James Hemp
@cyan0bacteria.bsky.social
Neuroimmune axis, mucosal immunology, microbial ecology and evolution, geobiology.
Anti-fascist. Apparently I live in a country where that has to be explicitly stated.
Anti-fascist. Apparently I live in a country where that has to be explicitly stated.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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Congrats Mayor Mamdani! Zohran proved it doesn’t matter how much money they throw at you. Organized people beat organized money if you stand for real change.
We’re doing that in SF. 2k+ volunteers have knocked 40k+ doors because our campaign is about bold change. Join us!
We’re doing that in SF. 2k+ volunteers have knocked 40k+ doors because our campaign is about bold change. Join us!
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Congrats Mayor Mamdani! Zohran proved it doesn’t matter how much money they throw at you. Organized people beat organized money if you stand for real change.
We’re doing that in SF. 2k+ volunteers have knocked 40k+ doors because our campaign is about bold change. Join us!
We’re doing that in SF. 2k+ volunteers have knocked 40k+ doors because our campaign is about bold change. Join us!
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I just recorded a short video--essentially an updated version of my social media threads--on the Bill Gates climate memo. Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.
Thoughts from a climate scientist on the Bill Gates climate memo
I wanted to offer my thoughts, as a climate scientist, on the widely discussed memo published by Bill Gates in late October 2025. While I actually do agree with some of the specific points made therein regarding the urgent global need to accelerate efforts to reduce global poverty and improve human
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November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I just recorded a short video--essentially an updated version of my social media threads--on the Bill Gates climate memo. Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.
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Prop 50 is a huge step in the right direction and the type of action we need to fight back against Trump. But we need to do more. Our representatives should act as organizers, bringing our institutions together to create a unified movement against Trump and his executive overreach.
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Prop 50 is a huge step in the right direction and the type of action we need to fight back against Trump. But we need to do more. Our representatives should act as organizers, bringing our institutions together to create a unified movement against Trump and his executive overreach.
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"We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing."
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
"Mann Replies on Wildfires and Climate Change" | My debunking of Bjorn Lomborg as it appears in today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal:
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing."
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
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Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year.
Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.
No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.
No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
October 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year.
Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.
No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.
No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
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🧪 EPA plans to cancel endangerment finding despite compelling evidence for increase in climate change.
"Ignoring that evidence [shows] science, the best method the human species has ever come up with for discerning objective reality, has no role in this government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
"Ignoring that evidence [shows] science, the best method the human species has ever come up with for discerning objective reality, has no role in this government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🧪 EPA plans to cancel endangerment finding despite compelling evidence for increase in climate change.
"Ignoring that evidence [shows] science, the best method the human species has ever come up with for discerning objective reality, has no role in this government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
"Ignoring that evidence [shows] science, the best method the human species has ever come up with for discerning objective reality, has no role in this government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
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"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
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New preprint: Methyl co-enzme M reductase encoding (potentially methanogenic) Thermoproteota are widespread and transcriptionally active in diverse anoxic ecosystems! @dr-zj.bsky.social, Matthew Kollom & @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Funded by the DOE BER program.
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New preprint: Methyl co-enzme M reductase encoding (potentially methanogenic) Thermoproteota are widespread and transcriptionally active in diverse anoxic ecosystems! @dr-zj.bsky.social, Matthew Kollom & @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Funded by the DOE BER program.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
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50% of all consumer spending in America is now done by the top 10%. If we let this trend continue, we are going to end up with nothing being made that’s affordable for the vast majority of Americans.
That’s one reason I am calling for a wealth tax on billionaires and centimillionaires
That’s one reason I am calling for a wealth tax on billionaires and centimillionaires
August 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
50% of all consumer spending in America is now done by the top 10%. If we let this trend continue, we are going to end up with nothing being made that’s affordable for the vast majority of Americans.
