Hey, UC Berkeley chemistry department: C&EN would like to hear from you. DM, or signal Laurel_Oldach.07

(amplification appreciated!)

What does it mean for people who've had their B cell repertoire cleansed via CAR-T cells?

Potential side effect = holes in your nose? Websites that scrape university press releases have been around since the 20th century, but this is some value-added humor

The Nature Biotechnology article quotes Mignot saying orexin instead of hypocretin, and says "orexin is a neurotransmitter (previously named hypocretin)"

First orexin agonists address root cause of narcolepsy - Nature Biotechnology A new class of agents is poised to transform treatment for people with narcolepsy by mimicking missing orexin peptides.

Has Emmanuel Mignot himself given up on the term hypocretin? I can't believe it! For a while, there was an East Coast/West Coast nomenclature rivalry - what happened? Yanagisawa + Scammell won? @matthorsnell.bsky.social

#narcolepsy #neuroscience #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Agreed! What's important is not what he croaks incoherently under Congressional interrogation, but what he and his minions are actually doing #vaccines

Are people coming after you? What the hell?

People talked this way when I lived in Deutschland >20 years ago

Glad to see @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social highlighted here!

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

An unprecedented number of US scientists are trading in their lab coats to run for office in the US mid-term elections in November.

go.nature.com/3QePHLk

Straight from the horse's mouth:

If Trump's proposed $5B cut to NIH were enacted in FY27, the number of new NIH research grants would drop **47%**

To be clear, this is from a document justifying the request. It's what they *want*. They think this is good.

officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY27/br...

Why do they like MYF so much? It's an accounting gimmick that allows them to say "we spent all the money Congress said" while ending as many scientific careers as possible!

I need a current VDJ expert to explain this

This article makes it seem like JB is defending the NIH, when he is distracting lawmakers from what Vought is up to

I was pleasantly surprised when that city council member was accessible and friendly by email. Also saw them at event for @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's book

That's a good description of mediocre journalism (dunno if it applied to your piece)

Gonna pop some popcorn for this

To be clear, I don't think "do better, you screw-ups" is the message; it's more: "we need to improve our systems, so that people can actually rely on the information we provide"

Universal Presence of Gene/Variant Nomenclature Errors in Journal Manuscript Submissions - PubMed We conclude that strict adherence to gene/variant nomenclature standards is critical in published works, and that rigorous author instructions are insufficient to ensure adherence to nomenclature stan...

Do better, you screw-up geneticists! #genesky #academia (one of our faculty is a co-author and this caught my eye) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41793390/

Dunwoody Flock Safety contract delayed a second time Dunwoody City Council delayed a Flock Safety 911 system contract amid privacy, security and legal concerns ahead of a planned April vote.

The Dunwoody City Council is scheduled to vote on a $15,000 Flock Safety contract Monday evening. The council has deferred the contract twice in as many months over legal, privacy and security concerns with the company more broadly.

That is asinine

According to Atlanta Watershed Mgmt, "Constructed in 1935, RM Clayton WRC is the largest plant that provides treatment for the City of Atlanta, and serves areas north of I-20, Fulton County near Sandy Springs, and most of North DeKalb County."

Learning about wastewater surveillance for #measles in Atlanta area from @rgrapevine.bsky.social @healthbeat.org data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?cha...

$5 million is a lot of money, even today -- what else did the donation support?

The Brainworm

Trump tells Artemis II crew he saved Nasa despite trying to slash agency’s budget Astronauts had a call with the US president from space after setting record for the farthest-traveled humans from Earth

The hypocrisy is astronomical: Trump slashed NASA’s budget by 23% and then took credit when astronauts made history. Artemis II does not belong to politicians dismantling American space science. Join the fight for science: standupforscience.net

zurl.co/JHmEp

This amazing, excellent feature by @jasonmast.bsky.social on next-generation DMD exon-skipping drugs deserves your attention! It makes several points about 1) hyping mediocre 1st generation 2) how parent + patient @cureduchenne.bsky.social steered research 3) inadequacy of the FDA at this moment

Low morale among current, former CDC employees after layoffs, firings It’s been a year since the Trump Administration began mass layoffs at the Atlanta-based agency. Over the past year, about 3,000 workers either left or were laid off from the […]

ICYMI! Our leadership, colleagues, and friends were guest of Rose Scott, of WABE Closer Look April 7, 2026. Take a listen to hear about administration's efforts to dismantle public health and how we are coming together to ultimately build back better.
www.wabe.org/podcasts/clo...

Is Atlanta a "sanctuary city"?

Saying, ‘A whole civilization will die tonight,’ should be enough to end a presidency. We cannot stand by as the president of the United States threatens war crimes. Impeach Trump now.