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'While pharmaceutical companies, like Merck and Bayer, have become household names, rarely is there an understanding of the academic roots of a new drug or therapy: foundations that in most cases date back years or decades.' www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

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mood.

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Keep in mind: these are AWARDED grants, with Notice of Awards. The federal government is not honoring existing contracts with this university, refusing to reimburse for costs charge on awarded grants.

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Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

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43% cut to dollar amount awarded in federal research grants by NIH in Trump ‘26 budget. 1800 fewer grants. The 27 ICs will be restructured into 8. www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...

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Dear lord: "On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled." The U of Cali system alone accounts for $4B+ per year in federal R&D. If true, let's hope for another all-or-nothing fight like Harvard's.

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"The scientific research base of the United States of America is the research university. We made that decision 80 years ago. We don't have a Plan B." — Condoleezza Rice

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Deep breaths everyone

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One year ago today 🌿 The one true cross on Limestone Ridge, looking across Limestone Gap to Limestone Ridge North. This windswept spot at 8,000' hosts many rare plants, especially cushion plants that are adapted to hot dry summers w/ desiccating wind & extremely cold winters. Just south of Wyoming.

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"IF YOU REALLY THINK THE ENVIRONMENT IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE ECONOMY TRY HOLDING YOUR BREATH WHILE YOU COUNT YOUR MONEY" @earthlyeducation.bsky.social

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"percentage of papers published in Science with at least one corresponding author with funding from the US federal government has been declining over the past 7 years [...] 54 to 44%. By contrast, the number of published papers originating from China has doubled...." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Excited to share that my work in the @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social lab describing chaperone-mediated phage sensing by a bacterial NLR-related protein is out in @plosbiology.org!

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Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Another cruel attack on women's health

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Matchstick quilting with a neutral thread color? What would you do? It’s 30”x30” and I think it will be my protest quilt on the taco’s birthday parade day. (The pattern comes out June 14, find GettingJazzyWithIt on Etsy to get the pattern!)

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Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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this is amazing

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For those who don't know Randy Pausch, he was a computer scientist who gave "The Last Lecture" at CMU when he had terminal pancreatic cancer. Lots of inspiration and life lesson. Worth the time to give it a watch (whether or not you have done so in the past. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_...

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Thank you @joshuasweitz.bsky.social for making this visually effective set of plots that puts into perspective the scale of the announced cuts to NIH, NSF and NASA

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👇🧪👇

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Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH can still be stopped. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

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A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

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friends #quiltsky , i have dibs on a used 2012 HQ Sweet 16 Long Arm Quilting Machine. (1.7 mio stitches on counter). good? bad? not worth the money? I dont know the brand, and i dont need another doorstop. any feedback appreciated.

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Meeting of the four #cryoET centers (funded by the NIH Common Fund), in beautiful Boulder! great exchange of ideas and totally nerding it out over all things cryoET. Great to hear from users from all across the country and their impressive science. #NIH at its best.

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It blows my mind to think that I've been at @addgene.bsky.social for over 1.9 million of the 2 million plasmids shared. Very proud of this organization and what it's contributed to the scientific community (and what the community has contributed to Addgene!).

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www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us." https://theatln.tc/HxwwbaTF

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I have had the privilege to train many chinese students over many years. They enriched our lives and did great science. Many are still here and contribute to the US scientific enterprise. The push to revoke student visas is cruel and unnecessary. We must push back. www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g...

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🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled: SCALE has been selected as a DFG Excellence Cluster! A huge thank you to our incredible team—this would not have been possible without your dedication and talent. 🙌 @dfg.de #ClustersOfExcellence #SCALEcluster 🧵

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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

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A very special first post on Bluesky: I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting my lab at Penn State this coming January in the Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology! I’ll be hiring at all levels soon. Check out updates, thoughts, and positions on the lab account: @hanna-lab.bsky.social

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Looking at some water from an algal culture for fun and came across these bizarre creatures, does anyone know what they might be? This looks like it might be part of their development where they initially emerge within this hairy chamber then hatch as they grow (?) more pics to follow 🧫

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💯👇

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this 👇 makes my point. Industry, speak up already. you arent shy when it comes to protecting your profits and privileges? so why not protect your vital pipeline?

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another great read from @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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wish i was there! @nhoitsma.bsky.social will do a stellar job representing the lab . Also, is that a #nucleosome on the slide? 😘

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🎉 Congratulations to Wolfgang Baumeister @maxplanck.de, awarded the 2025 #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine for pioneering work in cryo-ET! Learn more 👉 europa.eu/!JBXDBG #FrontierResearch #ERCSyG #CryoET #StructuralBiology #shawprize2025

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SFU invites applications from world renowned researchers for the prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition. Please see the ad to see if you qualify. In Vancouver, BC www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

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Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @AdamSerwer writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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this is an excellent summary in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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cannot overstate how bad this will be for universities at every level, from the financial (intl students pay $$$), logistical (intl grad students teach many courses), productivity (they also do a bunch of research), to more nebulous but still imp things like making campus life vibrant + diverse

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