Unlawfully stealing from our future health to fund a war that never should have happened. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

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Yes, tenure letters take up a whole lot of time (that doesn’t exist) but it is also super fun and a privilege to get a chance to write fan mail to scientists who you’ve watched smash the field wide open! 

For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

Paddy O'Connell, asked on the programme to estimate what % of professors at Cambridge are black, estimated it at 30%. Seriously, 30%.

Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.

The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Roman accounts of women in Britain ruling and having multiple partners were dismissed by some later historians. But the largest study yet of DNA from Iron-Age Britain backs those accounts £ 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2584...

DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New Scientist

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests

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We received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund 10 more grants by making a tax-deductible donation to our GoFundMe campaign today! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Donate to Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!, organized by SSE Communications

The Graduate Research Excellence Grants are awarded by the So… SSE Communications needs your support for Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!

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Anybody else miss having a functional USDA and CDC?

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Tell me which key you hit the most without telling me. Hint: mine is in the top right corner :-) 

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫

Klebsiella phages often modify the bacterial capsule instead of degrading it, stripping acetyl groups. Nobody's traced how this evolves. I'm hiring a computational postdoc to find out — Kraków, apply by 21 July. mostowylab.com/job-postdoc-...

New study 🚨🚨🚨 Using fecal samples collected over 17 years, we tracked antibiotic resistance genes in wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park; one of the last remaining chunks of primary rainforests in West Africa. Study out now in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Support #microbiology research by nominating a scientist for the 2027 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology!🦠Preference will be given to early-career scientists and those whose work hasn’t been recognized by other large prizes. Learn more: www.nasonline.org/award/selman... #NASaward

You can also listen to my thoughts on this potentially disastrous rule change in this short video, which is excerpted from a longer conversation during a recent livestream event:

The new proposed OMB rules would be a disaster for American science, technology, and health

In this excerpt from a recent livestream, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains with the newly proposed rules from the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would be a disaster not only for American science, but also for everything from disaster response to public universities to can

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Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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ICE murdered Lorenzo Araujo in Houston Texas this week. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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'I would not be talking about the fish that my team discovered if we didn’t have long-term funding that allowed me to fail and learn from failures. The only way I was able to learn from failures was to have long-horizon funding, when I wasn’t being measured from year to year'

“I Am an Unabashed Optimist About the Long-Term Future of Science.”

The new president of the National Academy of Sciences talks about learning to see as a scientist and communicating science in a noisy information landscape.

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Coming late to this story: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

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Postdocs and early career folks - this is a truly wonderful opportunity to spend time in Berlin, gain time to think, and expand your network! call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/65...

Damage to the century-old Palladin Institute marks a “disaster for biological science in Ukraine.” https://scim.ag/4p2ND6m

Major Ukraine research center damaged in Russian strikes

Damage to century-old Palladin Institute marks “disaster for biological science in Ukraine”

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The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

This is remarkable.

I want to propose a toast to Sergey Brin, who's unintentionally making the case for a billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

Out Now! Phages tame plant pathogens #MicroSky

Phages tame plant pathogens

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02395-3Predicting infection heterogeneity requires looking beyond the host. Phage–bacteria coevolution in tomato fields maintains diverse bacterial strategies and explains uneven disease occurrence across plant populations.

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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.

Alarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money | Common Dreams

"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the

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There you have it the headlines for tomorrow.

My son (8) who was worried about technology replacing everything. So I asked him what he thinks could never be replaced by AI or technology. His response (without a moments hesitation): the human heart. Probably won’t help shape your investment portfolio, but at least there’s hope yet.