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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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This PhD candidate scientist/Mom is analyzing data and putting together her conference talk like a boss! 💪 #Traklab #AcademicMom

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HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

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My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT! kundakoviclab.com More info 👇

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 14 days ago • 161 comments

Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...

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And, again, WHERE IS #BIGPHARMA in defending #basicscience? laying low? playing dead? Waiting it out? Do SOMETHING! SPEAK UP! Use your gigantic lobbying machine to defend us instead of peddling your wares and increasing your profits. Or do you think highly trained workforce grows on trees?

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

My quote of the day It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt. Carol Greider

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 37 days ago • 1151 comments

@asbmb.bsky.social Bert and Natalie Vallee award in Biomedical Science goes to Andre Nussenzweig. Great talk on DNA repair in post mitotic neurons when treated with araC or cisPt! #ASBMB2025

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@asbmb.bsky.social Excellent plenary talk by Melissa Moore. Advice for young scientists, persistence, and advocacy for science! 🧬 💪

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I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

submitted 42 days ago • 56 comments

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

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🔬 New from the Farnung Lab: We established a fully in vitro reconstituted chromatin replication system and report the first cryo-EM snapshots of the human replisome engaging nucleosomes. Brilliant work by @felixsteinruecke.bsky.social with support from @jonmarkert.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/replisome

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Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj

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Tom Maniatis lead petition to reverse the 15% cap on indirect costs. Please sign here. chng.it/nq4QCj2zJT

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

submitted 54 days ago • 70 comments

📢 For all DNA fiber enthusiasts! 🟥🟩 We are thrilled to announce the release of our long-awaited AI-based workflow for the automated and quantitative analysis of DNA fibers. It's an exciting step forward—check it out on bioRxiv! lnkd.in/dQWUPtsP

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Open positions in our lab! I am very thankful to the Swiss National Science Foundation for their continuous support of our lab. We will have openings for graduate students and/or postdocs interested in the biochemistry of DNA repair. Please share!

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

submitted 56 days ago • 447 comments

sorry, trying better res

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Nice piece here from the organizer of the Austin Stand Up for Science event, @benjaminjriley.bsky.social‬ 👇. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting, Ben! buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/standing-u...

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The story of Taxol another NIH gift that saved millions of lives - In the 1960 the National Cancer Institute led a search for plant based medicines that could help fight cancer - that was when four botanists collecting samples from plants native to the US west coast came across Western Yew tree 🧵

submitted 71 days ago • 14 comments

Excellent in depth story from Ryan Levi and colleagues at Tradeoffs about the impacts of NIH cuts. tradeoffs.org/2025/03/13/c...

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"Funding from the NIH was contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved from 2010 to 2019 totaling $187 billion" Reference: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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NIH cuts are hitting young scientists the hardest. By David Baker. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...

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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

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Okay, nerds, buckle in! It's time for some SCIENCE. Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments. 1/x

submitted 81 days ago • 146 comments

I spent time today talking to local reps who sell equipment and supplies to my NIH-funded lab. They need to know how the NIH works and what the new changes mean for my ability to PAY THEM. Remember, scientists salaries are only small part of the economic impact of science. 1/3

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I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but the Federal Register block is intentionally being used to stop NIH from awarding grants. They might not call it a freeze, but things are effectively frozen. We need legal action ASAP.

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"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 90 days ago • 56 comments

If you're a researcher in New York who's struggling to access NIH grant funds, please reach out! I'm a NYC-based health care reporter covering the local impact. Tips are confidential. #medsky

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 90 days ago • 19 comments

The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today. Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

submitted 94 days ago • 46 comments

A slide I've been working on to illustrate the combined impact of the current multipronged attacks on biomedical research funding. Besides more curse words, what am I missing?

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

NIH grants peeps are working hard, on a Sunday night, trying to get our grants out to us as their world is in chaos. We owe them all a huge debt. Science peeps: be sure to send your grants personnel (grants management, POs and SROs) a note of encouragement and gratitude. @sarathomasy.bsky.social

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

submitted 96 days ago • 883 comments

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

submitted 102 days ago • 19 comments

Diversity: www.albany.edu/offcourse/is...

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Decimating the NSF would be an act of violence against USA competitiveness in science, technology and innovation. Have any of these people seen Shanghai lately? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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In Texas NIH FUNDING: $1.85B JOBS SUPPORTED: 29,563 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $5.8 B

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