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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 18d

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No promises, but if @evoquant.bsky.social hosted a buttload of pre-computed antiSMASH v8 results would anyone be interested in paying for fast access to those (in traditional antiSMASH view)?

Probably subscription and a very small per-genome fee.

fry from futurama says just out of curiosity in a cartoon

ALT: fry from futurama says just out of curiosity in a cartoon

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1h

This whole article is bleak

www.the-scientist.com/research-res...

Rather, due to recent NIH actions, more than four in five early career researchers are considering leaving academia or relocating outside the United States. When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 3d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

Billions of dollars have already been invested in work that was on the verge of life-saving breakthroughs. And for no good reason, that funding has been ended, and all that promising work-in-progress is callously being tossed away.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 22h

If you read one article this month let it be this one (gift link):

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 22h

The brain drain continues
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

We will continue to work hard on attracting outstanding economists from around the world to Zurich, including from the U.S., and on raising the resources needed to support them—especially during the current, special times in the international higher education landscape.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 2d

Vanderbilt students, faculty and professors marched on Wednesday as Chancellor Diermeier mulls funding deal with Trump administration.

Campus Crowd Demands Vanderbilt Reject Trump Deal

Students, faculty and professors marched on Wednesday as Chancellor Diermeier mulls funding deal with Trump administration

www.nashvillescene.com

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 22h

"A few moments later..."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1d

The presumption of regularity is dead, at least before serious district court judges. That's what happens when you constantly send half-qualified "lawyers" from the DOJ to lie in court

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: Four (4) federal judges have issued rulings in the past two (2) days in separate cases that cast significant doubt on federal officials' "credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is wreaking complete havoc on my lovely, peaceful neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago. Schools in panic mode, businesses closing. We are being terrorized by our own fucking government.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

And precisely the warning given to us by our own government at the end of World War 2:
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 5d

Full video here:

Don't Be A Sucker (1947)

YouTube video by Old TV Time

m.youtube.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

"I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois," Perry adds.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Perry says she will issue an oral ruling now and a formal ruling tomorrow.

Perry says the state's temporary restraining order against national guard deployment will be granted, "in part," with a fuller ruling to follow tomorrow.

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning Chicago

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

“A broader audience”. I wonder what Mike Johnson means. 🤔

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 2d

We had more info about those deployed in CA.
Are they armed?
Armed with what?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 2d

Same.
But that also means he's using DMs in Truth Social to communicate with cabinet members?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Part of me was like “there’s no way it was actually a failed DM” but I guess so?!

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 2d

That said, evaluating what they'll actually be able to do is secondary insofar as (1) this entire spectacle should be offensive on its own terms to anyone who values basic freedoms and (2) if they *could* do everything they repeatedly threaten, I have no doubt they *would.*

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