Metabo_Dave

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

5. I don't know that US will ever be a stable place for science again. I know that sounds nihilistic but the 50% of the country that voted for Trump is not going anywhere and they appear to be ok with blowing up the entire research infrastructure for shits and giggles.

A couple of related-unrelated thoughts that have swirling in my head:

1. This is a bad time to become a new PI in the US. Probably the worst since WWII. If you're negotiating for a position, know your road is way harder than it was for the people on your TT committee. Negotiate accordingly.

Interesting “The compact asks universities…to require undergraduate applicants to take the SAT or ACT.” I’m not sure the white supremacists of the regime are going to like where this goes.

This is Russ Vought's wet dream playing out in real time. Pray for the NIH.

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates…now that it is white folks being affected Mike Lauer, prior head of the Office of Extramural Research at the NIH, has been quoted in a recent Nature news bit by Max Kozlov on the Fiscal Year 2025 grant funding picture. Kozlov writes, in pa…

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates...now that it is white folks being affected drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/l...

Going to use this for the next lab meeting.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

4014 fewer grants funded in FY25. Did I read that right?

Weak

Ezra Klein’s moral collapse is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in politics

“Solved a self imposed crisis meant to harm science with a solution that also harms science, just not quite as much” is a bit unwieldy for a headline.

"near miracle"

Is it though??

For example: of the 26 most recent NIGMS, R35 NGAs, 9 appear to be MYF. By my count, instead of 26 awards, NIGMS could have funded 62.

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Correct read. Schumer just finding a way to support the CR.

Want to see the actual data first. I'm very skeptical of company press releases.

OK, I never believed that the earth and humanity was part of some weird board game invented by aliens for their own amusement....but I think it might actually be true.

Jesus. We are our own worst enemy sometimes.

Just drop the whole "of course the NIH needs reform, but..." stuff altogether. Now is NOT the time for nuanced conversations, as this piece in the NYT perfectly demonstrates.

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Yeh the J1 is not a safe haven anymore.

Without giving away too much, we have already been told not to match these candidates.

This will negatively impact residency applicants needing/currently on an H1B too. It's that time of the year.

Absolutely wild. This will absolutely destroy science in the US. Fucking nuts.

"A representative Western blot from three replicate experiments is shown" vibes

"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to
3,758 newly funded projects."

Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why

Dems have totally blown the messaging on this. They should have been signaling no support for a CR months ago given all the.....oh I dunno....authoritarian shit going on??!!