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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 1d

Mass layoffs at federal agencies tonight, but it barely makes the headlines.

Make it make sense.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz @zernickagoetz.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic place for science.

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

If the ostriches are not culled, Canada will violate its trade agreements for managing avian flu outbreaks. This could cause our trading partners to ban Canadian poultry imports and cut off the entire $2B poultry export market. Three countries have already restricted Canadian imports on this basis.

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 1d

Another cool study! Biology is amazing!! 🐟🧬🧪

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2d

"(...) an extremely large transposon, Teratorn, containing a herpesvirus genome, was inserted into the hoxc12a 3' UTR. This insertion decreased hoxc12a expression & (...) also affected neighboring hox genes, resulting in variations in fin size and the presence or absence of dorsal fins."

The phenotypic variation of widefins medaka is due to the insertion of a giant transposon containing a viral genome within hoxca cluster

Abstract. Phenotypic variation in species arises from genetic differences and environmental influences on gene expression. Differences in epigenetic modifi

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ISSCR @isscr.org · 2d

The ISSCR is proud to announce the release of Best Practices for the Development of PSC-Derived Cellular Therapies, a comprehensive new resource designed to accelerate the translation of human PSC-derived therapies into clinical trials and commercial use. https://ow.ly/gsuE50X9fvK

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 1d

More Purkinje cells please! I'll be there and surely PCs are the prettiest!

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry for your loss

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 1d

This is spectacular! Congratulations @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and colleagues. Biology is so amazing! 🧠🏭🧪

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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AL Creed 👻 @alcreed.bsky.social · 3d

One positive to the Blue Jays potentially winning the World Series is that they wouldn't have to go to the White House after and risk having their trophy stolen because it's gold and shiny.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 4d

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.

John B. Gurdon, 92, Dies; Nobelist Paved Way for Cloning of Animals

His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the first cloned large mammal, a sheep named Dolly.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d

Never never never give up

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 4d

I hope this Nobel Prize gets people talking meaningfully about our amazing immune systems and the importance of basic research to human health (and funding basic research).

I am also glad young women get to see that women can not only work at this level, but that those who do can get recognized.

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Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 5d

I love librarians

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 4d

Be human!

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 4d

Drop what you’re doing and read this.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 4d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 5d

If you want to understand why 3 scientists got the Nobel Prize in Medicine today for discovering what keeps our immune systems from running amok--and how that keeps you healthy-- read this @laurenjyoung.bsky.social story:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025... #medsky 🧪

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

www.scientificamerican.com

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 5d

"rather than articulating and defending these goals and processes, many parts of the scientific establishment seemed to be rushing to violate one of the first tenets of historian Timothy Snyder’s important book On Tyranny: Do not obey in advance." 🧪

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so sorry for your loss

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