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Justin English
@justingenglish.bsky.social
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Scientist in love with molecular biology, pharmacology, evolution, and technology of all kinds.
Cornell 🎓, UNC CH 🥼, University of Utah 💼
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ardemp.bskyverified.social
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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alexkwan.bsky.social
A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄

@theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A multi-institutional investigation of psilocybin's effects on mouse behavior
Studies reporting novel therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs are rapidly emerging. However, the reproducibility and reliability of these findings could remain uncertain for years. Here, we impleme...
www.biorxiv.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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kgandersen.bsky.social
Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego.

If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
DOGE cuts shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system
Other alternatives are available, but none show coronavirus subtypes like San Diego’s SEARCH
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
justingenglish.bsky.social
Want to Nanopore sequence complex nucleotide populations accurately, at low cost, with QC standards, using a plug-and-play informatics GUI, where you can PCR observed sequences out from your sample and not synthesize them? See our new pre-print!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Within a week, I was already experiencing the benefits of intermittent working. My bloodshot eyes faded from red to dark pink, and my back hunch started to unfurl. I found myself forming new thoughts that had nothing to do with performing wage labor."
I’m Trying a Wild Experimental Diet Where I Restrict My Working Hours to Certain Times of the Day
I never thought I’d follow a dieting fad. I always prided myself on being the type of laid-back person who worked as much as I wanted, whenever I w...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
More from Peter Marks on RFK Jr and the FDA
This extends beyond anti-vax to unproven use of stem cells
Gift link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.
www.wsj.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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kawulf.bsky.social
"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
justingenglish.bsky.social
GPCR allosterism, a popular #ASPET2025 session chaired by @laurenslosky.bsky.social & Laura Wingler.
April 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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wired.com
Signal is a great privacy tool, but it isn’t magic. And even if you’re not discussing war plans in your group chat, it’s a good idea to know the limits of encryption.

Read our piece on what Signal can—and can’t—do for you here: www.wired.com/story/encryp...
Encrypted Messaging Is Essential—But It Isn’t Magic
As recent events have shown, using an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal is no privacy panacea.
www.wired.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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jcb.org
Review: Ripoll, von Zastrow and @emilyblythe.bsky.social discuss the evolving understanding of cellular #GPCR signaling, highlighting recent advances and noting caveats and open questions. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#CellSignaling #Physiology
March 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ericleonardis.bsky.social
That’s right, I’m the worst kind of super villain in this country… I’m a *checks notes* NIH trainee 😂
March 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
The job of Democrats is so clear right now: It's to do everything possible in the next 48 hours to keep the Atlantic story front-burner and make people understand the issues and the stakes. It couldn't be a simpler test of who gets it and who doesn't.
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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New preprint, very proud of this one www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
www.biorxiv.org
March 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.
March 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling
As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.
www.wired.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
The publicly tweeted flights, a state secret. War plans, shared by text!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Mar 24
NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address. Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non- compliance with any binding order.
March 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The “state secrets” doctrine applies to things that are generally more sensitive than *classified* information. And here, the government hasn’t alleged any of this is classified. In fact, it involves conduct that the government itself splashed across the media in an orchestrated PR campaign!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Mar 24
NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address. Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non- compliance with any binding order.
March 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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This is a disaster and its happening right now. Having spoken with some folks in Congress, this is a message they have not received--they are still back in Indirects and USAID (also important, BTW). Call Congress today unless you want ot lose colleagues one by one till all are gone
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 24
Non-competitive renewals...

(Note: These data do NOT reflect terminated grants)

3/3
March 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK
March 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist.

It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Mar 24
ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK
March 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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cheriepriest.com
Me in the national security team group chat
Miss piggy in a trenchcoat, peeking out from behind a mailbox.
March 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I’m curious if there are any scientific journals that are running special issues or pieces from scientists who are losing their funding or being fired. It needs to go down on the permanent record for the people who come after us.
March 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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scottjshapiro.bsky.social
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM