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New Biocomicals Cartoon! “I don’t just raise the H-index… I am the H-index.” In the world of academic publishing, the h-index often looms large, used (and misused) to gauge a researcher’s impact. This cartoon plays with that idea: the towering, overcited paper that overshadows everything else.

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Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

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New Biocomicals Cartoon “Lights Off” www.biocomicals.com

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NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really believe in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

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My #commodore64 story at from Life and Tales at Biocomicals www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car...

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Can internet use become addictive? A #SciencePerspective discusses the addictive potential of the #internet and how it can be best conceptualized and evaluated. scim.ag/3R5Npv1 #BrainAwarenessWeek

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As the NIH expects staff cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

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"Multiple recent US measles outbreaks, coupled with low vaccination rates, signal a growing domestic hazard." This Viewpoint discusses updating the existing MMR early third dose recommendation for infants aged 6 to 11 months. ja.ma/4kSNpw4 #MedSky

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Today is Pi Day!!! New comic from Biocomicals “Irrational Insomnia” #piday HAPPY Pi Day!!!!!!

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Just published @science.org On fixing the NIH 15% cap "The consequences of failing to do so—reduced research capacity, weakened scientific competitiveness, and increased financial strain on institutions—are simply too dire to ignore." science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I would like to share my recent interview with The Brown Daily Herald, where I talk about how I combine #science and humor through Biocomicals. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

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🧠 Spheres of Now – A reflection on Alzheimer’s. This From Life and Tales story explores how time and memory drift for those with Alzheimer’s. Moments exist in isolation, untethered from the past and future. link: www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car... #Alzheimers #Memory

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This International Women’s Day, “Rapunzel the Geneticist” from Life and Tales at Biocomicals is dedicated to all the brilliant women who are shaping the future. In this reimagined tale, Rapunzel doesn’t wait for a prince, she uses science to break free. www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car...

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Currently, NIH's Center for Scientific Review reviews 66,000 grant applications a year, with panels run by NIH’s separate institutes reviewing the rest. Under a new plan, the institute-run panels will be eliminated, and many of the scientists overseeing them will be laid off. scim.ag/3QP0FUG

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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New Biocomicals cartoon is online now! "🔬💰 Science Funding Freezer ❄️" In #research labs, the -80°C freezer isn’t just for storage—it holds years of work, valuable samples, and sometimes… the fate of an entire project. With #NIH #budget cuts looming, even the freezers are getting nervous. 🥶

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The NIH summer internship program was cancelled today. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/commen... Another important summer program that allowed young researchers pathways into STEM, gutted.

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My new cartoon at Biocomicals A request from cell lines “scientists, assemble!!!” #standupforscience

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In a new Science study, researchers present ESM3, a protein language model that enables the programmed generation of protein structure and sequence in response to user prompts. Learn more: scim.ag/40l2z3J

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Neurologists say the downsizing at CARD could be a blow to the scientific quest for new Alzheimer's treatments. NIH scientists at CARD work with external scientists to turn early scientific discoveries into treatments and medicines. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

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Stand up for #science

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What could possibly be gained? So much at stake, so many careers in jeopardy. So much progress stalled.

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New cartoon from Biocomicals! "Frozen Grants" In labs across the country, scientists wait... and wait. Without #funding, groundbreaking discoveries are put on hold, brilliant ideas remain trapped in limbo, and #scientific #progress slows to a crawl. #ScienceFunding #ResearchGrants #NIH #Science

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Stand up for #SCIENCE (Since I’m creating these cartoons,If you like to use them, you can use all these “stand up for science” cartoons freely.) #science @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Stand up for #SCIENCE

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Stand up for #SCIENCE. #Rhodeisland March 7th 12-4 pm

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NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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My latest cartoon at Biocomicals about Budget Cuts in Science! "Suffering" #sciencefunding #NIHcuts #researchlife

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A paper in Nature presents a generative AI tool that could help video game designers to craft gameplay iteratively. The AI model, developed by researchers at Microsoft, generated robust 3D worlds that obeyed the mechanics of the video game they were designed for. https://go.nature.com/41mNgcG 🧪

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The $21 billion anime industry is notorious for the grueling hours that workers put in. After a scathing UN report on working conditions, the government is trying to change this.

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Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity. ja.ma/41hBnoc #MedSky

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Happy #Valentine's Day They call it tight junctions but today they are “Love Junctions”

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Latest Biocomicals cartoon on recent NIH cuts “Survivor-Lab Edition” at www.biocomicals.com #NIHFundingCuts #ResearchLife #AcademicStruggles #BiomedicalResearch #ScienceComics #ResearchFunding

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www.biocomicals.com Nih cuts New biocomicals cartoon Survivor- lab edition

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NIH announced Friday night that it will immediately slash support for “indirect costs” paid to universities, medical centers, and other research grant recipients, www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

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The gears of the grantmaking machinery at NIH have begun moving again, after a 2-week standstill following a controversial ban on communications imposed by President Donald Trump. scim.ag/4aLQ0U6

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My latest cartoon at Biocomicals “Stone Age” Visit www.biocomicals.com for more science and medicine comics!!!🎉🎊

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Our newly published paper: "The Atlas of Protein–Protein Interactions in Cancer (APPIC)—a Webtool to Visualize and Analyze Cancer Subtypes", now available in NAR Cancer. A sincere thank you to my collaborator Ece Uzun, MS, Ph.D.,FAMIA and all team members academic.oup.com/narcancer/ar...

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A vision–language foundation model for precision oncology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,251 incident cases among 542,778 women in the UK www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Many who undergo direct-to-consumer genetic testing don’t realize that their data are being licensed to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. JAMA Viewpoint authors @kaytesb.bsky.social and Anya E. R. Prince discuss this gap between consumer expectations and what is being done. ja.ma/40uGL7q

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Accidents Happen!

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