'Civil rights advocates have said these prosecutions, even when unsuccessful, are part of an effort to criminalize lawful community organizing, weaken movements opposing deportations and turn the lives of activists upside down.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

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The path of scientific funding options in the USA is taking interesting twists......

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

Nominations for the 2026 John Maddox Prize close Aug 2. It recognizes researchers who've stood up for science and evidence in public debate, often against real opposition. Two categories: main prize and Early Career Award. Self-nominations welcome. https://loom.ly/mA9OARo #ImmunologyWithoutBorders

A collection of protocols covering a wide range of immunological-based assays and methods adapted for immunological research published @natprot.nature.com 🧪 #medsky #immunosky Take a look:

Protocols for immunological research

A collection of protocols covering a range of techniques for isolating, profiling, identifying and characterizing immune cells and biomarkers

nature.com

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Thrilled to share: we show that neuronal hyperactivity drives C1q-mediated synapse loss via brain-recruited B cell/IgM, revealing unexpected neuroimmune crosstalk in the adult brain. Congrats to Gerard Crowley who led this w/ resilience & creativity & our whole team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

C1q and immunoglobulins mediate activity-dependent synapse loss in the adult brain

Complement component 1q (C1q), the initiator of the classical complement cascade, mediates synaptic elimination in development and disease, yet the triggers for its deposition on synapses remain uncle...

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1/🧵 With this paper finally published, I want to talk about the worst peer review experience of my career as a non-native English speaker, early-career researcher, and solo author, and why I think it matters. #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #EvoSky

Luís M. Silva@luismsilva.bsky.social · last mo.

1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky

Immune cells exist as continuous clouds, not discrete categories. In this Perspective, @tal-shay.bsky.social &co reframe immune identity through systems biology, and propose that immunotherapies should aim at dynamics of the cell cloud. 🧪 #AcademicSky #immunology plos.io/4oWuoLG

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This is one of the most exciting IBD papers of 2026 so far!!! 👇🏼 Every now and then, a study comes along that fundamentally changes how we think about disease mechanisms. This is one of them. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Interleukin-10 Autoantibodies and HLA-DRB1*01:03 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease | NEJM

Neutralizing autoantibodies against interleukin-10 can result in a phenocopy of monogenic defects of interleukin-10 signaling in children and may be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...

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I've received advice like "if you do your best science, everything will turn out fine", which to a large extent is true in the past, when science has strong bipartisan support for decades. Nowadays, we can't just do science, but we also have to advocate for science.

"I'm one of those scientists who's less inclined to impose order on the living world and more inclined to try and interpret the order that is there." 🧪 💡1998 Lasker Laureate Paul Nurse discusses the role of intuition in making scientific decisions. Cancer Research UK

We Ask a Scientist: Paul Nurse on Intuition

"I'm one of those scientists who's less inclined to impose order on the living world and more inclined to try and interpret the order that is there." 1998 Lasker Laureate Paul Nurse discusses the role of intuition in making scientific decisions.

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"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

leidendeclaration.ai

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations

Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent

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In the coming months, the weaknesses of America’s patchwork railway system will be exposed across all 11 U.S. sites of World Cup matches—and it won't be pretty, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes.

Here’s Another Way America Will Choke at the World Cup

The nation’s railway system is destined to lose.

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🧬 Working on #leukocyte biology? #SLB2026 (“Leukocytes, it’s all about location”) takes place Sept 14–17, 2026, in Columbus, OH. Learn more! https://loom.ly/F4V-D4w #ImmunologyWithoutBorders #Leukocytes #SLB2026 #GlobalImmunology

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

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Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 & 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide & fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to health — have been slashed by 50% & 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Bike-lanes make better cities. #UrbanTruth

From discovery to 👉 clinical reality. 👏 FOCIS brings this year’s theme into focus through the #DayofImmunology video campaign. Tregs and Foxp3 reshaped immune tolerance. Now they’re moving into clinical trials. 🧬 🔗 https://loom.ly/yWRSIP0 #DOI2026 #ImmunologyWithoutBorders

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%

A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

bbc.co.uk

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

We have an exciting new story out at @science.org's Science Immunology! It is all about using #AAV-mediated cytokine delivery to change the lung environment. We can boost #lung #Tregs or delivery anti-inflammatory #cytokines, preventing fatal respiratory collapse www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

More than 150 million lives. Saved by vaccines. Since 1974. That is health and science in action. This #WorldHealthDay, Together for Health #StandWithScience 💙

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall

Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

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