Sue
@modcur.bsky.social
Biocurator, Scientist, Photographer
flickr page: https://flic.kr/ps/2iY8i2
profile painting by Jaber Lutfi
flickr page: https://flic.kr/ps/2iY8i2
profile painting by Jaber Lutfi
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December 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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December 27, 2026. A bright beautiful, frigid 15 degree day in Knox County Maine. WE THE PEOPLE standing in patriotic support of Democracy, 70 people on a freezing day and proud to stand together. Gratitude to Audacity CAT for bringing us together each week at noon in Rockland, Maine.
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
December 27, 2026. A bright beautiful, frigid 15 degree day in Knox County Maine. WE THE PEOPLE standing in patriotic support of Democracy, 70 people on a freezing day and proud to stand together. Gratitude to Audacity CAT for bringing us together each week at noon in Rockland, Maine.
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Spent the last week dramatically dying from a mild cold, so I think it's okay to recycle a little festive doodle from 2 years ago. Arty's evergreen anyway.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Spent the last week dramatically dying from a mild cold, so I think it's okay to recycle a little festive doodle from 2 years ago. Arty's evergreen anyway.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
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🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.
www.bischofflab.com/jobs
Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)
Original Posting:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.
www.bischofflab.com/jobs
Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)
Original Posting:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.
www.bischofflab.com/jobs
Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)
Original Posting:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.
www.bischofflab.com/jobs
Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)
Original Posting:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
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For my final #ArtAdventCalendar entry: a mighty feast with family and friends. I pity any poor fish cruising by beneath this pelican clan, on the Red River just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. #birds
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
For my final #ArtAdventCalendar entry: a mighty feast with family and friends. I pity any poor fish cruising by beneath this pelican clan, on the Red River just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. #birds
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🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
nserc-crsng.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
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🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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The Trump admin is gearing up to use AI to delay and deny Medicare benefits for seniors. This is outrageous and should be a national scandal.
We’re talking about a backdoor effort to privatize Traditional Medicare and cut benefits. I introduced legislation to stop it.
We’re talking about a backdoor effort to privatize Traditional Medicare and cut benefits. I introduced legislation to stop it.
Murray pushes to halt federal pilot adding AI to Medicare approvals
The legislation would prohibit the federal government from implementing the Medicare pilot, which is expected to go into effect Jan. 1.
www.seattletimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Trump admin is gearing up to use AI to delay and deny Medicare benefits for seniors. This is outrageous and should be a national scandal.
We’re talking about a backdoor effort to privatize Traditional Medicare and cut benefits. I introduced legislation to stop it.
We’re talking about a backdoor effort to privatize Traditional Medicare and cut benefits. I introduced legislation to stop it.
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23 December 1922 | A Czech Jewish woman, Margita Ledererová, was born in Liberec.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
23 December 1922 | A Czech Jewish woman, Margita Ledererová, was born in Liberec.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
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This campaign is bigger than me, it’s about all of us in Maine who believe in a better future.
I am so grateful to all the Mainers who are a part of this movement.
I am so grateful to all the Mainers who are a part of this movement.
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This campaign is bigger than me, it’s about all of us in Maine who believe in a better future.
I am so grateful to all the Mainers who are a part of this movement.
I am so grateful to all the Mainers who are a part of this movement.
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☀️ Octopus Cyanea 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
☀️ Octopus Cyanea 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
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Which is why we are fighting for his impeachment.
Sign the petition, yell at your Congress critter, and send a quack-o-gram here:
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Sign the petition, yell at your Congress critter, and send a quack-o-gram here:
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Which is why we are fighting for his impeachment.
Sign the petition, yell at your Congress critter, and send a quack-o-gram here:
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Sign the petition, yell at your Congress critter, and send a quack-o-gram here:
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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20 December 1932 | Dutch Jewish boy, Josua Leendert Sanders, was born in Rotterdam
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
20 December 1932 | Dutch Jewish boy, Josua Leendert Sanders, was born in Rotterdam
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
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As a final nod to 2025, #GeneOntology announces our latest paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! Updates include expanded #Ontology & annotations in #Metabolism, multi-org interactions, #chromatin remodeling, & more.
Also ft. #Functionome v2 and 1500+ GO-CAM pathway models! 🧬🧪
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Also ft. #Functionome v2 and 1500+ GO-CAM pathway models! 🧬🧪
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026
Abstract. The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase (https://geneontology.org) is a comprehensive resource describing the functions of genes. The GO knowledgeba
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December 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
As a final nod to 2025, #GeneOntology announces our latest paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! Updates include expanded #Ontology & annotations in #Metabolism, multi-org interactions, #chromatin remodeling, & more.
Also ft. #Functionome v2 and 1500+ GO-CAM pathway models! 🧬🧪
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Also ft. #Functionome v2 and 1500+ GO-CAM pathway models! 🧬🧪
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
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New data shows that 64 non-citizens were arrested by ICE while taking domestic flights at airports from January-October 2025 — nearly twice the number arrested during a similar period in 2024.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
New data shows that 64 non-citizens were arrested by ICE while taking domestic flights at airports from January-October 2025 — nearly twice the number arrested during a similar period in 2024.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.