Shyleen Frost

We are one week away from our annual George M Martin Memorial Symposium! Please join us for this hybrid event (in person registration includes lunch and reception).

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Attend via Zoom here: washington.zoom.us/j/93799036730

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.

I feel like everyone could use a bit of cake lately! 😅

Magnolia tree

After a rainy dark few months, spring seems to be in blossom in Seattle. This sight made my life feel a bit brighter and I hope it does the same thing for you.

#seattle #springblossoms #spring #floweringtrees #magnolia

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."

A dead stick covered in robust splitgill mushrooms is held up in the forest so their undersides can be seen. The mushrooms looks like a series of fireworks bursting from the wood. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.

🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US.

"It hurts," they told me.

My story for @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A never-before-shared photo of scarlet elf cup mushrooms from March 2024. Three red cups grow from under a mossy branch on the forest floor. Their bright red velvet interiors glow from inside fleshy white cups. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

The whole thread is worth reading.

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning.

That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.

Hope to see you next week #Seattle.

This isn't just for scientists. Science is for everyone. Biomedical research benefits everyone.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

March 7
12-3 PM
Seattle Center

Just so we’re clear:
1. Audiobooks count
2. Reading is political
3. The orange man is a piece of 💩

Thanks for stopping by 💃