BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job. It's the largest strike in the US since 2019. Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

Please donate to the UC strike fund if you can! As a recent alum of UCB, I can attest to the financial hardships many students and staff face living in the Bay Area. Keep up the fight for fair pay y’all!

It's a dramatic competition between bacteria to get the nutrients they need. Hear how Dylan McClung, Ph.D., leveraged his investigation into this competition to discover a new antibiotic. youtu.be/s5CSBp1pqOY #Share_Your_Research Dyna Cockus Rose UC Berkeley MCB UC Berkeley

Tonight, there are unconfirmed reports coming out of Moore County, NC of three substations being shot up with firearms simultaneously to cut power to a drag show. Reportedly, nearly 40,000 people in Moore County are currently without power.

I’ve a fair few on my list already, but who is your favourite kickass microbiologist? Or microbiology adjacent person able to give a great talk?

West Virginia is doubling down on their transgender bans. Today they introduced another bill, SB278. This bill, if passed, would fine trans people no less than $1,000 and up to 6 months in jail for just going out in public. Absolutely terrifying.

My partner Rocco Casagrande @GryphonScientif published a great opinion The New York Times on Monday calling for #biosecurity #policy progress in the United States. Check it out! nytimes.com/2023/02/20/opi…

After posting that pic of Richard Feynman and y'all proceeding to inform me he's a creep, I asked for unproblematic men in science to celebrate who made monumental contributions to the field. Y'all said "it's just Carl Sagan"🥴I'm gonna try this again so we can make a list. WHO??

This is massive. Gov Tim Walz has just made Minnesota a trans refugee state with an EO! He will decline extradition requests. He will refuse subpoenas. No resource can be used to enforce bans. They will be the first state to upgrade to dark blue, safest states in my map.

Texas has released a bounty hunter drag ban. $5,000 bounty for hunters if a person performs while "exhibiting a gender that is different from gender recorded at birth" and "violates the community standards of decency." Anti-abortion techniques now target drag and trans people.

Because I am who I am, I tracked my first year on the tenure track! #newPI #AcademicChatter Specifically, I tracked all productive time in 30-min increments across five categories. More details in this thread --

I'm not okay. The ex took everything they could from me, knowing it would put me in a poor position, while working for myself and recovering from a serious illness. Job hunting for a year now, hanging by a thread, no end in sight. I'm hoping that something works out soon... 🤞🏿

Exclusive: Hannah Waddingham. comments on her LGBTQ+ allyship saying, "It wouldn't cross my mind to not lift the LGBTQ community up." She also discusses her Apple TV Christmas special and Luke Evans.

Read one (1) damn book about the AIDS crisis I am fucking begging you. 1. No one knew what AIDS actually was or how it could be spread for at least a couple years. People were legitimately throwing everything at the wall to see if it stuck

Family Of Henrietta Lacks Wins Settlement For Her Stolen Cells.

Fresh off the virtual press – new work from @Tagalab with @Zhallberg! A little behind the scenes on the findings and makings of this project:

Please come look at this shit. These scientists used AI images in this damn paper. Link to this real paper in the fucking thread. Frontiers is a joke