TX, it’s primary season! Early voting begins today for the March 3rd election!
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TX, it’s primary season! Early voting begins today for the March 3rd election!
LolPI moment of the week was talking to a trainee about the Super Bowl halftime show and mentioning Ricky Martin and realizing they had no clue what I was talking about 🤣
People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.
Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.
It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.
Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are named as the murderers of Alex Pretti.
Both with enough experience that the excuse of a new agent panicking won’t fly. These guys are supposedly elite (one was on a SWAT team). Yet they pumped 10 bullets into a man they had just disarmed.
Justice will come.
ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools.
I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.”
Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.
CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say By Aleena Fayaz Updated Jan 24, 2026
NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance January 27, 2026
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
Lots of information about places to donate if anyone is still looking for ways to help MN
ICE OUT MN MARCH AND RALLY
Minneapolis, MN
The resistance!
1/23/26
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So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by:
1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police
Now ICE is revising its story.
The latest from Alex Mann:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Minnesota today
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Yall will be so interested in all of the immunology articles I have open that I swear I will read at a later date… 🤣
Clinical trials are so vital!!!
cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants!!
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
This was a fun review tying in some of our graduate training in the allergy and asthma fields to our current work in mechanisms of innate immune modulation in obesity and CVD. I’m excited to continue to advance our studies on TREM2!
New review with @lab-williams.bsky.social out today! One of the most enjoyable things about being a new PI has been making new collaborations and seeing projects advance through the pipeline.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
😭 there’s no way this is a good thing
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?
On this trajectory, science has no future.
So this leaves UT and Vanderbilt…As a current TX faculty and a previous Vanderbilt trainee let’s just say I am watching this with a lot of thoughts
🤠Come on, @utaustin.bsky.social
Just say NO to Trump’s compact! 👏👏Don’t mess with Texas #HigherEd! #SaveUT
Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
