Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

A lot of musicians doing the right thing these days, but this is one of my favourites

Vlasits Lab

The Vlasits Lab is hiring a technician because our current technician was accepted into a PhD program!

This position combines lab management and experiments. If you are interested in gaining experience with #retina research in Chicago, please apply.

vlasitslab.org

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Vlasits Lab

The Vlasits Lab is hiring a technician because our current technician was accepted into a PhD program!

This position combines lab management and experiments. If you are interested in gaining experience with #retina research in Chicago, please apply.

vlasitslab.org

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Science is good. We should fund it.

New study led by Ning Shen w/ @phruzycki.bsky.social: a genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen in a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model identifies genes whose loss accelerates photoreceptor death. Overexpressing two, UFD1 and UXT, preserves photoreceptors, retinal function, and vision. 🧵

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

It's still what computers still can't do The cover of John McPhee’s book Oranges, which is about, you guesed it, oranges. It’s great. The New Yorker writer John McPhee, perhaps the 20th century's...

Contrary to increasingly popular belief, there are, in fact, still things computers can’t do - as @sifu.tweety.fish reminds us:

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception in bumble bees Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

“Flexible rhythm perception underpins human music, dance & speech. We show that bees form robust abstract rhythm representations. Results suggest an insect brain can encode & generalize arbitrary complex temporal patterns, pointing to deep evolutionary roots for domain‐general rhythm cognition.”😲
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HOLY CRAP! @nasaspaceflight.com @wxfront.bsky.social

Only two competitive grants funded by NEI in FY26 so far.

Purple billboard with two bikes: These machines fight traffic

These machines fight traffic.

Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars.

That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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Ecological visual processing in the mouse | Bionic Vision Lab We review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception.

New @annualreviews.bsky.social #neuroscience article 👁️🧠:
bionicvisionlab.org/publications...

w/ @crisniell.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social

Grateful to be part of this collaboration & learn from such a sharp group while rethinking vision in natural settings!

Graphic with text that reads "NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL RALLY Organized by Stand Up for Science Protect Our Health, Defend Our Democracy March 28th, 12:30 - 2:00pm CT An accessible and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere." Also has logos for NO KINGS and STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL RALLY
Organized by Stand Up for Science
Protect Our Health, Defend Our Democracy

An accessible and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere.
March 28th, 12:30 - 2:00pm CT followed by live stream of flagship Twin Cities event

Details coming soon
#NoKings #NoKings3 #VirtualRally

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers

Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

The budget bill this year does NOT mean things will go back to normal.

I cannot say that hard enough:
There is no reason to sit back now, the attack will continue.
Ask others at NIH or who recently left (ask them in person); people at NIH know.

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

Russell Vought is breaking apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has led advances in whether and climate science. Some of its components will transfer to private companies, part of larger efforts to privatize science.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

🚨 Our lab is hiring postdoctoral fellows in two different areas of research: (1) mitochondrial biology and (2) reproductive science. Postings are below, and you can visit bombawarczaklab.com to learn more about what we do!

Repro: apply.interfolio.com/183045
Mito: apply.interfolio.com/183230

Yellow cargo bike with big yellow bucket in back in front of Shell gasoline sign showing gas prices fo 3.48 - 4.49.

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics

'Stand Up For Science' moving from protest day to political player | STAT

Chicago getting ready to stand up for Science!

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Fun to see @standupforscience.bsky.social on local news here in Chicago last night!

If you squint you can see me speaking at least year's rally. I'll be up there again today, Federal Plaza at 1PM!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY TODAY. DON'T TAKE THIS SITTING DOWN. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE standupforscience.net/march7

TODAY.
Take Back our Science Rally.
Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down.
Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience....

#StandUpForScience
#March7
#Rally
#science
#savescience

FAQ For Take Back Our Science Rally March 7th National Day of Action

You had questions about the Take Back our Science Rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th!
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