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I'm literally reviewing NIH grants today (essentially for free, in my spare time). Where along with other experts, I help decide which proposals are the best. Maybe Sen. Britt should learn more about how NIH grant review works?

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

And...it's here. UW announced tenure clock extension options for junior faculty last week. Leadership frames this as part of their deep support to junior faculty. But how, exactly, is more time (& delayed promotion) are meaningful support in response to reduced & uncertain research resources?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I signed. If you dislike what the Trump administration is doing to NIH and science, you should too.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Super proud of the NIH staffers who signed this important declaration. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 3 days ago • 381 comments

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 5 days ago • 645 comments

if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

This article says all you need to know about why basic science is the lifeblood of innovation. It’s the long game but there remains no substitute. Also a favorite example of @jeremymberg.bsky.social The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Superstars/Nobel winners will get job offers from everywhere. They do anyway. We should be focused on the average student, postdoc and lab tech whose life is going to be turned upside down by all of this. They have nowhere to go. Let's write stories about that.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Hello friends, our 🆕 lab preprint w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social is here; please enjoy! Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Neuroscience #Brain #STEM, #OpenScience #Neurosky #BrainResearch

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 7 days ago • 321 comments

Gun restrictions work. This horrendous act could have been even worse.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Good reminder from @aaas.org that the proposed cuts to science are in the president's budget REQUEST. Congress can and should* continue their strong bipartisan support for American science. (*Note, should in the moral sense. I don't know what they'll actually do but I do know we can still fight)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH can still be stopped. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

We were so close to eradicating HIV in our lifetimes. I will never get over the cruelty & hate.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

wow SOMEONE'S father never dragged him to visit the Huntsville Alabama NASA rocket museum and explained all the facts the museum was leaving out in a hushed whisper as you wandered from room to room

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"you have to go play somewhere else" is an insane thing for a lawmaker to say about CHILDREN

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Good thread. They have tried this before, they will probably try more of this in different ways, it's a rough time to be Chinese in America, and it's not good for America either.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The best students do this instead of using AI.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration. I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Amazing

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with DOUBLE the rate of stillbirths because the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the placenta

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

Every day I am so heartbroken for all the brilliant, curious, and promising young scientists that have passed through my lab and classrooms, now having their futures stolen just to serve some guy’s ego.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Why are animal models useful for CNS drug discovery? zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

curly hair + DC humidity I need this like three times a week minimum

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

‘The CDC program offered technical expertise to help under-resourced health departments prevent those outcomes. In 2023, it helped solve a nationwide lead poisoning outbreak linked to cinnamon applesauce.‘ www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

"So I am reminded to tell any of them who feel panicky and frightened that they have not yet landed a major NIH award that they are not alone. Many have trod this path before you. Many are walking it now." Like me: Heyyyyyyyyy 👋🏽

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment