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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is why I can’t muster empathy for Charlie Kirk.

He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible.

My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community.

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Sep 6

This week was the first official week of the Vazquez Lab, with everyone officially starting! Not only did we have a great first lab meeting today, but we also had great (and comically excessive) ice cream from the Penn State Creamery!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hope is only lost when we stop fighting back.

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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · Aug 23

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Aug 18

On the one hand, I should save up startup - on the other though, getting real tired of running around with 17lbs of laptop...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 17

The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now.

Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s deeply pathetic that Senate Democrats are continuing to advance bipartisan funding bills while Trump unconstitutionally seizes the right to impound funds, and implements a police state.

Murphy is absolutely right on this one.

Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship

The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.

www.politico.com

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Aug 13

Had a ton of fun at #2025IBRC! Got to see flying foxes for the first time (and folks dressed as flying foxes!), lots of cool wildlife, and shared some cool science! Also got to advertise my new lab - which I'm now off to start!

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Tris Dodge @tododge.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time

Xiphophorus fish species displaying a false gravid spot

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jun 29

A incredibly powerful article from @cbsnews.com and Ted Koppel. 🧵

“Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”

"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts

Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardize finding a cure for cancer.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 24

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Good morning, this is a very helpful tool for keeping track of the critters and sharing data. 🧪

The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance

www.nature.com

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Jun 23

Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬

It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Jun 23

@kenwhite.bsky.social The company that falsely claimed to de-extinct the dire wolf is now threatening legal action against a scientific critic for "defamation". Would New York's anti-SLAPP statute protect against this?

Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Jun 23

Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬

It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Jun 24

You just gotta laugh when they can't come up with better arguments than a 5 year old... pretty sad too that for all of their money, they couldn't spare $20 to have AI do a better job than the paralegal did here

themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Jun 24

I had been quiet about the illegal termination of my K99, but I'm very happy to see it included among the list of grants ordered to be reinstated - let's just hope that it's done sooner rather than later so I can submit the RPPR, the renewal, and the R00...

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 23

Judge Young's final order has been posted.

I have not yet had a chance to read it you, but go at it.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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storage.courtlistener.com

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 23

Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · Mar 9

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📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here!
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Ken Struck @kenstruck.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 11

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · Jun 12

Read the letter for yourself.
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · Jun 2

Make open access to tools and data part of your annual giving by making a tax deductible donation to @veupathdb.org. 💙This resource simplifies and supercharges global infectious disease research.

Need more reasons to support VEuPathDB? Here's a short list: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · Jun 6

I always have superglue in my toolbox for woodworking - usually it's for gluing wood, but sealing chisel-induced gashes is a 10/10 secondary role!

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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · May 27

Its always important to find the time to celebrate the little things - or big things, like graduations and new labs!

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · May 18

Cardiac Adaptations in the Cave Nectar Bat Eonycteris spelaea: Insights into Metabolic Resilience and Stress Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.653669v1

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · May 16

I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.

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