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if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This, concurrent with the destruction of PEPFAR, which serves many similar functions for global HIV control, is a recipe for catastrophic drug resistance taking root and becoming widespread for both, often in the same patients and places. It is a horror, and will have permanent consequences.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Wow, phenomenal work. 75% of pancreatic cancer patients alive 3 years after receiving a personalised mRNA vaccine. Durable CD8+ T cell responses underlying the therapeutic benefit. Congrats to the authors 👊👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

this is indeed both very good, and absolutely fury inducing - anything in our health system which isn't critical is utterly dependent on a toxic mixture of gatekeeping resources through a triage system largely based on vibes?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I've got knickers older than that fool.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Someone very close to me was diagnosed with terminal cancer the month he retired. Fortunately he had spent many years travelling all over the world and living life to the full, but it never seems like enough once you know the clock is ticking. Life is short. Live it now.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

"You screwed people": Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers👇

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

After we "just stop oil!" what happens next??? A thoughtful piece by @jamesomalley.co.uk on why we're already onto the boring and hard bits of climate action, at least in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A full-on Proustian rush

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"When Keir Starmer agonises about whether to spend 2.3% or 2.5% of GDP on defence, we’re talking about a difference of roughly £5bn. The government paid eight times that just to manage energy prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Hey out there -- if you have information about the job cuts at FDA, CDC, NIH or HHS at large, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking, in particular, for information about exactly what cuts were made. You can reach me on Signal, the encrypted messaging system, at MattHerper.92. DMs are open.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

With all the carnage being indiscriminately wrought on scientists in the US, remember, a war on science is a lost war. Science doesn’t care what you or anybody else thinks. You either embrace science or you chase imaginary demons. It took us centuries to realize this.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Cool. Cool cool cool.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Valentines day! Appropriately, my band Sunday Driver are releasing our new single Les Amoureuses today - digital links here: lnk.to/the-lovers And if you fancy a sturdy pink 7 inches to enjoy, we've got some limited edition signed coloured vinyl here: sundaydriver.bandcamp.com/album/les-am...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So that teenager who got global fanfare with his high school "simple pancreatic cancer test" project in 2012 didn't actually solve this then? Thought not 🙄

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Strong "the worst person you know..." vibes

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Something I’d love to understand more about it is why there’s no social care equivalent of the QALY. I don’t see how it’s possible to better integrate the NHS with care services unless you have some common parameters for the value of interventions.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

It is with great sadness to hear that the great Tim Radford has died. He was, unequivocally, the best science journalist, and a kind and generous man. I used his Manifesto for the Simple Scribe in lectures for student this very week. It’s faultless. www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

First direct chemical synthesis of a gene over 1700 nucleotides long covered by @chemistryworld.com! Read the full paper in Chemical Science (which is free to read!) here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #ChemSky 🧪 #ChemBio

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

100% - NIH is absolutely the foundation of Amercia's exceptional biomedical science and innovation ecosystem; hard to think of a more effective way to self-sabotage then screwing this up. (Refine-yes; wreck-no. As I wrote recently in @thebulwark.bsky.social -> www.thebulwark.com/p/the-best-o...)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Isn’t it depressing when even the guardian continues to launder Musk’s reputation and perpetuate the polymath myth. In no way did Elon Musk put a chip in this man’s brain.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

If you like music that sounds like a cross between Kate Bush, Anoushka Shankar and Led Zep unplugged, you're in for a treat. Pre-order the new Sunday Driver album and other goodies now: sundaydriver.bandcamp.com/album/silk-a...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Last plug for this week's post, on news overload and finding the signal in the noise. Thanks to the 1200(!) people who subscribed in the last few weeks, it's a huge motivation to keep this going and genuinely means a lot. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/denial-of-...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

This and COVID should be/have been huge wake-up calls that political journalists need much stronger science and technology skills if they’re going to make sense of how government operates, communicates, or makes decisions.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Will generative AI replace human science communicators? I don't think so - or, at least, not any time soon: firstcreatethemedia.com/blog/will-ge...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Nature is beautiful

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I'm just being petty, but my hackles are raised by "mommies, come and get your little boys out of the American government". I mean yes, absolutely do get Elon's team of little boys out from where they're causing extreme damage, but this is not only their mothers' job. This is not women's fault

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Very excited to have The New Yorker cover the #FSHARP program we've been running here at @DARPA! Synthetic blood analog that is shelf-stable and mass manufacturable to deal with all blood shortages whether for warfighters or in the civilian medical world! t.co/41zItaHSpb

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

After more than a century of research, why haven't we cured cancer? That's the question I ask in my book Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of life. You can get it here if you're curious: amzn.to/4jJl8HJ

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The thing is, the Green Party in England is basically advocating for degrowth. That's their right, but they should spell it out. And also spell out what that means for everything from pensions to immigration, defence and foreign policy.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Today is Candlemas- which must be the best name in the calendar. Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light Artist: Gerald Witcomb

submitted 35 days ago • 26 comments

This sounds like good news!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

My goodness I'd forgotten what a MASSIVE BANGER Tchaik 4 is when you hear it live. Exceptional gig at the RFH tonight.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s links and notes, including a mini-essay on the case for buying Greenland (spoiler alert: we probably shouldn’t).

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This is well worth checking out for academic researchers who want to get better at communicating their science 👇

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment