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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 11m

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 57m

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1h

I see it. But there’s something very Gary Larson-like about it, too. It’s a really cool figure!

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 2h

Each time she touched the mic!

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h

Cannot stress enough how terrifying this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 4h

100% to the main post and this reply. Just think morning I was thinking about using Karate Kid as a reference in class next week when talking about learning, growth, and the uncomfortableness and uncertainty that sometimes goes along with them!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 8h

Link to the Governor’s site: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/09/a...

A hiss-torical day: Governor Newsom signs bills establishing state snake, state shrub | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

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Assemblymember Steve Bennett @asmstevebennett.bsky.social · Sep 3

We're thrilled to send our bill, AB 581, to the Governor's desk! Brought to us by local environmental nonprofit @lpforestwatch, AB 581 would establish the resilient and fire-germinated Big-Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) as the state shrub.

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 8h

Bigberry manzanita has been designated as the State Shrub of California😭😍💪🏼

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 9h

Meet Arctostaphylos glauca, commonly known as Bigberry Manzanita and, since the evening of October 9, California's new OFFICIAL STATE SHRUB! YES!!! 🤩

alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/man...

#Manzanita #Twilight #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #Photography #Arctostaphylos

A vertical orientation color photo showing a gnarly shrub with grey and red bark reaching into the twilight sky.

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 10h

My 6YO nice asked me to teach about butts in my evolution course this semester, and I think this is my chance 😎

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 11h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4

The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 11h

Vertebral skeletal diversity in mammals is remarkable. How do the differences between vertebral size and shape develop and evolve? See how we tackled this question in our paper published in @natcomms.nature.com today!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11h

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 1d

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 18

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 1d

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 2d

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 2d

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

astro.washington.edu

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RKK @pzkw.bsky.social · 2d

36 lat temu ukazał się album z jednym z najlepszych utworów, jakie słyszałem w życiu.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7u...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Jessica C. Huss @j2huss.bsky.social · 2d

One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 2d

Love this!

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 3d

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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