Dylan Shropshire

Tenure Track Faculty Opportunity at Renowned Research Center in Philadelphia! - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US) job with Temple University | 12838286 Tenure Track Faculty Opportunity at Renowned Research Center in Philadelphia! Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR) Lewis Katz School of Medic...

Our department is hiring! Huge endorse! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#Dros25 was a blast, as always! Thanks to the organizers for planning an amazing meeting, and presenters for sharing their exciting advances!

It was excellent. Great job Peiwei! The Sandler Award was well deserved.

Anyone else being asked by NSF to return payment for serving as a reviewer?

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Congratulations!

I got the official word this morning that I am to be reinstated at NSF. I don't know what the future holds, but for now I am tremendously relieved!

Wonderful news!

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

We're thrilled to see the positive press our work in New Caledonia is getting! 24 million Wolbachia mosquitoes released since 2018 = zero epidemics since 2020. Described as a "Monumental success" that saved lives and €67M in health costs. Our #Wolbachia method keeps proving itself!

I cancelled my Amazon prime subscription today and will avoid them for the foreseeable future. We vote with every dollar we spend.

This will be devastating for many. I wouldn't be where I am today without this program.

Congratulations!

The 1212 nt fission-yeast S. pombe telomerase RNA (TER1) secondary structure, determined by phylogenetics and bioinformatics

In a preprint published today, we are excited to report the secondary structure of the 1212 nt fission-yeast S. pombe telomerase RNA, TER1, and its roles in the physicofunctional organization of this massive, flexible enzymatic RNP complex.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

🚨PA colleagues:

"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."

"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC

Get out your Other Support and share that info!

There are lots of things to be sad/mad about these days, but something that always cheers me up is to see talented student get the recognition they deserve. Talented PhD student @alpha423.bsky.social from my lab won first place in our department's Three Minute Thesis (#3MT) competition! #ProudMentor

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I have had a TON of people asking how they can help...here is what would help us the most right now: SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Tell us why you #standupforscience2025! Send flyers to your colleagues and labs! Change your bluesky banner! Tell your professional orgs and departments!

That the White House feels the need to push back on this is good news. It means they are feeling the heat, and it's not just being seen as an inside baseball issue. Because it's not.

Keep pushing! Keep calling! Keep fighting!

Can we really call this a "response"? Lehigh University shared a similar letter internally Saturday around noon.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

Thrilling to see a former student getting the recognition they deserve. Josie is a rising star!

Here’s where I’m at:

1. @asm.org has good track record helping advance IDEAA within science world

2. I know people in charge truly care about advancing IDEAA

3. Mistakes were made on this, coupled with poor communication

4. The track record here is worth grace for this mistake

I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.

This requires an immediate response from @asm and @vscooper.micropopbio.org

Found this gem in an arcane NSF doc...key to know:

The Constitution and law SUPERSEDES exec orders!

"In the event of a conflict between policies issued at a lower tier versus policies issued at a higher tier, the higher tier policy will take precedence"

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Resear...