Carlos Patiño Descovich
@cdesco.bsky.social
Tissue bender in training @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
Unapologetic 🌽 lover
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
Unapologetic 🌽 lover
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
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NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.
Outbreak Investigation of Infant Botulism: Infant Formula
Do not use certain lots of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. FDA’s Investigation is ongoing.
www.fda.gov
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
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Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
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Today in accidental data art: selecting the wrong chart type.
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today in accidental data art: selecting the wrong chart type.
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
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A key role for Canoe's intrinsically disordered region in linking cell junctions to the #cytoskeleton. New study from Corbin Jensen, Mark Peifer (@peiferlabunc.bsky.social) and colleagues @unclineberger.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Development #Adhesion #Drosophila
#Development #Adhesion #Drosophila
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A key role for Canoe's intrinsically disordered region in linking cell junctions to the #cytoskeleton. New study from Corbin Jensen, Mark Peifer (@peiferlabunc.bsky.social) and colleagues @unclineberger.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Development #Adhesion #Drosophila
#Development #Adhesion #Drosophila
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On 20 March 2025, Trump’s NIH terminated a grant exploring structural racism as a second hit on APOL1 in kidney disease.
The majority of the patients on the study’s stakeholder advisory board heard this as: ‘Your life does not matter to us’.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The majority of the patients on the study’s stakeholder advisory board heard this as: ‘Your life does not matter to us’.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Harms of terminating NIH grants for kidney disease - Nature Reviews Nephrology
In early 2025, nearly 2,100 research projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) were terminated. Numerous calls for depoliticization of the NIH’s scientific mission culminated in th...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
On 20 March 2025, Trump’s NIH terminated a grant exploring structural racism as a second hit on APOL1 in kidney disease.
The majority of the patients on the study’s stakeholder advisory board heard this as: ‘Your life does not matter to us’.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The majority of the patients on the study’s stakeholder advisory board heard this as: ‘Your life does not matter to us’.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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As the Chinese up their investment in biomedical science, Trump is slashing that in the US. Who will lead in new cures for cancer?
Chinese biotech Hansoh Pharma said on Friday it had signed a licence agreement worth up to $1.45 billion with Roche for an investigational treatment of colorectal cancer and other solid tumours.
China's Hansoh signs up to $1.45 billion deal for colorectal cancer drug with Roche
Chinese biotech Hansoh Pharma said on Friday it had signed a licence agreement worth up to $1.45 billion with Roche for an investigational treatment of colorectal cancer and other solid tumours.
reut.rs
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
As the Chinese up their investment in biomedical science, Trump is slashing that in the US. Who will lead in new cures for cancer?
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They’ve reinvented note paper.
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
They’ve reinvented note paper.
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NY (Long Island) just confirmed local chikungunya transmission. One case is one case - not a growing outbreak - ongoing vector control and colder temps should keep it that way. Still: the illness is painful: terrible joint pain and when it spreads it spreads fast 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...
New York Confirms State’s First Locally Acquired Case of Chikungunya
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
NY (Long Island) just confirmed local chikungunya transmission. One case is one case - not a growing outbreak - ongoing vector control and colder temps should keep it that way. Still: the illness is painful: terrible joint pain and when it spreads it spreads fast 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...
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The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology
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I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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RIP David Baltimore. He is famous for breakthrough work that challenged dogma that information flows from DNA to RNA. In viruses, it is the opposite. This took virology in a new direction.
This was NIH funded research.
We stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...
This was NIH funded research.
We stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...
Salk Institute mourns the loss of Nobel laureate David Baltimore - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute mourns the loss of molecular biologist and Nobel laureate David Baltimore, a former research associate and longtime nonresident fellow at the Institute. Baltimore died on S...
www.salk.edu
September 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
RIP David Baltimore. He is famous for breakthrough work that challenged dogma that information flows from DNA to RNA. In viruses, it is the opposite. This took virology in a new direction.
This was NIH funded research.
We stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...
This was NIH funded research.
We stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...
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This seems to be an instructive case: when legacy media appropriate the aesthetics of #MemeFascism (even if with critical intent), they make themselves into a vehicle for MAGA propaganda. The memefied brains behind the DHS account correctly recognized this as a perfect recruitment poster
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It’s the cover of the current issue of The Spectator magazine, they just edited it.
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This seems to be an instructive case: when legacy media appropriate the aesthetics of #MemeFascism (even if with critical intent), they make themselves into a vehicle for MAGA propaganda. The memefied brains behind the DHS account correctly recognized this as a perfect recruitment poster
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Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC.
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director
The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials at the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC.
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
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What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life
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Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.