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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 22h

Very cool.

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

A host-directed adjuvant sensitizes intracellular bacterial persisters to antibiotics - Nature Microbiology

The authors developed a screen to find compounds that modulate intracellular Staphylococcus aureus metabolism and discovered KL1, which sensitizes persisters to antibiotics by reversing host-induced tolerance.

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 21h

Whole genome sequencing with AVITI and NovaSeq X Plus reveals comparable performance with contextual biases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681584v1

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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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

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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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 21h

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 2d

Omics! Omics!: Ship of ThesION

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Ship of ThesION

A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 2d

Some thoughts on the blossoming of genomic medicine stimulated by the excellent @ga4gh.org meeting in lovely Uppsala Sweden. www.linkedin.com/pulse/though...

Thoughts from Uppsala - Genomic Medicine blossoming

I have had a wonderful three days in Uppsala Sweden, at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health plenary hosted locally by the generous SciLifeLab . It was a meeting of course focused on the standa...

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 9d

Oh look, AMR
warriors, a beer for us.

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Ian Holmes @ianholmes.org · 16d

Missed opportunity to call this movie “And now for something completely typeless”

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 16d

It was a real pleasure to speak with @numpy.bsky.social creator Travis Oliphant about NumPy, SciPy, and #Python: the Documentary! New @nature.com 🧪🐍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Python, the movie! The origin story of the programming language comes to the silver screen

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Aug 8

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10X Scoops Scale

News broke this afternoon that microfluidics single cell genomics leader 10X Genomics has bought out split-pool single cell company Scale Bi...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Aug 7

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10x Genomics Scales Up, Agrees to Acquire Scale Biosciences

An exclusive interview with Serge Saxonov of 10x Genomics and Giovanna Prout of Scale Biosciences on what the acquisition means for single cell genomics.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 3

My quote of the day

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ATP synthesis driven by atmospheric hydrogen concentrations | PNAS

All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The un...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Jul 24

After 15 years of controversy, @science.org retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

Science has retracted a 2010 paper describing a strain of bacteria that purportedly substituted arsenic for phosphorus, an element present in all known life. Science/AAAS Fifteen years after publis…

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Noel Dickover @noeldickover.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself."
#AcademicSky

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

For a top pharma partner, CIRQ doubled the duration of expression of one protein to 14 days and tripled another to 28 days (vs. 7 days with linear, modified mRNA).

Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Jul 24

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CIRQ has launched!

Customers can now order our circRNA to screen in own lab (10 designs, starts at $50,000), or 3 month long design and screening project at Ginkgo (50 designs, starts at $300k)

Ginkgo RNA Solutions - CIRQ Platform

R&D solutions for mRNA & circRNA.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jul 23

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · Jul 22

Well that's interesting.... here "pooling" refers to cofolding multiple proteins all at once and then assessing their pairwise ipTMs as shown in this figure from the preprint, never thought of doing that before and remarkable that it actually works *better* (I guess you'll need lots of VRAM though)

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ginkgo has launched an E.coli-based Cell Free Protein Synthesis reagent!

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Cell Free Protein Synthesis (E. coli)

Ginkgo’s cell free protein synthesis (CFPS) kit is an E. coli transcription/translation system optimized to produce proteins from a T7 RNA Polymerase promoter. Reactions consist of a bacterial cell l...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Jul 8

NYT reported the passing of Franklin Stahl

Invest 20+ minutes of your time in this masterful documentary on “the most beautiful experiment in biology” as two friends joyfully relate how as young graduate students at they were entrusted with testing the Watson-Crick model

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The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl

YouTube video by Science Communication Lab

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 30

You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.

Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure.

I worked for U.S.A.I.D. in East Africa over the past eight and a half years, selling the story of American foreign aid to people in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya. Our inability to tell this same story to Americans is our great failure. It is what put the agency into the Department of Government Efficiency’s wood chipper first. It’s what allows Secretary of State Marco Rubio to get away with insisting that lifesaving humanitarian aid would continue while the administration drastically slashed its funding. And it’s what I fear will let this presidency cast the deaths from the next preventable catastrophe as unstoppable or inevitable.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jun 30

Seriously. You know who has *great* messaging? Cancer researchers! Literally curing cancer! Sells itself!

Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper.

FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 30

You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.

Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

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