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Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

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A number of my science colleagues are newly out of work, so I thought I'd share some open positions at UMaine that might be of interest. Please share with your networks! 1) Assistant Research Professor in Cryosphere and Land-Surface Modeling:

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"I don't know what NSF is going to be now, but it's not more efficient. It's just a mess." My story on today's firings and their impact. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

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Oh. Is that all?

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A loss of 11% staff for an organization as lean as NSF is not a small thing. I wish all of our colleagues who work there (or who used to work there until this morning) the very best.

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I wonder how many citizens who call and find out they can't make reservations will connect that outcome back to the current administration.

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I wish more people had the basic sense of self-awareness this rule of thumb would require. The world would be a much better place.

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I expect that last sentence is going to age about as well as milk left out on the counter.

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Working at NASA is a dream for many around the country and even the world. Positions don't just get created. They are extremely rare and highly competitive. The folks that get them are _the_ best at what they do. What do they do? 1/6

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I don’t know who did this, but it’s perfect:

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Dinner

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I really just want to emphasize once again that the existing rates, their justification, and their eventual use are already negotiated and approved by the government to ensure that they are—get this—INDIRECTLY supporting RESEARCH. Not other things. Research.

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Am reviewing the NSF grants that got swept up in Ted Cruz's recent jeremiad. Several have apparently been flagged for the woke crime of studying "biodiversity". You cannot make this stuff up.

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This, from @quinnslobodian.com , is the most insightful thing I've seen about the ideological strands within the Trump-Musk DOGE project. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

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This is brutal: www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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Mongolian beef with broccoli

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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As his first official act as HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. requires that Americans return all vaccines that they were given.

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The No. 1 issue on my mind right now is Donald Trump trying to let my crook mayor get away with stealing public money in exchange for the mayor letting Trump's immigration goon squad trample on the city

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Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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I have largely avoided cable news the past few months, but I caught a bit of Chris Sununu on CNN last night discussing the NIH cuts. He was supportive, saying more $ would now go towards real research rather than making professors rich. I would like to think Chris knows better, but perhaps not.

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Join us for the Computational Health Virtual Seminar Series! 📅 Feb 19, 2025, 2:00 PM EST. @fordversyptlab.bsky.social will give a virtual talk: "Systems Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling, Damage, and Treatments." Open to all! 🌍 Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-F...

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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1. Musk is launching a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services on X Meanwhile, Musk's associates have just been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told Musk Watch.

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Quite the contrast between the talent on the field in that halftime show and the President in a luxury booth who’s spent the last three weeks trying to whitewash the country.

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Like 80% of conspiracy theories seem to start with randos stumbling across something completely normal to everyone in a specialized area, then freaking out and spinning some elaborate theory instead of just asking someone who understands what they’re looking at.

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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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