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Several of these are grants that support students and trainees.
I guess you avoid future problems with pesky argumentative scientists trying to cure deadly diseases and save the planet from human action if you stop training new ones altogether
March 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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‘Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care
what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones.
Not me! Julia! Not me!’

--Orwell, 1984
For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.
That’s an old diktat, usually attributed to an old Latin American dictator. But it could easily apply today, as cowardly Republicans beg President Donald Trump to spare them — and only them — from the DOGE chainsaw.
wapo.st/4kfZ8o9
Opinion | Cuts for thee, but not for me: Republicans beg for DOGE exemptions
Have GOP lawmakers forgotten that they control spending?
wapo.st
February 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics!
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
Conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution, from populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements in microbes. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-r...
www.biorxiv.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here's hoping the science community here grows and is less toxic than what was left behind
November 18, 2024 at 10:40 PM