Rocky Diegmiller

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

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man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

An infographic with a QR code in the bottom left to join a community of scientists from West Virginia. The goal of the group is to build a community of STEM members and inspire future generations of scientists from The Mountain State

Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!

STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

2. The National Science Foundation's 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are VACATED. 3. The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation's 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law. IT IS SO ORDERED. June 20, 2025 /s/Indira Talwani United States District Judge

I was having lunch with an NSF program manager when her cell phone lit up, all with messages about the overhead rate.

We won! The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts said NSF can't reduce the overhead rate to 15% for universities! 🥳

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Published in the Wheeling Intelligencer this week as part of the #McClintockLetters

www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/loca...

Science Funding Cuts Affect Our Present and Future Zebrafish are cool. They’re just one of a handful of animals that can regenerate their brain, spine, and even heart after injury. Unsurprisingly, a lot can be learned from studying how these injured o...

Happy to see the article I wrote in print back home! Thankful for the McClintock Letters organizers (‪@cornellasap.bsky.social‬) and Science Homecoming (@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social‬) for all their hard work in coordinating this effort.

Harvard is everything now. There is no next round. We're all Harvard.

Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance.

Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
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As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear:

I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers regenerative cell proliferation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647033v1

Tweet from rightwing economist celebrating Bhattacharya taking over NIH for the Trump regimr

This is a shocking lack of courage from Stanford.

Stanford is allowing Bhattacharya to go emeritus instead of calling him out—for all he got wrong on COVID and for all the rank garbage he wrote in rightwing sites from Epoch Times to NYPost Opinion.

Stanford will own the damage to NIH that he does.

Epithelial polarization by the planar cell polarity complex is exclusively non–cell autonomous For cells to polarize collectively along a tissue plane, asymmetrically localized planar cell polarity (PCP) complexes must form intercellular contacts between neighboring cells. Yet, it is unknown wh...

Awesome work just published! Certainly wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible support and dashing good looks of the first author’s significant other

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling

a) a single weapons contract or
b) a single Elon Musk contract?

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

No matter what Rocket Man says, the NIH offers a strong return on investment www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️

www.standupforscience2025.org

Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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Decaying and expanding Erk gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.23.634576v1

Come to Tokyo March 2026 for the limb conference! Honored to be sharing the keynote space with Cliff Tabin and Ken Poss.