Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor
Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell
SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
The director of the FBI: "I don't read."
His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
GLP-1 agonists (eg Ozempic) are showing promise to reduce alcohol drinking and perhaps opioid use. This is, of course, a potential therapeutic success which arises from the random walking of science, not an “efficient” directed research program.
Please, please read this. And pass it on. We cannot become dull to these injustices. You have to allow yourself to flinch at the inhumanity.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/i-dont-care
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
Do your samples move out of view? Tired of manually adjusting the stage? Introducing DySTrack developed by @zimengwu33.bsky.social and Jonas Hartmann from UCL, a tool that can be integrated into modern microscopes to automate the tracking of moving samples. #MicroscopyMondaydoi.org/10.64898/202...
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education.
It’s kids with disabilities who will suffer.
The cruelty is the point.
MolBio alumni Ali Nouri telling us about his first talk in this room, as he gives the alumni talk for the Many Minds, Many Stripes alumni event. @princeton.edu@princetonmolbio.bsky.social
This is a piece worth reading (and @radiofreetom.bsky.social often gifts them so give it a read). If you don't subscribe to the Daily newsletter from the Atlantic, I highly recommend it.
The piece was great, and I'm terrified.
So sad to hear of the passing of a legend. My interactions with him at meetings were always pleasant and engaging. My condolences to his family and friends. #Devbio
Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.
UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
