abide by the Trump administration’s views on diversity and other matters.
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Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."
I don't think it is any surprise to anyone that this massive pro-Kremlin push coincides with the midterm elections
Just back from Japan. What a trip. One of the highlights was meeting Tomoko Ohta. She is one of the most important figures in the history of the life sciences, but few outside of the field of molecular evolution know of her or her work.
80+% chance the Tesla Roadster livestream was either partly or wholly fake
UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting to the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Everything being Connected: “The cost of defending peace today can be far smaller than the price of restoring it tomorrow.
“Musk then prevented any community notes from appearing on Sortor’s post for many hours, ensuring that no one could debunk the bogus claim before it reached tens of millions of people, and suspended accounts that dug into its veracity” @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...
Anatomy of a fake scandal
WSJ obtained video of Ken Paxton partying with literal fugitives in Dubai, so Republicans panicked and invented a story about Talarico checking into a psych hospital. It backfired.
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I’m almost cheering for her to get through the text
Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said, "We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."
Musk has donated more than $276 million to Republican groups since July, making him by far the largest known donor in the 2026 midterms, NYT reports .
all else aside its so funny to claim to have died and gone to heaven and then be like "oh man jesus was so insanely ripped and handsome and...well....actually I'm a little bit taller than he was"
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat?
When Congress appropriated this money, it was intended to fund a wide range of research and projects. The Trump Administration cannot simply ignore Congress and withhold or redirect funds it doesn’t want to spend. It's illegal.
Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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I'm genuinely curious whether the admins at @syracuseuniversity.bsky.social know that Hegemann did his postdoc at SU.
Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!
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A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit (Gift Article)
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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
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The most worrisome issue here is that this effort in NIH predates the Trump administration (and they have found ready allies in Trump staffers) and there is a contingent of biomedical engineers that have oversold their capacity to model physiological organ function.
Agree with my anonymous colleague. And @markhisted.org. The bright side of the past 20 months has been getting to know amazing people across the NIH who fully lived their commitment to public service, doing what was right and lawful rather than what they were told.
Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
Undergraduate-led project on non-canonical estrogen signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Estrogen is Coupled to the Calcium Release Machinery in Human Leiomyoma Cells
Uterine leiomyomas, commonly known as fibroids, are benign tumors of the female reproductive tract. They are the most common tumor of the female reproductive system and the leading cause of hysterecto...
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Claude is coding its successor, which is essentially the plot of Terminator
First person with @kodakandlag.bsky.social !! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
First person – Goutham Kodakandla
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Goutham Koda...
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