NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:
$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks
and
$4,049 — weapons and war.
These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay
The Inflation Reduction Act never gets enough credit. Truly one of the most powerful pieces of legislation in my lifetime.
100% accurate. 😂🫣 Must be all those 'ANTIFA wine moms' rubbing off on us.
(via HotTakesPoliticsGirl)
Proposed cuts to BIO by the NSF.
Trump is calling for a record $1.5T defense budget.
Roughly half of this spending will go to private contractors, many of whom routinely price-gouge the government.
Reminder that Don Jr. and Eric Trump are big investors in drone companies looking to obtain defense contracts.
See the problem?
Statement from Rep. Lofgren (ranking member of House Science Committee) re dissolving SBE: "What NSF is reportedly doing is in illegal contravention of the laws enacted by Congress this January. For over 75 years, NSF’s guiding light was how to best support cutting-edge research across all...
🔥Preprint fresh off the press🔥
Hello Bluesky!
I'm delighted to share the story I have been working on for the past 3y in @vivekmutalik.bsky.social's lab at LBNL and Adam Arkin's lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.
It's a wild story about 255 phages & 1,000+ HT genetic screens, are you ready? 🧵
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
Phage receptor prediction from genome sequencing alone. Bacterial receptor (blue) interacting with phage proteins (purple) is shown here
📣Huge preprint 🔔
Today we share something our group has been working toward for a long time, led by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social We asked can we predict which receptor a phage targets from its genome sequence alone? For most phages, we couldn’t. So Lucas set out to do something I had only dreamed of.
"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..."
"Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.
Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠
Image with text to email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.
Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.
He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest.
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Done!
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.
Now? 🤷🏾♂️
Let your senators know he's unqualified to lead the NSF, and his record raises concerns about political interference, misinformation, and conflicts of interest.
Easily email your senators at: tr.ee/NoToONeill
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#JimONeill
#NSF #NoToONeill
#NationalScienceFoundation #StandUpForScience
We must not become numb to this cruelty and lawlessness. www.ms.now/news/ice-detains-daca-re...
NEW: Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski, a top adviser to Kristi Noem.
Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of stomatal and associated leaf traits hypothesized to influence leaf microbiome assembly.
#Viewpoint: Do stomatal traits modulate leaf microbiome assembly?
Busby et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
[Exit Murderer.]
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The Gen X urge to jump up jump up and get down.
And I would apply to work with you…. So we need both a Time Machine and ability to clone ourselves. Watch out science!!
Me three
Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
“You’re in the government database of people legally protesting the actions of the current administration” is a four-alarm fire, peeps.
The President is going to steal >1 NSFs worth of money from the US government
