Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams
@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
Assist Dir. @DNALC @CSHL
A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
Dept. Of Interior Grills Up Nation’s Remaining Endangered Species https://theonion.com/dept-of-interior-grills-up-nations-remaining-endangered-species/
“In July, the federal government discontinued its funding, along with that of more than 100 others, with no warning. The work, the time, the sacrifice, the participation of so many children, families and clinicians — all of it goes to waste.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
Opinion | Medical Breakthroughs Are a Thrill. Then Comes the Hard Part.
The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that ensures that research makes its way into medical practice.
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I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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If we truly want to make Americans healthy, we need evidence-based policies and we need research that examines how policies influence health. Right now, Bhattacharya’s NIH is silencing these questions. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
NIH’s New Ban on Research to Inform Policy Undercuts its Mission
By Jenna Norton, Alexa Romberg, Sylvia Chou, Rui Carlos Pereira de Sá, and anonymous members of 27 UNIHTED
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Looks like you have been finding a lot of time to “talk” about it.
Post you from a different era of your life. We didn’t have cameras, but this is a reasonable extrapolation. A time when one could enjoy nature without the meddling interloping of man.
BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · yesterdayPost you from a different era of your life. (2009 running around with cameras when people were busy being professionals all around me)
Note that Bhattacharya posts the WWE image first. The mention of the memorial for the slain security guard was a comment he posted 50 minutes later as an afterthought. "Today was also a somber day" . No words.
Dessert: Pistachio semolina cake.
Dinner: Falafel - fresh pita, homemade hummus, pickled red cabbage, zhug, cucumber, onion, and tomato. Wood roasted eggplant for the babaganoush #GardentoTable
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...
What Keeps Me Up at Night
Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather
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Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division@basicsci.fredhutch.org · 6d agoJoin @FredHutch.org's Basic Sciences Division as an Assistant or Associate Professor and help shape the future of fundamental biology. We welcome applicants whose work will complement, extend, or bring new directions to the division.
Was great being back at the Lister Hill Center at the National Library of Medicine to talk about future directions of the NLM!
I can't believe it's already been 5 years since I first released sandbox.bio! 🥳 To celebrate, next week we'll release one new feature every day of the week. Follow along at sandbox.bio/anniversary, or here on BlueSky.
Native Forward Scholars Fund announced that it will direct all of a $50 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott toward supporting Native students, with the investment split between immediate scholarship assistance and a permanent endowment. nativenewsonline.net/education/na...
Native Forward Dedicates Entire $50 Million MacKenzie Scott Gift to Native Students, Future Generations
Overview: Native Forward Scholars Fund announced it will invest the full $50 million unrestricted gift it received from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott into Native higher education, allocating $10…
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Notice of Award! 🚨 🧬 The DNA Observatory will be the next step in our vision of transforming every classroom in the US into a genome sequencing center—ensuring that students everywhere have firsthand opportunities to conduct their own research and become leaders in biotechnology.
Dessert: Tiramisu. Ka’u dark roast espresso; Hawaiian dark rum.
Dinner: Short-rib agnolotti with pistachios and sage-butter demi-glace.
Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
