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OK, stupid question. How do you enforce a tariff on a foreign film?

submitted 25 minutes ago • 1 comment

Attended a wedding yesterday where the dress code was “cowboy casual”. My wife did not tell me this because it “wouldn’t have mattered”. She then asked me how it would look to me if I invited a bunch of cowboys to a party where dress code was “professor casual”

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Neither here nor there…but the whole point of being a force user is you don’t have to be absolutely jacked to be powerful. Yoda…decidedly not jacked

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

submitted 18 hours ago • 54 comments

“But what about the kids that can barely afford one doll right now? What happens to them?”

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Delighted that @asm.org is among the leading societies filing an amicus brief in support of the ACLU suit appealing the unlawful recission of MOSAIC and other grants asm.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Our NSF HSI STEM grant w/ @drmtrujillo.bsky.social & Dr. Olga Calderon was terminated today. The goal was to help community college students transition to 4 yr schools and train them in wastewater epidemiology. We had an amazing 1st cohort and had a strong positive impact on their lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Most scientists in the USA don't understand how dire things are. As of April 21, to accept an award, your institution must certify that there are no DEI programs (poorly defined) on campus. No lawyer is going to sign this. This is an effective ban on new grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

If you are educating people about and advocating for NSF, here are talking points you can use (sharing with permission - feel free to repost and distribute, too). If you're making @5calls.org today, have this handy.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” … www.whitehouse.gov/omb/informat...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's not useful but I just can't believe we let people who believe this shit within light years of power

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

North America in three quotes by heads of state.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

It's time for American families to grow their own medical equipment

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

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submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

My 2028 primary vote will go to the candidate who says they plan to use all the extra powers that Trump has claimed for the executive branch.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know of a gateway compatible tn7 destination vector that has kanamycin resistance in the tn7 instead of gentR?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true. The request released moments ago would: - Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget - Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC - Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas' There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

This is very not good. We submitted an NSF proposal shortly before the inauguration, which was rejected today. So none in our competition were funded? This is chaos 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When you add an Addgene plasmid to the Materials and Methods section of your paper - make sure you also add the publication in your references too! We have a "How to Cite" section at the bottom of every plasmid to make it easy to copy the information needed in your publication.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Science is squeezed from both ends. Grant funding is being withheld, and at the same time our operating expenses are increasing dramatically because of tariffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH) Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

You might THINK the merit review process would already be screening grant applications for "compliance with agency priorities" but evidently you would be wrong

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We're in an epic, generational crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Hailing Jin, who was elected to @nasonline.org. Interkingdom RNAi is one of the most fascinating discoveries in biology in the last decades. profiles.ucr.edu/hailing.jin

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species? How many cells transmit when a strain is shared? Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable? We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper. 🧵[1/10]

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Looking ahead to an unpaid summer that I planned to write 3 NSF grants (2 pending) as my lab runs out of startup funding. Hearing about other dramatic cuts at NIH where I have a grant pending. USDA barely has any grant instructions up. And struggling to not just say “what’s the point” 😞 #NewPI

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

BASys2: a next-generation bacterial genome annotation system academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

From a reliable source: NSF’s budget cuts will be worse than they could ever have expected, and that almost all broadening participation programs will be killed. NSF is moving everything to standard grants only, with remaining budgets to paying down the mortgage from each program. 1/5

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

As comedy writers can tell you, “hat on a hat” means an unfunny bit that’s trying too hard. Happens to the best of us. But this cringemaster LITERALLY does it. All humor and wit dies with him!

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

He's spinning the ball on his fingers! Just take it!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Out in Nature today: A new immune signaling molecule, His-ADPR, is produced by defensive TIR domain proteins in bacteria to protect from phage Joint work with the Tamulaitienė and Kranzusch labs www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Carmel Avraham, Dziugas Sabonis, Renee Chang and co-authors!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

the only advice I'm gonna give students thinking about higher ed, especially graduate school, is just choose your own happiness and choose yourself. the moment its not sparking joy anymore and you can't imagine it sparking joy again, hit the bricks.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

~70% of the US would have died in the last 100 days if not for dear leader

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment