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My latest: The Trudeau government's draconian power grab under the Emergencies Act threatens our right to dissent. That is why we leftists must oppose it, whatever we may think of the "freedom convoy." dimitrilascaris.org/2022/02/15/lef… #cdnpoli

Without taking anything away from what's happening in Ukraine, there's a massive humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. And this one, we could do much more to solve, because this one, we've done much more to cause. nytimes.com/2022/02/20/opi…

Short thread: it's quite right that the UK has sanctioned Roman Abramovich and deprived him of control of Chelsea. English football has suddenly turned against him. But: all this is just hypocrisy as long as the English game doesn't go after far more culpable club owners //

Continued dawdling on vaccine waiver position leaves NDP and advocates ‘extremely frustrated,’ by Neil Moss #cdnpoli bit.ly/3kF3sjy (subs)

The killing of journalists [...] must be condemned and investigated not by the countries accused of allegedly killing them, but by independent bodies who claim to uphold free speech and the right to a free press as fundamental human rights.

Here is our recent work on T7SSb LXG effectors and the proteins that are required for their secretion. Thank you to everyone that contributed to the work and to mBio for the valuable reviews and speedy publication. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Very happy to see this paper in its final form. Hats off to Timothy Klein for knocking it out of the park, again!

“Charles III noted that women were granted the right to property and inheritance in Islam 1,400 years ago, paid tribute to the “remarkable tolerance” of medieval Islam, and lamented western “ignorance about the debt our own civilisation owe to the Islam” middleeasteye.net/opinion/king-c…

Happy to announce that our research focused on understanding the interaction between DNA repair proteins Ku and LigD has been published in nucleic acids research! Thank you to Monica Warner for her contributions to the project and @structureSara for her amazing mentorship! 🤩

Noam Chomsky turns 94 today. He's someone I truly admire, a thinker with deep moral integrity who also happens to be personally kind and generous to strangers. A few years back I wrote up some of the lessons I've learned from his work: currentaffairs.org/2017/07/lesson…

For the holidays, some thoughts on peace in a time of war. foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/23/a-r…

"If we can talk about criminal culpability in relation to Trump, why can't we talk about it in relation to Bush Not even the worst of Trump's crimes come anywhere close to the destruction that Bush brought to Iraq." A clip from my monologue on Bush & Iraq:

I'm very excited to present the latest type VII secretion system research from the John Whitney which is out now at bioRxiv Microbiology. In this work, we look deeper into how toxins are recognized and secreted by this Gram +ve secretion system. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our latest work! A feedback control mechanism governs the synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Special thanks to our collaborators Clemons Lab @Caltech and Phill Stansfeld for helping us bring this story together!

50 years ago, a US-backed military coup overthrew the Allende government in Chile. Chileans never gave up — after 17 years of repression, democracy was restored. As Pablo Neruda said, “You can cut all the flowers but you can’t stop Spring from coming.”

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

The last act of a great man