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Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Hearing that Bhattacharya has NIH grants not listed on his CV, according to RePORTER. Looking into it. In the meantime, please look at the long list of articles Bhattacharya has been writing about how much he hates science and universities, like this in Newsweek.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

The tmRNA open reading frame is the most translated sequence in the history of life on earth. I have it on good authority that the message is “Trump is a liar”.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

DrJBhattacharya clones by cut-and-paste.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Trans-translation does not have anything to do with trans people, but if it did I would be happy and support them.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

After RFK was confirmed, things got worse at NIH. After Linda McMahon was confirmed, things got worse at the Dept of Ed. It's not going to be different at NIH. Bhattacharya has been selected to destroy the agency. We've been hearing far too many NIH'ers with magical thinking about what's next.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

Be proud of being a scientist, you are not the problem and you did nothing wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We should not let this happen to NIH. Jay Bhattacharya will tear out your NIH grants and send them to rightwing schools. He is right at the center of the rightwing effort to destroy US science— he was chosen by Republicans b/c he would do that. His Senate hearing is Wed at 10am. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

One thing that all scientists can do now: Cancel the Washington Post. Bezos is intent on using it to help Trump. They just added rightwing Salena Zito fm DC Examiner. Subscribe to news sources run by journalists, not billionaires—like the Guardian US, Philly Inquirer, TPM, Slate, and The Prospect.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Breaking: In a historic first, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the start of work on a vaccine against other vaccines.

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 3 days ago • 687 comments

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Just so people are aware of what we are up against, here's what the Elon astroturfing over on Twitter is pushing. We'd bet a box of donuts this is a fake account run in some way by rightwing billionaires' money, aiming to influence the narrative.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for clinical care or lab work. scim.ag/4hV9oRb

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

RNA xkcd.com/3056

submitted 7 days ago • 161 comments

Alarming...when will this end??

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: a post about why the firings at NIH this weekend devastated cancer research. And other biomedical research too. Building a science lab is like building a new company: it takes years to put together the right team. Many lab groups are now broken. altnih4science.subst...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

submitted 16 days ago • 50 comments

Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?

submitted 17 days ago • 1053 comments

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 34 days ago • 273 comments

Even though CDC recently allowed to resume publication of its weekly morbidity & mortality report, THREE studies on bird flu that had been scheduled to run in the journal are still being suppressed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments