Better late than never: Had an amazing time at MLMCSTED2025 last month. Accelerated my knowledge of STED Microscopy, and enjoyed sharing our current work on resolution benchmarking - (An exciting AOMF/UHN and ABIF/McGill collaboration!) Special thanks to @bioimagingna.bsky.social for PD support 💚🍩🔬

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.

Right now it's not worth the risk.

Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

Voila!

Solar panels on all new homes as part of Labour’s net-zero push Sir Keir Starmer rejects Sir Tony Blair’s calls to reset ‘irrational’ climate policies because they were ‘doomed to fail’

NEW

Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England

Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99%

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.

Exhausted from endless grading, departmental drama, and declining budgets? You're not stuck. Find your next chapter in this free webinar. #AcademicSky
Watch here:

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest.

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NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.

Two STAT story about NIH and lost funding...

www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

Mike has this right. It is a coup, none of this is legal, and we need to talk about it in terms of authoritarian repression, not normal policy changes.

PhilBuildTheFutureNow on Substack America's road system is the world's largest socialist enterprise that none of us voted for. We've created a Ponzi scheme where ALL taxpayers inherit the debt. Time to end highway robbery. Let's tal...

Every pedestrian trip is a gift to taxpayers. Every bike commuter is saving your property tax bill. Every bus rider is reducing highway debt. The most fiscally conservative transportation choice? Leave your car at home.
#MobilityIsEquity
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Defend Public Broadcasting! Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...

I learned on @ologies.bsky.social yesterday that signing petitions does actually help. Here's one that demands Congress protect funding for PBS and NPR. Don't let them take away Sesame Street! sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

White House to Ask Congress to Rescind Funding From NPR and PBS The Trump administration plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some funding for public media in the United States...

Here we go. Support your local public radio station

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

Our database of terminated grants is powered first by PIs who send us information about their grants. If your grant was terminated--or if you received a stop work order of some sort--let us know!

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Images and graphics from Paris plan

Images and graphics from Paris plan

Images and graphics from Paris Plano

IMPORTANT: Paris has been implementing a 5-Year Pedestrian Plan:
- 300 million € invested by 2026
- 100 new hectares of pedestrian space
- 100 more “streets for kids”
- Focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero
- Longer pedestrian cross times geared to seniors

Leadership.

Does your city have one?

Sample voter card

We got our Canadian election voter card in the mail this week, and will be taking advantage of the 4 days of advance voting that will make it easy.

Remember, the polls look good for Carney, but DON’T be overconfident.

Polls don’t win elections.

Neither do pundits.

TURNOUT wins elections.

#VOTE

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Vote Science - Evidence For Democracy Vote Science Let’s make science a priority this federal election! The 45th federal election is here, and now is the […]

At Support Our Science, we know that engagement can make a difference.

Why?

Because together we turned the tide on two decades of stagnant scholarship values! We had a big win with the investments in Budget 2024 because we made our voice heard.

#VoteScience evidencefordemocracy.ca/vote-science/

Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Here’s what I teach my students about finding jobs in marine biology and conservation Our field is competitive, some job postings are confusing, and some career advice is contradictory or wrong. Here’s an exercise I have my students perform that I hope can help you. Graphic vi…

I keep seeing heartbreaking stories about people who spend years in grad school, apply to jobs, and only then learn that their dream job needs a skill they didn’t learn during grad school.

Looking at job ads *now*, years before you’re applying, can help identify skills to develop.

🧪🌎🦑🐠

Research becomes something faculty do if they have a patron. Or a business partner. Archaeology is already there: most fieldwork in the US is paid Cultural Resources Management before construction. A second big source is from field schools. Private foundations with personal interests.

Saving critically endangered extant keystone species like the Red Wolf is a much better use of millions$ than overhyped unethical genetic engineering experiments pawned off as “de-extinction “. If we do not make room for existing wolves, how can we make room for Colossal abominations?

2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe The summer of 2024 brought record-breaking heatwaves to Eastern Europe, with Romania experiencing the brunt. Analysis of 140 years of data from Bucharest shows a significant increase in heatwave freq....

New research - More "impossible" heatwaves, i.e. ones that could not have happened without the #climatecrisis, this time in Eastern Europe

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Staff, faculty, prominent alumni call for Harvard to stand against Trump’s threats to academic freedom - The Boston Globe The university Monday gave the first public indication its leaders are at least preparing for the possibility of losing federal funding by borrowing $750 million.

Calling @harvard.edu Wake up and be helpful.

"Still, to the chagrin of many in the Harvard community, the university has not issued full-throated commitments to preserving academic freedom, as Brown and Princeton universities have, nor .. turned to the courts."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

legitimately worried about my local shop

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:

1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤

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Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.

Good. This isn't rhetoric or hyperbole: On the current trajectory there is simply no way the United States survives a full Trump term as any kind of recognizable liberal democracy. Thinking about how to beat him in 2028 is a waste of time; it will be too late by then.

"a city for people not for cars"
Yes please!

Accomplished by a ring road. No direct connections point A to B within the city for cars. Neighborhood traffic limited to residents, accessibility vehicles, deliveries, and emergency.

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.