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Tara Fischer @tarafisch.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

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.

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.

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Tara Fischer @tarafisch.bsky.social · 6d

I signed @uthealthhouston.bsky.social alum!
Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

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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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7d

That’s a lot of science we left on the table.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here is NIDDK

61% as many new R01s in FY25 as in FY24.

17/n

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7d

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/being...

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost

On Monday I saw a bunch of people on Bluesky mentioning and...

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 7d

scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/nearly-imp...

"Nearly impossible for NIH staff to do our jobs": Jenna Norton's speech for the Civil Servants Coalition

At the Capitol, Monday 9/29

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

This is sort of a classic prisoners' dilemma: If nobody defects, nobody has "priority". Which makes it essential that universities coordinate a united front.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 8d

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 8d

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 9d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 10d

More than 5,000 federal workers (current and former) have now signed this letter urging "Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democracy and protects the American people."

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach

Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11d

This is absolutely ridiculous, would devastate numerous academic fields, and would destroy the lives of people I love very much. Please, please join me in sending a comment in on this telling them so

Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 11d

DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 14d

FUN (@fedworkersunited.bsky.social) is calling out the OMB memo threatening mass layoffs as a pressure tactic to get Congress to keep the federal government open.

Read the release: www.federalunionists.net/press/statem...

Not New Policy: The Feb. 11 and Feb. 26 “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” orders already required RIF planning. The Sept. 24 memo just recycles those threats.

Fear Tactic: By framing layoffs as “shutdown planning,” OMB is trying to pressure Congress into a bad budget deal.

Lockout, Not Shutdown: Workers want to serve — but the administration is dismantling agencies and public services to advance an extremist, unpopular agenda.

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 14d

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 15d

In @jcb.org, @lysoluis.bsky.social, @markrcookson.bsky.social et al. show how two distinct pRAB effectors and RHD members, JIP4 and RILPL1, provide antagonistic motor force to regulate #lysosome tubulation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 15d

If the GOP can't get the GOP to come up with a funding plan that the GOP will support, they're going to fire...... federal rank and file.

White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown

In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.

www.politico.com

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Itay Budin @ibudin.bsky.social · 24d

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology

An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 15d

Wow. This administration really must be afraid of a shutdown to make these threats.

@schumer.senate.gov - You have the power to restore some semblance of balance to government. You mustn't squander it. #fightingcr

If you don't, Vought will fire everyone anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown

In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.

www.politico.com

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15d

Beyond proud of my federal colleagues who continue to risk their careers by speaking up about the waste, fraud and abuse from the Trump admin.

Thanks to the brave heroes at VHA!

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The Lincoln Declaration: a Statement of Alarm about the Future of Veterans' Healthcare

America's veterans deserve a VA that keeps Abraham Lincoln's promise: to care for all who have served our nation, their families, caregivers, and survivors. For most of the last century, the Veterans’...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17d

It is extremely disingenuous to compare this to prior shutdown negotiations.

This isn’t mere policy debate.

This isn’t Dems “spoiling for a fight, damn the consequences.”

This is the fight of our lives to save our democracy and shutdown authoritarianism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage

The current standoff is a nearly precise inversion of the 2013 showdown over health care that closed government agencies for 17 days.

www.politico.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18d

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods.

We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 20d

Check out our trip to Capitol Hill yesterday with @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social and @safa-science.bsky.social -- and sign the petition at bit.ly/FIGHTINGCR. It's up to 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ signers! #FightingCR

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 21d

Which is why we were on the Hill today and dropped off this letter to your office. We are urging Congress to pass a continuing resolution that protects the American people and stops executive overreach!

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach

Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 21d

🇺🇸 Fed workers across the government are issuing a challenge to Congress: "We call on you to pass nothing less than a fighting CR: a funding bill that not only keeps the lights on, but that also includes statutory protections to rein in executive lawlessness."

✍️ Sign the letter. Spread the word 🔥

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach

Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

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