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This is a really outstanding post. "That’s the point of the compact. .... It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a 'deal' that offers the government much more control."
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is a really outstanding post. "That’s the point of the compact. .... It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a 'deal' that offers the government much more control."
Please use this link to nominate: asm.org/IAI-minireview
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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We keep learning new things about bacterial flagella:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FliO is an evolutionarily conserved yet diversified core component of the bacterial flagellar type III secretion system
The bacterial flagellum is a complex nanomachine essential for motility, environmental sensing, and host colonization. While many of its core components have been well characterized, the relevance of ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We keep learning new things about bacterial flagella:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thrilled to share our collaborative work with the Kearns Lab at Indiana University. Dan Foust quantified patterning and mobility of flagella on the bacterial surface!
Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis"
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis"
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
May 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thrilled to share our collaborative work with the Kearns Lab at Indiana University. Dan Foust quantified patterning and mobility of flagella on the bacterial surface!
Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis"
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis"
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
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An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes
This database compiles the effects (attractant, repellent or neutral) of 926 compounds and the chemotactic behaviour of 394 strains
#ChemicalBiology #Microbiology
This database compiles the effects (attractant, repellent or neutral) of 926 compounds and the chemotactic behaviour of 394 strains
#ChemicalBiology #Microbiology
An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes - Nature Communications
In this meta-analysis, the authors compile results from 60 years of chemotaxis research into a database of prokaryotic chemoeffectors that compares and analyses their effects as attractant, repellent or neutral compounds, as well as the chemotactic behaviour of responding microorganisms.
bit.ly
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes
This database compiles the effects (attractant, repellent or neutral) of 926 compounds and the chemotactic behaviour of 394 strains
#ChemicalBiology #Microbiology
This database compiles the effects (attractant, repellent or neutral) of 926 compounds and the chemotactic behaviour of 394 strains
#ChemicalBiology #Microbiology
Powerful messages at Stand up for Science Santa Cruz
June 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Powerful messages at Stand up for Science Santa Cruz
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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz is looking for a General Chemistry Assistant Teaching Professor -
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01884
We truly value teaching and mentoring and looking for like minded applicants.
Please apply, share, and recommend people who might be interested.
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01884
We truly value teaching and mentoring and looking for like minded applicants.
Please apply, share, and recommend people who might be interested.
General Chemistry Assistant Teaching Professor (Initial Review Date: May 14, 2025)
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
March 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz is looking for a General Chemistry Assistant Teaching Professor -
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01884
We truly value teaching and mentoring and looking for like minded applicants.
Please apply, share, and recommend people who might be interested.
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01884
We truly value teaching and mentoring and looking for like minded applicants.
Please apply, share, and recommend people who might be interested.
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It's getting late on Friday, so you know what that means: HHS has just updated its list of cancelled grants and programs.
The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages.
Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages.
Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's getting late on Friday, so you know what that means: HHS has just updated its list of cancelled grants and programs.
The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages.
Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages.
Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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2. Pressure Senate Dems to do maximum obstruction and bring the Senate to a halt
3. Push Chuck Schumer out of leadership for his great failure last week
4. Get on local TV across the country
5. Use social media to talk about the Trump attacks on cancer cures.
There are more. This is a start.
3. Push Chuck Schumer out of leadership for his great failure last week
4. Get on local TV across the country
5. Use social media to talk about the Trump attacks on cancer cures.
There are more. This is a start.
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
2. Pressure Senate Dems to do maximum obstruction and bring the Senate to a halt
3. Push Chuck Schumer out of leadership for his great failure last week
4. Get on local TV across the country
5. Use social media to talk about the Trump attacks on cancer cures.
There are more. This is a start.
3. Push Chuck Schumer out of leadership for his great failure last week
4. Get on local TV across the country
5. Use social media to talk about the Trump attacks on cancer cures.
There are more. This is a start.
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We are NOT saying we’re giving up. There is still time to stop Trump and Musk. But great damage has already been done and the grants program is highly unstable and could collapse if more people leave.
What can we do? Some ideas:
1. Pressure university presidents to speak out
What can we do? Some ideas:
1. Pressure university presidents to speak out
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
We are NOT saying we’re giving up. There is still time to stop Trump and Musk. But great damage has already been done and the grants program is highly unstable and could collapse if more people leave.
What can we do? Some ideas:
1. Pressure university presidents to speak out
What can we do? Some ideas:
1. Pressure university presidents to speak out
The UCSC Campus had two Stand up for Science Rallies, we care! #StandUpForScience because #ScienceIsForEveryone!!!
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The UCSC Campus had two Stand up for Science Rallies, we care! #StandUpForScience because #ScienceIsForEveryone!!!
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Working on a story for @sfchronicle.com about the administration's impacts to science, including #NIH and #NSF funding. Hoping to chat with early-career scientists, especially grad students and postdocs, about how you've been affected. Thanks!
Signal: jacklee.55
Signal: jacklee.55
March 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Working on a story for @sfchronicle.com about the administration's impacts to science, including #NIH and #NSF funding. Hoping to chat with early-career scientists, especially grad students and postdocs, about how you've been affected. Thanks!
Signal: jacklee.55
Signal: jacklee.55
Excited for Stand up for Science UC Santa Cruz rally! March 7, noon at the Science and Engineering Library. #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Excited for Stand up for Science UC Santa Cruz rally! March 7, noon at the Science and Engineering Library. #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Regarding CSR Study Sections:
SROs are apparently being told that their communication to their valued reviewer colleagues must be:
"The xxxx meeting will be rescheduled for a later date, yet to be determined. Thank you for the time you've invested in the reviews. Signed by CSR SRO"
Please be kind
SROs are apparently being told that their communication to their valued reviewer colleagues must be:
"The xxxx meeting will be rescheduled for a later date, yet to be determined. Thank you for the time you've invested in the reviews. Signed by CSR SRO"
Please be kind
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Regarding CSR Study Sections:
SROs are apparently being told that their communication to their valued reviewer colleagues must be:
"The xxxx meeting will be rescheduled for a later date, yet to be determined. Thank you for the time you've invested in the reviews. Signed by CSR SRO"
Please be kind
SROs are apparently being told that their communication to their valued reviewer colleagues must be:
"The xxxx meeting will be rescheduled for a later date, yet to be determined. Thank you for the time you've invested in the reviews. Signed by CSR SRO"
Please be kind