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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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.
Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Science story about today’s Bethesda Declaration report.
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Reese Richardson
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.
Follow-up report by current and former agency employees describes ongoing science censorship by political appointees and “culture of fear”
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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Michael D. Green, PhD
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
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...
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The Forest Service’s chief says the agency’s decisionmaking "has gravitated away from local forests" as the agency has grown in size.
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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Crazy happenings at the #ADA26
Cops show up, snatch papers and shove scientists out
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …
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Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
