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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-...

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The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

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Two open positions for a lab manger and a laboratory technician. Applications from displaced federal employees are welcome. Lab manager position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/410... Lab tech position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/391... Please email [email protected] if you have questions

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This was supposed to be a post about my lab's first funding of the year, a diversity supplement to fund our amazing research technician. The award never arrived. Now it's a post about the value of diversity and trying to persevere in these dark times. devinenilab.org/news/diversi...

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New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

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After 3 years as a rotator at NSF, i became permanent last august (and suddenly on probation despite years of good work). I quit my academic job in January. Today i was unceremoniously fired for “poor performance” (a lie) along with 167 other amazing folks (like Courtney). So unfair & insulting.

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Hi! I’m Erik and I’ll be helping with the moderation of the Science 🧪 feed by adding biologists whose field isn’t covered by any of the other moderators. Please reply to this post with a link to a lab/google scholar/research gate/ORCID/etc page, to be added to the feed!

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USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

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The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Shit you not, I firmly believe that one saving grace for many public universities will be the threat of college football going away

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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“Many grad programs are pausing and reducing admissions in response to NIH funding pauses and pending EO’s on indirect cost reductions. These workforce reductions have the potential to imminently and irreversibly harm research labs & grad programs”

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Funding science is like betting on horses. Only with science, for each dollar you bet on a horse, you average getting two to three dollars in winnings. Also, you can bet on more than one horse in the field. Plus you learn something that up to that moment, no one knew before.

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I have 31 students applying for 3 undergraduate research spots in my lab for the summer. It's heartbreaking to know we already aren't able to provide enough opportunities for research training, and that it will only be harder with the fallout from the current attacks on science. 🧪

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A US Senator Joins the Fray. Thank you @murray.senate.gov ! More of this, please! www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

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Junior scientists in the US are facing a shit-sandwich. If you have the financial means, apparently the Undergraduate Research Center is running a crowdfunding campaign to support the next generation of researchers. I donated, maybe you can too. crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/URC

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Back in the land of pork roll and good 🍕 @jenbiddle.bsky.social !

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

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Want a window into the mind of about 49.97% of all voting Americans? (warning: it's not pretty). I guess this is how they respond when science doesn't back up their transphobia and sexism? Good thing I never learned how to actually answer my skype-based office "phone".

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New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

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Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

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Been waiting for this one!

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Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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Keep defending your public services!

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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Anyone needing explainers on what F&A means and does for universities, please use the @c4lifesciences.bsky.social resources here: www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/facilities-a...

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Lucid takedown of a "zombie statistic" claiming that immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes rapidly, by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape. 👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective. kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...

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A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025 Apply by 3/21/25: bit.ly/phageschool2...

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This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

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As many of you know, ~170 Program Officers at #NSF were fired on Tuesday, including a number that worked in Divisions important to the EEB community (e.g., DEB and GEO/OPP). 1/3

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It’s ok everyone, the NIH lawyer is arguing that changing indirect rates immediately won’t cause irreparable harm

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Ah, one of the Plaintiff's lawyers explaining how the type of research influences IDC rates. He uses the example of animal research (absolutely the correct example, I probably would also have added clinical research too because of the regulatory burden). This is the argument I was waiting for.

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New OA Article: "Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota" rdcu.be/eaNsr Immunosuppression is conserved in this bacterial order, probably contributing to their prominence in plant microbiota.

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NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

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What the shit "For FY26 we are told about plans to reduce the NSF budget by 50%-75% - such reduction will mean no new awards for at least a year, elimination of divisions, merging of programs." nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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Base-modified nucleotides mediate immune signaling in bacteria www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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