Amir Bitran

Hi, this link is broken fyi

16.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

congrats Julia!!

08.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue: Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine) Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky) Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska) Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina) Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas) Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota) Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas) Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia) Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana) Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi) Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee) Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama) Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma) Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska) Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota) Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington) Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois) Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island) Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire) Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon) Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware) Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii) Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin) Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut) Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland) Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico) Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan) Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York) Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

07.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 378    🔁 327    💬 18    📌 48

heard it as a rumble more than I felt it in Berkeley

09.06.2025 04:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

Lovely article from our colleague Kseniia Petrova, who has been wrongfully imprisoned for months: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

13.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 21    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Such an honor to give a talk at the annual @jcchildsfund.bsky.social retreat as a third year (!!) fellow. Thank you to the JCC for the fantastic support and lifelong community

08.05.2025 16:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

At the Stand up for science march, San Francisco

08.03.2025 06:00 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear all , Here is a call of more than 80 Israeli musicians re the situation in Israel and Palestine.

We will be grateful for sharing over social media widley.
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12.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Section 224 of Public Law (PL) 118–47 as carried forward by PL 118-158: SEC. 224. In making Federal financial assistance, the provisions relating to indirect costs in part 75 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, including with respect to the approval of deviations from negotiated rates, shall continue to apply to the National Institutes of Health to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions were applied in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017. None of the funds appropriated in this or prior Acts or otherwise made available to the Department of Health and Human Services or to any department or agency may be used to develop or implement a modified approach to such provisions, or to intentionally or substantially expand the fiscal effect of the approval of such deviations from negotiated rates beyond the proportional effect of such approvals in such quarter.

Here's a very important update from the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) on the proposed cuts to NIH Indirect costs: "Every year since 2017, the annual spending bill that funds NIH has included language prohibiting the Administration from making changes to F&A cost rates" 1/2 🧪

08.02.2025 14:43 — 👍 140    🔁 74    💬 5    📌 6

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

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