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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 1d

"The administration wants to be able to do ‘ideological purity’ testing before helping after [a natural disaster, such as] a tsunami"

Given this is how Trump sees internal disaster relief, it's no surprise that this attitude would be turned outward.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13h

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

nyti.ms

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 1d

"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light"

-Rumi

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 13h

The Long Covid Clinic: "Updates from the Santa Fe Long COVID Symposium with Professor Danny Altmann"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pf...

Updates from the Santa Fe Long COVID Symposium with Professor Danny Altmann

YouTube video by The Long Covid Clinic: What You CAN Do

www.youtube.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17h

One thing is aging. Another is aging without the major age-related diseases. Extending healthspan. www.freethink.com/biotech/eric...

Forget just living longer. Eric Topol wants to help Americans live better, too.

In "Super Agers," the writer and medical researcher maps a path to extending healthspan with AI, targeted drugs, and lifestyle changes.

www.freethink.com

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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 1d

A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.

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Johan Van Weyenbergh @johanvawe.bsky.social · 18h

Low: #Nobel Prizes in #science go to 8 men 1 woman (again)
High: @clarivate.com predictions were wrong, breaking the #Matthew effect: giving prizes to those that already won prestigious prizes, are #highlycited, are in topX% rankings... AND seminal #Treg paper was published in @jimmunol.bsky.social

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 1d

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa

Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor

Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation.

Click the link above to learn more & apply!

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 21h

"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise."

theconversation.com/first-eviden...

First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika

The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

theconversation.com

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists develop a way to ‘flush out’ the HIV reservoir - key to finding a cure.
Note: lab studies only, early days.

Turning HIV’s power against itself may help target hidden virus – another step towards a cure

Researchers used selected molecules to make human cells less tolerant of damage, so that reactivating hidden HIV becomes a clear trigger for cell death. While making cells more vulnerable to dying may...

www.aidsmap.com

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Johan Van Weyenbergh @johanvawe.bsky.social · 19h

Well-exercised male mice appear to pass #fitness to their male offspring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring

Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm

www.science.org

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr

A clear and present danger to America’s health

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Vianne Max @viannemax.bsky.social · 5d

Mood:

Just hoping the next viral
trend is empathy, critical
thinking skills, media
literacy, accountability, and
shutting up when you don't know
what you're talking about.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 6d

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

A Silent Chamber at Nokia Bell Labs Reveals How Sound Shapes Memory, Emotion and Human Experience

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

www.scientificamerican.com

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 5d

Lancet editor: "I can’t forgive Bhattacharya and Makary...both know reliable evidence does not exist to restrict paracetamol use during pregnancy...both know evidence linking vaccines to autism simply doesn't exist. What are they doing?"

[politics - that's what]

www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 5d

Kennedy sacks yet another senior scientist from NIH who refuses to back him on his attacks on vaccines and anti science approaches

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

www.theguardian.com

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Jose A. Mendiola @ja-mendiola.bsky.social · 6d

Our food system is broken. We produce enough to feed everyone, yet 3.7 BILLION people can't afford a healthy diet. Meanwhile, how we produce this food is pushing the planet to its limits. A new mega-study The Lancet reveals the shocking scale.
🧪 #foodstudies #nutrition #sustainability 🧵

The Lancet @thelancet.com · 6d

The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.

🔗 bit.ly/3W7rxlP

Cover of the 2025 EAT–Lancet report, featuring an image of a person scooping up green vegetables in their hands from a large plate. The report quote: “The targets of the EAT–Lancet Commission for healthy people on a healthy planet with just food systems can only be met through concerted global action and unprecedented levels of transformative change.”

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Johan Van Weyenbergh @johanvawe.bsky.social · 5d

"The far-right and #health: an evolving political crisis. Why do #racism and #discrimination matter to science and #medicine? #NHS has been built by migrants and today depends on migrant workers to provide care and support to millions of people." @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The far-right and health: an evolving political crisis

Across Europe and North America, racism, xenophobia, and far-right nationalism have become normalised in public and political discourse, leading many people to feel anxiety and fear of violence, discr...

www.thelancet.com

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 6d

“National Poetry Day,” huh? Sure, why not. Anyway here’s Paul Celan.

A Leaf, treeless
for Bertolt Brecht:

What times are these
when a conversation
is almost a crime
because it includes
so much made explicit?

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 6d

"Undermining confidence in one of the few safe and effective pain and fever relief drugs in pregnancy risks causing unintended harm."

Pregnant women are often excluded from clinical trials and evidence gaps enable unsubstantiated claims, @louiseckenny.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 6d

When bad behaviors are so normalized, basic, common human decency starts to appear too radical or liberal or progressive

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 6d

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass...
I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands)
#WesternBlot #cellsky

On the left - western blot of B16F10 cells wt and KO for CDK8. Our in house produced antibodies give a lot of unspecific bands. On the right same probes with antibodies preincubated with fixed CDK8 KO cells - there is a specific band and faint unspecific bands, which can be probably eliminated with increase of amount of KO cells.

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