The Rocky Mountain Labs does some incredibly important research.

A genuinely moving act of democratic representation. Chris Van Hollen showed up for his constituent. This is how you make the positive case for democracy.

Chuck Schumer looks more incapable every day.

The Emergency Is Here Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 04/17/2025 · 1h 12m

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To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.

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NATIONWIDE CAMPUS ACTION STAND UP WITH US because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone. Where: YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS When: YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASSES StandUpForScience2025.org It’s time for a Summer Send-Off Stand Up, Fight Back - TOGETHER!

📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣

This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊

#StandUpWithUS

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Finally Harvard lives up to its motto: Veritas view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...

T-30 minutes from the start at #HandsOff Boston and Massachusetts is showing UP

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We have been working hard behind the scenes, y'all.

Get your signs ready!

Hi hello good morning.

This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.

Hope this helps!

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Hello Philadelphia! I’m Dr. Eartha Mae Guthman. I’m a Philadelphian, a trans woman, a neuroscientist, and a proud card carrying union member with UAW. I first worked in a lab 15 years ago. I fell in love then and there with the scientific method, and I've worked as a scientist ever since. Today, I want to talk to you about how this administration’s attacks on trans people and trans health research harm us all. When I began transitioning seven years ago, I was terrified! For my safety. For my scientific career. Would my colleagues find me credible? Would they see a scientist who happened to be trans, or would they only see me through the lens of my transness? I decided then, regardless of the outcome, I would dedicate my life to improving healthcare for trans people. For the past seven years I’ve worked towards this goal. I’ve spent holidays inventing new tools to study the brain and behavior. I’ve spent weeks going to work after dark, sitting with my mice to run overnight experiments, and then coming home, crossing the Delaware with the sunrise. I’ve been fortunate to have achieved success in my work: I’ve published over a dozen papers, including guides on how to develop animal models for hormone therapy; I’ve been awarded highly competitive NSF and NIH grants; I’ve been appointed a fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and at other academic organizations.

And, about a year ago, I received the best news of my career: I had been awarded a prestigious NIH grant to not only fund my research at Princeton, but to provide me funding to start my own lab. In my lab, I want to ask questions about how hormones impact the brain to influence mood, the body, and behavior. I want to apply this research to design better hormone therapies– yes, for gender affirming care, but also for birth control, menopause, endometriosis, PCOS, the list goes on! My goal, set so many years ago, was within my grasp. I had put in the work and sacrifice, taken the risks, and it had all seemed worth it. But my dream grows less likely by the day because of Republican efforts to reverse decades of acceptance for various minorities. Through anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders and laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race and gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism and fascist takeover of institutions.

Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders censor me and those like me. At the State of the Union on Tuesday, Trump complained that NIH wasted money on “transgender mice”, directly attacking the work my colleagues and I do. Wednesday, a White House press release called trans health research “fraud” and “waste”. Yesterday, Nature reported that the administration has bypassed congressional control of the budget to terminate ongoing grants related to trans healthcare. They report that the NIH will terminate hundreds of already awarded, active research grants if they support DEI or trans people in any way. I don't know how or if I’ll get paid next month, and I don't know if I’ll actually get the funds that congress has already awarded me to start my lab. I don't know what's going to happen to my career, and I'm really fucking furious. I've dedicated my entire adult life to this work. But to Trump and his supporters, I am not a scientist who should be judged for the work I do, who happens to be trans. To them, I am trans, and therefore cannot contribute to science because I’m inherently biased and unfit.

But I'm here speaking to you now because this moment is about more than just me. Under the guise of this anti-trans and anti-DEI moral panic, Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science. Their actions prevent us from making life-saving discoveries across all fields. They see science as a tool to control people and carve their desired reality into our bodies and minds, not as a way to understand our beautifully complex world. But we can stop them. Because we are many, and they are so, very, very few. Right now we need to give our legislators hell until they start standing up for us. Push universities to establish contingency funds for researchers whose active funding is terminated. And keep showing up, keep protesting. Keep standing up to cruel bullies and fascists. Don’t comply with unjust orders or demands, fight back! Fight for a world where the next scientist like me is seen for her contributions to science and human health, not seen only as trans. And lastly, fight for a world that loves and values trans people.

My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest.

Everything I do is for my community 💜✨

I can confirm that this is the worst timeline.

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Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org

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MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!

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Boston, MA Location: Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, United States Address: 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02133 Time: 12-4 PM Important information: Please do not fully block the sidewalk, st…

Stand up for science in Boston, March 7, 2025, 12-4pm

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I’m on the market! 🎉

What do I do?
-I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses.
-I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges.
-I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.

Configuration of electrical synapses filters sensory information to drive behavioral choices Sensory information can be differentially processed, enabling similar sensory stimuli to elicit different, context-specific behavioral strategies. This study uncovers a conserved configuration of elec...

Sharing our most recent paper, in which we find that electrical synapses in C. elegans drive action selection by "filtering" sensory information. C. elegans can learn temp, move across the temp. gradient and then track that temp. How? Configuration electrical synapses www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/

It is noon. I am tired.

In our paper @currentbiology.bsky.social we uncover the tactile & afferent mechanisms of the rat pup transport response.

Teamwork ✋ Zheyi, Connor, Arturo, Marta, Yu, Michael @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social

Read the dispatch too!

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Is there a Fiji plugin that will both stitch tiles and stack the results…?

There should be more mushroom-themed dishes at Thanksgiving.

Two cats by a doorway. They are cute.

Brought the girls to my parent’s house for the holiday. Cautiously exploring their new kingdom.

A cute cat in her cat bed

My southern-born cat Amity, adjusting to the Boston weather.

Walking around my house, looking at my phone muttering “don’t love that” over and over

Gaetz news reminds me: where’d we end up on the Nestor story?

His cabinet picks are actually bonkers.

Obligatory "I should start using this again huh" post before I immediately forget and disappear for several months and return, only to make the same exact post

Reinstalled this app.

The sous vide may be my favorite kitchen device.