I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

Thank you #NobelLaureate Jack Szostak for sharing these thoughts, which many US scientists and physicians resonate with

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

RFK Jr. pushed cod liver oil as a measles treatment—now Texas children are hospitalized with liver damage. Utah has 583 measles cases. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective. Kennedy runs U.S. public health. Three people died last year. This is the cost of pseudoscience. Scientific research saves lives.

He wanted to cut it by 150%, until they explained to him, using crayons and construction paper, that it's not possible.

Gee, that's so weird that a pathologically lying, career criminal, 34-time felon, child rapist billionaire might do that.🙄

Wake the hell up, MAGA. You and your shitiot GOP Congressmen and women are being fucking played.

Are you all that collectively naive and stupid? Rhetorical question.

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Excited to share the first preprint from the lab! We show that ApeA defends against RNA phage infection by cleaving the phage genome:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How about the richest men in the world pay their fair share of taxes instead of making performative statements about paying highly select branches of government, having gleefully gutted others?

Also, "Transportation Security Agency" should logically be in the Department of Transportation, not DHS.

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible!

-Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!

Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:

1. Remove RFK Jr.

2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.

3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.

Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7

So excited to be at ASBMB 2026 and talk about our lab’s spatial metabolic flux data on Tuesday!

A photo of Doc Brown from Back to the Future holding jumper cables labelled "Deranged Activist" with a grant of NIH funding curves below it.

My weekly update on NIH funding

This includes awards made through 2/27/26

Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.

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Excited to be in DC with #ASBMBAdvocates to advocate for basic science research!

Lots of RNA biologists represented here as ASBMB heads to the Hill tomorrow to advocate for basic science -#ASBMBAdvocates

AAUP's Wolfson and AFT's Weingarten on the NIH’s Decision to Strip Fellows of their Right to Collective Bargaining AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the decision by the National Institutes of Health to strip research fellows of their right ...

Shame on the NIH for stripping fellows of collective bargaining rights!

"The fellows at the NIH deserve the same voice, protections, and dignity on the job that academic workers across the country are fighting for every day."

Read @proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social's statement⬇️

Participants of the 2026 ASBMB March Hill Day listen to a presentation about the event.

ASBMB Hill Day preparation continues! This evening we welcomed more than 50 scientists from across the country who will be heading to Capitol Hill tomorrow for meetings with lawmakers to advocate on behalf of biomedical research funding! #ASBMBAdvocates

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

welp

If and when dust settles in Iran after this operation is over and declared the greatest military victory in history, most likely outcome is a settlement (if there is any) inferior to the deal Obama struck in 2015…from which Trump recklessly and illegally withdrew. Write it down.

Got email from grad student requesting something. Addresses me by first name. I reply and put her in touch with a man who works for me. She replies to both of us and addresses me by first name and bim as Dr. x. Don’t do this, kids

All I'll say is that I encourage everyone to read this letter that Caroline Kennedy wrote to the United States Senate, about RFK, Jr.

static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Appropriation ain't the problem. They've broken it post appropriation. Republikkkans can keep appropriating & they won't get a cookie from me until they fix the execution part (getting $$ fast to peer reviewed projects w/o ideological interference). Otherwise science in this country is doomed.

FDA launches multipronged attack on flu vaccines Regulatory moves come when manufacturers would normally gear up for 2026/7 season

The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s flu vaccine candidate is sending shock waves through biotech- and meanwhile, with new safety warnings of dubious value and no word on strain selection for next season, the agency is destabilizing already approved flu shots too.

cen.acs.org/safety/drug-...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

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Puerto Rico joy is beautiful #badbunny #weareallamerica

Fuck you forever Stephen Miller

The only thing more powerful than hate is love!