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🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨 Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process! Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #standupforscience2025

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Slashing NIH funding is a direct attack on life-saving research happening in Minnesota and across the country. The Trump administration's proposed cuts would jeopardize breakthroughs in cancer, heart disease, PTSD treatment, and more. We must continue to fight back.

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Hello. If you are a prospective (or current) graduate student, or a faculty member or administrator, seeing federal cuts/policies impact graduate school admissions, funding, or operations, I would be interested in speaking with you: [email protected] Signal ibogost.47

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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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If a NBA team worth about $5B fired all its players and went from a $150M to a $0 payroll does that mean the team was efficient and saved money? Or, does it mean there is no basketball team and there is no more revenue because then no one comes and the team is worthless? #analogies

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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All 435 seats in the House will be up for election in 2026.

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New paper out 🎇 It has been 13 years since @owenlabuob.bsky.social and co. published a stellar protocol on how to measure membrane order with smart probes! Since then, there has been new dyes, imaging modes and biology! We wrote a protocol for Nature Protocols: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Senators up in 2026 2 Bill Hagerty (R-TN) Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) Roger Marshall (R-KS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) Pete Ricketts (R-NE) James E. Risch (R-ID) Mike Rounds (R-SD) Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)

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Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

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@chicago.suntimes.com @chicagotribune.com “Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze” 🧪

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A good analysis of the current economic success by integrating new neighbours (which is accompanied at the same time by great improvement in many social issues, although some more are needed) 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you can do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

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AACR urges Congress to reaffirm its long history of steadfast and bipartisan support for medical research by ensuring that NIH has all of the resources needed to advance its lifesaving mission to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer and other diseases: AACR.org/NIH

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There are currently protests breaking out in every state. You probably won't see much about it in the media, though.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

There were protests across the entire country today and I’ve barely seen it covered. This thread is full of them and there will be more in the future. If you cannot attend a protest, you can at least spread awareness and repost

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While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

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Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

It’s curious that there has not been a single news story on this—that NIH funding is effectively shutdown with no end in sight. I have no idea what the legal course of action is or if it is being pursued by any parties with standing.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Just amazing what can be done these days - structures of GABA receptors purified from human brain tissue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

I am deeply grateful to my friends and colleagues, partners in crime, #BPS2025 Program Co-chairs Sudha and Chris for assembling an inspiring and exciting line-up, one that reflects the depth and breadth of our #science and the brilliance and diversity of our #scientists! And to all attendees!

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If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Attending #BPS2025? Want to know more about tangible steps you can take to challenge the attacks on science in the U.S.? Please attend an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday at 1:30! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Please spread the word!

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Two years ago today, Frontiers exposed us to the wonders of AI generated graphics. Happy Anniversary to the Rat Balls paper.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This time, I took the liberty of changing the title myself!

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

NoA NOTIFICATION REQUEST Re-upping this request now that NIH staff are apparently allowed to make awards. If anyone receives a NoA starting today and continuing forward, please DM me with information about the mechanism and institute or center. THANK YOU I hope to full up my DMs with good news

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

This... is legitimately, darkly, a good idea.

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Keep calling your Republican Senators and Reps. 202-224-3121

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Institutions are run by people. I'm very thankful for the work of program officers & staff at NSF. They care deeply about the important, very challenging work they do and conduct their work with the highest degree of professionalism

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New paper out💥 in Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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This one is for the #lipidtime and #sterol enthusiasts: Endogenous and fluorescent sterols reveal the molecular basis for ligand selectivity of human sterol transporters, now published in the Journal of Lipid Research: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

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A GFP-tagged reporter for endosomal escape of cationic liposomes. #fringeScience

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#Jobs We are looking for a new colleague! Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biophysics in the domains of functional imaging and biophysics. More info here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

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Hello Bluesky! We're a UC San Diego-based lab that studies cellular signaling, and makes genetically encoded biosensors to study those signals. Talk to us about kinases, fluorescent proteins, GPCRs, and imaging technology!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

🚨🚨 We are proud to launch MemBioMed, a new international Master program offering interdisciplinary training in biomembrane research at 3 sites: Université de Côte d'Azur 🇫🇷 Università di Genova 🇮🇹 & Osnabrück University 🇩🇪. We offer 15 scholarships & encourage talented students to apply by April 6th ♻️🙏

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The only thing cuter than a capybara is a baby capybara

submitted 30 days ago • 234 comments

As scientists going through difficult times, I think it’s important to remember the things that bind us together: 1) Our love of free food. 2) Our inability to explain what we do to our families. 3) Our hatred for Reviewer #3. Now please go do fun things this weekend and hang out with nice people.

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Check out our new paper! Protein assembly in membranes is crucial yet elusive. Why steer when you can just observe? We introduce a bias-free simulation method that captures the full picture of transmembrane dimerization—free energies, mechanisms, and rates! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

submitted 30 days ago • 85 comments

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

There’s a saying when you are doing a long training run that the first mile is a lie. It basically means that the first mile is where your body aches and you mind tells you that you can’t do this. You want to stop. Like in running and other types of training, these feeling are normal.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

submitted 32 days ago • 52 comments

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

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