who cares?

A reminder:

Once they're 13, it shifts from a power dynamic to a battle of hearts and minds...no more counting to three. It's now high level diplomacy

Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian His Holiness Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah.

I don’t usually share Twitter posts but that would be the president of Iran and yes he’s being completely serious, Islam recognises Jesus as a prophet and the Pope as a successor figure

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

Thank you #NobelLaureate Jack Szostak for sharing these thoughts, which many US scientists and physicians resonate with

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

Thank god

same for me!

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

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Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me.

I chose to share some of my observations with him.

Hold on...

1/11

And fun fact...her son was in the band Sha Na Na and played at Woodstock.

The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but it’s still destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the president?

Thanking Donald Trump for signing the budget bill, which spared NIH from the knife was unseemly and unnecessary. In fact, the destruction of American science is gathering steam under this administration and appeasement won't help. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

White House taps Jay Bhattacharya, CDC critic, to lead agency for now The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

making the worst of a bad situation....

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Happy President’s Day! 🙌🏼😆

Donald Trump is "the Epstein Administration."

Pass it on

Key takeaway from Dr. Santosha Vardhana in Beyond the Bench:

When T cells run low on energy, they make priority decisions that shift into self preservation mode. That bioenergetic limit shapes immune exhaustion.

Watch the full episode: bit.ly/4oLrOXu

#BeyondTheBench

Every American needs to watch this:

All he ever does is lie....it's maddening

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can we get behind the paywall??

This Is America, Just Not the America You Knew Two white people were killed by ICE in Minneapolis and suddenly White America is outraged.

America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis.

I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

They're not picking up
Trash where I live in Brooklyn for a while. So much snow and it's not going away

Population-scale sequencing resolves determinants of persistent EBV DNA - Nature Population-scale WGS reveals genetic determinants of persistent EBV DNA, linking immune regulation—especially antigen processing and MHC class II variation—to EBV persistence and heterogeneous di...

Today in @nature.com, we describe how discarded reads in biobank-scale WGS can help resolve the genetic predictors and consequences of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection.

Wonderful working with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social @sherrynyeo.bsky.social @erinmayc.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Minnesota is the best of us.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Check out the GRC for DNA damage and Cancer! Join us in Summy California for a week of DNA repair and Cancer! www.grc.org/dna-damage-m...

Seems like Radiohead got some ideas from Portishead...

Stephen Smith is an A hole...

He got the Epstein files off the front page

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Check out this Special Issue of DNA Repair. Lots of very cool stuff in here!