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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

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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Aditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in using microbes to degrade plastics?

We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells

Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Robust cellular transformations of PET deconstruction products by import of glycol esters

Efforts to transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) deconstruction products using live cells have been limited by terephthalic acid (TPA) uptake. Here, we used an intracellular carboxylate reduction...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dimitry Tegunov @dtegunov.bsky.social · 14d

The things Apple will do to procrastinate improving Siri

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 14d

iFold, sorry, SimpleFold, by Apple

arxiv.org/html/2509.18...

SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · 16d

Reviewer #3:

Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.

::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16d

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16d

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

jamanetwork.com

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Joanna Buchthal @jbuchthal.bsky.social · 19d

Years in the making — Mice Against Ticks is on @60Minutes this Sunday!

🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...

🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org

Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab

Researchers are attempting something unprecedented: using genetic engineering to curb Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness spreading across the U.S. Instead of targeting deer or ticks, they hope to rele...

TikTok video by 60 Minutes

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Aug 12

"The PI does not seem to have experience with these downstream biochemical assays, and no collaborators were identified for cell-based applications.”

lol.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congrats Rita!! We loved working with you at @natmethods.nature.com , but now we have another reason to submit to Nat BME! Excited to see where your leadership takes it. @dukeubme.bsky.social

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Jul 31

As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 22

:snaps: :snaps: :snaps:
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social

We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!

erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 21

I interpreted the effective date policy to mean that if you’re submitting sept, that the grants of the last calendar year count, but hopefully we’ll get some clarification.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 21

The SOM lost a $160m NIH vaccine institute grant, employs 40k people, and treats 70k in patients/year, and normally gets +$500m in nih funding. No one is happy about this.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 21

With NIHs new 6-grant/PI cap (incl resub) we’re locked out for a year. We submitted duplicates bc FOAs were being pulled mid-sub & were told to submit to the parent. I get that POs are overwhelmed, but we’re all trying to stay afloat. MultiPI collabs will suffer. Welp, guess I’ll get my wkends back.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 17

I am instantly intrigued....

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 21

I can’t submit anything until NEXT October it looks like, including resubmissions for things in review. Extra screwed because FOAs got cancelled and po encouraged me to submit resub and to parent bc of cancellations.

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Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · Jul 12

I saw it firsthand at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

America’s Brain Drain Could Become the World’s Brain Gain

Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.

www.wsj.com

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 10

Counterpoint: I have friends who have this job post PhD (in very large labs) that loved the writing/thinking aspect of science but not so much the benchwork (that didn’t want to go the faculty or editor route), who find the job very fulfilling.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 3

My F32 as a postdoc went from ND to 4% with just a little prelim data 🤣. Reciting that to myself over and over.

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 3

That one was a long shot anyways :)

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 3

But why does ND = green?!?

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tattoos can be removed but the eRAcommons graveyard is forever.

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 30

After a quarter of a century, the UCSC Genome Browser remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact

https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB

’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25

After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact.

go.nature.com

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Jun 27

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jun 25

The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Plot showing skewed distribution toward comp science and applied physics

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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · Jun 21

Worms are legit the best. Jealous of all wormies who get to do amazing wormy science.

John Murray @jisaacmurray.bsky.social · Jun 20

Happy to announce our paper comparing embryonic gene expression between C. elegans and C. briggsae, work led by Christopher Large with Rupa Khanal and in collaboration with Junhyong Kim and Bob Waterston. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae

The constraints that govern the evolution of gene expression patterns across development remain unclear. Single-cell RNA sequencing can detail these constraints by systematically profiling homologous ...

www.science.org

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