Sarah Perritt
@sarahperritt.bsky.social
I like to study viruses and get a little whimsical sometimes.
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Universities are supposed to be sanctuaries for truth, dissent, and justice. They aren't outposts of state power.
Columbia sitting on a $15B endowment but chose a few hundred million from Trump’s oligarchy.
When they bow to autocrats, they betray democracy.
#AcademicSky
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Columbia sitting on a $15B endowment but chose a few hundred million from Trump’s oligarchy.
When they bow to autocrats, they betray democracy.
#AcademicSky
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Universities are supposed to be sanctuaries for truth, dissent, and justice. They aren't outposts of state power.
Columbia sitting on a $15B endowment but chose a few hundred million from Trump’s oligarchy.
When they bow to autocrats, they betray democracy.
#AcademicSky
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Columbia sitting on a $15B endowment but chose a few hundred million from Trump’s oligarchy.
When they bow to autocrats, they betray democracy.
#AcademicSky
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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NO, NO, NO!!
By 2029, at this rate, the opposite will happen.
There will be little space for QUALITY #cancer research with real impact.The rise of junk #science is on the horizon. I hope people aren’t that stupid to believe this.
Actions speak louder than advertisements.🧪
youtu.be/UkL1uTxYBtc?...
By 2029, at this rate, the opposite will happen.
There will be little space for QUALITY #cancer research with real impact.The rise of junk #science is on the horizon. I hope people aren’t that stupid to believe this.
Actions speak louder than advertisements.🧪
youtu.be/UkL1uTxYBtc?...
New ad says Trump will cure cancer by 2029
YouTube video by Team Punchbowl News
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
NO, NO, NO!!
By 2029, at this rate, the opposite will happen.
There will be little space for QUALITY #cancer research with real impact.The rise of junk #science is on the horizon. I hope people aren’t that stupid to believe this.
Actions speak louder than advertisements.🧪
youtu.be/UkL1uTxYBtc?...
By 2029, at this rate, the opposite will happen.
There will be little space for QUALITY #cancer research with real impact.The rise of junk #science is on the horizon. I hope people aren’t that stupid to believe this.
Actions speak louder than advertisements.🧪
youtu.be/UkL1uTxYBtc?...
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🚫💸 When aid is cut, children die.
New research shows that aid sanctions lead to sharp rises in infant and maternal deaths – undoing decades of health progress.
Sanctions may punish governments, but they often harm the people most.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #GlobalHealth 🧪
New research shows that aid sanctions lead to sharp rises in infant and maternal deaths – undoing decades of health progress.
Sanctions may punish governments, but they often harm the people most.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #GlobalHealth 🧪
The impact of aid sanctions on maternal and child mortality, 1990–2019: a panel analysis
Over the period 1990–2019, infant, under-5, and maternal mortality rates among LMICs
declined at average annualised rates of 2·6%, 3·2%, and 2·0%, respectively. Aid sanction
episodes lasting 5 years—t...
www.thelancet.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🚫💸 When aid is cut, children die.
New research shows that aid sanctions lead to sharp rises in infant and maternal deaths – undoing decades of health progress.
Sanctions may punish governments, but they often harm the people most.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #GlobalHealth 🧪
New research shows that aid sanctions lead to sharp rises in infant and maternal deaths – undoing decades of health progress.
Sanctions may punish governments, but they often harm the people most.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #GlobalHealth 🧪
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all these people set to roll their clocks forward tonight don’t realize trump is just going to roll them back again monday. smh
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
all these people set to roll their clocks forward tonight don’t realize trump is just going to roll them back again monday. smh
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fall back, spring forward. now slide to the left, now slide to the right
March 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
fall back, spring forward. now slide to the left, now slide to the right
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Luke and Anna explore a late-winter forest and find vibrant turkey tail mushrooms
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Luke and Anna explore a late-winter forest and find vibrant turkey tail mushrooms
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I grow as many sunflowers as I can, great multitaskers, beautiful, edible to many, they build soil nutrients, work well no/minimal digging, great polyculture plants, and cheaply bought in bulk, mine originally came from raw ones.
#Sunflowers #flowers #gardeningFeed #nature 🌱🌿🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💛🌻
#Sunflowers #flowers #gardeningFeed #nature 🌱🌿🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💛🌻
February 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I grow as many sunflowers as I can, great multitaskers, beautiful, edible to many, they build soil nutrients, work well no/minimal digging, great polyculture plants, and cheaply bought in bulk, mine originally came from raw ones.
#Sunflowers #flowers #gardeningFeed #nature 🌱🌿🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💛🌻
#Sunflowers #flowers #gardeningFeed #nature 🌱🌿🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💛🌻
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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
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recipe for disaster
February 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
recipe for disaster
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High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 PM
High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.
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"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'wait a minute, this is wrong', it helps other people to do the same." (Gloria Steinem)(Photo Credit: Mick Haupt/Pexels)
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
January 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'wait a minute, this is wrong', it helps other people to do the same." (Gloria Steinem)(Photo Credit: Mick Haupt/Pexels)
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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