The Washington Post is the paper which broke Watergate. It won a Pulitzer for coverage of January 6th. For the Washington Post to refuse to endorse a candidate because it fears retribution from Trump is an enormous flashing red sign that the country is on the brink of fascism.

A thoughtful thread about how many men view the women in their lives and the context of this election…

I had a wonderful day in Madison talking virology (and the ‘fun’ of living in a swing state in election year) Many thanks for having me!

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In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

I’m an atheist, but, uh, yeah….

I wrote this. thedailybeast.com/heres-what-i-l…

Love this idea washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Quite a story

Our paper about RanBP2 and Mx2 and how they affect HIV-1 infection is finally out! We started this project shortly before the lab shut down for the pandemic in 2020, and it feels great to have a finished story to share. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

The law is not ambiguous nor is it optional.

What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.

This is a huge deal. “Indirect costs”, as they’re called, from NIH still pay for direct science — eg, funding science labs, lab upkeep — but also university administration. Cutting this line item by billions of dollars is going to threaten university jobs but also potentially

Eggs and coffee around 20 percent more expensive. Airplanes crashing. Mass layoffs. Tariffs. Data breaches. Shutting down energy projects. Letting food and medicine rot. Either they are really shitty at helping you, or you are not the one they want to help.

One wonders what Jr’s antibody titers are these days… washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

This is exactly how I feel. Being a scientist is the defining thing about who I am as a person.

Fuck yesssss

The main thing to remember about this Musk-Trump fight is that the Republican bill will bounce 16 million people off of Medicaid and collapse rural hospitals in order to give the biggest tax cut in history to people making more than four million bucks.

Do the African kids get their anti-HIV medication back now?