100 days until Election Day. And these folks need your vote in AZ. Thank you to Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords for rallying the crowd today in Tucson! 🗳️@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social @joannamendoza.com Katie Hobbs @azagmayes.bsky.social @adrianfontes.bsky.social

🧪🧬👩‍🔬 Please read the article. We have more work to do as scientists and as members of a democratic society.

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3w ago

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

Every time universal school vouchers have been on the ballot, voters have rejected them. Yet across the country, privatizer-backed politicians continue to force them through anyway. 🗳️ This November, AZ voters have a chance to bring accountability to the most expansive voucher program in the nation.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

This is absolutely true. I think scientific societies are moving in the right direction (i.e. automatic delays in ESI status for having a child) but we can do more. Including standard paternity leave!

Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · last mo.

Female academics have kids later (male academics, not so much), and if they have kids earlier, they face career penalties.

This is right on target. If you know anyone in biotech and pharma, please speak with them www.biocentury.com/article/659615

Pharma CEO silence is complicity in the destruction of U.S. science

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has poured gas on the foundations of science. Pharma CEOs should demand that President Donald Trump...

biocentury.com

Please read. And then tell your reps to use their voices.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Let’s send Stephen out with the best ratings of his career, and leave CBS/Paramount high and dry. Watch the Late Show finale tomorrow. Spread the word! mdavis19881.substack.com/p/a-fond-far...

A Fond Farewell to the Great Stephen Colbert

Plus a look back at some of his finest TV moments.

mdavis19881.substack.com

The GOP led Arizona legislature has refused to add any kind of accountability or transparency to the ESA voucher program so Arizona parents & educators have taken it into their own hands. Help put ESA voucher reform on the November 2026 ballot — find more information at ProtectEdAZ.com

Protect Education Act!

This year, Arizona’s ESA voucher program is on track to spend more than 1 billion in your taxpayer dollars — with no accountability or transparency. We can protect students and stop fraud by passing t...

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Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

Let me post a spicy take here: most people don't read or cite other model organisms' work. Because of this, they keep rediscovering things and, most importantly, re-writing the timeline in favor of fewer and fewer models. That, plus an artificial limit of citations per paper equals this 🧪

Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo ago

An analysis of published papers on eight widely studied “model” organisms suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried. https://scim.ag/3PaOvIs

Thank you Kris Mayes. “On the day we file this lawsuit, much of Arizona is under an extreme heat warning…The science behind the 2009 Endangerment Finding is real and grounded in rigorous research. It is abundantly clear that greenhouse gas pollution has fueled climate change in our state.” 🧪👩‍🔬☁️

AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes@azagmayes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Putting the profits of the fossil fuel industry over the future of our planet is a failure of historic proportions and we will fight it with every tool we have. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

youtu.be/Tht-s3mCIQk Eric Lai and Tara Finegan perform an original song about fruit flies!! 🪰🧪 #science #drosophila #genetics #rockstars

Eric Lai & Tara Finegan perform "Don't you know that the Fly is fly!" at DROS26 Meeting

YouTube video by douglasthepug

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Looks at sky high gas prices and ponders what could have been if we had only invested in safe bike infrastructure, public transit, and massive rebates for e-bikes

Watch the movie Idiocracy, it will show you a society where people get dumber and dumber until no one can do anything except stare at screens all day. Let’s not get there.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Alex Pretti memorial bike ride. Tucson, AZ

Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!

Max Telford@maxjtelford.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today. Available as book, on kindle and as audio. I would be really grateful for reposts. www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So... www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...

Friendly Nick's Butcher (Fort Collins CO), my brother’s shop, will be offering free meat (beef, pork, chicken, eggs) to anyone who is losing their SNAP benefits or furloughed/working without pay. All free, just show your EBT or Federal ID card. Please share! #foco #snap #shutdown

Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).

Congressman Steve Scalise

Representing the 1st District of Louisiana

scalise.house.gov

🧪🧠👩‍🔬💪 #nokings #tucson #swearinadelita

I agree.

Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10mo ago

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.

Adelita for Congress@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

🧪🧠👩‍🔬https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10mo ago

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter

ground avelo

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

🧪🧠👩‍🔬 Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!

The American Journal of Human Genetics@ajhgnews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣New from @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social & co! 📄Pathogenic variants in TMEM184B cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with alteration of metabolic signaling

🧠🧪👩‍🔬This is the answer to the new NIH public access policy. Let’s see if the big conglomerate publishers follow suit.

Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂@markgbaxter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...

🧪👩‍🔬🐭New work from my PhD students!

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Elizabeth Wright, Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social and colleagues discover that TMEM184B modulates endolysosomal acidification via the vesicular proton pump. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Defending US democracy: the role of scientists @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...