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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · Mar 1

I am begging y’all to read at least one book. I promise it will help yall put these things into context. I think a really great one that threads the needle for how many shitty ppl with shitty beliefs have been president is “To Make Men Free” by Heather Cox Richardson

It’s starts with Lincoln.

Donnalie Jamnah @talespinningdj.bsky.social · Mar 1

I know that y’all are anxious and overwhelmed and like to pretend American history starts in the 20th century, but I’m gonna need folks to stop saying things about this being a lowest point when speaking about a nation that engaged in Native genocide and chattel slavery for hundreds of years

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 7h

Can't emphasize enough how this need is still urgent regardless of the news right now or tomorrow or next week or next month... we didn't have enough money today such that one family gave their share from the giving circle to another for a tent...

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 7h

Please share, 24 hours left ⚠️ I often parrot “bet on life” from Samidoun’s special report about resistance in Jenin camp. Because mutual aid is existential: every alleviation matters. Every act of support is faith in Palestinian life.

Six families, food & shelter. 0/640: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16d

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

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he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines.

While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination for Chickenpox in Toddlers

ATLANTA—October 6, 2025— The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill. The schedules will be updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15h

If we're at the place where the president is calling for a governor to be jailed for no good reason, our democracy is in real danger.

Anyone concerned about the balance of power between states and the federal government should speak out now against this authoritarian posturing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 19h

We are never gonna really truly get our shit together until we acknowledge that authoritarianism for some of Americans has been around from jump. We will never be free until we address the big racist elephant in the room. Idk how many times ppl need to point this out.

Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 20h

This info that the US shook off authoritarianism in the 1920s will come as a surprise to my relatives who grew up under Jim Crow in the 1950s

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Gifting this one: interesting, important read on how the USA shook off authoritarianism of 1920s. Yes cataclysm is part of it.
But bolstering the WEB Duboises & Sidney Hillmans of today?
Pushing Grand Experiments for democracy?
BRING IT ON.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 20h

This info that the US shook off authoritarianism in the 1920s will come as a surprise to my relatives who grew up under Jim Crow in the 1950s

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve worked with both on the UD farm. In addition to wild birds at Tri state. Birds just poop too much for me lol

DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 19h

Birds in a nutshell.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 19h

Please share: now 12 hours to go on today’s giving circle drive—daily because the needs are escalating, so WE escalate.

Nya’s family is mostly kids, and they’re malnourished; it’s still a famine. YOU can help them eat. Not hopeless. Give/find her link here—10/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

A pink banner titled “Keep hope alive: a Gaza giving circle,” with the text: “We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. More than ever, they need our sustainable support.” On the right is an ink sketch of a crouching falcon, below which says “click weekly to join: https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle,” underlined with green colored pencil. The background has a watercolor effect.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 20h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.statnews.com

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 1d

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears

Mask requirements are returning to health care settings across parts of the Bay Area, as health officials brace for the annual surge in respiratory illnesses — including COVID, influenza and RSV.

www.sfchronicle.com

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 1d

Wore my @sheabutterfc.com don’t play out the back shirt to the kids’ soccer practice bc they should learn early 😂😂😂

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

‘Pete Hegseth was a Harvard University master’s degree candidate who described closing racial achievement gaps as a “laudable goal,” backed “equality, diversity, and accessibility”’

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

Pete Hegseth railed against diversity and equity to his generals. As a Harvard student, he had a much different take. - The Boston Globe

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once described closing minority achievement gaps as a “laudable goal.”

www.bostonglobe.com

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

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

www.washingtonpost.com

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 2d

The timeline is drunk

DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 2d

The conclusion that I have come to tonight in preparing for the virus section of microbiology is that I should be teaching virology 🤣 microbiology is cute or whatever but it’s where my heart really is.

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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 3d

Sir, this is a Wendy's

Taylor Vincent @tayvincent6.bsky.social · 3d

Red Stars Interim Head Coach Anders Jacobson on what happened after the whistle

Q: Could you tell us a bit about what happened after the final whistle? (Lesley Ryder)

There is emotions when you end the game, and in this case, I think the Chicago Stars today did many good things. I think the team deserved to win. I think we created enough of chances during maybe until the 75 minute.

But there were some incidents during the game which made the game a bit difficult for us and when the game then is is clear, and we have 2-2, which I was, I wanted the team today to not leave this pitch without any points. And I was just emotional for me, seeing that they did it.

And those emotions were there, maybe I should have handled it a bit better. But I also think sometimes, I think it's important for every person to reflect on in general, in life, what kind of values you'd want to follow. And I tried to follow mine today, which made it a bit rough.

Follow-Up: Did Utah do anything specifically that made you feel so passionate at the end? (Joe Chatz)

I think they tried the best they could today, really, they wanted to make it hard for us.

There were some moments I think that was hard for them, and with some of those occasions, there were maybe some players that was a bit injured and needed treatment, which I think was very fair. But then you there were some things sometimes happening after that that I maybe felt was a bit strange.

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 3d

Friendly reminder: 🎉 Pre-register today & get ready to join our FREE online celebration. Everyone is welcome. To keep #BlackInMicro alive Donate: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM and Register to attend: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (see links in bio) #BiMWeek2025

The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action

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Chicago Stars FC @chicagostars.com · 3d

Today's Star of the Match!!! 🤩

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who literally built this site are now being banned by Jay and mods. Black people, trans folks and sex workers were here making this place beautiful when you were still on X thinking you could wait out the Nazis.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 3d

The way I lost it after this!

NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 3d

Rosemonde Kouassi launches a hail mary from distance for the game-winner 🚀