We're delighted to welcome the 6th cohort of the Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme to Cambridge this summer! Alongside their lab-based placements, students are taking part in skills workshops and social events with fellow summer placement students. 👉: www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk 🔗

Senate Republicans were eye to eye with the Epstein survivors and suggested that they understood the gravity of Todd Blanche's complicity in the Epstein cover up. Today, they're moving forward to confirm him anyway. These survivors deserve better. The county deserves better. #epsteincoverup #Pinks

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Proteostasis. This issue will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors: Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr...

After the Kansas Supreme Court ruled abortion is legal in the state constitution, the GOP has tried to change the makeup of the court. A measure to directly elect justices, thereby making it about money & partisanship failed yesterday. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Kansas voters reject GOP-backed measure to directly elect state Supreme Court justices

The Republican-controlled Legislature referred a constitutional amendment to the primary ballot after the state Supreme Court ruled against the party on issues like abortion.

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Yay! Just saw that we got the cover of the August 1 MBoC! Woot! 🎉 Please check out our paper if you are interested in it the tubulin code or early development. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

I’m withdrawing from my reelection to spend more time with my old ugly hag of a wife instead of those young beautiful staffers, who definitely will think I’m super hot if I keep propositioning them, because I don’t want to give my wife half my 💩 or pay alimony. ~ Chuck Edwards (NC-R)

Yall don’t look now but ncpol is interesting

The Sgt Joker@thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 5h ago

I’m withdrawing from my reelection to spend more time with my old ugly hag of a wife instead of those young beautiful staffers, who definitely will think I’m super hot if I keep propositioning them, because I don’t want to give my wife half my 💩 or pay alimony. ~ Chuck Edwards (NC-R)

Are these people's brains so rotted that they genuinely do not remember four years ago?

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

NEW: Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, clinching the nomination in a close race over Rep. Haley Stevens.

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

I can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW

Very pleased to finally share the main story from my PhD, now published in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🎉 Using a sea anemone we discovered and characterised epithelial cell extrusion as the mechanism underlying starvation-induced cell loss. 🔗 Open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications

Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

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Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

This is the story of how a group of perfectly ordinary neighbors took on one of the worst landlords in New York. And won. Introducing, the Union of Pinnacle Tenants: the short film. Watch the full film: youtu.be/h5dvGKI26ZA

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...

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Readers are invited to compare and contrast the scientific contributions of Steven Quay and Anthony Fauci, both in general and specifically in the fields of immunology, microbiology, and virology. Quay: scholar.google.com/citations?us... Fauci: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 19h ago

In 2024 before the election, I was talking to a former senior HHS/NIH official. They said they weren’t *that* worried about a second Trump admin (wrong in retrospect), but said (paraphrase): “If they clean out and replace the Institute directors, well, THAT will be a disaster.” That’s 👇👇 this. 🧵

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

check out the fantastic list of speakers on the final program for the 2026 Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting! Click below, then click the "Conference Program" Link! @lowelab.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

I think most venture capital firms are not run by a Mafia boss....

Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · 5h ago

Is the Trump White House turning into a public sector VC? For @fastcompany.com I asked the experts www.fastcompany.com/91583329/tru...

Every community needs a blogblog. (triangleblogblog.com)

Home - Triangle Blog Blog

We’re a group of people who live in Chapel Hill and Carrboro who write about issues that affect our towns. We also liveblog civic meetings.

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How can we study life’s deep evolutionary past? By bringing it into the lab! This @asm.org feature highlights our on-going efforts. Read how synthetic biology allows us to reconstruct ancient microbial systems, test hypotheses about early metabolism and explore how life and Earth co-evolved. 🌍

ASM@asm.org · 5d ago

Synthetic biology is advancing how scientists study early microbial life. Their findings could revolutionize how we think about Earth’s earliest residents—and those that exist today. asm.org/articles/202...

This piece illustrates Eric at his best: answer a fundamental question by using genetic tools to their limits! Well worth a read.

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 5h ago

Reading between the lines: how maternal factor gradients determine the AP axis This Research Highlight showcases work by Eric Wieschaus. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Reading between the lines: how maternal factor gradients determine the AP axis This Research Highlight showcases work by Eric Wieschaus. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Colorado wildflower expedition day 8. One of the most amazing things about today's hike was we walked to the trailhead from where we are staying, There are multiple trailheads with great hikes in walking distance from Telluride (which is very walkable) 1/n www.telluride.com/activity/bea...

Colorado wildflower expedition day 8. One of the most amazing things about today's hike was we walked to the trailhead from where we are staying, There are multiple trailheads with great hikes in walking distance from Telluride (which is very walkable) 1/n www.telluride.com/activity/bea...

We had to show you some more presentations from last night's poster session, but we're still sad we can't highlight them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW