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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 1h

Fred Hutch’s mammogram vans can each perform nearly two dozen scans per day throughout the Puget Sound region, from Marysville to Tacoma. They operate six days a week with patients scheduled months in advance.

Call 206.606.7800 to schedule your mammogram https://bit.ly/3KKKatd

Mammogram vans remove barriers that people face accessing breast cancer screening

Fred Hutch's two mobile mammography vans -- “mammovans” for short -- are intended to remove barriers that people face accessing mammograms in under-resourced communities.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1h

Abstracts due December 1

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts

Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 3h

This is staggering. “The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off.”

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

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

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 1d

Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.

#neurojobs

albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 1d

This is hilarious.

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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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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

My quote of the day

We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory

María Corina Machado

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.bsky.social · 1d

Moving to Norway be like:

- Can't sign a rental agreement until I have a Norwegian bank account.
- Can't get a bank account without a Norwegian ID number.
- Can't get a Norwegian ID number without having a rental contract.

It is absolutely hilarious to me how some people think immigration is easy.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 2d

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

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Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 2d

I can't decide whether I like or hate this new nomenclature.

IL-1 Family Cytokines New Name Primary Receptor(s) Co-receptor Function
IL-1α IL-1F1 IL-1R1
IL-1R2 IL-1RAcP (IL-1R3) Inflammatory
IL-1β IL-1F2
IL-1Ra IL-1F3 IL-1R1 Anti-inflammatory
IL-18 IL-1F4 IL-18Rα (IL-1R5) IL-18Rβ (IL-1R7) Inflammatory
IL-33 IL-1F11 ST2 (IL-1R4) IL-1RAcP (IL-1R3) Inflammatory
IL-36α IL-1F6 IL-36R (IL-1R6) IL-1RAcP (IL-1R3) Inflammatory
IL-36β IL-1F7
IL-36γ IL-1F8
IL-36Ra IL-1F5 Anti-inflammatory
IL-37 IL-1F7 IL-18Rα (IL-1R5) IL-1R8 Anti-inflammatory
IL-38 IL-1F10 IL-36R (IL-1R6) IL-1R9 Anti-inflammatory

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect that I'm going to be repeating "these books are medicinal" a lot.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 3d

This.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3d

This is how it's done: put the truth right there in the headline and sub headline.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

Supreme Court Weighs Ban on Scientifically Discredited ‘Conversion Therapy’

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

www.scientificamerican.com

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Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 3d

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded for work in the development of metal–organic frameworks to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share Nobel Prize in chemistry

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing metal–organic frameworks.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 3d

And here is an openly accessible link. rdcu.be/eJVUr

Choose your human genome reference wisely

Nature Methods - Scientists can choose between multiple human genome references, and a pangenome reference is coming. Deciding what to use when is not quite straightforward.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 3d

Here is the link:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Choose your human genome reference wisely - Nature Methods

Scientists can choose between multiple human genome references, and a pangenome reference is coming. Deciding what to use when is not quite straightforward.

www.nature.com

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 3d

... “Philosophically, the ‘reference’ is evolving from a single, static genome to a more dynamic, population-inclusive framework,” says Shuhua Xu, who heads the population omics group at Fudan University. The coming framework is the pangenome — a reference that represents many genomes....

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 3d

My latest story: ...“The idea of a single reference genome is outdated,” says NIH researcher Adam Phillippy, who directs the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research, part of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health....

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 4d

2012 Nobel laureate John Gurdon has died. His work was central to both the development of animal cloning and the possibility of reprogramming cells to a different state. A giant of cell and developmental biology.
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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