Evolutionary genetics and cell biology. And co-host of This Week in Evolution: www.microbe.tv/twievo/ Elde lab: cellvolution.org Opinions: my own, not employers
Nels Elde
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Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034).
Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it!
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The algal pyrenoid fixes ~1/3 of global carbon, relying on a unique membrane-within-condensate architecture. How is this architecture built? We discovered that the protein MITH1 draws membranes into the pyrenoid condensate by promoting wetting! 🌿💧
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Gave some comments for this story in @science.org about a study in JAMA that shows a devastating decrease in NIH fellowships awarded to Black and Hispanic scientists.
A lot of early career people
are having their future meddled with. Some groups unequally...
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Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.
Science story about today’s Bethesda Declaration report.
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Members of the American Diabetes Association were forcibly removed from the annual meeting for distributing an editorial critical of Trumpian policy. 😳
This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses".
We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details.
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Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/
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“The Forest Service’s FY 2027 budget request would eliminate about 800 of the Forest Service’s 1,110 research scientist positions.”
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Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms.
This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …
Drop in those receiving grants and fellowships in 2025 shows impact of Trump administration rollbacks to diversity initiatives
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Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics
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Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
