Chhabi Govind, PhD

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The intrinsically disordered regions of organellophagy receptors are interchangeable and control organelle fragmentation, ER-phagy and mitophagy flux Nature Cell Biology - Rudinskiy et al. examine organellophagy receptor features, finding modules of functionally conserved intrinsically disordered regions and defining shared features despite...

Selective autophagy of organelles: the “disorder” is key. Intrinsically disordered regions of organellophagy receptors are interchangeable, required, and sufficient for organelle fragmentation and lysosomal delivery … and all about ORGATACs 😉
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They can award until September 30th.

NAFSA predicts 30% to 40% fall in international students American colleges and universities are heading for a decline of between 30% and 40% – or 80,000 international students – in the semester set to be...

American colleges and universities are heading for a decline of between 30% and 40%, or 80,000 international students. Counterintuitively, this will lead to fewer spots for domestic students as programs shutter. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

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WOW!! Look for more of this in the next few years

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

1/ The Senate Appropriations Committee just approved key FY2026 spending bills 🧪 including the one that funds the NIH, CDC, and public education. ✅

But don’t breathe a sigh of relief yet. This is just the first step, and a shutdown showdown is looking likely. 🧵

"Sec. 239. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to increase the proportion of multi-year grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2026 that are fully funded in the first year of the award, relative to the comparable proportion in fiscal year 2024, unless the National Institutes of Health awards at least the same number of total grants in fiscal year 2026 as in fiscal year 2024."

Here's the provision to block multi-year funding:

(the bill text PDF will later be updated with this as an adopted amendment: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...)

Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Here is the bill (I haven't had time to read it)

www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Senate Committee Approves FY 2026 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...

Glad to have such senators

The rapidly expanding role of LC3-interacting regions in #autophagy. New Perspective from Brian North, @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, Christopher Shoemaker and colleagues (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College): rupress.org/jcb/article/...

This will curb the cost of publications and compensate the reviewers.

🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful.

Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists.
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grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know.

⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget.

Personal examples help.

My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding The decision temporarily froze $15 billion in federal funding, according to one senator. It came as Trump officials wrestle over federal spending levels.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding The decision temporarily froze $15 billion in federal funding, according to one senator. It came as Trump officials wrestle over federal spending levels.

The whiplash continues: the WaPo now reports that OMB halted, and then hours later unhalted, these NIH funds.

I'll be watching for any sign of NIH fund restriction this week and will post as soon as I hear more.

Know what's going on? DM me on Signal (mkozlov.01). You can stay anonymous.

Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

#Breaking: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts
www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

Lol. He grifted so hard, even the grifters wanted nothing to do with him.

“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told STAT.

So no new extramural grants until end of September?

Just being hopeful. I know they are trying. Sorry didn’t mean to trivialize it.

They may try, but won’t succeed. There’s still a lots of support for biomedical research.

To what end?

Majority of grant expenses are salaries.

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences

www.science.org/content/arti...

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report of an active shooter near Park Avenue and E. 52nd Street

may be using an AR-15

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My lab is seeking to co-hire a postdoctoral fellow with the @shaonsengupta.bsky.social team. See details below!

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