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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 3h

US House GOP delays seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, potential deciding vote on Epstein petition kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/08/u...

US House GOP delays seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, potential deciding vote on Epstein petition • Kentucky Lantern

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats failed again Wednesday to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Johnson has said he’s holding off on swearing in Grijalva — an Arizona D...

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

🍂 🧪 More Pasta Recalls Due to Listeria Outbreak

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

More precooked pasta meals have been recalled due to possible links to a sprawling listeria outbreak that has led to four deaths.

What to know about the listeria outbreak tied to precooked pasta

The outbreak has been linked to pasta from food supplier Nate's Fine Foods.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

💥 🧪 Nabarun Dasgupta UNC, Chapel Hill - MacArthur Awardee

NPR @npr.org · 2h

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive. n.pr/4nJ98I5

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 2h

Green Tea improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance [via Agência FAPESP] 🧪⚗️💚🍵⚕️🩺

"Treatment with green tea increased the #expression of Insr, Irs1, Glut4, Hk1, and Pi3k – #genes [] important for glucose uptake and use in muscles."

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#green #tea #benefits

Green tea improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in obese mice

A study in an animal model analyzed the muscle metabolism of guinea pigs on a high-calorie diet. Ultimately, consumption of the plant extract increased the expression of genes associated with glucose ...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7h

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...

Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

💥 🏛️ 🧪 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

For developing a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

Uses in capturing CO2, removing greenhouse gases from cement production exhaust, harvesting water from dry air, filtering out or storing toxic gases

Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi who win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

www.nature.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

🍂 🧪 John Gurdon 1933-2025

2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

For pioneering work transferring nuclei into frog eggs, demonstrating that eggs can reprogram differentiated cell nuclei to a pluripotent, embryonic state

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13h

Very sad to learn of the death of Sir John Gurdon. He made a huge contribution to developmental biology & should be an inspiration to anyone whose potential is dismissed in school. It was a pleasure to work with him when he was Chair of the COB Board. www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...

John Gurdon (1933 – 2025) - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Renowned developmental biologist John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has died aged 92.

www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 1d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

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.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 1d

A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪

This is figure 5, which shows processability and formability of BM-plastics for diverse products.

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in/near the SF Bay Area? Do you like Science? What about Festivals? Then you might want to check out the Bay Area Science Festival Oct 25. I’ll be there showing how single cells can learn!

www.bayareasciencefestival.org

Home - Bay Area Science Festival

Bring the whole family to experience 100+ jaw-dropping demonstrations, hands-on experiments, astounding games, behind the scenes lab tours, film screenings

www.bayareasciencefestival.org

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 1d

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 Federal Worker Speaks Out on Government Shutdown

"Every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown ... all of this is already happening ... Congress is the only remaining chance we have to stop the gutting of public services Americans depend on"

Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

www.npr.org

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

🧪🏛️ Medical Groups Ask Administration to Exempt Physicians & Other Healthcare Workers from Executive Order on H-1B Visas

EO imposes a $100K fee on every H-1B visa application

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

Rural patients lose again: Trump’s H-1B fee hike makes it harder to attract foreign doctors, who fill critical gaps in areas struggling to staff hospitals and clinics.

Medical Groups Call for Physician Exemptions to Trump's Executive Order

AMA says H-1B visa order could jeopardize patient access to care in underserved areas

www.medpagetoday.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.

A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.

We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.

Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and Velázquez.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Racial discrimination.
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Wait’ll he hears about the Ginther gap.

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

Judge William Young ruled Trump-era NIH cuts to DEI and LGBTQ+ research grants were clear racial and LGBTQ+ discrimination, calling it “palpably clear,” and ordered the grants reinstated.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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sdwarcher.bsky.social @sdwarcher.bsky.social · 2d

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Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs

Medications that prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures were invented with government funding. At research universities, that money is now canceled or in jeopardy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

🍂 🧪 MIT Chapter of American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Response to Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"

Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 2d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

💥 🧪 Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 for Quantum Mechanics

“Our discovery in some ways is the basis of quantum computing. ... One of the underlying reasons that cellphones work is because of all this work’’

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

🍃 🏛️ Federal Judge Blocks the Administration from Deploying National Guard Troops from Any State to Oregon

Follows her Saturday order blocking Oregon National Guard troops from invading Portland by Administration's using troops from California and Texas

Judge Slams Trump Admin For 'Missing The Point' Of Her Portland Troops Order

The Trump-appointed judge was not happy the president tried to circumvent her.

www.huffpost.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC
@drdebhoury.bsky.social

Full interview:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

🍃 🎓 🧪 Jobs Physicists Can Do

"Physicists can do—and actually do—(almost) anything"

Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 2d

Physics students are told their degree is a ticket to anything but during their time at university, it's rarely elaborated on. So Toni Feder has gone out and interviewed physicists with varied careers away from the field (Posts the physicist whose job title is digital experience director...)

What can physicists do?

Interviews offer a glimpse of how physicists get into—and thrive in—myriad nonacademic careers.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

🍃 🧪 Dr Jane Goodall - Final Thoughts on Musk, Planet Earth & Mother Nature

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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