Beth Ryan

A group of students in a conference room looking at the projected slideshow.

The first Lunch & Learn panel by the Mass Spectrometry Student Society (MS3) at Cornell was a great success!
Full room of students eager to explore mass spec.
Huge thanks to everyone who joined, our panelists, and the MS3 team:
@bethylacetate.bsky.social, Herbert, Katie, and Yugandhar

More to come!

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

Good morning, dorks!...Today's your chance to stand up with us and 23,380 other proud science stans by signing your name to our Open Letter in Support of the 300+ NIH heroes of the historic #BethesdaDeclaration.

Be historic with us!

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#StandUpForScience
#NIHLoveLetter
#GetInDorks

They’re here! Introducing the Talented 12 Class for 2025. These early-career scientists are taking on big global #chemistry challenges.

Meet the 2025 Class: cen.acs.org/people/profi...

#CENT12 #chemsky🧪

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Cutting research investment isn’t fiscally prudent.

It’s economically self-defeating.

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism - Nature Metabolism Kenny and Scharenberg et al. provide a broad overview of the fundamental aspects of choline metabolism and cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

REVIEW | Kıvanç Birsoy, Monther Abu-Remaileh and colleagues @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social, @stanford.edu

The authors provide a broad overview of #choline #metabolism, its cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

the power of bright pink pants! excited for the next few years, onwards & upwards

What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists? Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute).

"let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔

www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say

Track more illegally cancelled grants here, work from @noamross.net:
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
As well as:
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

As well as hundreds of millions in NIH grants to specifically targeted universities: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

All after Bhattacharya started.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Unbelievable. 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🧬⚛️🍎

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

a bar plot showing that a greater percentage of F31 awards have been cancelled as compared to R01 awards.

But there's a catch - if you normalize these data to the total number of R01s and F31s awarded in 2023, the story changes: a greater *percentage* of the trainee awards have been cancelled as compared to non-trainee awards.

This structure is absolutely _nuts_. Lipids are captured marching through the tunnel

NSF halves graduate fellowship awards Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year

NSF halves graduate fellowship awards

Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time.

Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Wow. Turns out appeasement doesn’t work.

U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.

The 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award goes to Professor Jeremy Baskin! Congrats to Jeremy & our other esteemed presenters for yesterday's great symposium!
Jennifer Prescher, @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Carsten Schultz, @chembiobryan.bsky.social, @sonjakrane.bsky.social, @pubs.acs.org

Dr. Jeremy Baskin wins the 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog Get to know more about Dr. Baskin's work and career in this exclusive interview.

It’s an honor to receive the ACS Chem Biol Young Investigator Award! I’m most grateful for the contributions from all past & present lab members — it is an award for all of you as much as for me. (& also grateful to still be considered young 😅) axial.acs.org/chemical-bio...
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The Anti-Vax Culture War on mRNA Just Got Worse This time the government, by cutting NIH funding for research, is leading the charge.

“The suppression of scientific inquiry into an area of study that has already saved millions of lives and has the potential to be one of our best defenses against future pandemics puts all of us in harm’s way”
By @lisamjarvis.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

cover of the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry program which depicts a rendition of proteins and organelles within the cell

so honored to be selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry #LINO25 this summer! thrilled to have the opportunity to meet some of my scientific heroes and other young chemists from all over the world. sometimes the long shots pay off, can’t wait till June! 🧑🏼‍🔬

NIH cuts are hitting young scientists the hardest. By David Baker. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...

Are lipids actively sorted during clathrin mediated endocytosis like proteins? @mathilda95.bsky.social addresses this key open question together with our collaborators from the Honigmann and Modes labs using a new Lipid-STED workflow.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Bleak Future? Recent layoffs and funding cuts have not only crippled morale among scientists, they’ve also set an alarming precedent for the future of science

I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience

theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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🚨New preprint: There's this overlooked phospholipid with 3 acyl tails called NAPE that is made during ischemia. We identified its interactome & found it regulates lactate flux, suggesting metabolic functions in response to hypoxia. Congrats to Dylan Chiu! doi.org/10.26434/che... #lipidtime #chembio