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@ccphoenix.bsky.social
Interested in genetics, cell biology, genomics and undergraduate biology education for all.
🧪 #HSI #DBER
🧪 #HSI #DBER
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@ccphoenix.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Like many, I'm new here (left THAT site a couple of years ago) and am delighted to see all the science here. I'm a biology professor at a PUI in Texas and interested in cell biology, genetics, and genomics. I'm also committed to equitable science education for all.
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And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
October 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
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I said to my soul, be still and wait.
So the darkness shall be the light.
~T.S. Eliot
So the darkness shall be the light.
~T.S. Eliot
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I said to my soul, be still and wait.
So the darkness shall be the light.
~T.S. Eliot
So the darkness shall be the light.
~T.S. Eliot
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@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025
June 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025
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FlyBase is in need of support. Let's help them continue to be a valued resource to the research community.
FlyBase needs our help.
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
FlyBase is in need of support. Let's help them continue to be a valued resource to the research community.
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
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Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer.
The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.
The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer.
The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.
The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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#ScienceSky and #AcademicSky and anyone who wants details of what grants are cut from the NIH: here’s the list.
Page after page of no longer helping kids get vaccinated, studying emerging infectious diseases, finding new ways to help Black Americans and women.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
Page after page of no longer helping kids get vaccinated, studying emerging infectious diseases, finding new ways to help Black Americans and women.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
March 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#ScienceSky and #AcademicSky and anyone who wants details of what grants are cut from the NIH: here’s the list.
Page after page of no longer helping kids get vaccinated, studying emerging infectious diseases, finding new ways to help Black Americans and women.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
Page after page of no longer helping kids get vaccinated, studying emerging infectious diseases, finding new ways to help Black Americans and women.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
March 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
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BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
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Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
February 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Black History Month Spotlight: Guion Bluford Jr. & Mae Jemison
Bluford became the first Black man in space in 1983, and Jemison followed as the first Black woman in 1992. Both are trailblazing astronauts and scientists who proved the sky is no limit! 🚀 #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky #STEM 🖤
Bluford became the first Black man in space in 1983, and Jemison followed as the first Black woman in 1992. Both are trailblazing astronauts and scientists who proved the sky is no limit! 🚀 #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky #STEM 🖤
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Black History Month Spotlight: Guion Bluford Jr. & Mae Jemison
Bluford became the first Black man in space in 1983, and Jemison followed as the first Black woman in 1992. Both are trailblazing astronauts and scientists who proved the sky is no limit! 🚀 #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky #STEM 🖤
Bluford became the first Black man in space in 1983, and Jemison followed as the first Black woman in 1992. Both are trailblazing astronauts and scientists who proved the sky is no limit! 🚀 #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky #STEM 🖤
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Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
I’m very scared to see what happens to PubMed
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
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🌌 everyone go hug the data archivists in your life please
I’ve been running the archive.org tool against a bunch of sites waiting for Mads to front again so she can find what’s most likely to disappear and keep it safe
I’ve been running the archive.org tool against a bunch of sites waiting for Mads to front again so she can find what’s most likely to disappear and keep it safe
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🌌 everyone go hug the data archivists in your life please
I’ve been running the archive.org tool against a bunch of sites waiting for Mads to front again so she can find what’s most likely to disappear and keep it safe
I’ve been running the archive.org tool against a bunch of sites waiting for Mads to front again so she can find what’s most likely to disappear and keep it safe
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
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When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The search query even lets you look by Congressional district, in case you want to remind your US Representative of how much investment is getting pulled out of their district by these delays in NIH extramural funding.
Texas, for example, is a *big* loser of Trump's HHS blackout.
Texas, for example, is a *big* loser of Trump's HHS blackout.
January 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The search query even lets you look by Congressional district, in case you want to remind your US Representative of how much investment is getting pulled out of their district by these delays in NIH extramural funding.
Texas, for example, is a *big* loser of Trump's HHS blackout.
Texas, for example, is a *big* loser of Trump's HHS blackout.
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Thei will not win. But todaye ys a daye that will be a stain on historye forevir. A daye of callousnesse and crueltye. Not a golden age, but a gilded one.
January 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Thei will not win. But todaye ys a daye that will be a stain on historye forevir. A daye of callousnesse and crueltye. Not a golden age, but a gilded one.
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“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
January 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)