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For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

I love the south and its glorious strip malls. Cremation Society of Virginia smack dab between a Dunkin’ and a nail salon

Trump imposes new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul - The Economic Times H1B Visa Fees: President Trump has introduced a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visas, aiming to attract highly skilled individuals and discourage the displacement of American workers. This decision sign...

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either.

m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

The image is an event flyer for the Mutational Scanning Symposium (MSS) 2026. On the left, the MSS logo features a cluster of squares in shades of orange, green, and gray forming an abstract representation (of Australia), next to the text "MSS 2026 Mutational Scanning Symposium" in orange and gray. Below it, details about the event read: "March 25-27, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia." The phrase "REGISTRATION IS OPEN!" is prominently displayed in orange, followed by information about abstract submissions. A URL in blue text at the bottom provides further information. On the right, six invited speakers are showcased in a grid layout. Each speaker has a photo with their name and affiliation underneath: Prof Matthew Hurles (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Prof Maitreya Dunham (University of Washington), A/Prof Fumitaka Inoue (Kyoto University), Dr Alex Wagner (Nationwide Children's Hospital), A/Prof Melissa Call (WEHI), and Prof Mark Dawson (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre).

Registration is now open for the Mutational Scanning Symposium!! This is one not to miss. Invited speakers include @mehurles.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social
#VariantEffect26 Register soon for the early bird rate!
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Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest

I got my COVID and flu shots at CVS totally without incident today…I was even offered a free bag of popcorn

A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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[Looks up from coding]

[Sees updates]

[Goes back to coding]

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

I’m to the “build a miniature greenhouse model” phase of faculty app procrastination

Frankly, this is the only thing that will lead to change at this point.

And further, scientists, both in healthcare, academia, and industry, need to do the same. Let's see how well the country functions when the college classrooms, labs, and hospitals are empty.

I see we’ve moved on from pumping face creams with plant stem cells

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I'm team "stay and fight for better for all academic workers"

We want to call attention to a few sections of this post from @safa-science.bsky.social from a few weeks ago:

"My grant wasn’t affected in this case. Why will this [ruling] affect me?"

"Don't we need to respect SCOTUS to protect rule of law?" and

"But if SCOTUS says it's legal, how can we argue?"

a gray and white cats lies on her back with her feet tucked in front of a TV

Percy honoring the age-old tradition of falling asleep during sports

August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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AAMC Statement on Supreme Court Decision Allowing NIH Grant Terminations to Proceed The AAMC issued a statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision permitting the termination of NIH grants.

AAMC: “Make no mistake: This was a decision critical to the future of the nation, and the Supreme Court made the wrong choice. History will look upon these mass National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant terminations with shame.”
www.aamc.org/news/press-r...

Throughout this whole saga, I’ve felt the collective agony of being in constant contact with other MOSAIC scholars facing the same shitty fate. I don’t want to downplay the deep solidarity/support, but what I feel most acutely is the wave of grief crashing over hundreds of early-career scientists.

Exactly what I expected, but disappointing nonetheless

to the PIs, is it advisable going on job market this fall when things are seemingly falling apart, or riding the postdoc wave for longer (while funding lasts) for some semblance of stability?

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I am not the only Tovar household member captivated by her!

I like watching the web slightly distort as she sets up the radial thread

A spotted orbweaver spider is seen spinning her web

This orbweaver moved into our backyard last weekend. Every evening I watch her spin a web across our sliding glass door, and every morning before I leave for work I look for her tucked into the doorjamb