Thomas R. Webb, PhD
@thomasrwebb.bsky.social
I’m a scientist with a background in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry and an interest in botany, gardening and ecology. Based in Southern California.
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I just left the Venezuela briefing.
It's worse than you thought.
Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.
We need public Senate hearings NOW.
It's worse than you thought.
Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.
We need public Senate hearings NOW.
January 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I just left the Venezuela briefing.
It's worse than you thought.
Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.
We need public Senate hearings NOW.
It's worse than you thought.
Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.
We need public Senate hearings NOW.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Congress has ignored the federal law requiring hanging in the Capitol by 3/2023 the plaque promising never to forget the heroism of those who risked all to defend Congress’ members and the Constitution. This essay by the great Jamie Raskin makes good on that promise.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Opinion | Jamie Raskin: Jan. 6 Never Ended
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Congress has ignored the federal law requiring hanging in the Capitol by 3/2023 the plaque promising never to forget the heroism of those who risked all to defend Congress’ members and the Constitution. This essay by the great Jamie Raskin makes good on that promise.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
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Make no mistake: growing food is one of the most influential forms of political activism there is!
#TheOutpost 🫘🍅🌿🌱👨🌾
Growing Food is My Form of Protest share.google/Kc9dHw3YS1oX...
#TheOutpost 🫘🍅🌿🌱👨🌾
Growing Food is My Form of Protest share.google/Kc9dHw3YS1oX...
Growing Food is My Form of Protest
“Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do. Plus you get strawberries.” - Ron Finley There are a lot of protests happening all over the word right now, against and in support of all...
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January 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Make no mistake: growing food is one of the most influential forms of political activism there is!
#TheOutpost 🫘🍅🌿🌱👨🌾
Growing Food is My Form of Protest share.google/Kc9dHw3YS1oX...
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Growing Food is My Form of Protest share.google/Kc9dHw3YS1oX...
We will remember…
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
apps.npr.org
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
We will remember…
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
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This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.
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More than 25 years after it published a study finding that use of glyphosate is safe for humans, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted it after an astrophysicist and science historian raised concerns about the study’s authorship. cen.acs.org/research-int... #chemsky 🧪
Glyphosate study from 2000 retracted amid corporate-influence concerns
The authors didn’t disclose financial compensation they received from Monsanto for their work on a ghostwritten paper about the herbicide’s safety
cen.acs.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
More than 25 years after it published a study finding that use of glyphosate is safe for humans, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted it after an astrophysicist and science historian raised concerns about the study’s authorship. cen.acs.org/research-int... #chemsky 🧪
🧪 This company took a very innovative approach to influenza drug design that appears to have really paid off in clinical trials, so far. With avian influenza always on the horizon the world needs this! www.cidara.com/news/merck-t...
Merck to Acquire Cidara Therapeutics, Inc., Diversifying Its Portfolio to Include Late-Phase Antiviral Agent - Cidara Therapeutics
CD388 is an investigational long-acting, strain-agnostic antiviral agent currently in Phase 3, designed to prevent influenza infection in individuals at higher risk of influenza complications Acquisit...
www.cidara.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
🧪 This company took a very innovative approach to influenza drug design that appears to have really paid off in clinical trials, so far. With avian influenza always on the horizon the world needs this! www.cidara.com/news/merck-t...
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Happy New Year friends!
I woke up on this first day of 2026 determined to fight like hell for what’s right, what’s kind, what’s decent, and what’s just. And to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. We CAN do this.
Let’s roll!
I woke up on this first day of 2026 determined to fight like hell for what’s right, what’s kind, what’s decent, and what’s just. And to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. We CAN do this.
Let’s roll!
January 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Happy New Year friends!
I woke up on this first day of 2026 determined to fight like hell for what’s right, what’s kind, what’s decent, and what’s just. And to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. We CAN do this.
Let’s roll!
I woke up on this first day of 2026 determined to fight like hell for what’s right, what’s kind, what’s decent, and what’s just. And to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. We CAN do this.
Let’s roll!
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This must-read investigation lays bare just how unprecedented Trump’s corruption is.
Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in U.S. history.
Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in U.S. history.
December 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This must-read investigation lays bare just how unprecedented Trump’s corruption is.
Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in U.S. history.
Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in U.S. history.
Buddhists believe in the cultivation of inner peace that logically leads to the promotion of world peace. It starts by removing the burden of egoism. “We walk together with every person whose heart has opened to peace, whose spirit has chosen kindness, …”
apnews.com/article/budd...
apnews.com/article/budd...
