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@pombedoc.bsky.social

Distinguished Professor, fission yeast geneticist. Replication stress and genome integrity. Photographer. 🏳️‍🌈

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 9h ago

"Citizens cannot tell the truth if they do not know the truth. Those who believe in free, open, and responsive institutions must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal."

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 10h ago

"government overreach designed to disconnect citizens from the truth and advance an authoritarian agenda" "must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Central Oregon Daily News@codaily.bsky.social · last wk.

Oregon's senators are demanding the CFTC crack down on prediction markets that let people bet on wildfires — warning the practice could tempt gamblers to start fires themselves to win their bets.

Senators warn wildfire prediction markets could spur arson for profit

Oregon's senators are demanding the CFTC crack down on prediction markets that let people bet on wildfires — warning the practice could tempt gamblers to start fires themselves to win their bets.

centraloregondaily.com

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats laying on the floor. Two orange cats in a spare bathroom with food and water and a litter box.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

Three kittens in a cage. Two are orange and one is black.
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said institutions that do announce reforms could be more likely to be involved in discussions around reshaping the roughly $200 billion federal research funding apparatus that is vital to higher education.” It’s extortion

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2w ago

“If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide…If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic” www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

publicnotice.co

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The goal of the battle over the origins of COVID19 is “to sow distrust in science and scientists”. This article shows why experts believe that this was a spillover event and not a lab leak. The maps showing the cluster of the first cases around the wet market are old school Epidemiology. Solid.

Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19

The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.

npr.org

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Instead, it’s time for politics...This destruction will take place most easily in an atmosphere of worn-out apathy and helplessness, so give them the opposite. Make it hard for these people, because if they get their way it’s for sure that they want to make it very, very hard on you."

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 3w ago

The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy. Pathetic.

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 4w ago

The era of American scientific leadership is over. Trump killed it. They want to expel international students after four years, no matter what. It seems like putting white supremacists in charge of the federal government is a bad idea. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Trump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student Visas

International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.

insidehighered.com

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last mo.

I requested that they override this rule through the legislative and appropriations process and write into legislation a requirement to follow peer review and best scientific practices. In this way, Congress can stop the attacks on science.

Ian Dworkin@idworkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am excited to tell you about our new study led by Tyler Audet and in collaboration with Stefan Lüpold's group. Below you see two species. On the right is Drosophila melanogaster. On the left, Drosophila prolongata. Notice the highly exaggerated legs of the males in D.p! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Two panel image of Drosophila prolongata and Drosophila melanogaster. In the top panel is a female of Drosophila prolongata on the left and a female of Drosophila melanogaster on the right. It shows that D. prolongata females are somewhat larger than melanogaster, and have spotted wings. Importantly the legs are proportional in each species. In the bottom panel are males. On the left is a Drosophila prolongata male which is larger than all the other individuals, and has highly exaggerated legs in terms of width and length, and also has black stripes. In contrast male Drosophila melanogaster are much smaller than all the others, with normally proportioned legs.
Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · last mo.

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry - Zurich, Switzerland job with ETH Zurich | 12861386

The Department of Biology at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned tenured professorship at the Institute of Biochemistry

nature.com