Why are ICE officers coming to airports to relieve TSA officers who are working without pay WHEN DHS PAYS BOTH ICE AND TSA OFFICERS?!!!
Brenton Graveley
@graveley.bsky.social
Scientist, Husband, Father, Potter, Athlete, bengal cat lover, Great Dane addict, dungeons and dragons fanatic. Hartford, CT Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Associate Director Institute for Systems Genomics, UConn Health
Giant nope. I don’t have polite words for this guy especially as he treats children. I don’t care how “nice and caring” his wife says he is. That may be but his ideas are more than misguided and his proposal is unethical
Cynthia Fox@cynthfox.bsky.social · 10mo agoRFK Jr's head of the CDC advisory group on vaccines says crazily: “Science is what I observe." (Nope.) He plans to use all Americans as guinea pigs in a vast experiment to see how many die in a society lacking vaccination. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
Had the opportunity to listen to Pete Buttigieg last night. Lent some sanity to an insane world
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting. In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old. www.kare11.com/article/news...
5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders
School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.
kare11.com
Happy to share Joey (Zhuoyi)'s review on technologies to map RBP:RNA and (especially) RBP-associated RNA:RNA interactions is now up at RNA! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41535089
Progress and challenges in profiling protein-RNA and protein-associated RNA-RNA interactions - PubMed
RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play essential roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation by interacting with a wide range of RNA targets. In addition to regulating RNA processing via individual RBP-RNA interactions, there is a growing appreciation of the regulatory impact of protein-associated RNA-R …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We need age limits... 24 members of Congress are 80 or older, and more than half are running for re-election. Thirteen of the 24 have decided to run again in 2026, according to an NBC News review. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election.
While older members of leadership in the House and the Senate are retiring, some from the Silent Generation say their seniority is still a boon for their districts.
nbcnews.com
Non-competitive renewal awards. On a more or less normal curve but not catching up from the government shutdown-related delay. All ICs except for NIAAA and NCCIH have made some awards with NIAID having made the most at 579. 2/2
My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2
very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
embl.org
Latest post from Dr. Ginexi on NOFO guidance, "reductions in burden," and subsequent confusion at #NIH.
When Everything Changes at Once: Making Sense of Institutional Overload
NIH Office of Extramural Research is Implementing a Plan for “Administrative Burden Reduction”
substack.com
Latest paper from the lab in collaboration with Gordon Carmichael, JD Beaudoin, and Chris Holley’s labs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Genome-wide profiling of RNA 2'-O-methylation in neurons and identification of orphan snoRNA targets
We have compared genome-wide patterns of RNA 2'-O-methylation (Nm) between two isogenic pairs of neurons. Each pair includes one line harboring a small deletion of orphan box C/D snoRNAs (SNORD116s) f...
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The President of the United States just stood in front of top military leaders and declared that there’s a “domestic enemy” days after he said he was “authorizing full force” against an American city. This entire country should be outraged, not apathetic because it’s Trump.
RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.” PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism… …including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”
“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.
Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · last yr.I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
advocate.com
🧪That’s not how it works. Science doesn’t care about your feelings. So essentially if the people don’t like science we should ignore the potential it has. In his op ed in the WaPo, JB has proven that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · last yr.Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.
If the Supreme Court rules for the Trump administration in this case, biomedical research is finished in this country.
Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA@safa-science.bsky.social · last yr.The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
science.org
Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...
Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
nytimes.com
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten: “American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
arstechnica.com
