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The conclusion of yet another highly successful metabolic phenotyping course by Sable Systems Europe! By discoverers, for discoverers. Featuring the Sable Systems Promethion Core system - the world leader in resolution, versatility & in-depth scientific expertise.

A great story of cellular & academic symbiosis (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

A few countries are doing this. But I need to stress that it will only happen for a tiny fraction of US scientists who have lost funding or jobs. There are not enough jobs in the rest of the world combined. The impact of Donald Trump and Elon Musk will not be science moving, but less science. 🧪

Predictable. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

To our Canadian colleagues & friends (you know who you are): we support you in these difficult times. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...

NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

Gutting federal research funding from America’s universities would not only dismantle the primary engine of scientific discovery in the United States, it would fundamentally change American science for generations to come. Article: zurl.co/sCa8E

Nothing to see here: Just 292,150+ people warning about Trump Admin’s new federal rule to strip grant funding power away from experts, scientists and unbiased arbiters Instead granting power over federal grants to Trump appointees Enormous issue Comment deadline is today

I encourage everyone who has submitted comments on the hot mess that is OMB-2026-0034 to also send a copy to your congress critters. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

Conservative ideology is rare at universities because it is an intellectual failure. It provides no useful insights and produces no technological advances. It failed. In the biggest free market for ideas ever created, the market chose the productive route of real scholarship and real research.

Short thread up and down

"Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China... In a recent interview with Scientific American, he said that the current state of US science is 'not so encouraging.'" #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday

We’re now at >100 registrants for the 2nd #AdiposeBiology Conference. #Earlybird deadline approaching fast: July 1, 2026. Join us in Montreal 🇨🇦 on Oct 7–9, 2026. 🔗 Register before the early bird deadline at: adiposebiology.com #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social @adiposebiology.bsky.social

I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on an Australian Research Council Laureate Project on climate change responses, applying a Julia implementation of the NicheMapR package. The work could go in control theory, DEB theory or population process directions unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...

so... yay? www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o... Free 🎁 article.

We tackled ultra-processed foods and how they affect our health in a three-part series today. First: @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, former senior investigator at the NIH discusses his groundbreaking study on how human bodies respond to ultra-processed foods. Take a listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin

Approaching 100 registrants for the #AdiposeBiology Conference! Due to popular demand, the early-bird deadline has been extended to July 1, 2026. Join us in Montreal 🇨🇦 | Oct 7–9, 2026 🔗Register before the early bird deadline: www.adiposebiology.com/registration #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social

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/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-... The Creep of Politicization A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern So how much worse can the new policy be? Scientists are using apocalyptic terms, like “the end of American science as we know it.”

"Would someone from abroad want to come to the United States to start their career in science when the NAS Presidential address repeated the structural risks of America’s apparent ‘over-reliance on foreign researchers’?" What on earth is going on at the NASEM? @joshuasweitz.bsky.social reports.

@catgyoung.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...

Is it pronounced ORCID 🌸 like the flower or Orc ID 👹 like an identity card for a Middle Earth monster? Smart people disagree. Personally, I pronounce it Orc ID because I like the idea that I am a science goblin with a fixed numerical identifier. @orcid.org

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Stand Up for Science Director of Policy @colesci.bsky.social breaks down the steps needed to put American Science back on the world pedestal after the Trump Admin's demolition of the scientific field. Read the article here: zurl.co/1ZCvE #Science #Trump #SaveScience #StandUpForScience

Don’t miss the @adiposebiology.bsky.social Conference in Montreal 🇨🇦 | Oct 7–9, 2026! 🔗#Earlybird deadline approaching fast: June 1, 2026 adiposebiology.com Join leaders in adipose biology, #metabolism, #obesity, #diabetes, #thermogenesis, & #development #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social

Our new paper is out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social - about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here - journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/.... Males and females respond differently to captivity!

This study was led by soon-to-graduate PhD student #ElinPersson @biologylu.bsky.social with important contributions by @mariaagc.bsky.social at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social. As always, @sablesys.bsky.social instruments made the work far easier.

Well, I guess these days the Do Not Call registry means nothing 🤣 several scan loan offers per day - each immediately reported as spam to @TMobile but they keep pouring in 🙄

Just a normal day at Sable Systems International

I really miss Dave...

Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Cypess Join us for the 2nd annual #AdiposeBiology Conference in Montreal🇨🇦, Oct 7-9, 2026, to hear from this world expert in human BAT! Register before the early bird deadline at: adiposebiology.com #ABC2026 @mcgillgci.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social sys.bsky.social

🚨 Don’t miss #ABC2026! ⏳ Early Bird ends June 1! last chance for the best price (group discounts available 👥) Join us in Montréal 🇨🇦 (Oct 7–9) for cutting-edge adipose biology research 🧠🔥 🎟️ adiposebiology.com @kazaklab.bsky.social @beaudrj.bsky.social @sunglab.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social

Listening to Erika and Scott give back-to-back Sable Award lectures was an amazing way to bring METPHYS2026 to a close! So glad to be able to celebrate the people making waves in the metabolism community with our partners @sablesys.bsky.social

How to terminate >100 science US advisory committees. The unremitting path of destruction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How about that. A post of mine reached an @medium digest. medium.com/@JohnLighton...