@vdecrecy.bsky.social
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”
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Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation
and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively
studied in eukaryotes, a...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
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A must read.
It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany.
🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc...
via @markhisted.org
It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany.
🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc...
via @markhisted.org
Basic Science Is The Foundation Of Future Cures
Injecting partisan politics into American basic science would be terrible for the US: for the economy, and for development of future treatments for diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
www.infotimes.us
September 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A must read.
It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany.
🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc...
via @markhisted.org
It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany.
🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc...
via @markhisted.org
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These are visas for skilled workers — doctors, scientists, and engineers.
This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee For H-1B Visas In Latest Crackdown
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb ov...
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
These are visas for skilled workers — doctors, scientists, and engineers.
This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Yesterday RFK Jr said that he could name no "successes" for US health agencies. He should read this article.
• improved survival or cure for many cancers
• elimination of smallpox, polio, Hib
• reduced child mortality
• effective treatments for HIV, hepatitis C
• increased life expectancy
• improved survival or cure for many cancers
• elimination of smallpox, polio, Hib
• reduced child mortality
• effective treatments for HIV, hepatitis C
• increased life expectancy
American Health Care Gets a Lot Wrong. Here’s What It Gets Right. By Aaron E Carroll | New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
Opinion | American Health Care Gets a Lot Wrong. Here’s What It Gets Right.
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yesterday RFK Jr said that he could name no "successes" for US health agencies. He should read this article.
• improved survival or cure for many cancers
• elimination of smallpox, polio, Hib
• reduced child mortality
• effective treatments for HIV, hepatitis C
• increased life expectancy
• improved survival or cure for many cancers
• elimination of smallpox, polio, Hib
• reduced child mortality
• effective treatments for HIV, hepatitis C
• increased life expectancy
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Again let's repeat: "it would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country"
Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30
Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30
Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Some numbers:
-Most Americans are women.
-Via the Census, about 60 million Americans are in a household that includes a daughter.
-Every American, or human being, should be appalled and disgusted by this.
It would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country.
-Most Americans are women.
-Via the Census, about 60 million Americans are in a household that includes a daughter.
-Every American, or human being, should be appalled and disgusted by this.
It would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country.
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Again let's repeat: "it would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country"
Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30
Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30
Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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"We’re all in favor of a gold standard for science. But it’s misleading, & even a little insulting, to say that somehow NIH didn’t already support that. Everything that NIH stands for is rigor in sci...There’s some implication here that NIH has been systematically sloppy. I reject that conclusion."🛟
Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless”
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.
www.aamc.org
August 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"We’re all in favor of a gold standard for science. But it’s misleading, & even a little insulting, to say that somehow NIH didn’t already support that. Everything that NIH stands for is rigor in sci...There’s some implication here that NIH has been systematically sloppy. I reject that conclusion."🛟
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What they are doing to NIH defies all logic and reason. This admin is needlessly, irreversibly destroying one of the greatest resources our country has ever built. A few quotes from yours' truly are in the video below. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for covering
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What they are doing to NIH defies all logic and reason. This admin is needlessly, irreversibly destroying one of the greatest resources our country has ever built. A few quotes from yours' truly are in the video below. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for covering
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Saying goodbye to Elio Schaechter, a titan of the #Microbiology field. Farewell Elio!
August 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Saying goodbye to Elio Schaechter, a titan of the #Microbiology field. Farewell Elio!
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“This and other executive orders eliminating federal funding and forcing faculty to end legally permissible work will deprive students of opportunities for educational advancement and economic flourishing.”
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇
AAUP, AFT Leaders Respond to Trump’s Higher Education Admissions Directive
WASHINGTON—American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and issued the following statements in respo...
www.aaup.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“This and other executive orders eliminating federal funding and forcing faculty to end legally permissible work will deprive students of opportunities for educational advancement and economic flourishing.”
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇
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On Aug. 1, ASM & partner societies filed an expanded amicus brief with SCOTUS to defend scientific integrity & protect early-career researchers. The brief highlights the harm caused by NIH grant terminations, including canceling the MOSAIC program. asm.org/press-releas...
Scientific Societies File Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of NIH Grantees
ASM and fellow societies filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, calling for the swift restoration of NIH grant funding supporting early-career scientists, such as the MOSAIC program.
asm.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On Aug. 1, ASM & partner societies filed an expanded amicus brief with SCOTUS to defend scientific integrity & protect early-career researchers. The brief highlights the harm caused by NIH grant terminations, including canceling the MOSAIC program. asm.org/press-releas...
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Requiring grant review by political appointees will continue to delay and disrupt critical research and interferes with scientists’ ability to help protect the nation’s health and security. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Responds to Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
ASM calls on the Trump Administration to put science ahead of politics and immediately end its plan to force scientific grants to be reviewed by political appointees.
asm.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Requiring grant review by political appointees will continue to delay and disrupt critical research and interferes with scientists’ ability to help protect the nation’s health and security. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
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The discovery of the missing Queuosine transporter is finally out. 15 years in the making with a combination of data mining and experimental validation performed by an international consortium funded by NIH and Irish agencies.
news.ufl.edu/2025/06/micr...
news.ufl.edu/2025/06/micr...
UF, Trinity College team cracks micronutrient mystery that could be key to brain health, cancer defense
Unlocking how our bodies absorb a micronutrient that we rely on for everything from healthy brain function to cancer defense.
news.ufl.edu
June 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The discovery of the missing Queuosine transporter is finally out. 15 years in the making with a combination of data mining and experimental validation performed by an international consortium funded by NIH and Irish agencies.
news.ufl.edu/2025/06/micr...
news.ufl.edu/2025/06/micr...
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For more details on the Trump/Republican ideological War on Cancer Research, @pkrugman.bsky.social has a great summary today.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...
Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition
But it’s here, and will destroy American science
paulkrugman.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
For more details on the Trump/Republican ideological War on Cancer Research, @pkrugman.bsky.social has a great summary today.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...
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"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
Rachel Thomas, PhD - Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
rachel.fast.ai
June 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
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South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
June 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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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 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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.