Kara Marshall

Does this make phosphatases and kinases the little devils and angels on the shoulders of our soul?

@lauerlab.bsky.social I’m happy to share slides if you want to borrow some!

Congratulations!

Doesn’t this sound cool? Come join us at the Biosphere for the Gastronauts global symposium Oct 26-29! thinkgastronauts.com/biosphere2/

How Houston residents can donate, volunteer to help Texas Hill Country flood victims Several Houston-area groups are organizing fundraisers and donation drives for victims of the deadly floods in Central Texas. Donations also can be made directly to those in the Hill Country.

Here's how Houston-area residents and those across the state and country can help the Central Texas flood victims and their families. 

Congratulations! So happy for you!!!

extra congrats to @doctheagrif.bsky.social @xinjin.bsky.social @timmachado.bsky.social @moriel-z.bsky.social : genuinely so excited I'll get to see you all more!

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

This is sort of flying under the radar, but check out this list of amazing scientists! So excited to have them join the FHS program, and they should be celebrated! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

yay! so happy for you! congratulations!

So happy for you! congratulations! 🎉 Also, excited I'll get to see you more!

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming

Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S.

“Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.”

Read the article here. No subscription required:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH *can still be stopped*. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

Trump administration to crack down on Chinese visas, applicants, Rubio says Rubio said the State and Homeland Security departments will work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the United States, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Par...

The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration.

I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪

Defending universities is critical for democracy, because it is defending freedom of thought!

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

Vote today for SfN leadership! Ellen Lumpkin and Irene Tracey both there! www.directvote.net/SfN/

Please double check the expiration date on any NOFO you are applying do. They are updated on the form, (Expiration date) with a link to the notice, but other aspects aren't edited.

Thank you for writing this - I think this is a great approach. Do you have ideas of how to get traction to present to groups? When I've presented how research funding works and is threatened, everyone is engaged, but getting in the door is difficult! Cold emailing?

Excellent interview with @baym.lol. This is all so destructive and senseless. Please share to spread the word.

Even though it is spring....it seems to have gotten dark lately...."Within the last several days, Harvard University has received letters from most federal agencies indicating that nearly all of HMS’s active, direct federal grants have been terminated."

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TOMORROW 12pm PT/3pm ET, academic workers across the country are organizing to call Senators and Representatives, particularly from historically “red” districts, to sign onto to letters supporting federal research funding. Register here to join the phonebank: form.laborbase.org/251246245216...

NSF programs are critical to US prosperity. NIH mostly biomedical. NSF spans *all* physical and social sciences.

Fighting the attacks: Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Protect Democracy

links: democracyforward.org/action/donate/
www.citizen.org/article/publ...
protectdemocracy.org/donate/

A red and navy graphic titled ‘What You Can Do Right Now’ lists four action steps to support the National Science Foundation: contact your representatives via 5calls.org, join the SaveNSF.com mailing list, check out their action toolkit, and spread the word. Illustrated icons include a megaphone, raised fist, and protestors. At the bottom, black-and-white images show people at a science march holding signs, including one reading ‘My kids’ careers require science’ and another that says ‘Brains love science’.

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Want to help save science? Here’s how to get started:

1. Call your reps: 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
2. Join the fight: savensf.com/join-our-list
3. Take action: savensf.com/take-action
4. Spread the word. Science needs you.

#SaveNSF
#StandUpForScience
#WithoutNSF

Congrats!

your hiking pictures are always so beautiful!