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NIH funding is frozen. @annikabarber.bsky.social is keeping score: 50%+ of study sections planned for this year (77/148) have been cancelled. I talked to Dr. Barber about why these delays are disastrous, and why scientists should be pooling info and speaking up: www.chronicle.com/article/nih-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Today, a collaborative grant we submitted to the National Institutes of Health won't be reviewed. No one's will. Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section. Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder. a 🧵

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Something beautiful to look at... Photo by my very talented photographer bro-in-law Indrajeet Dasgupta (posted w/permission). He spent several days camped out in the snow and ice at 13,000 ft in Spiti Valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India to track this gorgeous female snow leopard.

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I am heading to DC for this. Hope people will go to their local marches if you can’t make it to DC. Let’s make some noise!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I have to say that I haven't always loved living in Boston, but wow - the replies and quote posts to this!! 😂😂😅. So glad I live here during these hell times. Boston 💪

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 5 days ago • 989 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

Returning at least temporarily to regularly scheduled programming - Always so wonderful to see ex lab members doing well. Here is a nice paper from ex postdoc Yanxun Yu. rdcu.be/eaLUW

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Very important to get this word out!

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

'Fuckwitery' - an apt word for the times. And thank you @jeremymberg.bsky.social for your past and current service.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I still don't think it's sunk in to many that after February 20th, there ain't no study sections.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Not to mention that this funding allows us to educate the next generation of biomedical researchers, physicians, and teachers. Plus we buy tons of reagents and equipment with this funding. It's almost like the goal is to return to the times when there were no antibiotics or vaccines... oh wait.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a gift link. This is a good one to share with your non-scientist friends and family www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 13 days ago • 519 comments

Hard to imagine those halcyon days when the most hot button topic online was whether or not to name your lab after yourself.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

ATTENTION If anyone has received a NoA after the "pause", please DM me with information about the mechanism and institute or center. THANK YOU

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

NIH Updates Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step. 1/2

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Just trying to understand exactly in what sphere the country is supposed to be made ‘great again’. Based on recent events, it won’t be education, or healthcare, or science, or technology, or jobs, or security, or world leadership.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

An excellent (that is to say, accurate) post about some of the shit that is happening. I’m leaving the fucking curse words in. Worth a read and a good reminder at the end.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

This from the NSF. Which has championed 'Broader Impacts' for decades. 'Women' is a flagged term. I feel terrible for the POs at the NSF. NSF caving like this wasn't on my bingo card.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Is there just no bottom to the NYT anymore? Here, I'll rewrite this for you. Democracy is out. Fascism is in. Since returning to the WH, the wanna-be dictator has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to destroy the country.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Did not expect to see this on the Tokyo subway. #WormsAreEverywhere

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from @kutnews.bsky.social about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n www.kut.org/education/20...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out the 2010 America COMPETES Act contains language I recognize because I've cribbed it from NSF's Grant Proposal Guide for every proposal I've sent to NSF www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu... It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14 uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r... R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I have been the grateful recipient of multiple grants from the NSF over nearly 3 decades. I’ve appreciated their focus on outreach and have participated in multiple such efforts. But WTAF NSF????

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

submitted 29 days ago • 400 comments

💯 We need people trained in evidence-based critical and logical thinking in all kinds of fields. Politics included - see current disaster in the US. PhDs/PDs from my lab are pursuing careers in diverse areas - policy, education, writing, law, as well as industry & academia. And that's a win for all.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about what’s happening at NIH is that not only will people die immediately from this administration’s choices but also people will die 50 years from now of illnesses that otherwise would have been treated or cured by research not done now

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Our universities are so good that our adversaries send their children to be educated here. We’re dismantling that unbelievable strategic advantage, hurting our own children and our own health in the process.

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Sharing our most recent paper, in which we find that electrical synapses in C. elegans drive action selection by "filtering" sensory information. C. elegans can learn temp, move across the temp. gradient and then track that temp. How? Configuration electrical synapses www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Dr. Matthew Jones, a climate expert, explains how worsening wildfires are driven by climate change, yet Trump denies science, prioritises oil drilling and may take the US out of the Paris climate accord.

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

On sabbatical in Japan. Needed Dr visit. Walk-in clinic in neighborhood. Visit-$60. Meds-$30. Visiting family in India before. Usual tummy troubles. Meds ordered online from local pharmacy. Arrived at doorstep in 60’. Cost $2. Last month in Boston. Insurance snafu. $600 for a 30’ virtual visit.

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