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John Chodera

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John Chodera @jchodera.bsky.social · 20d

Incredibly proud to have played a small role in this journey alongside so many incredible scientists like Annette von Delft and Peter Sjö!

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 20d

Great news! 🎉

Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.

🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 1d

Ugh. laist.com/news/climate...

JPL announces that hundreds of employees will be laid off Tuesday

Jet Propulsion Laboratory leadership announces that 11% of the workforce is being cut.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

"Judith Shaw Beatty was born in West Orange and her family lived in the New York City metro area. In the 1940s, as a polio epidemic ravaged the nation, Beatty got sick.”"
Touching interview with a polio survivor.

www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/poli...

Polio survivor speaks out on vaccination debate | NJ Spotlight News

In 1949, polio killed almost 2,500 children nationwide

www.njspotlightnews.org

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 1d

Jump of H1N2 from pigs to turkey in France, potentially transmitted bw turkey farms. Slight differences across mammalian-origin cell lines.
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 1d

Every day there's some new absurd overreach.

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

www.businesstoday.in

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

CDC working group plans to review US child vaccines as thousands of health staff are fired in government shutdown www.bmj.com/content/391/...

CDC working group plans to review US child vaccines as thousands of health staff are fired in government shutdown

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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LeeDay22 @leeday22.bsky.social · 1d

"Indigenous Peoples Day is about so much more than the name. It is about living our truth together and being better for it." By Maulian Bryant, executive director of the Wabanaki Alliance and a citizen of the Penobscot Nation in Maine. @bangordailynews.bsky.social

Opinion: Indigenous Peoples Day is about honor, healing and survival

"By having a holiday named after Columbus we not only erase the truth of history we glorify these atrocities as things to be revered and celebrated."

www.bangordailynews.com

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

#ScienceSky, tell your colleagues to leave X, delete those x buttons on your lab page and replace with a butterfly. I declare #Bluesky the official social network for science and by scientists (you and your network of colleagues operate as your own algorithm determining what you see here). 🩺 🧪

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

www.theatlantic.com

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t dare record fascist goons! They’re kidnapping us citizens for doing so now in Chicago.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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STAT @statnews.com · 3d

Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication, a cornerstone of public health

CDC staff behind the agency’s flagship publication have been fired amid drastic cuts to the HHS promised by the White House due to the government shutdown, according to five people familiar with the s...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 3d

One week from now I plan to be out marching against the idiotic criminals running our government. I'm not "getting paid" and I'm not part of any "Pro-Hamas" group. I'm just mad as hell.

I will not be punching any police officers, nor setting fires, nor breaking any glass. Why will I turn out? (1/2)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

#GetOutTheVought‼️ Trump and Vought are decimating the federal workforce. This isn't just a shutdown stunt, this is in line with Project 2025's goal of cutting our government by 1 million workers.

STAND WITH SCIENCE!
✊Rally to TAKE BACK SCIENCE 10/17 @ 3pm ET
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 3d

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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