Tyler Gibson
@tgibs.bsky.social
Molecular biologist with expertise in gene therapy and genome/epigenome editing. HoH. Research in the inner ear, hearing, and balance. That's my dog in the profile.
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Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president.
You deserve that promotion!
You deserve that promotion!
Larry Summers is not only pals with Epstein but also can't write a coherent email
YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
m.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president.
You deserve that promotion!
You deserve that promotion!
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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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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So CO₂ is not plant food after all? Sad.
Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
So CO₂ is not plant food after all? Sad.
I always hate to see research on the systems of the inner ear (and how they work with the brain) get needlessly axed for reasons unrelated to their merits. I'm glad to see these stories continue to get told.
This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.
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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation
The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.
undark.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I always hate to see research on the systems of the inner ear (and how they work with the brain) get needlessly axed for reasons unrelated to their merits. I'm glad to see these stories continue to get told.
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One of the great advantages of biology is that you can write HELLO WORLD in amino acids since PROTEINS ARE AMAZING
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
One of the great advantages of biology is that you can write HELLO WORLD in amino acids since PROTEINS ARE AMAZING
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My god how have rental prices in Boston gone up 50% in the two years I was gone
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My god how have rental prices in Boston gone up 50% in the two years I was gone
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Historians of science agree that the postdoc was invented just after the Western blot, as even the inventor wouldn't want to run one
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Historians of science agree that the postdoc was invented just after the Western blot, as even the inventor wouldn't want to run one
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We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here’s what they said
“The ship is going down and we are powerless”: What scientists are saying about cuts to federal research funding.
www.statnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
I've been living (semi-willingly) in NYC for a couple years.
I take the subway regularly.
There's NYPD on the platform at like every other station, and the Empire Shield Guardsmen standing around (looking bored) at the big ones like Times Square.
We don't need more feds. We're fine. We're safe.
I take the subway regularly.
There's NYPD on the platform at like every other station, and the Empire Shield Guardsmen standing around (looking bored) at the big ones like Times Square.
We don't need more feds. We're fine. We're safe.
August 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I've been living (semi-willingly) in NYC for a couple years.
I take the subway regularly.
There's NYPD on the platform at like every other station, and the Empire Shield Guardsmen standing around (looking bored) at the big ones like Times Square.
We don't need more feds. We're fine. We're safe.
I take the subway regularly.
There's NYPD on the platform at like every other station, and the Empire Shield Guardsmen standing around (looking bored) at the big ones like Times Square.
We don't need more feds. We're fine. We're safe.
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Jay Bhattacharya seemed genuinely surprised to learn that diversity applicants compete in the same payline with applicants to standard opportunities. So terminating these grants (when they outperformed their peers) is blatant discrimination.
Yet, we would not commit to correcting this
Yet, we would not commit to correcting this
July 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Jay Bhattacharya seemed genuinely surprised to learn that diversity applicants compete in the same payline with applicants to standard opportunities. So terminating these grants (when they outperformed their peers) is blatant discrimination.
Yet, we would not commit to correcting this
Yet, we would not commit to correcting this
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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This is why it's exhausting to be told political attacks on science are a failure of sci comm or any aspect of scientists' behavior. It has nothing to do with science or scientists. It's an entirely top-down right wing elite program, but sci policy is intangible and doesn't motivate voter behavior.
It would be wrong to assume that the crisis of trust is limited to politicians. Most segments distrust journalists and big business and we are split on judges, with more socially conservative segments less trusting. Scientists are an exception & remain trusted across the board.
July 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is why it's exhausting to be told political attacks on science are a failure of sci comm or any aspect of scientists' behavior. It has nothing to do with science or scientists. It's an entirely top-down right wing elite program, but sci policy is intangible and doesn't motivate voter behavior.
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Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.
The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.
The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.
People are talking about the imminent brain drain of US researchers to other countries but that’s not the only way it’s going to look. There is going to be a brain drain out of science and into other US sectors. There are a lot of non-science things you can do with a Ph.D.
July 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.
The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.
The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.
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Sure looking at the math is interesting. But a more helpful way to frame the whole math sit is “precisely the entire point of Trump’s plan to shake down American universities so they only do what he wants them to do.”
This is a democracy in chains story.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
This is a democracy in chains story.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
July 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sure looking at the math is interesting. But a more helpful way to frame the whole math sit is “precisely the entire point of Trump’s plan to shake down American universities so they only do what he wants them to do.”
This is a democracy in chains story.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
This is a democracy in chains story.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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I'm sorry. I stopped typing and just listened. I'll post summaries as they're published.
But the end was that Judge Young went on to defend judicial independence and to underscore the perilous moment in American history where racial discrimination is tolerated.
He ends with "Have we no shame?"
But the end was that Judge Young went on to defend judicial independence and to underscore the perilous moment in American history where racial discrimination is tolerated.
He ends with "Have we no shame?"
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm sorry. I stopped typing and just listened. I'll post summaries as they're published.
But the end was that Judge Young went on to defend judicial independence and to underscore the perilous moment in American history where racial discrimination is tolerated.
He ends with "Have we no shame?"
But the end was that Judge Young went on to defend judicial independence and to underscore the perilous moment in American history where racial discrimination is tolerated.
He ends with "Have we no shame?"
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In 1722, Reverend Edmund Massey preached against vaccination, saying "Life itself may not always be a blessing".
In 2025, Senator Joni Ernst justified cuts to Medicaid, saying "We all are going to die".
The opposite of public health has always been public death.
In 2025, Senator Joni Ernst justified cuts to Medicaid, saying "We all are going to die".
The opposite of public health has always been public death.
June 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In 1722, Reverend Edmund Massey preached against vaccination, saying "Life itself may not always be a blessing".
In 2025, Senator Joni Ernst justified cuts to Medicaid, saying "We all are going to die".
The opposite of public health has always been public death.
In 2025, Senator Joni Ernst justified cuts to Medicaid, saying "We all are going to die".
The opposite of public health has always been public death.
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Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order.
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
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@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order.
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
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Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...
Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?
Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...
Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?
Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...
Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.
"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-115: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibility for Mentored Career Development Award When an Award Ended Ear...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibi...
grants.nih.gov
May 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...
Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?
Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...
Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?
Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...
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What’s at stake when scientific research funds are cut? Our own @ericarodriguez.bsky.social talks about the grant canceled for her work on social behaviors (with autism and schizophrenia ties) and the impact on her career.
@gothamist.com
tinyurl.com/yc34c64b
@gothamist.com
tinyurl.com/yc34c64b
May 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
What’s at stake when scientific research funds are cut? Our own @ericarodriguez.bsky.social talks about the grant canceled for her work on social behaviors (with autism and schizophrenia ties) and the impact on her career.
@gothamist.com
tinyurl.com/yc34c64b
@gothamist.com
tinyurl.com/yc34c64b
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"MYTH: There weren’t autistic people in the past.
FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?"
screaming
FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?"
screaming
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"MYTH: There weren’t autistic people in the past.
FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?"
screaming
FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?"
screaming
The MOSAIC K99 requires doing top-notch science while supporting diverse scientists. Trump et al. are terminating the program, effectively punishing the scientists who do the extra work to build support and community among scientists alongside their cutting-edge research. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The MOSAIC K99 requires doing top-notch science while supporting diverse scientists. Trump et al. are terminating the program, effectively punishing the scientists who do the extra work to build support and community among scientists alongside their cutting-edge research. www.npr.org/sections/sho...