Jesse Lasky

At Noma, Accusations of Physical Abuse Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.

Breaking News: Dozens of former workers at Noma, one of the top-ranked restaurants in the world, say its chef physically abused employees. trib.al/FaCYCsi

a cartoon cat with the words now im concerned on a number of levels ALT: a cartoon cat with the words now im concerned on a number of levels

All in all, this update reveals a number of issues to be concerned about:

(1) Slow pace of grant making, particularly for new and competitive renewal grants

(2) OMB apportionment delays as a possible cause

(3) Slow pace of institutional training grants

(4) Increased use of multiyear funding

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Join the One Health Microbiome Symposium at Penn State on May 13-14, 2026. Registration and abstracts open until March 13. More info: https://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/microbiome-center/2026-one-health-microbiome-symposium #conference

Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

Stand Up for Science rally poster March 7th, 1:00 PM at Allegheny Landing in Pittsburgh.

Very excited to be speaking at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

I am speaking just prior to Dr. Rachel Levine

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Bushfires in Australia, as seen from space. Stock image.

The 2019–2020 Australian wildfires released just 5% of Pinatubo's aerosol mass yet produced half of its stratospheric warming. Satellite data spanning 38 years reveals the temperature consequences of volcanoes, wildfires, and undersea eruptions. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/kphz50YoIb4

Inauguration of the exhibition “Herbário, Viagem pelo Belo”, as part of the Cultural Week of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social 🎨🌿

The exhibition brings together drawings and watercolours portraying the botanical journey of discovery by artist-in-residence Kotryna Navickaite.

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...

We have an opening for a Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social

lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

#plants #scijobs #plantscijobs #biochemistry

Use the french government link to apply:
odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/r...

🚨 PhD opportunity in evolutionary genomics

Interested in working with ancient DNA and genomics of carnivores to study adaptation to human-dominated landscapes?

I’m looking for a candidate to apply for an FCT PhD fellowship (Portugal).
📅 Deadline: 31 March

Feel free to contact me for details! 🐺🐻🦊🧬

Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy Duplicated self-interacting proteins can interact and interfere with each other’s function. Cisneros, Mattenberger, et al. show that selection against interfering loss-of-function alleles extends the ...

New paper alert: Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy www.cell.com/current-biol...

PITTSBURGH!

Attend Your Local SUFS
TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE
SATURDAY MARCH 7TH Rally!

Learn more here! : standupforscience.net/march7

#March7Pittsburgh
#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#savescience

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

Israeli-US strike on girls’ elementary school in Minab killed 165 people and injured 96 others

Kids.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15

csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

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Panic, fury, and some hope, in Iran as U.S. launches strikes In Tehran, panicked residents rushed home to shelter and terrified children poured out of classrooms as U.S. air strikes hit the capitol.

In Tehran, panicked residents rushed home to shelter and terrified children poured out of classrooms as U.S. air strikes hit the capitol. n.pr/4l0tKuA

A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River, with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead. This is Santa Elana Canyon, where the proposed border wall would begin. That would be a travesty. Besides, these canyon walls are their own, natural border wall.

A desert landscape in which the foreground is dotted with green shrubs and the background consists of mountains and two small peaks at the center. The sky is a warm yellow-orange due to the just-rising Sun. A large ocotillo cactus sticks up on the left side of the frame.

A photo of a desert landscape featuring rugged mountains under a cloudy sky just after sunrise. The foreground includes various desert plants with sunlight peeking behind a mountain peak, creating a warm glow and highlighting natural terrain textures.

A photo, taken at high elevation, of a mountainous landscape featuring layered ridges and peaks under a clear blue sky. Sunlight casts shadows highlighting rugged terrain and sparse vegetation, with distant mountains fading into a hazy horizon.

I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. 🧵4/4

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Not spending money that is appropriated for science is a tricky subject to explain, but for people in limbo (like myself, as I mentioned yesterday), it can have cause serious career harm.

Many celebrated the NIH budget bill. It’s not supporting science when an unchecked bottleneck still remains.

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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Breaking: IPost has obtained CCTV footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday.

Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday.

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid administrative leave amid a renewed investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a letter obtained…

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

CASSIDY: Would you encourage Americans to take the flu vaccine?

CASEY MEANS: I do think it's important as a physician and to rebuild trust in public health to make sure patients are encouraged to have informed consent with their doctors before getting any medication

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.