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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 5d

As a member of the editorial board for @stemcellreports.bsky.social, I am excited to share that we are looking for submissions in the field of stem cell research! I invite you to submit your work for consideration. invt.io/1bxb3we64y1 @isscr.org

Check out ISSCR's society journal, Stem Cell Reports!

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Scaffidi Lab @scaffidilab.bsky.social · 8d

Histone acetylation - not always about transcriptional activation: H4K16ac safeguards the genome replication program by repressing premature replication of heterochromatin. Well done Marta Milan! tinyurl.com/yuy9m8t3

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 8d

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:

2025 Brenner Award Nomination

This nomination form is for the 2025 Brenner Award Nomination. Due: September 30th, 2025. Please do not include any information besides what is asked as a formal nominee form and recommendation…

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 11d

Join me and sign!

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11d

URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions. No surrender! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget

With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...

actionnetwork.org

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11d

Also @ascbiology.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jcb.org

Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

Slide with text “Support Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14d

More about @drwendieberg.bsky.social and self-advocacy leading to early cancer detection in her dense breast tissue.

More than 10 years ago now..

www.auntminnie.com/clinical-new...

She channeled the lessons from this experience to launch densebreast-info.org

Follow her to keep up with this field

A radiologist confronts her own breast cancer

University of Pittsburgh radiologist Dr. Wendie Berg, PhD, was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2014, after discovering that she has dense breast tissue and undergoing a breast MRI. In this articl...

www.auntminnie.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25d

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25d

Surprise!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Mass Firing of Probationary Federal Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules

www.nytimes.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27d

RFK Jr. has said anyone can get a COVID booster if they want one. HE IS LYING. He has created conditions that make it difficult for people to get immunized. States are stepping in; he is creating chaos. Impeach. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘The chaos is the point’: tumult as Covid vaccine boosters deployed under RFK Jr

People attempting to obtain vaccine report major hurdles amid new limitations brought in by Trump health secretary

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 28d

This is terrific news!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Harvard Is Told Research Money Could Flow Again, for Now

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 28d

OH HELL YES.

OH FUCK YES.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29d

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

www.science.org

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 6

#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

nypost.com

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Sep 5

This

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Sep 5

🧵rant #2 (we are in a mood over here) 😡

How arrogant do you have to be to think the ENTIRE GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT is wrong and you and your friends are right? We are in a post-data environment. Decisions are not being made based on data. They are being made based on the decision maker.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Sep 5

🧵rant #2 (we are in a mood over here) 😡

How arrogant do you have to be to think the ENTIRE GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT is wrong and you and your friends are right? We are in a post-data environment. Decisions are not being made based on data. They are being made based on the decision maker.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Sep 3

Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs.

This is egregious.

I know Emory’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts have meant a great deal to many, not just as programs, but as a statement about who we are and what we believe in. As someone who has reaped the benefits of the needs these programs were meant to address, I know they were created with the best of intentions and staffed by talented, committed professionals.

We live in a time of changing expectations and new requirements, however. Federal laws and mandates have been implemented that require higher education institutions to alter fundamentally or even close offices and programs focused on DEI. The standards are clear, and we must act accordingly.

Guided by the Office of General Counsel and other appropriate campus officials, we will work promptly and carefully to discontinue current DEI offices and programs. We will also work closely with each impacted employee to provide appropriate support and assistance through the transition.

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Done ✅ you should too!

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 2

#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?

It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 30

Fire RFK Jr NOW

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 30

The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.

It’s against this chaos that Democrats are demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be removed from his post as the nation’s top public health official.

“Fire RFK Jr. now.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a scathing editorial on Saturday calling for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to resign.

www.motherjones.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Aug 28

Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.

RFK Jr. will testify before Senate panel next week

The Finance Committee hearing was in the works before Wednesday’s CDC shakeup.

www.politico.com

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Aug 28

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Aug 28

49 of my articles in LibGen 😳

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 27

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Aug 27

I signed! chng.it/Gf8zCSKmHCs

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Aug 23

There are many boats toward the freedom that we envision, and we need all of the boats. Criticism that people are on the wrong boat is not helpful. We should be saying, “Thank you for being on a boat— how can I help your boat?”

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’m sorry but the “should scientists be activists” train left the station for the last time when we started spending billions to build concentration camps. I feel like you guys are engaging with the science stuff as though the camps thing is like, happening on a different TV show

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