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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12h

What if you were enthusiastic? Thrilled? What if this heretofore unknown egg preparation raised every human emotion to panic intensity?

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12h

Wait until you stumble upon your first formation of orthogneiss.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 19h

Your regular reminder that plant genomes are messy. Good luck getting your shortbread data to recapitulate this:

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13h

Long-read sequencing reveals telomere inheritance patterns from human trios https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680721v1

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 1d

I know three someones who are going to find an extra lobster coupon in their room key envelope they next time they get off at Syosset…

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for immune system breakthroughs on.ft.com/3VRfPeU

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for immune system breakthroughs

Three scientists honoured for research on what prevents immune cells from attacking the body

on.ft.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

another day, another bit of evidence that the businessification of academia — here represented by a by-default reliance on external consulting firms rather than a reliance on academics themselves for institutional knowledge — is a very stupid strategy

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 2d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Went to a party hosted by an absolute icon

A hanging banner spelling out “PLEASE LEAVE BY 8”

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 2d

No sooner had Goodall left us than you let loose with your attack on jellyfish personhood.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 2d

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

kffhealthnews.org

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, this is a much better outcome for you than I had expected.

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 2d

Extra nitrogen and calcium.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 3d

Best part is that the fly-'actors' are dressed like Kuruko, 'hidden' stage hands in Kabuki theatre

Screenshot from google images showing a few Kuruko

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 2d

Each individual Irukandji is entitled to personal liberties and that includes the right to maintain their own dignity and privacy. That you are seeking to jeopardize those rights is concerning, and pushes forward to a time on the internet where the threat of catfishing could silence free speech.

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 4d

Despite the unfortunate circumstances if deadlines are going to be changed, all the more reason to make a change here.

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Aman Husbands @husbandslab.bsky.social · 4d

RIP to the legend

Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 4d

It's pronounced "bouquet"

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 5d

The pattern on the back of this Nepenthes pitcher plant takes me back to playing MS-DOS games in the 90s.

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Galaxy Project @galaxyproject.bsky.social · 4d

Day 3 of European Galaxy Days, participants at CoFest and Hackathon.
More than 20 experts from microbiology to admins to tool and workflow developers are tackling challenges across every difficulty and domain.

##EGD2025 ##galaxyproject ##hackathon ##eosc ##cofest ##fair ##open_science

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 6d

Alternate Caption:

🎶I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly🎵

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 6d

You’re not ready for gar slime:

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 6d

Watch Anita Bandrowsky (@rridrobot.bsky.social), Ivan Oransky (@retractionwatch.com), and Jason Williams (@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social) discuss how to future proof your research with rigor.

Now available in our YouTube channel, and all part of the C4R25 Conference.

Future Proof Your Research With Rigor

On Monday, September 8, we kicked off the C4R25 Conference with a panel at UPenn about future proofing your research with rigor. It’s no secret that scientific paper retractions have been on the rise…

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 6d

Note for NSF PRFB, etc.:

"The Awards Cash Management Service (ACM$) and the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) will remain available for the submission and processing of valid payments for recipients and contractors."

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...

Though prob. wise to get paid asap

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 6d

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.

We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!

*nearly 900!

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 8d

🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?

We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 7d

Back your ships out of my stronghold.

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