Erika Calvo-Ochoa

Toxicity

@andrewwhitehead.bsky.social (Killifish/ Environmental toxicity)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.637481v1

Neuroscience

@erikacalvophd.bsky.social (Olfactory dysfunction/ Neuroinflammation)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.645796v1

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Haha yes!

Christian! Hi! I’d love to be part of your panel!

Again, cancelling NSF & other federal competitive grants in higher education is massive contract breaking which undermines the most basic tenets of the rule of law & property rights in a democratic society.

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪

🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far

🔴 Cancelled grants focused on

→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change

Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.

Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Updates on NSF Priorities

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”

They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.

And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"

a person is holding a red object in their hand . ALT: a person is holding a red object in their hand .

ATTENTION

I am hearing from several sources that "NIH" sent out termination notices for most or all "diversity" awards yesterday to coincide with the new Notice.

If you were affected by this and are willing to share, please DM me or reach me on Signal (jeremymberg.78)

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The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

What is the quickest way to destroy science?
- Discredit and demean expertise.
- Spread misinformation from official sources.
- Aggressively defund research
- Tie funding to ideological stances
- Threaten scientists with retribution and cultivate fear.
- Eliminate diversity of thought and ideas.

Olfaction and taste folks, who’s going to #AChemS2025? I’m going! Excited to see you there! achems.org/2025/

New preprint from the Calvo lab!

Thanks for the shoutout!!! #zebrafishrocks

Olfactory dysfunction in a novel model of prodromal Parkinson's disease in adult zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.645796v1

Cartoon remix I drew of the dog in a burning building meme featuring two zebrafish sitting at a table drinking coffee with a parasitic worm in the background. The room is filling with flames and smoke. One fish says "This is fine". The meme represents how we are ignoring the growing stressors of climate change.

I'm very excited to share our preprint on @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social demonstrating environmentally contingent gut microbiota reponses to intestinal infection in #Zebrafish. 🧵 1/12

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky #MicrobialEcology #ClimateChange #Preprint

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

One more query: Does anyone in the US have a Tg(myl7:Lifeact-FP) line and be willing to share embryos/adults? #AskZebrafish

This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:

Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Hey SUFS Community!

If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:

1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending $14 billion in climate grants.

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This is an authoritarian takeover of the US government.
The battle is not in the courts.
The courts are a tool. But the real battle is for public opinion.

And science and medical research can and should be at the front lines of that battle. People care about the takeover harming cancer research.

Grandma drosophila FTW 🪰

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Working on a story for @sfchronicle.com about the administration's impacts to science, including #NIH and #NSF funding. Hoping to chat with early-career scientists, especially grad students and postdocs, about how you've been affected. Thanks!

Signal: jacklee.55

Per a source, NIH grant staff have told some funding recipients that they shouldn't count on active grants actually providing money due to them later in the year. Meaning, nothing to do with *new* grants or anything, but ones that have already been rewarded and previous years paid out.

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump 6m All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump thinks anyone protesting must be from another country when the right and will to protest our own government is a foundational American value.

"We Rise": Ohio State Students Fight Back as University Dismantles The tension in the room was palpable. A majority-minority crowd of Ohio State students, faculty, and staff packed the meeting space, faces tight with frustration, hands ready to clap in defiance. As

Students jeered. Faculty members sharpened their words like weapons. Carter attempted to soften the blow offering reassurances that Ohio State was still a place for all. The room erupted into laughter. #OhioState #DEI #Ohio @redguju.bsky.social @osuaaup.bsky.social @cgsosu.bsky.social bit.ly/3XuX8im