Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT π
16.10.2025 17:29 β π 45 π 45 π¬ 0 π 3
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this yearβs cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
08.10.2025 23:29 β π 4723 π 1833 π¬ 142 π 81
I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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06.10.2025 23:27 β π 301 π 164 π¬ 14 π 24
Saturday morning, waiting for kid's soccer game, is a great time to indulge in the lowest form of humor:
LAB HAIKU!
1.
Does anyone know
whose PCR is in there?
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
04.10.2025 11:45 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans
30.09.2025 23:00 β π 17 π 11 π¬ 1 π 1
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
26.09.2025 20:00 β π 12 π 18 π¬ 0 π 2
C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM
This EMBO Workshop on C. elegans Biology is t he IV Latin American Worm Meeting. It will convene in MΓ©rida, Mexico. The overall mission of this meeting is to create an inclusive environment that proβ¦
Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24β28 February 2026.
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents π§ͺ
23.09.2025 13:17 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Articles of Impeachment for RFK, Jr. introduced
thehill.com/policy/healt...
25.09.2025 16:18 β π 380 π 105 π¬ 13 π 12
Did you know? GSA Award nominations stay active for at least three yearsβgiving nominees three chances to be selected and recognized for their impact on genetics.
Nominate yourself or a colleague by October 1: buff.ly/YYKKGJx
25.09.2025 16:05 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!
There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! π¦
17.09.2025 21:32 β π 1014 π 357 π¬ 30 π 63
CALL TO ACTION!
During one of our meetings this week with a House Dem, who shall remain nameless, the idea that "DEI research doesn't save anyone's life" was espoused.
My team was *flabbergasted* by this assertion.
PLEASE DROP YOUR PEER REVIEWED WORKS OF "DEI" SAVING LIVES HERE SO WE CAN SHARE!
18.09.2025 14:57 β π 28 π 10 π¬ 4 π 1
Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach
Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...
By adding your name, you join a growing chorus of federal workers and the public telling Senate Democrats:
Stand firm. Protect our democracy. Fight, donβt fold.
βοΈ Sign here and Spread the word π₯
#FightingCR #SchumerShutdown
20.09.2025 01:15 β π 33 π 22 π¬ 2 π 1
A slide about how NIH will fund foreign collaborations going forward.
Some information from the NIGMS Advisory Council meeting today.
On foreign grants...
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11.09.2025 16:01 β π 11 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0
original reprints of two papers, from the CGC (stamped). 1976 and 1977.
today in Iβm Not Crying, Youβre Crying, original reprints from the CGC (1976, 1977) #celegans
11.09.2025 00:09 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete.
Not great news...
The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year.
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08.09.2025 18:29 β π 118 π 60 π¬ 4 π 4
Had a great day hosting @lesleynweaver.bsky.social for a seminar at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social ! Just forgot to take a photo at the seminar π€·ββοΈ
03.09.2025 18:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but...
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
π§΅ Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
29.08.2025 14:50 β π 160 π 74 π¬ 4 π 11
Nice tributes - sorry Mike
29.08.2025 19:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it
ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it
WARNING WARNING WARNING
#ResearchAdmini
I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.
25.08.2025 19:23 β π 57 π 49 π¬ 7 π 4
ADD YOUR NAME: Support the FEMA workers' Katrina Declaration!
Join the courageous and committed FEMA workers who are standing up!
Courage is contagious! Congratulations FEMA signers on releasing your Declaration of Dissent, and welcome to the club! Sign the support letter for these brave FEMA workers who help people before, during, and after disasters!
25.08.2025 12:02 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Flyer for a conference
π£ Save the date π£
The next FASEB Science Research Conference on TGF-Ξ² Family in Development and Disease will take place:
July 26-30, 2026 in Porto, Portugal!
@faseborg.bsky.social
With Mythreye Karthikeyan @mythreye.bsky.social, Rosemary Akhurst and Andrew Hinck
web.cvent.com/event/af5f6d...
23.08.2025 12:06 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Certain extramural investigators have received NOAs this week listing the indirects at 15%. What's happening at your institution?
22.08.2025 17:31 β π 9 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1
π¨ACTION OF THE DAYπ¨
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!
