“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”
On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”
Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W
"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...
🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
On the importance of marine labs:
"Marine laboratories encourage exploratory and creative thinking... Against the current backdrop of anxiety about the future of science, the scientific community and public need these places now more than ever."
Could not agree more... 🌊 🧪🥼🧫
There's a word for learning from evolution's inventions: bioinspiration. Here's my interactive story on the way animals and plants fuel technological creativity. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
An orange and a grey/white cat in vampire capes
An orange and a grey/white cat in vampire capes sitting with a pumpkin
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make” (running around at 2am) 🦇🧛🏻🩸
This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
Honestly, a really good article.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
Those outside of CMU may not get the reaction to this, but The Fence is sacred ground for free expression on campus, with traditions, norms, & rules going back a century.
The administration broke those today for the optics.
triblive.com/local/fence-...
Re-upping given the moa deëxtinction nonsense from #ColossalBio and it’s cofounder Ben Lamm, it’s nominally about dire wolf “deëxtinction” but applies just as well to moas
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Absolutely disgusted…
Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
Super excited to share a paper from my some of my undergrad research on the OB color pattern and sex chromosome evolution in Lake Malawi cichlids! 🐠🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.
Pittsburgh stands up for science!
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
This course is incredible! I can’t recommend it enough! 🧬
Hello everyone, the MBL Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course still has openings for its 2025 offering, Apr 6-18. We’d love to receive some more applications! The deadline is Jan 3, but if you start the application by then and get us the letters later, we will be happy to consider you!