Febri Gunawan Sugiokto

Congrats

Congrats

Win for #openscience!

Mars: simplifying bioinformatics workflows through a containerized approach to tool integration and management academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/GenomicAI/mars

NIH PostBac program is open again! And I will be hiring! #JobPostComing

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US reviewing federal contracts, grants to Harvard over antisemitism allegations The administration of Republican President Donald Trump announced a review on Monday of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.

Challenging times.

Harvard at risk of losing $9 billion in federal funds as US launches review

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

It even can make western blot result out of nowhere 😢😢😢 @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

2 years, 100+ citations amazing

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New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.

❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*

*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.

HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’ But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own

“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪

These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll Nature - In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move.

Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration

Are you thinking about leaving?

https://go.nature.com/4bMGd0J

Many forms of Long Covid: Long Covid is a multisystemic disease with sequelae that affect almost all organ systems. Various putative mechanisms that underlie these sequelae are not mutually exclusive and may explain the myriad health effects seen in Long Covid. Therapeutics that target these pathways, such as antivirals, anti-inflammatory agents, microbiome restoration, and anticoagulant drugs, may ameliorate symptoms.

A #SciencePerspective by @zalaly.bsky.social and @erictopol.bsky.social identifies key issues that need to be prioritized in the study of #LongCovid.

Learn more on #LongCovidAwarenessDay: scim.ag/3XKbds3

TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children - Nature Multisystem inflammatory syndrome following SARS-CoV-2 infection results from increased serum levels of TGFβ, which impairs the reactivation of virus-specific T cells.

Uncovering the road to MIS-C…

-TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children-

Brilliant work by a massively brilliant team.

#LongCovid #MISC #KD

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

PBRM1 directs PBAF to pericentromeres and protects centromere integrity - Nature Communications Centromere fragility can drive tumourigenesis, so protective mechanisms are important. Here, the authors suggest that the PBAF chromatin remodelling complex, which is frequently misregulated in cancer...

If you like chromatin remodellers and centromeres, this might be of interest. In it, we generated omics data from isogenic PBRM1 cell lines, which we hope is of use to the community, freely available (when evil forces aren't messing with the publicly funded websites 🙄) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Roche Introducing Roche Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) Technology

Wow
Just
Wow
youtu.be/G8ECt04qPos?...

Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?

Many US students don’t know how to seek opportunities outside the US. With some help from our colleagues in EU and Canada, we could put together a consolidated website of PhD opportunities and scholarships outside the US, organized by field. There might still be time for this year in some places.

Altered immune landscape of cervical lymph nodes reveals Epstein-Barr virus signature in multiple sclerosis Deep cervical lymph nodes of patients with MS have an altered B cell compartment that, in part, transcriptionally resembles an EBV infection.

Altered immune landscape of cervical lymph nodes reveals Epstein-Barr virus signature in multiple sclerosis | Science Immunology

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

2025 Study section tracking

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Freeze meetings -> reviews stop
Reviews stop -> no scores
No scores -> no recommendations
No recommendations -> no awards
No awards -> no $
No $ -> job & career loss, projects halted, lost discovery/cures/innovation + more

We have a narrow window before the science supply chain grinds to a halt.

Statement by the American Society for Microbiology.

Their website @asm.org has links to actions and more info.

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“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education “Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...

NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause Meetings of study sections and closed portion of councils back on track as agency also deals with diversity-related executive orders

The gears of the grantmaking machinery at NIH have begun moving again, after a 2-week standstill following a controversial ban on communications imposed by President Donald Trump. scim.ag/4aLQ0U6

a man with glasses and a black shirt says " it 's a small step that really goes a long way " ALT: a man with glasses and a black shirt says " it 's a small step that really goes a long way "

SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT NIH FUNDING

Closed sessions of institute and center Advisory Counsel meetings are now permitted. This is where grant applications are discussed and approved for potential funding.

Open sessions where there are public presentations and discussions are still not allowed.