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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 14m

“The GOP demonization of legitimate protests itself ratifies the ‘No Kings’ message.”

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Struan Grant @struangrant.bsky.social · 11d

My lab is seeking to co-hire a postdoctoral fellow with the
@shaonsengupta.bsky.social team. See details below!

I'll be #ASHG2025, so open to discuss further there if interest.

careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...

Post Doctoral Research Fellow – Circadian Biology and Genomics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America | Fellows, Students & Interns at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Apply for Post Doctoral Research Fellow – Circadian Biology and Genomics job with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Fellows, Students & Inter...

careers.chop.edu

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 19m

Somehow caring about ALL the young people in this country - wanting to help them find a career path, spark an interest in science or economics or art etc, build self-confidence - somehow this is anti-American.

And by promoting mutual respect, varied perspectives etc - we’re corrupting youth?

Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 31m

time.com/7325448/trum... Compact being offered to ALL colleges and Universities.

“Higher Education has lost its way, and is now corrupting our Youth and Society with WOKE, SOCIALIST, and ANTI-AMERICAN Ideology,” - Trump, Truth Social

What to Know About Trump’s Funding ‘Compact’ for Colleges

Experts warn Trump’s preferential funding deal, which is now being offered to all U.S. universities and colleges, threatens to politicize academic spaces and erode the independence of American higher ...

time.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Re: the ongoing measles outbreak. If you’re old enough to have experienced the longterm, devastating consequences of infectious diseases prior to widespread vaccination campaigns in the 1950s-60s, please TELL YOUR STORIES. On social media, in letters to the editor, on the radio., etc. #NotForgotten

Sharon Harvey @grannyblue4.bsky.social · 1d

I can attest for the loss of sight. I got measles prior to vaccines. After spending a month isolated in a darken room, I came out with vision so bad I couldn't see more than a foot in front of me. That is a lifelong consequence. People need with wake up and get their kids vaccinated.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 23h

The excerpt from the termination letter that she shares is stunning in its harsh indifference to what this termination may mean for the fellows who receive the letter.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 1d

The corruption is scary, but the biometric profiling (Iris/face scans, DNA tests) the article discusses is scarier.

“The growing surveillance infrastructure could be ‘deployed by an authoritarian executive to coerce and control the US population at scale,’” - Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Tech

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 2d

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... Great article by NIH postdoctoral fellow Ian Morgan. Discusses the plight of both intramural (in labs at the NIH campus) and extramural students / postdocs. The degree of Bhattacharya’s indifference to the pain impacting intramural postdocs is shocking.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 4d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies, and for this reason, we are called to defend and guarantee it”

“transparency of sources of ownership, accountability, quality and objectivity”

- The Pope

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 7d

Completely agree and love the weaver analogy. Astronomy, public health, environmental sciences, materials sciences, social sciences, computational sciences, biomedical research, ecology etc - we have to stay unified in defending science and communicating what it offers humanity.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 8d

“Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are, more importantly, a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in American elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm.” Not good.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Bessie Stringfield, was born Bessie Beatrice White on February 9, 1911 (some records list March 5), in Edenton, North Carolina, to Maggie Cherry and James White. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-strin...

She Was The First Black Woman To Bike Across America — And She Did It At The Height Of Jim Crow

“Colored people couldn’t stop at hotels or motels back then. But it never bothered me.”

allthatsinteresting.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 8d

Hey folks in CA - I heard NPR interview of Steve Hilton like 6mo ago and started following on X out of curiosity. WOW - very scary. Sounded reasonable on NPR but super inflammatory and mis-information spreading on X. Polls show he is pretty close behind Porter. How worried should we be about this?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 11d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 10d

bsky.app/profile/cele... Preview of what would likely happen to Universities that accept the government compact

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 11d

DeSantis gave it a right-wing overhaul in 2023. Since then, ~40% of the faculty has resigned. It spends more than 10x per student what the other schools do & ranking fell from 76th to 135th.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 11d

www.reuters.com/world/white-...

“$2.1 billion for major Chicago subway project’ "have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting’”

DOE “said it would cancel nearly $8 billion for …energy projects in 16 Democratic-led states, including California and New York.”

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 11d

Compact requires

“universities to have policies prohibiting ‘all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,’ to abstain from ‘actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

Nope. Not even close...

See "Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities" for more information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

My quote of the day

Jane Goodall

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 12d

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... Although somewhat encouragingly

“The Post’s poll finds significantly more Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown than Democrats, though many say they are not sure.”

We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.

www.washingtonpost.com