Darian Carroll, PhD

Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.

"Desk rejections based purely on linguistic grounds waste valuable knowledge and silence the diversity of voices essential for scientific progress."
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1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
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🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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I 100% agree! When we notify authors that their preprint has been reviewed, the ones that respond are generally receptive!

Holy moley — just flagrant violation of court orders

there need to be sanctions and enforcement

put NIH under an external receiver?

Went to primary care doc today and broke down crying as soon as they asked how are things in my life right now. Just to illustrate how scientists/academics are doing despite our game faces.

Sharing an actual communication sent to a student that applied for an F31 Diversity Fellowship. This is an unnecessary, targeted attack on this student and thousands of trainees in similar positions.

Man I wish I had a PI that took the time to say sentences like that to me before I reached burnout in my past life.

About to cry emo tears cause a RA in another lab was venting about how stressed they are to their PI and she said “If it’s weighing on you, take the weekend [to decompress]. There’s nothing important that we need around here and I hope that we haven’t made you feel like you have to push yourself”

“In this transitional stage of my career, I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out.”

Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)

Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.

Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.

Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

Flyover Country What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.

With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

Just a reminder that these actions by the admin violate the 1A as surely as the exclusion of the AP from the WH press pool does. Is any academic institution going to fight back? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Postdoc Small Joys: Seeing the results of an experiment that used a technique that you recently learned.

I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.

Something that makes me happy? Being so collaborative in my approach to science that I meet my daily steps goal walking across campus to partner labs.

People being abducted on the street.
Science being obliterated.
State secrets being shared.
Federal agencies being dismantled.

There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.

New paper out from the Skaar lab!

Developmental mitochondrial complex I activity determines lifespan | EMBO reports imageimageTemporal manipulation of CI function reveals development as critical window where reduction of CI produces short-lived and stress sensitive adults characterised by maladaptive transcriptomic...

Glad to see this paper on the role of #mitochondria in #ageing from Alberto Sanz lab finally out, cool story that was in development for a long time. As always a pleasure to collaborate!

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1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

By Arthur Caplan:
"many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."

"the only way forward is speaking truth to power."

Something I’ve been thinking about coming out of February is how many scientists that study chronic diseases have told me that they think they’ll be fine after all the NIH dust settles because they don’t study infectious diseases or cancer or gender, as if we are not on the same burning boat.

Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.” “N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.” He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A screenshot of a web page of the NIH Postbac Program. The message on the page reads “The NIH Intramural Program has paused the recruitment of IRTAs, CRTAs, and Visiting Fellows in all training programs pending guidance from Health and Human Services. Check back daily for updates.”

With everything going on I went to check the NIH Postbac Program and was sadden to see this on the main page. For those who don’t know, I was an NIH IRTA Postbac and I attribute so much of my training from this program. I did not get much research experience during my undergraduate. (1/7)