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To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below. We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations. NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... And please spread the word 🙏

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So not only can fluoride not go in water, you can’t get it at all. We’re going to have at least a generation of people with a lifetime of serious dental problems because our country is run by lunatics who want your children to be sick.

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new from me for @wired.com : the EPA is moving to reorganize its scientific research office, which will likely kill off a small but crucial program devoted to studying the impacts of toxic chemicals—which has been a target of industry groups for years

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Just ran my first 384-well plate qPCR and WOW these electronic pipets are a godsend

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

made significant progress on 2 papers and a review over a long weekend in Florida with @alexhochstetler.bsky.social - big fan of little writing/analysis retreats

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Super cool few days of talks coming up in Palo Alto with @pintofscience.us !!! Check out the full program, but also come see me at Scotty’s Bar Wednesday 5/21 🧠😉 pintofscience.us/events/palo-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Super cool few days of talks coming up in Palo Alto with @pintofscience.us !!! Check out the full program, but also come see me at Scotty’s Bar Wednesday 5/21 🧠😉 pintofscience.us/events/palo-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Oh that’s me! Out on my weekly Sunday hike 🫡

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Banana Slug!

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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

submitted 17 days ago • 60 comments

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is sponsoring the Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics symposium! - We are seeking nominations bu June 1. - September 18-19, 2025 - Please share with the star postdocs that you know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Received a ‘stop work’ (i.e., grant frozen) notification today from the DoD on our studies to develop an acute Lyme disease diagnostic test. Ironically, I wasn’t even faculty here when the alleged anti-Semitic events occurred and they took place on the under grad campus dozens of miles away. 👍

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

been enjoying getting out on hikes around South Bay recently! Every Sunday morning has been a solid tradition since I began my postdoc in January, and a great way to start each week off recharged.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 29 days ago • 62 comments

Universities and federal funding (with some uncharacteristically personal notes on antisemitism). casssunstein.substack.com/p/universiti...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

submitted 30 days ago • 64 comments

Half Moon Bay 150mm, underexposed at midday

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Take a look at the harvard web site...We have our break-throughs and next generation drugs on full display! Come take a look at the new wonders of medicine! So proud to be a part of it!!! Harvard.edu

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 35 days ago • 403 comments

Like TX, Ontario is experiencing a large measles outbreak. Ontario has just sent letters to the parents of unvaccinated kids that they must stay home from school. This is a power that every U.S. state also has, and regions with measles cases should be using it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

ASH and 90+ Organizations Call for HHS to Immediately Restore CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders. Without it, patients with blood diseases face preventable risks. ASH is calling for its restoration. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jt5sYv #Fight4Hematology #HemeSky

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After 14 months and 3 rounds of revision, I’m relieved and thankful that the first big story from my PhD work has been accepted for publication in Nature Neuroscience. Keep an eye out, coming soon: “Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development”. 🧠🐁

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Medscape: 'When COVID-19 and EBV Collide: The MIS-C Link Doctors Miss' This surge in TGF-beta creates an immune environment conducive to the reactivation of viruses such as EBV study’s findings open the door to targeted diagnostic & therapeutic options www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

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