Thank you for doing this Johanna!

#erc | Johanna Joyce What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising? Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created? A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...

What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?

Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness

Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪

Separated by 200 million years of evolution: zebrafish (top) and medaka (bottom). Credit to IMP Vienna Biocenter.

When you realize Danio (rerio) & Oryzias (latipes) are both derived from "rice" in different languages 🤯

Danio derived from Bengali word "Dhani" or "of the rice field"
Oryzias derived from Greek word "Oryza" or "rice"

#zebrafish #medaka #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

When AI replaces confidence in the classroom After students relied on AI for writing assignments, one molecular biology instructor reframed the issue as a confidence gap and implemented a collaborative assignment to foster scientific reasoning a...

My latest article was published today in ASBMB Today, where I explore how AI is reshaping student confidence and learning in the classroom.

www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

The Lesson Every Democrat Should Learn From Peter Magyar's Victory In Hungary The cost of living crisis needs a villain.

Peter Magyar's victory in Hungary was fueled by a potent message tying the affordability crisis to the corruption of wealthy elites. With Trump presiding over unprecedented corruption and with prices skyrocketing, Democrats have the opportunity to replicate Magyar's success in November and beyond.

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Channeling grief into discipline:

When I was at the Washington Post, I had a newsletter that would come out every Friday.

But in the last few years, I've felt intellectually and creatively stifled. Since my illegal firing and my father's death, I'm rediscovering what I've lost. (1/2)

An orange white and black calico cat named Rainbow greeting CC, who is in that late kitten stage, and is a tabby calico, no orange. They sit on a conference table, and Rainbow looks like she's about to either groom or bite CC.

The first cat to be cloned was a calico female named Rainbow (left).

The clone, produced at Texas A&M University in 2001 was named "CC" for Carbon Copy or CopyCat (right).

Notice something odd about the "identical copy"?
Not very identical is she?
But they *are confirmed* genetically identical.

Right. I've often said that the solution is sewer socialism. We didn't stop cholera by shaming people who didn't purify their own water, we built infrastructure that eventually ensured clean water was the norm. We can do that with air quality.

Pointed essay about what Americans faced during wars, the great depression, and the civil rights movement.

Now what is needed is to stay engaged, pay attention, and help where you can.

America is worth it.

#VoteYesVirginia
To all my Virginia friends
Tomorrow is election day
VOTE YES
AND
Please call your neighbors and friends
YOU......VIRGINIA CAN STOP TRUMP
Thank you
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#VoteYesVirginia
Tomorrow is election day
Please take a moment to listen and share
VOTE YES Virginia
Stop trump from stealing congressional searts
VOTE YES
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From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …

And this corruption of the free and fair marketplace of ideas did not just do a lot to bring us Trump (via Fox-see below @chriswarshaw.bsky.social , Twitter, pink slime news, Newsmax, etc), it’s directly harmed US science.

The COVID denier, lab origin, Fauci/NIH-bad and antivax stuff uses this

So we all have to care - voters, those who want to live in a free society, science people, and anyone who gets diseases from viruses to cancer. The l info environment is broken in large part due to this strategy and we need to see it and fix it.
/end

“A small number of extreme users constantly post fringe opinions, which creates the illusion that these views are far more widely held than they really are.”

This is a critical concept.
The most powerful tool for deception today is “selected speech” — billionaires boosting ideas they like…

The Democrats make perfect sense when you stop seeing them as a political party, and view them instead as a business venture that provides political entertainment, but with a clear profit motive

It's a service. How much do the police "lose" every year?

My hero.

Immune cell lovers, this is your jam! I loved this thread so much!

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Virginia: Vote YES Tomorrow Virginia's Redistricting Referendum and Why I'm Passionately In Support

Trump ordered Texas to redraw its maps mid-cycle — not because the census required it, but because they know they can't win a fair fight in 2026.

Virginia votes tomorrow. Matching the GOP isn't enough —
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

That was the craziest end to my 🐝

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

I’m so sorry. 😢 this is one of the most ravaging of cancers. This technology gives hope to so many families.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Figure 2. FORCE1s reports in vivo neuronal activity with high fidelity under resonance scanning 2-photon microscopy (A-I) 2P-guided whole-cell patching and resonant-scan imaging in anesthetized mice. (A) Experimental schematic. (B) 2P images of a representative FORCE1s-Kv-expressing neuron are shown at high resolution (i) and the size and resolution used during voltage imaging (ii). The patching pipette is outlined. (C) Simultaneous electrophysiological recording (top, 10 kHz) and FORCE1s-Kv fluorescence imaging (bottom, 440 Hz). The fluorescence trace was low-pass filtered at 150 Hz to enhance the visualization of the spikes. Dashed boxes: epochs shown in panels D-E. Vertical lines: detected spikes. Gray triangle (left, and in panels D-E): -70 mV. (D-E) Zoomed-in subthreshold (D) and bursting (E) epochs. Panel D’s optical trace was low-pass filtered at 50 Hz to enhance the visualization of subthreshold fluctuations.

This is beautiful data. 2p optical reporting of subthreshold voltage, validated with simultaneous patch clamp. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... FORCE1s by François St-Pierre's group, with a bunch of great people joining in.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Great news!

#VaccinesWork
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.