Chris Martin

"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"

Meanwhile, private foundations:

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Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

An anole lizard with a protruding orange dewlap sits on a shaded log.

We know we know, you're dying to know what's new in the world of Adaptive Radiation...well wonder no more! Here, Julia Day, @jameststroud.bsky.social, @fishspeciation.bsky.social & María del Rosario Castañeda discuss it in their Editorial below 👇🌍🧪
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UPDATE: Workers at FOUR of the most important US science agencies have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership.

After initially delaying their letter due to fears of retaliation, NSF workers have gone ahead anyway, and joined their colleagues at NIH, EPA, and NASA in speaking up.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

I'm hearing reports that President Trump's erratic mental state and decaying physical condition are both being driven by continued discussion of the Jeffrey Epstein cover-up, so please, if you care about this man's health and well-being, please, do not mention the Epstein stuff anymore, please.

A win! The Senate has agreed to restore roughly $400 million in funding for PEPFAR, the landmark HIV/AIDS program launched under President Bush that’s credited with saving millions of lives around the world. Keep speaking up, it makes a difference.

I found a cool cordyceps on a stink bug the other day! Pretty rad! What do you think?

Excellent summary of why trump is aligning with #PETA:

“Scientists too want to reduce animals in research …It’s a wedge issue because scientists and the public do not have unified views on animal research — unlike things like … fascism, which scientists are universally opposed to.”

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

This is what you’re supporting when you support Skype a scientist. This, 4000 times every year.

Also check out this amazing video filmed by my star undergrad who found this ongoing in the fish room this morning. #Anableps

Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh

Single newborn 3” four eyed fish - grey brown with a white dorsal stripe in a shoebox. Note the iris grows tendrils that meet in the middle forming two pupils in each eye - already fully formed at birth.

🚨New baby animal alert 🚨

For the first time - 13 newborn four-eyed fish in the lab after months-long gestation period!!!! 😍🥹 #Anableps 🤓🐟

With this budget, ICE would have as much money to build concentration camps as all NIH biomedical research in this country 😳

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas ALT: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas

The DNC and leadership is not a serious organization and being ineffectual is their brand.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Phelps was invited to NIH for testing to determine if she qualified for a promising breakthrough immunotherapy treatment that has shrunk tumors in about a quarter of the patients with gastrointestinal cancers. She said, "When I was invited to go back, I had cancer patients congratulating me. They were like, 'You made it!' It's like making it into the Olympics when you're a cancer patient." NIH Changing Clothing Prior to Mki ATTENTION STAFF AND PATIENTS Some clothing manufactures are now weaving metallic fibers into clothing. Inese fibers can BURN patients during MRI procedure In order to keep our patients safe, all street clothing" must be removed prior to any MR. macing PATIENTS MUST CHANGE INTO HOSPITAL ATTIRE PRIOR TO IMAGING Plants tamoun Clothing excoot undernants and use the nosoital orovidec 2. Please remove ALL jewelry and piercings. Technologist immediately. Natalie Phelps, diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer, hoped to enter an NIH clinical trial. FAMILY PHOTO The clinical trial is run by Dr. Steven Rosenberg, a legend in the field of cancer research who is still practicing in his mid-eighties. "Well, she's a young

“Phelps was invited to NIH… "When I was invited, I had cancer patients congratulating me. They were like, 'You made it!' It's like making it into the Olympics when you're a cancer patient."

“The clinical trial is run by Dr. Steven Rosenberg, a legend in the field of cancer research”

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...

Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social