Prof. Aviles

a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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This is the first semester my students truly struggled to perform on an in-class midterm. As lame as the language of human capital is, the professoriate need to commit to ensuring college graduates come out of here with a basic skill set, including the ability to answer a short prompt in real time.

tobias from arrested development telling lindsey “but it might work for us”

dear university presidents and boards: it won’t

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

1787: States are the guarantors of citizenship and must protect citizens from federal overreach

1868: The federal government is the guarantor of citizenship and must protect citizens from state impositions on rights

2025:

Good morning. This is fascism.

A paint swatch for a shade called “Diverse Beige”

People on the East Coast trying to guess my ethnicity

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

University of Virginia faculty senate passes a resolution to delay the search for Provost until the tenth President of the University is in place. 59 in favor; 6 opposed. Tons of students in the room.

It’s a really hard time to be someone who studies US federal science policy, so from now on if anyone asks I play didgeridoo in an Australian jazz band.

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

Not surprising, but maddening. Such a loss of talent!

www.science.org/content/arti...

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

Clever work by economist Pierre Azoulay and colleagues shows that if the NIH budget had been 40% lower in prior decades, critical new drugs never would have seen the light of day.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Best thing I have seen in a long time. Nazi interrupts and heckles Psych 201 class, gets a quick and appropriate response. 10/10, no notes

Please read. #NIH #shutdown

US government is shut down, post your freshest lotr memes

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And, you all know Russell Vought. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way. So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse.”

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.

Secretary Kennedy Swears in Dr. Anthony Letai as Director of the National Cancer Institute Dr. Letai will serve as NCI’s 18th director.

RFK Jr. really stood up here and said, when NCI is the FIRST and LARGEST of NIH’s categorical institutes, that “Cancer, like other chronic diseases, was long neglected in federal research attention.”
I couldn’t breed a HHS Secretary more ignorant of basic facts in a lab.

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The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Where is the Dave Matthews Band when you need them

This is #infant #mortality in the United States. My piece in @thenation.com on how Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are making things much, much worse. Read it here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

a squirrel sitting on top of a rock with the time 3:10 ALT: a squirrel sitting on top of a rock with the time 3:10

Would love to be a pika tbh. No job, no bills, just chill on rocky outcrop and scream.

a man in a suit is laying in the dirt in front of a grave . ALT: a man in a suit is laying in the dirt in front of a grave .

How I feel each time I talk to someone at NIH these days.

You’re laughing, but this is what your average faculty meeting is like.