Walther Mothes
@wmothes.bsky.social
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Republicans just blocked an amendment to require the release of the Epstein files.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
July 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Republicans just blocked an amendment to require the release of the Epstein files.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
first time at Wayne State University in Detroit, great meeting, learning a lot about SNAREs, and takes place at an amazing place, building by Minoru Yamasaki
July 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
first time at Wayne State University in Detroit, great meeting, learning a lot about SNAREs, and takes place at an amazing place, building by Minoru Yamasaki
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There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.
But no City agency has posted it on this platform.
Please help spread the word.
“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
But no City agency has posted it on this platform.
Please help spread the word.
“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
July 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.
But no City agency has posted it on this platform.
Please help spread the word.
“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
But no City agency has posted it on this platform.
Please help spread the word.
“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
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The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
July 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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To many, it is the next best thing to an HIV vaccine. The FDA approved a new way to prevent HIV infection: the antiretroviral drug lenacapavir, which provides almost complete protection for 6 months with a single injection in the abdomen.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Always ‘one atom away’: The long, rocky journey to an HIV prevention breakthrough
Developing lenacapavir, the drug newly approved to protect against HIV for six months in one shot, took basic science, sophisticated chemistry, and perseverance
www.science.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
To many, it is the next best thing to an HIV vaccine. The FDA approved a new way to prevent HIV infection: the antiretroviral drug lenacapavir, which provides almost complete protection for 6 months with a single injection in the abdomen.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Congratulations Michael Grunst for receiving the John Addison Porter Prize, considered to be one of Yale University’s most prestigious awards. I am proud of what you accomplished! Wish you all the best for your next steps! gsas.yale.edu/qa-michael-g...
Q&A with Michael Grunst PhD ’25
Grunst received the university's John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation on viral Spike proteins.
gsas.yale.edu
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Congratulations Michael Grunst for receiving the John Addison Porter Prize, considered to be one of Yale University’s most prestigious awards. I am proud of what you accomplished! Wish you all the best for your next steps! gsas.yale.edu/qa-michael-g...
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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES L.A. RESIDENTS TO BE IN “REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”
This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.
This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.
Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
June 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES L.A. RESIDENTS TO BE IN “REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”
This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.
This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.
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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
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When RFK Jr says that “only really sick kids should die from measles” if unvaccinated, this is eugenics. Not only is that completely untrue since we had eradicated the virus thanks to the vaccine, but he’s saying that sick and high risk kids are expendable. This is eugenics, plain and simple.
May 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When RFK Jr says that “only really sick kids should die from measles” if unvaccinated, this is eugenics. Not only is that completely untrue since we had eradicated the virus thanks to the vaccine, but he’s saying that sick and high risk kids are expendable. This is eugenics, plain and simple.
Beta-propiolactone (BPL) inactivated virus is no "gold-standard" vaccine. BPL inactivated SARS-CoV-2 causes aggregation and its Spike protein is largely in the post fusion. This will not give you a good vaccine. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
HHS, NIH launch next-generation universal vaccine platform for pandemic-prone viruses
These vaccines aim to provide broad-spectrum protection against multiple strains of multiple viruses.
www.nih.gov
May 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Beta-propiolactone (BPL) inactivated virus is no "gold-standard" vaccine. BPL inactivated SARS-CoV-2 causes aggregation and its Spike protein is largely in the post fusion. This will not give you a good vaccine. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
"... we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses. We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... 1/2
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"... we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses. We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... 1/2
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In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
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900 of us signed this letter to the leadership at Yale. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...
Yale faculty urge administrators to defend academic freedom
Around 900 faculty signed a letter to President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel calling for “courageous leadership” in the face of attacks on higher education.
yaledailynews.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
900 of us signed this letter to the leadership at Yale. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...
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Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released.
What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen.
Giving in to bullies just makes them take more.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen.
Giving in to bullies just makes them take more.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates
With billions in grants put on hold, targeted universities will see research crippled.
arstechnica.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released.
What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen.
Giving in to bullies just makes them take more.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen.
Giving in to bullies just makes them take more.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Thanks to Paul Bieansz for speaking up! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thanks to Paul Bieansz for speaking up! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Given the low average vaccination rates in a number of states, and the existence of numerous pockets of very low rates, it's pretty much a given that this outbreak get quite a bit bigger.
April 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Given the low average vaccination rates in a number of states, and the existence of numerous pockets of very low rates, it's pretty much a given that this outbreak get quite a bit bigger.
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Our work on HIV-1 matrix, led by James Stacey and @dhrebik.bsky.social, is in this week's @nature.com. Extended explanatory video from @margotriggi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Our work on HIV-1 matrix, led by James Stacey and @dhrebik.bsky.social, is in this week's @nature.com. Extended explanatory video from @margotriggi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab
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They're the same picture.
March 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
They're the same picture.
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I've seen this before.
March 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I've seen this before.
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This summary from the team @burnetinstitute.bsky.social based on a publication in @thelancet.bsky.social HIV that came out today. A very bleak picture. 1/
Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths theconversation.com/foreign-aid-...
Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths theconversation.com/foreign-aid-...
Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths
A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.
theconversation.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This summary from the team @burnetinstitute.bsky.social based on a publication in @thelancet.bsky.social HIV that came out today. A very bleak picture. 1/
Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths theconversation.com/foreign-aid-...
Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths theconversation.com/foreign-aid-...
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:
March 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time: