Claire Doherty, PhD

Salk Institute mourns the loss of Nobel laureate David Baltimore - Salk Institute for Biological Studies LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute mourns the loss of molecular biologist and Nobel laureate David Baltimore, a former research associate and longtime nonresident fellow at the Institute. Baltimore died on S...

RIP David Baltimore. He is famous for breakthrough work that challenged dogma that information flows from DNA to RNA. In viruses, it is the opposite. This took virology in a new direction.

This was NIH funded research.

We stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...

This aged poorly

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:

Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

Can you share more information about fellowship opportunities with Organism? So many young scientists are losing hope here.

I completely understand. Wishing you all the best with your future lab and your research — we need scientists with convictions and values more than ever. Thanks for your insight!

I can certainly appreciate and applaud HHMI for taking care of their own at this time. However, I don’t think it is unfair to set forth the expectation for them to lead with courage and vision during this crisis. Sacrificing one generation of scientists for another doesn’t resonate with that goal.

There was a lot of chatter after IE3 cancellations about HHMI being performative in its response to the funding crisis, but it was centered on university systems. Cancelling trainee support, especially impacting minority trainees, is telling of HHMI’s lackluster commitment to people

They present the argument that they are canceling all future competitions to protect the scholars already served by HHMI. It is my understanding that no currently funded trainee awards have been canceled. HHMI gutted major initiatives earlier this year (IE3) which has devastated diversity programs

I’m 7 months into my postdoc and have applied to many of the private foundation awards. I wish I had better insight into their strategic decisions, but I’m happy to answer any questions that I am able to regarding what they’ve shared.

Maybe not new info, but I do want to shout out foundations that are showing their convictions with their funding power. @cancerresearchinst.bsky.social has actually increased their fellowship numbers this year!

Thank you for your response! Let’s hope we all weather this storm.

Do you have any suggestions on how to move forward an appeal on this decision? The research community feels so betrayed by HHMI now.

They said WHAT now?

It’s giving performative advocacy 🙄

Congratulations on your application! So disappointed in this group — I received the same email today.

So disappointed in this news. I’ve always seen HHMI as the best of the future, but this is disappointing.

These private grant orgs really said, “We hear that you need more support right now with the funding crisis. We’re actually going to suspend our fellowships until things settle down.”

So disappointed in the groups that were supposed to be leaders in the future of science.

#postdoc #hhmi

20,000 strong in Salt Lake City! Grateful for leaders who focus on unity 💙

@aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇

- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.

- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.

- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

It should work, but you might need to up the dose a good amount. Keep us updated if you think of it— I’m curious!

The people of the United States deserve the good science brings. #standupforscience #standupforscienceslc

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

YouTube video by Deb Haaland Are You Ready New Mexico

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Utah-

NIH FUNDING
$293 M

JOBS SUPPORTED
4,452

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED
$786 M

Wow, this is incredible. Congrats!

Breaking:
"The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.
U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm" - Reuters