Craig McCormick
@craigmccormick.bsky.social
Virologist and cinnamon bun baker.
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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The Canadian Poppy Blanket.
This was initiated by Winnipegger Sheilah Lee Restall.
It’s over 60 feet in length and has more than 8,000 handmade poppies and 2,000 ribbons.
It’s on display at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
Lest We Forget.
#winnipeg #lestweforget #remembranceday
This was initiated by Winnipegger Sheilah Lee Restall.
It’s over 60 feet in length and has more than 8,000 handmade poppies and 2,000 ribbons.
It’s on display at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
Lest We Forget.
#winnipeg #lestweforget #remembranceday
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Canadian Poppy Blanket.
This was initiated by Winnipegger Sheilah Lee Restall.
It’s over 60 feet in length and has more than 8,000 handmade poppies and 2,000 ribbons.
It’s on display at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
Lest We Forget.
#winnipeg #lestweforget #remembranceday
This was initiated by Winnipegger Sheilah Lee Restall.
It’s over 60 feet in length and has more than 8,000 handmade poppies and 2,000 ribbons.
It’s on display at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
Lest We Forget.
#winnipeg #lestweforget #remembranceday
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It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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The 11th of #Nudvember bring you something a bit more colorful than in past days, but only just.
#MarineLife
Diaphorodoris papillata
#MarineLife
Diaphorodoris papillata
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The 11th of #Nudvember bring you something a bit more colorful than in past days, but only just.
#MarineLife
Diaphorodoris papillata
#MarineLife
Diaphorodoris papillata
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The impact that an anti-vax, anti-science provincial government can have on the entire country.
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The impact that an anti-vax, anti-science provincial government can have on the entire country.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Amen.
Save the Spring Garden Area Business Association from themselves. Any inconvenience for the business owners (like not being able to park their personal vehicle in front of their business, or having to adjust delivery process) will be greatly offset by increased sales.
Save the Spring Garden Area Business Association from themselves. Any inconvenience for the business owners (like not being able to park their personal vehicle in front of their business, or having to adjust delivery process) will be greatly offset by increased sales.
Spring Garden Road between the Gardens and the library should be converted to bikes & feet only. Argyle: Roof it over like a Japanese shotengai.
Allow drinking outside. It's not 1938 and we don't have scores of drunk violent military boys tearing up the city every weekend.
I can fix Halifax.
Allow drinking outside. It's not 1938 and we don't have scores of drunk violent military boys tearing up the city every weekend.
I can fix Halifax.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Amen.
Save the Spring Garden Area Business Association from themselves. Any inconvenience for the business owners (like not being able to park their personal vehicle in front of their business, or having to adjust delivery process) will be greatly offset by increased sales.
Save the Spring Garden Area Business Association from themselves. Any inconvenience for the business owners (like not being able to park their personal vehicle in front of their business, or having to adjust delivery process) will be greatly offset by increased sales.
Only his advanced age prevented him from being a member of the Trump administration. Otherwise, he would have fit right in.
Imagine having this as your Nobel eclipsing final sentence:
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Only his advanced age prevented him from being a member of the Trump administration. Otherwise, he would have fit right in.
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Imagine having this as your Nobel eclipsing final sentence:
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Imagine having this as your Nobel eclipsing final sentence:
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
"James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views."
Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.
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I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.
DNA Pioneer James Watson Loses Honorary Titles Over Racist Comments
The renowned scientist has a long history of controversial commentary on not only race, but issues spanning gender, religion and sexuality
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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Lots of specific receipts here for anyone who hasn't followed Watson's legacy of doubling down on racism. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Lots of specific receipts here for anyone who hasn't followed Watson's legacy of doubling down on racism. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Won't be forgetting the racism, either.
It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
James D. Watson died on Thursday in East Northport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 97.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Won't be forgetting the racism, either.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Save the date for #GIA2026 (Nov. 5-6, 2026) which will feature free #glycotime talks by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social , Dr. Mia Huang and more!
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Save the date for #GIA2026 (Nov. 5-6, 2026) which will feature free #glycotime talks by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social , Dr. Mia Huang and more!
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When you turn on the "bike" layer on Google Maps.
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When you turn on the "bike" layer on Google Maps.
tagging @andrewjroger.bsky.social
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
tagging @andrewjroger.bsky.social
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The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Houston has an open search for a tenure-track faculty position. If you are ready (or know someone that is) to start looking for positions, this will be a great opportunity to join the Texas Medical Center. See flyer below. 1/2
October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Houston has an open search for a tenure-track faculty position. If you are ready (or know someone that is) to start looking for positions, this will be a great opportunity to join the Texas Medical Center. See flyer below. 1/2