Scientists: Your voice is needed. New federal regulations could reshape research funding, publishing, and collaboration. Comments close July 13. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/proposed-regulations-would-fundamentally-change-american-science/

What would it mean for colleges and universities to be organized around learning rather than around teaching, rankings, revenue, and prestige? Today's crazy idea: "What if learning was at the center of college?" via @insidehighered.com

What if learning was at the center of college?

A guest post laying out a path forward for all institutions.

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Despite it being chaotic, active nematic turbulence can give rise to arrested labyrinthine patterns! Check out our new paper @physrevresearch.bsky.social! Work led by Ido Lavi, with Jean-François Joanny and Jaume Casademunt. journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

Update: our #PeerReplication idea is now published in EMBO Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Peer replication - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports - To address the replication crisis and instill confidence in the scientific literature, we introduce a new framework for evaluating scientific manuscripts. “Peer...

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Sam Lord@samjlord.bsky.social · 3y ago

We're seeking feedback on our white paper on PeerReplication. Arthur, Kristen, Dyche, Anders, and I propose an alternative or augmentation to peer review, where key experiments are reproduced, adding robustness to published findings. zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 8mo ago

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

Data Report@datareport.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...

So incredibly cool to get the chance to be part of this project and so much fun watching these fast, dynamic cells move! Congrats to @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social and everyone involved!

H. B. Beryl Rappaport@hbrappap.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends

If you don’t frequently see families with kids traveling to destinations by bike, your bike network isn’t safe enough (&/or your zoning forces sprawl & car dependency).

Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&... Don’t forget to pre-order!

The Paradox of the Organism

Leading evolutionary theorists and philosophers come together to understand how organisms persist, even as they’re riddled with internal conflict, from cancer cells to selfish genes.How does a vast me...

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Arvid Ågren@arvidagren.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Coming December 16!

I wrote about how revoking access to medical care for trans people affects all of us in science. reskeets (are we calling them that?) appreciated. www.ascb.org/society-news...

We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes" doi.org/10.1101/2025... We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵 #protistsonsky #microsky

Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes

Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...

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Our study tracking the route actin monomers take from the cytoplasm into branched actin networks is now up on biorxiv! In it we learned that most actin is delivered into branched actin networks from polymerases on a membrane surface, not directly from the cytoplasm.

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Membrane-associated polymerases deliver most of the actin subunits to a lamellipodial network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.645090v1

We built (part of) a microscope!

The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social

The Myth of Objective Data

When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

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Bluesky's topped 12 million users! For any new joiners out there who are into SFF - welcome! There's a great community here. And here's a thread of Starter Packs that might help you find your people: 1/