Prof Jess
@pr0fjess.bsky.social
Cell Biologist | Professor | Mentor | Drosophila Enthusiast | Horse Lover | Art Dabbler | Thoughts my own | 🏳️🌈
Call your senators today! Abolish ICE. The 5 calls app makes it easy to find numbers and scripts.
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Call your senators today! Abolish ICE. The 5 calls app makes it easy to find numbers and scripts.
Indeed. Where is anyone in Congress? Citizens are being assaulted and murdered in the streets. Citizens and non-citizens alike deserve liberty and due process.
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Indeed. Where is anyone in Congress? Citizens are being assaulted and murdered in the streets. Citizens and non-citizens alike deserve liberty and due process.
The application of the law has been context dependent for a long time.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The application of the law has been context dependent for a long time.
Literally describes what ICE is doing.
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Literally describes what ICE is doing.
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We have been heading here a long time, but make no mistake we are here now. Vote like our lives depend on it.
I collect enamel pins. I have not seen this one. It needs to be available.
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
We have been heading here a long time, but make no mistake we are here now. Vote like our lives depend on it.
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Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.
The invasion, its aftermath, and what we do next. 💪
The invasion, its aftermath, and what we do next. 💪
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.
The invasion, its aftermath, and what we do next. 💪
The invasion, its aftermath, and what we do next. 💪
If you were wondering if such things have happened before...
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you were wondering if such things have happened before...
Hard to see amongst the trees and clouds, but I got a peek at the #NorthernLights last night!
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hard to see amongst the trees and clouds, but I got a peek at the #NorthernLights last night!
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Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.
Big election week, with some big implications for 2026. 🧭
Big election week, with some big implications for 2026. 🧭
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.
Big election week, with some big implications for 2026. 🧭
Big election week, with some big implications for 2026. 🧭
Applications for our Amgen Scholars Program at Duke University are now OPEN! If you are interested in a summer undergraduate research opportunity please apply! Please share widely. #UndergraduateResearch #SummerResearch
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Applications for our Amgen Scholars Program at Duke University are now OPEN! If you are interested in a summer undergraduate research opportunity please apply! Please share widely. #UndergraduateResearch #SummerResearch
Happy Halloween 👻🎃 from our little gremlin. #Halloween #dogs
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Happy Halloween 👻🎃 from our little gremlin. #Halloween #dogs
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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Governor Stein Announces Standing Orders to Increase Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in NC
"...adults over age 65 or with increased risk for severe COVID-19 can get the COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy without having to visit a health care provider first."
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
"...adults over age 65 or with increased risk for severe COVID-19 can get the COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy without having to visit a health care provider first."
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
Governor Stein Announces Standing Orders to Increase Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
(RALEIGH) To increase access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for th
governor.nc.gov
September 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Governor Stein Announces Standing Orders to Increase Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in NC
"...adults over age 65 or with increased risk for severe COVID-19 can get the COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy without having to visit a health care provider first."
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
"...adults over age 65 or with increased risk for severe COVID-19 can get the COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy without having to visit a health care provider first."
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
💯 agree
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
September 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
💯 agree
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All three are here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
All three are here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.
August 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.
Look, there I am 😅
August 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Look, there I am 😅
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Please join us for the Duke Summer Research Showcase! Our amazing Duke Amgen Scholars will be presenting their research. #duke #science #UndergraduateResearch #amgen
July 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Please join us for the Duke Summer Research Showcase! Our amazing Duke Amgen Scholars will be presenting their research. #duke #science #UndergraduateResearch #amgen