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Nels Elde

@elearlybird.bsky.social

Evolutionary genetics and cell biology. And co-host of This Week in Evolution: www.microbe.tv/twievo/ Elde lab: cellvolution.org Opinions: my own, not employers

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Rebekah Rogers@evolscientist.bsky.social · yesterday

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last wk.

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

When women do obtain tenure, the effects extend well beyond their own careers. Beyond the direct promotion of the qualifying candidate, departments experience on average one additional female promotion over the subsequent fifteen years, a substantial expansion of the female PhD pipeline, and improved retention and career progression among female doctoral graduates. These effects are concentrated in departments where women are underrepresented, but not entirely absent, suggesting that a minimal female presence is a precondition for trickle-down effects to materialize, whether through mutual support, departmental influence, or other channels that require women not to be entirely isolated.
Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · last wk.

The point of creating such weak cases isn’t to win. It’s to scare people into not protesting. It’s to scare us into silence.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.

"Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his anti-authoritarian ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing 6 years in prison."

Guardian article: The professor facing prison in 'antifa' case: "They want to scare all who oppose ICE"
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last wk.

My quote of the day Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? Joseph Welch

Sarah Tuttle@niais.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are a lot of concerns about the way we're going, but this is a really fundamental piece. Universities like mine do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to higher ed in the US. Our entire infrastructure is, in many ways, built on the reliability of Federal funding.

Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦@centromellone.bsky.social · 2w ago

America's R1 universities educate ~8–9 million students (undergraduate + graduate) -> more than 1/3 of U.S. college students (vs. the ~0.6% of Ivies). Undermining this system threatens the institutions that train our workforce and drive scientific innovation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

apnews.com

Minnesota House DFL@mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

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.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4w ago

Of the many acts of destruction that RFK Jr unleashed upon US & global health, IMHO freezing US funding to Gavi (which will cause an estimated 600,000 child deaths), the dismantling of CDC & of the federal vaccine apparatus, & ending federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D will end up as the deadliest

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Yun S. Song@yun-s-song.bsky.social · last mo.

I am thrilled to share that UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint initiative in Computational Biomedicine! cdss.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk... We will soon be recruiting new faculty and postdoctoral fellows. Please repost to help spread the word.

UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative

UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical c...

cdss.berkeley.edu

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · last mo.

Just when you think you have seen it all, you find even more bad stuff in this OMB rule. 200.339(b) allows DOJ to join lawsuits by people seeking to block awards they find inappropriate. www.science.org/content/arti...

Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

science.org

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · last mo.

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, 6-3, overrules Humphrey's Executor, giving the president broad firing powers over the leadership of federal agencies and limiting Congress's power to limit presidential firings. In a 5-4 decision, however, the court said the Federal Reserve is likely different.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last mo.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants

Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.

nature.com

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last mo.

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You

A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.

thenation.com

Noam Ross@noamross.net · last mo.

Scientists have mobilized against OMB's power grab, but we need to look beyond our own grants and make coalitions with neighbors whose hospitals, schools, broadband, roads and parks are at risk. Go out and talk to your town council and county commission! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... 🧪

How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town

The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.

forbes.com