Michael Glotzer

Mirror Monday. Tuskar and Chopper catching the breeze thru Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

The Ukrainian air force confirms that russia's ally, the United States, has stopped providing early warning of ballistic missile launches. The Americans withdrew this support from Ukrainian defenders in order to make strikes by russian terrorists on civilians more deadly.

It’s been such an honor to work on this story for the past 5 months. A young Norwegian, Steffen, was trying to cross Canada on foot and with sled dogs. His dogs survived; tragically, he did not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why did a Russian oligarch close to Putin fund Trump Jr.’s wedding in the Bahamas? Umar Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the President’s son. What did he get in return? We need answers.

Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."

No one is thinking about this now but: the Fed will not raise interest rates to bring down inflation while Trump is in office. It will raise them sharply one he’s gone, trigger a recession, and sabotage the next Democratic president.

Breaking: “The Nerd Reich” book has developed superintelligence and escaped containment. Be on the lookout for early copies hitting the shelves at your local bookstore.

Look, I like El-Sayed and I hope he wins. But I'm going to need him, I'm going to need the entire left wing and Democratic party, to do a LOT better on court reform. Because without it there *is no* progressive agenda. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Today is National Lighthouse Day. This is Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Help light the way to the restorations of this landmark along Chicago’s lakeshore, SaveTheLighthouse.org

Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.

My editorial in this week’s Science @aaas.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

Image playground in iOS27 has to learn the principles of mitosis

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.

Best thread of the day!

Thanks for the principled stand by past Principal Officers of the American Diabetes Association. Hopefully, this letter will get the current leadership to reach out in an appropriate manner and set the record straight. They owe it to everyone, and particularly to people with diabetes.

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

From the CEO of AAAS: “If this rule becomes final, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation's chief bureaucrat. Alzheimer's disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.”

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I figured I'd write a short something wondering why Sam Alito said we couldn't force Texas to change its unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps in December because people there need "certainty" but he's happy to help Louisiana change its maps now, even as ballots have already sent...

Do I understand correctly: December 2025 Alito blocks further challenges to Texas redistricting due in part to the Purcell Principle wrt 2026 midterms. Late April 2026 Purcell has no limits on the possible impact of his opinion on 2 of VRA for the 2026 midterms?WTF IOKYAR? @stevevladeck.bsky.social

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

We're beginning to suspect Kash Patel was a DUI hire

Almost OpenAI, almost

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

Excited to share our structural insights into how microtubules differentially guide phosphorylation of kinetochore-microtubule regulators, Ndc80 and MCAK, for chromosome segregation. Heroic efforts by Yiming Niu with a fun collaboration with Jennifer DeLuca lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our-Precincts Model Law. Now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...

Chicago, Butler Field

🧪This is important. Russel Vought fact check by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social When a non-scientist says w/ certainty that NIH caused the Covid19 pandemic, it is a red flag & arrogance. His intention is to destroy science & implement Project 2025. Articles of impeachment have been drafted.

Won't You Be My Neighbor. Chicago City View on Thursday from Wrigleyville.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Am I reading this right, these negotiations with Cuba will ensure the Americans have the right to dissent and to have freedom of speech. That would be a nice change from the last 14 months. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

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Dummymander? Maybe. If Texas emerges from the midterms with only an R+1 that's hysterical

We’re excited to welcome six new editors to the #G3Journal and #GENETICS editorial teams! 🎉 Their expertise spans quantitative genetics, RNA biology, evolution, genome integrity, neurogenetics, and more. Meet them and learn more: buff.ly/4dTWxIJ

Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets. They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us. Pay attention.

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

Getting word of federal immigration agents operating in multiple areas around Chicagoland this morning. Rapid responders report agents took at least one person around 7 a.m. from Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood; agents were also seen in the suburb of Berwyn, though it's not clear if anyone was taken.

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago? How many of us didn’t sleep at all. We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.

A second email, this with a more substantial insight about "The Replication Crisis"... 1/5

Question for election law lawyers, can the ludicrous case that was used to confiscate the 2020 Fulton Co. ballots be used to file a preliminary injunction to preemptively block the “DOJ” from ratfuckery the midterms? @democracydocket.com @rparloff.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

This is such a great idea everyone! Please talk it up, pass it along, let’s make it an Election Day thing all over the country.