Vivek Kumar

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.

One of my students who was very interested in biomedical research and wanted to apply to grad school decided to take the LSAT and apply to law school. The main driver was the uncertainty & turmoil of federally funded research. It’s the first law school recommendation I have written in my career.

The full making-of recorded with {camcorder} in #RStats 📹 🧵4/5

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Group picture of JAX SSP alums standing with their arms raised behind a large blue ABRCMS sign.

Group picture of Sarah Wojiski, Ph.D., director of education and external programs, and Brent Berwin, Ph.D., director of courses and conferences, from The Jackson Laboratory, with Lilian Kabeche, Ph.D., from Yale University.

Group picture of the leadership team for the Cell Biology category at ABRCMS: Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., from UCLA, Gustavo Arrizabalaga, Ph.D., from University of Buffalo, and Brent Berwin, Ph.D., from The Jackson Laboratory.

Group picture of JAX SSP alums at a long wooden table.

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Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

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Science will be much more efficient without scientists.

Universities are being destroyed because we don't NEED them anymore.

Instead, all existing data will be fed to AI "agents" who will mine them to "test new hypotheses" and "generate scientific breakthroughs". 🤨🤢🤮

#academicsky #edusky 🟦🧠

Low, backlit mountains mirrored in a lake at sunset

Eagle Lake, Acadia NP, last night around 4pm

Portrait of Dr. Rita Colwell with short silver-gray hair, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing round glasses, pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a white blouse, and a dark blazer. Her arms are confidently crossed, and she stands against a plain medium-gray studio background.

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.

She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

I'll be giving a talk at UCSD Psychiatry today at noon. Please drop by.

Hello New York! Giving a Swartz seminar at NYU today, come say hi!
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Nice work , Jacopo.

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.

Watch till the end
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social

Oh no. Sorry to hear this, Jason.

Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

great article. Agree on point 2 - we all need to think more like engineers. Disagree on the premise of point 1 - no one is keeping engineers out, rather some engineers are daunted by the complexity of biology and choose simpler systems to explore.

Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.

"So let’s not confine engineers to the workshop or the data center. Let’s bring them into neuroscience, as scientists. And at the same time, it won’t hurt to try to think like engineers ourselves, at least some of the time."

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

After the torture of Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, and even fricking Ro Khanna, what a relief and joy to have a righteous south Asian like Mamdani light up the horizon.

Applications Open!

The Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center is accepting proposals for the 2025–2026 Pilot Program Awards 🧬

🔹 General Pilot Awards
🔹 Translational Research Pilot Awards
💰 $5,000–$20,000
📅 Deadline: Nov 5, 2025

Apply: oklahomanathanshockcenteronaging.org/pilot-grant

#AgingResearch

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

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Symposium deadline for IBANGS 2026 in Pittsburgh (June 8-11) is November 7! @ibangs.bsky.social www.ibangs.org/symposia-sub...

Wow - nice. I have to stop by.

Congratulations Tracy!

Happy fall!

Post Doctoral Research Fellow – Circadian Biology and Genomics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America | Fellows, Students & Interns at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Apply for Post Doctoral Research Fellow – Circadian Biology and Genomics job with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Fellows, Students & Inter...

My lab is seeking to co-hire a postdoctoral fellow with the
@shaonsengupta.bsky.social team. See details below!

I'll be #ASHG2025, so open to discuss further there if interest.

careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...