That’s one reason I am calling for a wealth tax on billionaires and centimillionaires
That’s one reason I am calling for a wealth tax on billionaires and centimillionaires
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At the request of @bradleyph.bsky.social, we have now added the Bacterial and Archaeal trees (credit to @aroneys.bsky.social) used to infer the GlobDB taxonomy to the website globdb.org
Feel free to reach out if there's other resources you'd like to see added. No promises, but happy to chat 🖥️🧬🦠
Feel free to reach out if there's other resources you'd like to see added. No promises, but happy to chat 🖥️🧬🦠
home | GlobDB
globdb.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At the request of @bradleyph.bsky.social, we have now added the Bacterial and Archaeal trees (credit to @aroneys.bsky.social) used to infer the GlobDB taxonomy to the website globdb.org
Feel free to reach out if there's other resources you'd like to see added. No promises, but happy to chat 🖥️🧬🦠
Feel free to reach out if there's other resources you'd like to see added. No promises, but happy to chat 🖥️🧬🦠
What C suite tech executives think "PhD level knowledge is".
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What C suite tech executives think "PhD level knowledge is".
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Thanks to NASA, NSF and DOE for generously supporting our Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Starting in just two days! #microsky 🦠
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thanks to NASA, NSF and DOE for generously supporting our Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Starting in just two days! #microsky 🦠
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New paper out! In the @environmicrobio.bsky.social lab, we measured deuterium incorporation in 543 single cells using Raman and NanoSIMS. This allowed us to directly compare each technique and resolve any possible methodological artifacts
#NanoSIMS #Raman
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#NanoSIMS #Raman
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells | Microbiology Spectrum
Accurate and reliable measurements of cellular properties are fundamental to understand
the function and activity of microbes. This study addresses to what extent Raman microspectroscopy
and nano-scal...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New paper out! In the @environmicrobio.bsky.social lab, we measured deuterium incorporation in 543 single cells using Raman and NanoSIMS. This allowed us to directly compare each technique and resolve any possible methodological artifacts
#NanoSIMS #Raman
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#NanoSIMS #Raman
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Important advancement of BONCAT to achieve the sorting of viable cells and cultivation on solid media plates. This is achieved by incubating environmental samples in the presence of HPG, and sorting active cells via FACS onto plates. Isolates were identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria
In diverse environments, microbes drive a myriad of processes, from geochemical and nutrient cycling to interspecies interactions, including in association with plants and animals. Their physiological...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Important advancement of BONCAT to achieve the sorting of viable cells and cultivation on solid media plates. This is achieved by incubating environmental samples in the presence of HPG, and sorting active cells via FACS onto plates. Isolates were identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
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Every AI model in science sits on top of millions of hours of unpaid, unthanked, unseen human labor.
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Every AI model in science sits on top of millions of hours of unpaid, unthanked, unseen human labor.
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Our special issue on #neuroimmunology is online! Check out the collection, with reviews from @jonykipnis.bsky.social @michellemonje.bsky.social @ugolinis.bsky.social @bethstevenslab.bsky.social @movahedilab.bsky.social Matteoli, Butovsky, Kim, Artis, & Prinz! www.cell.com/immunity/col... #AAI2025
May 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Our special issue on #neuroimmunology is online! Check out the collection, with reviews from @jonykipnis.bsky.social @michellemonje.bsky.social @ugolinis.bsky.social @bethstevenslab.bsky.social @movahedilab.bsky.social Matteoli, Butovsky, Kim, Artis, & Prinz! www.cell.com/immunity/col... #AAI2025
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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My recommendation for a review for any budding matrix biologists or newcomers wanting to learn about #ECMatrix to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks to @themeshwork.bsky.social for the opportunity to give it a shout out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nabalabuic.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nabalabuic.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My recommendation for a review for any budding matrix biologists or newcomers wanting to learn about #ECMatrix to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks to @themeshwork.bsky.social for the opportunity to give it a shout out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nabalabuic.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nabalabuic.bsky.social
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Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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April 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.