Roland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈
@rolanddunbrack.bsky.social
Computational structural biologist @Fox Chase Cancer Center. Gay, out & proud since 1986. I support transgender & nonbinary people. Living with CLL/SLL. Video about my LGBTQ+ life in science: https://tinyurl.com/45srzjdw. Views my own, not my employer's.
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Bollards save lives. End of story.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 7, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Bollards save lives. End of story.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.
the fact that they saw Polanski as not being punished despite fleeing to France -- the fact that his social circle did not hold him accountable -- finally makes me understand why the elite media is insane about left activism at elite colleges: nothing anyone else can do to them matters.
February 7, 2026 at 7:08 AM
The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
Why is curling a gendered sport?
CANADA 🇨🇦 FOR THE WIN
It’s a dominant opening Olympic mixed doubles curling victory for Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant 10-5 over Czechia.
Canada is back on the ice Thursday afternoon in Cortina vs Norway at 8:35am ET
It’s a dominant opening Olympic mixed doubles curling victory for Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant 10-5 over Czechia.
Canada is back on the ice Thursday afternoon in Cortina vs Norway at 8:35am ET
February 6, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Why is curling a gendered sport?
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Seems like a pretty important paper. @nature.com held it in review for 18 months, delaying its impact.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis - Nature
Mouse models demonstrate that vagal sensory neurons transmit signals from lung adenocarcinoma to the brain, increasing sympathetic efferent activity in the tumour microenvironment and thereb...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Seems like a pretty important paper. @nature.com held it in review for 18 months, delaying its impact.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya.
"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."
"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya.
"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."
"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."
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European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸♀️
They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine
Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO
She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine
Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO
She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸♀️
They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine
Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO
She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine
Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO
She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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Because I had to... Another email to Director Bhattacharya
[about his retweeting misinformation about the response to AIDS]
1/5
[about his retweeting misinformation about the response to AIDS]
1/5
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Because I had to... Another email to Director Bhattacharya
[about his retweeting misinformation about the response to AIDS]
1/5
[about his retweeting misinformation about the response to AIDS]
1/5
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
Lysenkoism 2.0 continues: Podcast Jay wants to turn NIH into the “research arm” of MAHA
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the "research arm of MAHA" and a "central driver of the MAHA agenda." Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
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What the Trumpists are encountering in Minnesota is a community exhibiting exactly the kind of cohesion and solidarity across racial, cultural, and religious lines they claim is impossible.
Nothing could be more terrifying to the blood-and-soil nationalists.
My new piece:
Nothing could be more terrifying to the blood-and-soil nationalists.
My new piece:
Turning Points and Authoritarian Escalations
Is America’s descent into autocracy accelerating or is Trump struggling to break through the democratic defenses? In Minneapolis, MAGA's worldview is being refuted.
steady.page
February 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
What the Trumpists are encountering in Minnesota is a community exhibiting exactly the kind of cohesion and solidarity across racial, cultural, and religious lines they claim is impossible.
Nothing could be more terrifying to the blood-and-soil nationalists.
My new piece:
Nothing could be more terrifying to the blood-and-soil nationalists.
My new piece:
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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The Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center is looking for tenure track faculty (assist./assoc./full) in computational & experimental protein design. CV & 3-page research statement by Feb 15.
More info here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Questions: DM/Email me.
More info here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Questions: DM/Email me.
Now hiring: Tenure-track faculty (Asst/Assoc/Full) in Computational & Experimental Protein Design at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA
Join the Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment Pro...
Now hiring: Tenure-track faculty (Asst/Assoc/Full) in Computational & Experimental Protein Design at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA
Join the Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment Program at ...
www.linkedin.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center is looking for tenure track faculty (assist./assoc./full) in computational & experimental protein design. CV & 3-page research statement by Feb 15.
More info here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Questions: DM/Email me.
More info here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Questions: DM/Email me.
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Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
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The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
www.zeit.de
January 31, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Great article on how ACIP is not science-based.
In the past, the US Advisory Committee on Immunization practices used a detailed, scientific methodology to assess vaccine data before making a recommendation. Now that process “has completely been circumvented,” under RFK Jr. @rowanwalrath.bsky.social and I have the details for @cenmag.bsky.social.
US vaccine recommendations used to be based in science. Now it’s all vibes
The Evidence to Recommendations framework ensured that the US vaccine schedule was scientifically sound. Then RFK Jr. abandoned it
cen.acs.org
January 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Great article on how ACIP is not science-based.
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It's 2026 and our inept NIH director is the only person on the planet who can't stop talking about lockdowns from 2020.
My latest for SBM...
sciencebasedmedicine.org/jaymissesloc...
My latest for SBM...
sciencebasedmedicine.org/jaymissesloc...
Science Based Satire: My 2026 Interview with Jay Bhattacharya. It’s Still Lockdowns All the Way Down.
"The worst thing about lockdowns is that they are over, and everyone else moved on long ago."
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
It's 2026 and our inept NIH director is the only person on the planet who can't stop talking about lockdowns from 2020.
My latest for SBM...
sciencebasedmedicine.org/jaymissesloc...
My latest for SBM...
sciencebasedmedicine.org/jaymissesloc...
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every day I understand a little more why Arya Stark kept that list
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM
every day I understand a little more why Arya Stark kept that list
I am not sure why scientists can’t be partisan if we want to be. I vote for and support Democrats and oppose the GOP which is aiding and abetting a murderous regime.
Scientists have been told to stay out of politics, but politics is very much not staying out of science. Scientists don't have to, and maybe shouldn't, be identified with a single party, but should be straightforward about the values that made American science such a success.
January 28, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I am not sure why scientists can’t be partisan if we want to be. I vote for and support Democrats and oppose the GOP which is aiding and abetting a murderous regime.
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There are - 228 #H1B visas at UT Southwestern #medical center, 214 at #TexasA&M, 171 at the MD Anderson #Cancer Center, 169 at #UTAustin, 148 at the #Baylor College of Medicine
F*** you #cancer patients, you don't need no stinkin' doctors or medical researchers -Greg Abbott
F*** you #cancer patients, you don't need no stinkin' doctors or medical researchers -Greg Abbott
H-1B Employer Data Hub
The H-1B program allows employers in the United States
www.uscis.gov
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Boy, the Trump administration is showing how hostile they are to foreign scientific institutions/scientists. Here is text on the certification of your biosketch for an NIH grant now:
"I also certify that, at the time of submission, I am not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program."
"I also certify that, at the time of submission, I am not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program."
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Boy, the Trump administration is showing how hostile they are to foreign scientific institutions/scientists. Here is text on the certification of your biosketch for an NIH grant now:
"I also certify that, at the time of submission, I am not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program."
"I also certify that, at the time of submission, I am not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program."
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Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
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Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
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We are not going to erase history for a dictator.
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
We are not going to erase history for a dictator.
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Different uniforms. Same kneeling man. Same rifles. Same state telling the world this is order. History does not repeat politely. It reuses its favorite methods. If you think this is exaggerated, you are standing in the second photo.
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Different uniforms. Same kneeling man. Same rifles. Same state telling the world this is order. History does not repeat politely. It reuses its favorite methods. If you think this is exaggerated, you are standing in the second photo.