Buddhist monks persist in peace walk despite injuries as thousands follow them on social media
A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their peace walk across much of the U.S. even after two participants were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle.
apnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Buddhists believe in the cultivation of inner peace that logically leads to the promotion of world peace. It starts by removing the burden of egoism. “We walk together with every person whose heart has opened to peace, whose spirit has chosen kindness, …”
apnews.com/article/budd...
apnews.com/article/budd...
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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Hunting humans for a paycheck?
Look at the new ICE recruits training today. Our own people are helping the modern-day Nazis who want us gone. You can wear the uniform, but you’ll never change your skin.
Expose them. Share this now!
Look at the new ICE recruits training today. Our own people are helping the modern-day Nazis who want us gone. You can wear the uniform, but you’ll never change your skin.
Expose them. Share this now!
December 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hunting humans for a paycheck?
Look at the new ICE recruits training today. Our own people are helping the modern-day Nazis who want us gone. You can wear the uniform, but you’ll never change your skin.
Expose them. Share this now!
Look at the new ICE recruits training today. Our own people are helping the modern-day Nazis who want us gone. You can wear the uniform, but you’ll never change your skin.
Expose them. Share this now!
🌱 Audubon’s warbler in one of my apple trees yesterday. I allow insects to live in my organic gardens and that is one of the draws for wildlife!
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🌱 Audubon’s warbler in one of my apple trees yesterday. I allow insects to live in my organic gardens and that is one of the draws for wildlife!
Worthy of celebration! Whenever they use the phrase “activist judge” that’s an admission of guilt! www.newsweek.com/kilmar-abreg...
www.newsweek.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Worthy of celebration! Whenever they use the phrase “activist judge” that’s an admission of guilt! www.newsweek.com/kilmar-abreg...
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With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind:
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind:
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
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Mike Johnson knows what happens if the ACA tax credits expire: premiums spike and 1.8 million Americans lose coverage in 2026 alone, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. He has the power to allow a vote and stop it but refuses.
Total cowardice in the face of preventable harm.
Total cowardice in the face of preventable harm.
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Mike Johnson knows what happens if the ACA tax credits expire: premiums spike and 1.8 million Americans lose coverage in 2026 alone, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. He has the power to allow a vote and stop it but refuses.
Total cowardice in the face of preventable harm.
Total cowardice in the face of preventable harm.
🧪 This is an impressive publication. Hopefully interesting to others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Gezielte Modulation des spliceosomalen Proteins USP39 durch allosterische Liganden und PROTAC‐induzierte Degradation
Proteolysis-targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) ermöglichen die gezielte Degradation bislang als „undruggable“ geltende Proteine über das zelluläre Ubiquitin–Proteasom-System. In dieser Studie identifiziere...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🧪 This is an impressive publication. Hopefully interesting to others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Opportunity for a PhD or postdoc with geological engineering or modelling experience and interests in mountain #geohazards - focused on landslide-triggered #tsunamis.
A chance to work with some of the best!
⚒️🧪🌊🇨🇦
A chance to work with some of the best!
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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!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
nserc-crsng.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Opportunity for a PhD or postdoc with geological engineering or modelling experience and interests in mountain #geohazards - focused on landslide-triggered #tsunamis.
A chance to work with some of the best!
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A chance to work with some of the best!
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🧑🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…
December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🧑🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…
Here’s my Xmas wishlist for the Democratic Party:
- Don’t let the magas or DJT distract us by flooding the zone with crimes and corruption, form informal congressional response teams
- Organize the teams around the types of crimes or important actionable issues led by representatives and senators.
- Don’t let the magas or DJT distract us by flooding the zone with crimes and corruption, form informal congressional response teams
- Organize the teams around the types of crimes or important actionable issues led by representatives and senators.
Trump, echoing Project 2025, using ‘flood the zone’ strategy to push agenda: Experts | Stanford Law School
Bernadette Meyler, the Carl and Sheila Spaeth professor of law at Stanford Law School, told ABC News that executive orders have always been a tool pre
law.stanford.edu
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here’s my Xmas wishlist for the Democratic Party:
- Don’t let the magas or DJT distract us by flooding the zone with crimes and corruption, form informal congressional response teams
- Organize the teams around the types of crimes or important actionable issues led by representatives and senators.
- Don’t let the magas or DJT distract us by flooding the zone with crimes and corruption, form informal congressional response teams
- Organize the teams around the types of crimes or important actionable issues led by representatives and senators.
No exaggeration…
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No exaggeration…
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.