An excellent piece by Joachim Frank, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, about how we must resist the Trump Administration's crackdown on universities.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
What happens in England is unlikely to stay in England
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Throwback 🧪
REVIEW | GLP-1 physiology in obesity and development of incretin-based drugs for chronic weight management
Jens J Holst
A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
. @janefonda.com is so inspirational
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals
Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.
In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Our manuscript showing that the microglia/macrophage CD300f immune receptor is important for in vivo sensing of DAMPs/tissue damage is out doi.org/10.1016/j.bb.... CD300f participates in efferocytosis and apoptotic cell metabolization. We also show that its absence potentiates brain damage after TBI
A sad reality… gaslighting and performative actions are still the norm.
Education is the enemy of fascism.
An independent United Nations commission said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
The commission found indications of intentions to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group — which it said amount to genocide.
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
This is exactly what us, scientists, should do with scientific organizations implicated in the genocide. Here is a list of them: bdsmovement.net/academic-boy...
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
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.
Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
'On the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1960, Mr. McNeil and three classmates from what is now North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro approached the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth’s, sat on the turquoise- and salmon-colored vinyl seats and nervously ordered coffee.'
How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?
RFK JR: “I never said that.”
KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”
RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)
ht: @cwebbonline.com
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... )
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@dereklowe.bsky.social continues to write some of the most important views on what is happening to US science and public health: www.science.org/content/blog...
"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Two hummingbirds face each other while flying , beaks are within millimeters of each other . The one on the right appears to be flying away or the one on the left appears to be hovering over it and reaching out with its feet
Department of Hummingbird War. 🪶
Graph showing wildfire carbon emissions in Spain. This year's fires are in a league of their own.
This summer's raging wildfires in Spain are the red spike in this graph. atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-i...
Review of the possible role of Matzinger's "danger theory" of damage-associated molecular patterns in CNS as drivers of increased incidence of major depressive disorder www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It’s not hidden and never has been.
PhD and Postdocs! Don’t miss this opportunity :)
Apply for the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Course on Neuroimmunology in Bordeaux!
Fantastic line-up and hands-on training in cutting-edge techniques.
Deadline: July 21, 2025!
cajal-training.org/on-site/neur...
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
