@themainmanmanny.bsky.social
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🧬✨ Meet Dr. Juan Manuel Vazquez, one of our newest faculty members in Penn State Biology!
His lab explores one of life’s biggest mysteries: why do some animals live so much longer than others?
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His lab explores one of life’s biggest mysteries: why do some animals live so much longer than others?
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October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🧬✨ Meet Dr. Juan Manuel Vazquez, one of our newest faculty members in Penn State Biology!
His lab explores one of life’s biggest mysteries: why do some animals live so much longer than others?
👇🧵
His lab explores one of life’s biggest mysteries: why do some animals live so much longer than others?
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This is why I can’t muster empathy for Charlie Kirk.
He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible.
My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community.
He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible.
My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community.
September 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is why I can’t muster empathy for Charlie Kirk.
He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible.
My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community.
He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible.
My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community.
This week was the first official week of the Vazquez Lab, with everyone officially starting! Not only did we have a great first lab meeting today, but we also had great (and comically excessive) ice cream from the Penn State Creamery!
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This week was the first official week of the Vazquez Lab, with everyone officially starting! Not only did we have a great first lab meeting today, but we also had great (and comically excessive) ice cream from the Penn State Creamery!
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Hope is only lost when we stop fighting back.
August 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hope is only lost when we stop fighting back.
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Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
On the one hand, I should save up startup - on the other though, getting real tired of running around with 17lbs of laptop...
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
On the one hand, I should save up startup - on the other though, getting real tired of running around with 17lbs of laptop...
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The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now.
Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.
Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.
August 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now.
Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.
Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.
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It’s deeply pathetic that Senate Democrats are continuing to advance bipartisan funding bills while Trump unconstitutionally seizes the right to impound funds, and implements a police state.
Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship
The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.
www.politico.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It’s deeply pathetic that Senate Democrats are continuing to advance bipartisan funding bills while Trump unconstitutionally seizes the right to impound funds, and implements a police state.
Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
Had a ton of fun at #2025IBRC! Got to see flying foxes for the first time (and folks dressed as flying foxes!), lots of cool wildlife, and shared some cool science! Also got to advertise my new lab - which I'm now off to start!
August 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Had a ton of fun at #2025IBRC! Got to see flying foxes for the first time (and folks dressed as flying foxes!), lots of cool wildlife, and shared some cool science! Also got to advertise my new lab - which I'm now off to start!
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Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time
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A incredibly powerful article from @cbsnews.com and Ted Koppel. 🧵
“Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”
“Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”
"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts
Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardize finding a cure for cancer.
www.cbsnews.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A incredibly powerful article from @cbsnews.com and Ted Koppel. 🧵
“Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”
“Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Good morning, this is a very helpful tool for keeping track of the critters and sharing data. 🧪
Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Good morning, this is a very helpful tool for keeping track of the critters and sharing data. 🧪
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Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
June 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
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@kenwhite.bsky.social The company that falsely claimed to de-extinct the dire wolf is now threatening legal action against a scientific critic for "defamation". Would New York's anti-SLAPP statute protect against this?
Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
June 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
@kenwhite.bsky.social The company that falsely claimed to de-extinct the dire wolf is now threatening legal action against a scientific critic for "defamation". Would New York's anti-SLAPP statute protect against this?
I had been quiet about the illegal termination of my K99, but I'm very happy to see it included among the list of grants ordered to be reinstated - let's just hope that it's done sooner rather than later so I can submit the RPPR, the renewal, and the R00...
Judge Young's final order has been posted.
I have not yet had a chance to read it you, but go at it.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I have not yet had a chance to read it you, but go at it.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/n
storage.courtlistener.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I had been quiet about the illegal termination of my K99, but I'm very happy to see it included among the list of grants ordered to be reinstated - let's just hope that it's done sooner rather than later so I can submit the RPPR, the renewal, and the R00...
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Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!
Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network.
📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here!
➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!
📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here!
➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!
June 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Read the letter for yourself.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Read the letter for yourself.
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June 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Make open access to tools and data part of your annual giving by making a tax deductible donation to @veupathdb.org. 💙This resource simplifies and supercharges global infectious disease research.
Need more reasons to support VEuPathDB? Here's a short list: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
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I always have superglue in my toolbox for woodworking - usually it's for gluing wood, but sealing chisel-induced gashes is a 10/10 secondary role!
June 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I always have superglue in my toolbox for woodworking - usually it's for gluing wood, but sealing chisel-induced gashes is a 10/10 secondary role!
Its always important to find the time to celebrate the little things - or big things, like graduations and new labs!
May 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Its always important to find the time to celebrate the little things - or big things, like graduations and new labs!
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Cardiac Adaptations in the Cave Nectar Bat Eonycteris spelaea: Insights into Metabolic Resilience and Stress Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.653669v1
May 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Cardiac Adaptations in the Cave Nectar Bat Eonycteris spelaea: Insights into Metabolic Resilience and Stress Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.653669v1
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I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.
May 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.