Scott Dos Santos
@scottdossantos.bsky.social
He/Him | Scientist working on microbiomes @ Western University, ON, Canada 🧬🇨🇦 | Full-time nerd 🎮 | Here because Musk ruined Twitter (obvs)
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He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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All universities need to fight together or someday this could happen to them.
BREAKING: Columbia University no longer meets accreditation standards after violating antidiscrimination laws, the US says
White House Threatens Columbia’s Accreditation Over Protests
The Education Department said Columbia University no longer appeared to meet accreditation standards after concluding that the school is in violation of anti-discrimination laws, the latest effort by the Trump administration to target elite schools over their handling of pro-Palestinian protests.
bloom.bg
June 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
All universities need to fight together or someday this could happen to them.
This is just beyond daft... "Of no benefit" my arse!!
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
May 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is just beyond daft... "Of no benefit" my arse!!
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"You're asking me to get from point A to point B, why wouldn't I use a car to get there?"
To continue the metaphor: because you're paying thousands of dollars a semester for an immersive hiking experience.
To continue the metaphor: because you're paying thousands of dollars a semester for an immersive hiking experience.
May 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"You're asking me to get from point A to point B, why wouldn't I use a car to get there?"
To continue the metaphor: because you're paying thousands of dollars a semester for an immersive hiking experience.
To continue the metaphor: because you're paying thousands of dollars a semester for an immersive hiking experience.
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Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors."
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
Yesterday it was a middle aged woman in my gym doing the same thing. Talking a young man’s ear off about how much chatGPT helps her do her work. Charts and writing — “i’m not good at that and now i don’t need someone in the org flow to do it”.
On the C train in Manhattan, two women — middle age, business look, clearly lawyers from the conversation — going on and on about ChatGPT. Helping them do research, write briefs, even plant a garden at home! So quick and easy!
Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
May 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors."
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
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🚨Breaking: Filed declaration in my lawsuit against #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone
Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration
⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️
🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social
@cspinet.org #AntiFascist
I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone
Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration
⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️
🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social
@cspinet.org #AntiFascist
April 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨Breaking: Filed declaration in my lawsuit against #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone
Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration
⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️
🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social
@cspinet.org #AntiFascist
I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone
Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration
⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️
🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social
@cspinet.org #AntiFascist
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"The 2024 election wasn’t a restaurant where you could order cheaper eggs but politely ask for the server to hold the fascism. You’re still getting the fascism, and your eggs aren’t just overpriced now, they’re broken and rotten." -- @playtyperguy.com
Yes, they voted for this
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in."
www.publicnotice.co
April 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The 2024 election wasn’t a restaurant where you could order cheaper eggs but politely ask for the server to hold the fascism. You’re still getting the fascism, and your eggs aren’t just overpriced now, they’re broken and rotten." -- @playtyperguy.com
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Trump was meant to be in prison.
March 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Trump was meant to be in prison.
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Wild that Cyber Trucks are trash, SpaceX rockets are exploding all over, and X is a broken shit heap. Wonder if there’s anything in common.
March 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wild that Cyber Trucks are trash, SpaceX rockets are exploding all over, and X is a broken shit heap. Wonder if there’s anything in common.
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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"Thanks God the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is not sabotaging outbreak response" the stupidest timeline.
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Thanks God the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is not sabotaging outbreak response" the stupidest timeline.
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My funding rate would increase if I reviewed my own proposals.
Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.
apnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My funding rate would increase if I reviewed my own proposals.
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I didn’t change my name when I got married for some very practical reasons but I never thought “so I can keep voting” would be among them
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
February 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I didn’t change my name when I got married for some very practical reasons but I never thought “so I can keep voting” would be among them
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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
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"I do not share your view that the Scientist should observe silence in political matters, i.e. human affairs in the broadest sense. The situation shows whither this restraint will lead: to the surrender of leadership, without any resistance, to those who are blind or irresponsible.”
-Einstein, 1933
-Einstein, 1933
February 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"I do not share your view that the Scientist should observe silence in political matters, i.e. human affairs in the broadest sense. The situation shows whither this restraint will lead: to the surrender of leadership, without any resistance, to those who are blind or irresponsible.”
-Einstein, 1933
-Einstein, 1933
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
Daft from ASM!! The exact opposite of what is needed at the moment 👎🏽
@vscooper.micropopbio.org and @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social while downloading scientist spotlights for teaching from the site; ASM has also scrubbed the entire IDEAA page including resources on LGBTQ+ scientists at asm.org/IDEAA/resources/pride-month
February 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Daft from ASM!! The exact opposite of what is needed at the moment 👎🏽
Part two of this deeper dive into our recent vaginal metatranscriptome work below! 🧬🧫
TLDR; 1) BV and health-associated species use different strategies to evade local host immune responses and 2) functionally distinct subgroups of BV microbiome exist, delineated by motility & biofilm formation.
TLDR; 1) BV and health-associated species use different strategies to evade local host immune responses and 2) functionally distinct subgroups of BV microbiome exist, delineated by motility & biofilm formation.
Now part 2: the functional analysis for our vaginal meta-transcriptome paper https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-024-01992-w. This is complicated because of the difference in species composition, abundance and gene content in each sample. More in the methods tomorrow.
January 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Part two of this deeper dive into our recent vaginal metatranscriptome work below! 🧬🧫
TLDR; 1) BV and health-associated species use different strategies to evade local host immune responses and 2) functionally distinct subgroups of BV microbiome exist, delineated by motility & biofilm formation.
TLDR; 1) BV and health-associated species use different strategies to evade local host immune responses and 2) functionally distinct subgroups of BV microbiome exist, delineated by motility & biofilm formation.
Some really cool work we did in the Gloor Lab on the vaginal metatranscriptome, published just before the holidays in Microbiome:
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Part one of a deeper dive into the findings below!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Part one of a deeper dive into the findings below!
January 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Some really cool work we did in the Gloor Lab on the vaginal metatranscriptome, published just before the holidays in Microbiome:
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Part one of a deeper dive into the findings below!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Part one of a deeper dive into the findings below!