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Jay, please stop gaslighting early career researchers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

Megaphone dog whistle

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

FINALLY out in #Science Advances! 🎉 3 years of hard work, a fantastic team — and I’m proud to be first and co-corresponding author! It's about Plexin signaling driving collective cell migration & organ sculpting. Check out the videos 😀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #DevBio #CellBio #Microscopy

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 2 days ago • 506 comments

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

I’ve been in academic medicine for 45 years. This is the first time I’m seeing a perfect storm, as proposed federal funding cuts threaten our ability to provide patient care, train the next generation of doctors, and conduct life-saving research. More from my conversation with @cnn.com last week.

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

Haha, this is legit

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www.science.org/content/arti... Guidance seems to change daily, and sometimes staff find out that grants have been cut at the same time as PIs. This isn't a good way to run a business, let alone a complicated funding entity meant to improve human health and wellbeing.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I think this really says it all: www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Happy to see the article I wrote in print back home! Thankful for the McClintock Letters organizers (‪@cornellasap.bsky.social‬) and Science Homecoming (@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social‬) for all their hard work in coordinating this effort.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So excited that our latest work is out! We have been working to understand how damaged tissue exits regeneration and returns to normal gene expression, and found a major role for the pioneer transcription factor Zelda in flies. Kudos to @anishbose.bsky.social @keatonschuster.bsky.social et al!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The rescission of the rescission has been rescinded. So I guess that’s good? 🤡

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Sigh Will start putting away some extra money to pay for out-of-coverage covid boosters or a trip across the border.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

haha, what? Is there nothing that AI can't screwup?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university) This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

I updated my funding curves last night. Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants. The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review. I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE" 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

“Starr, who said he has already racked up $300,000 in unanticipated expenses because of tariffs, said the prospect of business tax cuts is of little use if his profits are zeroed out from tariffs.”

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

UPDATE — RUTHERFORD COUNTY: Ed The Zebra has been captured 🦓 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKpk1Hz...

submitted 12 days ago • 248 comments

Keep in mind: these are AWARDED grants, with Notice of Awards. The federal government is not honoring existing contracts with this university, refusing to reimburse for costs charge on awarded grants.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications: Cholangiocytes contribute to hepatocyte regeneration after partial #liver #injury during growth in #zebrafish We challenge old assumptions on liver regeneration! 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵(1/8)

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Love this framing. "This is where (universities) we chose to fund fundamental research 80 years ago... And we don't have a Plan B"

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 15 days ago • 95 comments

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Hooray. Yesterday, my very first #Hydra paper was accepted! An exciting time for a career #Drosophilist. Big congratulations to @anaisbailles.bsky.social, who set up the Hydra system from scratch. Thanks Carl Modes for the liquid crystal theory. @mpi-cbg.de Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

submitted 16 days ago • 411 comments

update on the UNC tenure cases that the BOT was delaying approval on.....according to email from Chair of Faculty, Dr. Beth Moracco, they have been approved, as listed here. bot.unc.edu/approved-per...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Website is now open for registration and abstract submission! See you in beautiful SLO! 😎🏖️ www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Just finished an amazing 25mi double loop in Pisgah near Brevard, NC. Despite almost getting flattened by mtn. bikers a few times, it was incredibly calming (I slept 10 hours in the tent!). Also, I highly recommend the Pink Beds loop (the smaller loop). Very accessible (and flat) for casual hikers.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Saw a whole den of rattlers in Pisgah yesterday! Afraid of what the next experience level is 😀

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Saw my first NC timber rattlesnake! A big 5 footer at that! Was in such awe that I only got a pic of the rattle

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

My siblings and I may have wildly different personalities and views on things, but we all agree that "The Monster at the End of This Book" is a pinnacle of literature

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

We published a piece in March saying the real Trump/Vought/DOGE goal was to bring universities to their knees, and now they’re just … saying it out loud. From our blog: altnih4science.substack.com/p/trump-is-a...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

"You may be thinking of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to help write your next grant application... be aware: AI tools may plagiarize, falsify, or fabricate information... we will hold you accountable even if AI technology is the source of noncompliance."

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Best launch ad I’ve ever seen.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Unsurprising. Fitting that this picture of the anti-health secretary is him stilling next to A1 lady and crypto grandpa

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