For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)
DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
21.08.2025 13:47 β π 494 π 291 π¬ 33 π 59
Has your NIH grant been withdrawn, left without review, pending, or delayed?
Consider joining thousands of scientists represented in the
NIH VS. APHA case.
Deadline Monday, August 25st, 5pm EST.
@SaveHealthResearch
Deadline extended
www.instagram.com/p/DNd-PdvyU3F/
17.08.2025 20:32 β π 11 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
August 2025 Sign-on Letter
Made with Fillout, the best way to make forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer.
This letter, to Harvard's leaders encouraging them not to give in to Trump, is open for signature by everyone.
You can remain anonymous if you want. But please read and sign if you can.
crimsoncourage.fillout.com/august-letter
12.08.2025 23:33 β π 177 π 99 π¬ 13 π 5
The Supreme Court is about to decide whether political appointees can cancel ongoing medical studies that have already been vetted by top scientists and doctors.
Background:
The National Institutes of Health is by far the largest health research organization. And it is effective - NIH supported 99% of recently developed
treatments.
The current Administration has
interrupted biomedical science across all fields, including for example research on vaccines, Alzheimer's, cancer, and equitable healthcare delivery.
Background:
One major threat to NIH research is in the hands of the Supreme Court. The Administration asked the Supreme Court to pause an order requiring NIH to reinstate illegally cancelled
medical studies.
A Reagan appointed Judge found these cuts were arbitrary and capricious - meaning the development of future cures was stopped without reason.
@SaveHealthResearch Sho
3
1/ SCOTUS is poised to let the Trump/Vought administration terminate NIH grants WITHOUT REASON. π¨π§ͺ
Act now, #shadowdocket decision coming any day now (Action call in 2nd post)
Explainer: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
Shareable graphics from:
www.instagram.com/p/DNQ1k9vufj...
12.08.2025 23:50 β π 4 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
Science and fun from the lab of Tony Hyman at the MPI-CBG @mpicbg.bsky.social. Tweets by Hymanlab members.
https://hymanlab.org/
Associate Professor | UNC Chapel Hill, Pharmacology Department | Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | Research in Endocrinology, Epigenetics, & Wnt signaling| Views my own. https://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/pruittlab/team/
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| Former NIH Postdoc |
Organizer & Advocate for Science, Democracy, and Labor π§ͺπΊπΈβ
(opinions are my own)
A grassroots effort of NIH alumni and community members mapping out the future of biomedical research. Not gov. affil.
Reach us at www.27unihted.org
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/27unihted
Research lab @DukeU studying cell response to stress | Ubiquitin | Gene Expression | Diseases
Always promoting Diversity, Inclusion & Equity | #BLACKandSTEM
Science writer, Fred Hutch News, covering the Basic Sciences and Human Biology research divisions of Fred Hutch Cancer Center @fredhutch.bsky.social. Frmr @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social, Akron Beacon Journal, soljourno.bsky.social, @ksjatmit.bsky.social.
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Ageing and molecular biology, attempting science writer π§¬
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Retired USDA scientist, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nematology. PSU and Duke alum. Writing the next chapter.
Professor Cellular Neuroscience @Yale; Associate Director WuTsaiYale; Co-fundador @CienciaPR #cienciaboricua π΅π· Γl; He; Him
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Official account of the Nematode Hunters science outreach program, bringing together 4th grade classrooms and undergraduate researchers to discover new nematode viruses
Iβm Gant. My lab studies how the structure of cells affects disease progression. Allen Distinguished Investigator in Molecular and Celular Biology at @UCDavis.
https://luxton.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Scientists, lecturer, mother.
My research is on C. elegans, longevity and ageing.
I β€οΈ popular science books and always look for recommendations.
I like long walks and πΊ (preferably together). My thoughts are my own.
Double English and Microbiology major. Firm believer that STEM should be STEAM. Fungal geneticist and lover of #scicomm and professional development. Boricua. She/her.
PhD candidate at Syracuse University. Studying the genetics of how early life stress translates to poor health outcomes later in life 𧬠using C. elegans as a model. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
Scientist studying epithelial biology, stem cells and cancer at UCL (@epicentr.bsky.social) π«
All views and opinions expressed are my own.