Our institutions should be mounting as strong and as organized a response to the canceling of grants along ideological and partisan lines as they did against the illegal change to F&A costs. And our emails and/or letters to our research administrators and campus counsel should be asking for this.
I think this is a point we need to hammer home: These decisions about which grants are not getting reviewed or funded and which grants are being canceled are being done by an explicitly non-transparent process.
What would federal funding cuts do to a community's local economy, its people, & the next generation? UC Santa Cruz Science Professors Needhi Bhalla, Susan Carpenter, & Carol Greider state it plainly and painfully in yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel article. www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/03/20/g...
SARS-CoV-2 cellular coinfection is limited by superinfection exclusion journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Great opportunities for young virology investigators in Heidelberg. I’m sure there will be lots of adverts like this over the next few months.
To our US colleagues - come to Europe. We will actually value you.
Eveerybodeeeeeeee wish @needhibhalla.bsky.social the happiest of birthdays in this date and day by posting your favorite jam that's absolute fire
This is the clear reveal. It is about eliminating qualified competition from brown people. If it were about a supposed non-meritorious leg up, they would just prevent programmatic selection from using any measures to enhance diversity.
The NIH study section I'm serving on for student/postdoc fellowships has been rescheduled for late April (good). But the diversity fellowship apps have been eliminated from the review list (very bad). Extremely frustrating that they couldn't even be reclassified as standard fellowship apps.
Opinion piece in the @scsentinel.bsky.social by me, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider: Trump is turning off the lights on biomedical research: Why it matters for Santa Cruz
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/03/20/g...
Join us for the hybrid launch event of our new menstruation science initiative! Unlocking the secrets of the hormone-immunity nexus! If you've never heard Hilary Critchley speak you are in for such a mind blowing keynote!
cgr.mit.edu/2025/03/17/s...
‘NIH programs like PREP provided my first introduction to research,’ Steven Mesquiti, a San Antonio, Texas native writes, “Without these programs, countless students—regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation—will lose their chance to break into fields that shape our nation’s future.” 🧪🏠
ICYMI by First release - now in print @science.org
Identification of APCs in the gut that promote Treg differentiation and how tolerance to food antigens is influenced by helminth infection.
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By @cicacanesso.bsky.social @danmucida.bsky.social @victora.bsky.social et al
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
I was in Beijing last summer talking science; imho they are already there. It's good for science and good for humanity. Not good for America. Truly a very bad time to cripple American science.
Yay! @needhibhalla.bsky.social is coming to visit us at UCLA soon!!! One good thing to look forward to, so well needed at this time :)
Grants that people spent enormous effort writing and were already submitted are being politically withdrawn because of who they are. This is wrong.
If your grant is "reassigned" or removed this week before the study section review. This may be due to a new round of review on NIH research priorities under NIH's statutory and regulatory authorities. Hang in there.
Prof. Lauren Haack writes to her Wisconsin hometown 🧀 that science funding ‘matters for every student with a passion for science, every family with a loved one in a medical trial, and every young professional entering health care.’ 🧪🏠
@laurenmhaackphd.bsky.social
www.gmtoday.com/daily_news/c...
Let's not forget that apart from science advocacy the Rauch lab also does kick-ass science!
Together with the @psmitchej.bsky.social and Tait Wojno labs, we show that #tuftcells can induce specific protective signaling after recognition of intracellular bacterial infection via the #inflammasome!
First authors Madeline Churchill and Ankit Pandeya @nkeet50.bsky.social from @rauchlab.bsky.social show that tuft cells, known for their role in anti-parasite defenses, can also contribute to anti-bacterial responses in the small intestine. rupress.org/jem/article/...
#InfectiousDisease
More on #Drosophila #Viruses from @salehlabparis.bsky.social !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 The attack on science could have a generational effect. We risk losing a wave of early-career researchers to these cuts. And biomedical science in the US will be less ambitious, less competitive & lead to fewer breakthroughs. So much is at stake. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
Apologies for the “go-gurt” analogy 🤭
Some bright light during an absolute 💩 time— big thanks to the faculty @ UGA for hosting me this week! #IDSky @ceirrnetwork.bsky.social
Excited to be protesting today with my UMN colleagues because #ScienceIsForEveryone 🧪🧬 🧠
I’ll also be giving a brief speech at the MN state capitol about why diverse perspectives are an integral & necessary component for us to do good science ✨
#standupforscience2025 #ScienceNotSilence
Great crowd in Pittsburgh Standing Up for Science.
Thanks to all of the other great speakers sharing their stories!
Joining colleagues and concerned citizens across the US and around the world today who are Standing Up For Science. Why?
✔️research creates cures
✔️science grows the economy
✔️for my colleagues, our trainees, and the future of research and healthcare
✔️because science is for everyone
And I will be participating and speaking at the #StandUpForScience2025 rally @ucsantacruz.bsky.social this afternoon!
