Nature: Controversial White House plan to overhaul US science funding faces Senate opposition by Dan Garisto @nature.com @dangaristo.bsky.social go.nature.com/3TWoXRw

This is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman

The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.

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Inflammation is a driver of age-related diseases (inflammaging) and this new NYT magazine article gets deep into the progress that is being made to track and block it gift link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. (Gift Article)

The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.

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Despite all the accusations of crimes and cover-ups, the Trump admin has never actually prosecuted or jailed anyone. The supposed stolen 2020 election, Jan 6 deep state, Dr Fauci, etc. All of its is just theater for the base, revving them up. In the end, will undermine faith in gov and institutions.

Had a super lovely time on this podcast talking about bioimage analysis -the practice, the career, and the ~*~magic~*~ of it all. Check it out below!

Said this before, and will keep saying it: Prior to vaccine availability in the US, almost 1 in 5 people hospitalized during the pandemic DIED. For those admitted to an ICU it was more like 40-50%. The vaccines, and then the combination of vaccines and less lethal variants, changed everything.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

History will praise Fauci as a leader and will bunch his accusers with McCarthy and J Edgar Hoover. They praise themselves at the cost of good men and women who know and care and seek to help our country. They have no decency, at long last.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

A new special issue, with papers in Science and #ScienceAdvances, features single-cell and multiomic studies from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund's 4D Nucleome Program, which examines a fourth dimension of nuclear organization. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4wc4SF8

"Many publicly traded companies are putting out announcements about their AI productivity gains when I know for a fact that the businesses have done nothing other than purchase Copilot licenses and declare victory."

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

NIH is testing their ability to terminate “unaligned” grants, with at least one new termination documented. Disgustingly, they awarded this grant simply so they could add a termination clause. Then they terminated it. From @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes

With cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grants

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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

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Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

This is their overt goal. They are not pretending otherwise.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

Much as I appreciate the shout-out, I wish my claim about a desire to destroy universities hadn't been framed as the hyperbolic view of an alarmist social media personality when in fact this is precisely what these people say they are trying to do.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Communicating research results is among the most important aspects of science; it can be tremendously rewarding and gratifying. Yet, it often falls short. This is an insightful & humorous take on giving a talk by @itaiyanai.bsky.social. 1/

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Temporally distinct CDX programmes preconfigure vagal and trunk neural crest

Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...

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This is not AI. This is real microscopy! 🔬 An intact gut, rendered transparent and imaged in 3D using light-sheet microscopy! 🤓 Looking inside organs to investigate where pathogens, immune cells, or disease processes may persist. More at: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

Element Bio @elembio.bsky.social wins a court battle against @illumina in Germany, and what it means for the #NGS and #Multiomics fields moving forward open.substack.com/pub/albertvi...

Element Bio succeeds in German court battle against Illumina over MiSeq and MiSeqDx instruments

And what it means for the NGS and Multiomics segment moving forward

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At the biophotonics GRC, my brain is still processing the quantum microscopy introduced by Lihong Wang. He noted that his lab is hiring students and postdocs!

The serious looming further threat to US science www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Let's celebrate with a colorful image of a developing ventral spinal cord of a 🐣 embryo. #neuroscience #microscopy

There are only a few hours left to comment on the proposed OMB rule that would eviscerate American science. This is the single best summary, and guidance for how to write a comment, that I have seen. PLEASE submit something, even if it is only 2 or 3 paragraphs.

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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The type and amount of bacterial DNA carried by virus-like particles in the gut microbiome is simply mind-boggling. Amazing work by PhD candidate Jessie Maier in my group and collaborators @duerkoplab.bsky.social and Ben Callahan www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Perturbations shift the composition of bacterial DNA carried by virus-like particles in the murine gut microbiome

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a driving force in microbial evolution that allows community members to rapidly evolve to cope with environmental stressors and competition. Despite the importance of...

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Working with OME-Zarrs in @napari.org ? Check out the newest release of napari-ome-zarr-navigator to make your life easier & allow more interactive ways to write back to OME-Zarrs. Follow the thread for more (1/5 🧵)

It’s time to unlock Canada’s full potential as an energy superpower.