Anand Ray

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

Oh gosh ....

You have shown very little courage after losing the election and left the Democrats leaderless All that bombastic talk is just hot air and fake advertising

Bye bye Muskwagon - Hello Ioniq .... (if you are considering a switch, added bonus: charges faster, and handles curves better)

Lying scumbag

We are in the middle of a 5-alarm fire with a potential existential risk to our research mission, and faculty politics is tied up in knots about being mandated to instal cybersecurity software ......!

28 articles. Seems like it is reading up peer reviewed published articles to learn.

Congratulations 🍾

How can journal editors send back crappy revisions that are >100 pages long with 25 pages of rebuttal??? Just start using F...ing AI to pre-screen.
Such a waste of effort.

Jim Corbett wrote of his experiences hunting that a wounded man eating tiger was far more dangerous. Biden & Garland's fumbling created this wounded man eater who is destroying everything precious. In 2020, there was 1 overwhelming responsibility, democracy and they failed miserably 🤬.

Stay safe from online hate with these five tips In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.

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

Without question this is the direct fallout of Biden and Garlands ineptitude and lack of commitment to bring Trump to justice for Jan 6th...... and the world is suffering for it. Unfortunately the worst is yet to come.

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Oh ! some of them didn't even have 1-2 papers published from their labs pre-extension.. I perceive that the extension helped changing no to a yes decision in 1/3rd of the cases..

And we generally saw a concomitant lowering of expectations as well ...

It was very useful for junior faculty during Covid, specially ones working in fields like developmental biology where mechanistic papers take longer to ready.

Didn't most retired folks and older folks enthusiastically vote for Trump ? 😛

Trump Officials Warn 60 Colleges of Possible Antisemitism Penalties The administration’s warning came just after it pulled hundreds of millions of dollars from Columbia University.

The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there.

Enhancing mosquito repellent effectiveness Two NIH grants to UC Riverside support a machine learning approach to identify insect repellents

news.ucr.edu/articles/202... Press release about 2 exciting NIH projects to develop next generation mosquito interventions to protect entire homes/patios. Previous support led to a startup Sensorygen and a safe natural repellent currently in EPA for home pests & mosquitoes. (tax $ at work!)

Wow - a statement from 1940 !

How about a March in Riverside ? @ucrsom.bsky.social

DOGE = Destruction of Our Government by Elon ........................(copied from FB)

They should just spend money to train specialized LLM models .. for each review area and use them. Human reviewers are biased as heck anyway.....

PASS IT ON
“The 24 hour Economic Blackout"
- Posted by Jon Stewart
WHEN:
Friday February 28th from
12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store:
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere!
Do not spend money on Food & Gas;
Do not use cards

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

No more AirBNB

Encourage all scientists to try out Notebook LM (from Google) to make podcasts and interesting explanations for laymen for their top papers. You get a NPR-type podcast and avoids science reporting's exaggerations of claims while keeping it interesting and educational.

Scientists and press release writers should try out Notebook LM (from Google) to make podcasts and interesting explanations for laymen. Often science reporting ends up with exaggerations of claims and fuzzy explanations.

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).

Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.

THANK YOU!