Rebecca Pompano

There’s still time to submit your abstracts for poster presentation at CMBE 2026 in beautiful Puerto Rico! www.bmes.org/2026/cmbecon... #CMBE2026 #BEvision #BME #Bioengineering

We have no permanent president, CEO, or dean as of today. We’re either on the cusp of utopia or about to slide into a hell of blood and fire. Will report back.

The Trump Rescissions Package What is at Stake Before July 18

Tell your senators to vote NO on Trump’s rescission package and protect foreign aid, NPR, PBS, world hunger, HIV/AIDS prevention, and more. These funds have already been allocated and Trump and the GOP want to slash them which will hurt millions of Americans & will dismantle our government further.

This is extremely bad: “expect placement by political appointees.”

This is Lysenkoism, politics controlling science, and we know how it ends: with the death of science.

“For successful science, reality must take precedence over politics, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

My daughter graduated two years ago, a niece last year. This was not the way. This has largely happened in just one year.

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Thank you, I hadn't appreciated this distinction. I just looked at the One Big Bill from the House; no mention of NIH or NSF. So, science funding will be voted on later this summer. That's great and gives us just a little more time to advocate and get the word out to the public and congress. 📢

The Prospect article in the first post notes that NIH cuts are "a sleeper issue" in the bill.

Future cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, chronic diseases, and the next pandemic should not be a "sleeper issue". Workforce for pharma and biotech should not be a sleeper issue.

Time to wake people up!

Here's what's in the GOP megabill headed for a vote in the Senate Senate Republicans released the full text of their massive tax and spending bill that contains many of President Trump's top campaign promises. Here's a look at what's in and what's out.

So far even NPR isn't highlighting the major cuts to research funding at NIH and NSF. It was completely left out of this otherwise highly informative rundown of what is in the bill. @elenamoore.bsky.social maybe you could add it? These cuts will have tremendous impact. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g...

For NSF, a sample call script and NSF facts by state are here from #SaveNSF: www.savensf.com/take-action

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

Reasons to rescue federal funding for biomedical research, articulated well here by people who care about both science and the economy:

www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

Re: the crisis at UVA. The world notices when a US president connives with local Republican politicians & wealthy MAGA donors to force an American university president out of office. They know that it means very bad things for this country as a whole. 👇🏽

Will the Senate Save NIH? Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below.

prospect.org/politics/202...

Please join @kateycooper.bsky.social and @ascbiology.bsky.social for a webinar about LGBTQ+ experiences in biological sciences! June 18th, 2025 at 2pm EST. #pride #pridemonth #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb

NSF budget proposal slashes funding across the agency The proposed 57% cut will drive down the agency’s funding rate and eliminate training programs

The Trump admin wants to cut the NSF's budget by 57%.

In terms of directorates, EDU and ENG would see the biggest cuts at 75%, while MPS is looking at a ~67% cut. The proposal also defunds nearly all postdoc programs and slashes the NSF GRFP budget by 55%.

More here: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.

“A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women infected with COVID-19, about 1 in 80 deliveries was a stillbirth — the loss of a fetus anytime after 20 weeks. That’s compared with 1 in 155 among uninfected women”

Pregnant women need access to Covid boosters.

TW for photos of Covid placenta:

Raise your hand if you want a Covid-19 booster!

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The F.D.A. May Restrict Covid Shots. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?

FDA is set to restrict access to Covid shots for healthy people 6 months-64. I asked HHS if initial shots will be available to infants; no answer. One former CVS executive thinks healthy ineligible people who want a shot will face new costs.
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We tried to warn everyone that every Covid infection ages you, and we tried to warn them it would take a few years for the impact to manifest. On cue, everyone's talking about Gen Z's "accelerated aging," and they still refuse to acknowledge one major source of the problem.

My heart is absolutely breaking for US science

6 weeks now. No Funding Opportunities.

FDA names oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Covid vaccine critic, as the new vaccine chief Prasad was an outspoken critic of the FDA’s response to the pandemic, including the former vaccine chief, Dr. Peter Marks.

The FDA names Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

Millipore Sigma will add temporary tariff surcharges on products shipped to the U.S. Millipore Sigma, one of the largest suppliers of medical research products, will start adding a temporary tariff surcharge to all product orders shipped to the U.S.

Scientific research is going to be hit by tariffs: Lab research supplier Millipore Sigma is going to add temporary surcharges on all orders shipped to the US.

More @statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social:

#chemsky #sciencesky 🧪🩺🧫💉⚗️
www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

A chance to explain personal connections to research we do, and how we serve the public with the federal dollars we work hard to earn.

If in industry, the REU you did or NSFGRFP you got helped shape the scientist you are. Write about it!

#SciComm #McClintockLetters

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.

How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.

See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇.

That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.

Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.

Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut

Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.

Let them be ill: MAHA!

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The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"

I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience