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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Urge Congress to Reject the President's Budget Proposal to Cut NIH, NSF www.congressweb.com/ASHG/32?fram...

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A postdoctoral position is available at University of California San Diego to study the genome-wide contribution of tandem repeat and structural variants to tobacco use disorder and related traits. Candidates should have statistical genetics ad GWAS experience. Details: gymreklab.com/postdoc-trdr...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Andrea Bickel-Mitchener was the PO for the very first R01 I ever got. She is good, this is good news for NIMH. She has her work cut out for her!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

If your NIH grant has been terminated, please let us know as soon as possible using this link ⤵️ forms.gle/cgEyj7gRjGWg... Unless we know which grants have been cancelled, where, and when, we can't organize and advocate.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens

submitted 19 days ago • 790 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 21 days ago • 1869 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 22 days ago • 1498 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 25 days ago • 117 comments

I want to post about to science, but this is just too irrational not to share

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

[Report for 🧪 feed] A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize the current moment for an everyday reader. Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Exclusive: Kathleen Neuzil, an infectious disease and vaccine specialist who was head of the Fogarty International Center, received an e-mail notice today from the Department of Health and Human Services that immediately put her on administrative leave.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

submitted 27 days ago • 86 comments

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

submitted 26 days ago • 1557 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

What they did to the economy in the last week is what they’ve been doing to research for the last 3 months, and they aren’t stopping.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

According to today’s WSJ, the government is looking to place Columbia University under the oversight of a judge www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” Approximately four hours later, he announced a 90-day pause on most trade tariffs, leading to a significant surge in the stock market. Do you think this is insider trading?

submitted 27 days ago • 388 comments

The government acknowledges that it ripped our client Mahmoud Khalil from his home and his family solely because of his political beliefs and expression. Ideas aren’t illegal. Mahmoud must be released.

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Interested in attending Harriet de Wit's Festschrift?* When: Friday, June 27th, 2025 Where: The University of Chicago Program: hbpl.uchicago.edu/new-page-2 Talks from @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social and many of Harriet's other former trainees! * no, Harriet is not retiring.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

We are live! "Validation studies and multiomics analysis of Zhx2 as a candidate quantitative trait gene underlying brain oxycodone metabolite (oxymorphone) levels and behavior" Congrats to Dr. Will Lynch who defended his thesis (this work) on April 1! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kvXD55L8m...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work! Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week. Please share widely!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 28 days ago • 311 comments

The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service plans to resign following the agency’s data-sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, which supports the Trump administration’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants.

submitted 28 days ago • 57 comments

This is the best explanation for the insane trade policies we’ve been seeing — a simple way to steal billions of dollars of other people’s money and give it to insiders by giving them advance notice about changes in trade policy.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 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 28 days ago • 15 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 28 days ago • 2260 comments

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

submitted 28 days ago • 92 comments

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

submitted 31 days ago • 147 comments

Trump is not done attacking our elections. He and his supporters plot every day to undermine the right to vote. They are constantly looking for opportunities to exploit weaknesses in the election system. This is their top priority. The question for us is whether it is ours as well.

submitted 32 days ago • 69 comments

San Diego (Paywalled) www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/05/n...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is a very big deal. Trump is systematically dismantling the protections against foreign (e.g. Russian) interference in our elections.

submitted 32 days ago • 238 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 33 days ago • 719 comments

BREAKING - U.S. team in quake zone told they are fired, per source. The 3-person disaster assessment team sent to Myanmar for the U.S. received termination notices while staying/sleeping outside — US AID workers were told on an all hands call today, per a source familiar.

submitted 33 days ago • 113 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 33 days ago • 1107 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 32 days ago • 2161 comments

Huge crowd #HandsOff #Seattle great signs!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

#HANDSOFF #NYC

submitted 32 days ago • 1054 comments

Trump is not done attacking our elections. He and his supporters plot every day to undermine the right to vote. They are constantly looking for opportunities to exploit weaknesses in the election system. This is their top priority. The question for us is whether it is ours as well.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

#handsoff #SanDiego

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

submitted 33 days ago • 139 comments