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Loving my hometown airport right now. 👏🏼 #seatacairport

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Received an email just now from the School of Medicine Associate Dean of Graduate Studies that the pause on PhD admissions DOES NOT include the School of Medicine. Sorry to my colleagues in other Pitt schools that are affected.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

How is it that I, a PhD program director at Pitt, heard about this from the media and not my University?!?

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

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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Fascinating live updates on the F&A motion hearing happening now

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This is a program near to my heart. We're training the next generation of scientists in microbiology and immunology and giving them the skills to succeed!

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Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

When I was a postdoc at NCI, I trained several IRTAs/CRTAs. Now as director of @pitt-pmi.bsky.social I recruit them to our PhD program. This is devastating to the future of U.S. biomedical research.

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This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now: - H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled - TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak - Measles in Texas - Expanding - Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years - Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

If you don’t know where to start in contacting your members of Congress, @asm.org has done the work for you. Use and personalize their template template and put in your address. They take care of the rest!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is outstanding. All academic scientists should be required to watch this.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences. F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are! 🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Heartwarming Pfizer cancer commercial PS they get their best (and most profitable) ideas from the NIH

submitted 12 days ago • 85 comments

Just got off a webinar with a prominent national law firm on rules change on indirect rate. AAMC and other orgs on panel too. First, need to be convey that the rates are actual costs, not just overhead to pad the university coffers. Example- Institutional Review Board, space/utilities 1/4

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email [email protected], Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

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This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 14 days ago • 271 comments

“Senator McConnell is fine. The lingering effects of polio in his left leg will not disrupt his regular schedule of work.” I’m sure glad I had the benefit of a vaccine that prevented me and the majority of the world from contracting polio.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Our data in eRA are confidential. Non-government employees now have access?!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

Did you know that the first emergency medical service in the U.S. was started in Pittsburgh by 25 Black men? Come find out more next week from a former EMT! #HappyBlackHistoryMonth

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#HappyBlackHistoryMonth

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Since 1991, the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) is dedicated to K-12 students & funds innovative STEM educational projects. It supports our EvolvingSTEM program that engages >1500 students/yr in authentic research. 🚨Its Program Announcement (PAR-23-137) is now GONE.😡 nihsepa.org

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

“Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.” - Jim Acosta

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 30 days ago • 147 comments