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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 (@Pen_Is_Mighty on Twitter) @thevirologist.bsky.social · 22d

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · Aug 29

Check out our new manuscript on biorxiv on the role of MOS in mammalian oocyte meiosis: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
With @schindlerlab.bsky.social @giselacairobaza.bsky.social @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social

A persistent intracellular bridge and cell cycle misregulation enable polar body cell divisions and tumor formation in Mos-deficient eggs

Mammalian female meiosis is uniquely regulated to produce a developmentally competent egg capable of supporting embryogenesis. During meiosis I, homologous chromosomes segregate, with half extruded in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Current and former members of the NIH community have valuable personal perspectives to share about the devastation that is happening to US biomedical research, our federal agencies, and our democracy. This starter pack is a great way to hear what they have to say and what you can do about it.

🧪🧬🧠🥼🇺🇸

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · Aug 29

All I want is a TT faculty position and the country to come together to resist authoritarianism. Is that so much to ask??

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · Aug 23

Lol. Sorry to say, Jay, but we’ve been doing this.

We just never saw the need to make it into a stupid slogan that matches the inside of **ump’s penthouse 🙄

(I can’t even spell his name.)

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · Aug 16

Three of my favorite people in this pic

Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & I give huge thanks to Frank McNally, Christoph Haag, Andy Kern, Bengt Hansson, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social & @scienceleah.bsky.social for being guests in our #Meiosis, Recombination, & Evolution of Sex class at UNC. A pic from our final session w/ students

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sex-converted testis somatic cells acquire female-specific behaviors and alter XY germline identity

Read this #OA Research Article by Tiffany V. Roach, Sneh Harsh, Rajiv Sainath, Erika A. Bach, Kari F. Lenhart @lenhartlab.com

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Fig. 2. The sex-converted soma performs collective rotation similar to female follicle cells. (A-C) Time-lapse imaging of somatic expression of UAS tubulin::GFP (green) and UAS anillin::RFP (magenta) in a control testis (A), a control ovary (B) and a 5D chinmoRNAi testis (C). White outlines circle groups of cells that are either non-migratory or migratory. Curved arrows indicate directional migration of cells. (A′-C′) Time-lapse imaging of somatic nuclei (gray) in a control testis (A′), a control ovary (B′) and a 5D chinmoRNAi testis (C′). Yellow transparent dots indicate cell migration over time. Asterisks in A-C′ indicate stem cell niches. Each image is composed of one or two z-slices. Images are representative of 10/10 testes (A), 10/10 ovarioles (B) and 7/8 testes with complete somatic epithelium.

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · Jul 22

Good luck!!

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BSA-ecophys @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 TT JOB ALERT 🚨
Evolutionary Ecology
Williams College

Evolutionary Ecologist - Williamstown, Massachusetts (US) job with Williams College - Biology Department | 674315

The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a strong commitment to excellence in the sciences, invites applicat...

jobs.sciencecareers.org

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Jul 14

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

sites.google.com/site/danielb...

Sloan Lab

Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

sites.google.com

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@MorieLAB @morielab.bsky.social · Jul 9

@morielab.bsky.social proudly presents a tool to induce, in S. cerevisiae, DNA double strand breaks in a site-specific AND in a dose-dependent manner, in a very simple way: just transform two plasmids!!! It allows you to assess many aspects of DNA damage signaling & repair!
doi.org/10.1111/febs...

FEBS Press

Using CRISPR-Cas9, we engineered a genetic system allowing the dose-dependent induction of a controllable number of DNA double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The tool was used to study th....

doi.org

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · Jul 3

:)

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

HPV vaccines help reduce US cervical cancer deaths by 62%

New data suggests a dramatic fall in cervical precancers and deaths since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in the USA.

www.gavi.org

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · Jun 11

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org

The Dunn Lab

Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jun 11

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

actionnetwork.org

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jun 10

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3

apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · Jun 10

Love this!! Congrats to your student, and yay to making things light in these dark times ❤️

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · Jun 5

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

Innovate Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a PhD level Commercialization Fellow. The fellow will help @uncchapelhill.bsky.social researchers conceptualize & commercialize novel technologies. The Innovate Carolina team is fabulous - check out the job posting:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Jun 1

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · Jun 1

It's breaking my brain to hear amazing talks that show treatments that help patients developed out of fundamental research, while temporarily ignoring the backdrop of the American science funding disaster

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · May 26

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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NPR @npr.org · May 26

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

www.npr.org

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · May 26

Let’s stand up. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I gotta try.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 26

Proud to sign on this this open letter.

Join me....

www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · May 23

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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