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Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.

“Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Just saw someone on a motorcycle fist pump because they got through the light before it turned red. (He was the last one that did)
It made me smile.
It also reminded me to celebrate the little things.
#findingthejoy #SLCthings #beatthelight

The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.

SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

two men are talking to each other and one of them is saying `` i 'm fine `` . Alt: Ross from Friends saying "I'm fine" as he is processing hard and scary news.

Working on my daily goal of not panicking at all the terrifying news regarding international academics.

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.

Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...

Another obscenity...

NIH grants peeps are working hard, on a Sunday night, trying to get our grants out to us as their world is in chaos.

We owe them all a huge debt.

Science peeps: be sure to send your grants personnel (grants management, POs and SROs) a note of encouragement and gratitude.

@sarathomasy.bsky.social

View of Portland from Marquam Hill campus at OHSU

My group is hiring at Oregon Health & Science University. Come work with us in beautiful Portland to study interoception and physiology. Check out the lab view! 🌲👩‍🔬

Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r...

Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.

Its still got crease marks! That's a spotless lab coat.

“Unspeakably sad” is right. I was just sent this photo of JPL.

Thrilled to announce that my lab has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award!

Now the lab has a *funded* opening for a post-doctoral fellow interested in studying neurodevelopmental disorders in the retina. More info here! www.vlasitslab.org/joinus

The Bible as merch.

Bibles from $99-$1000 for Trump signed Bibles...

I am dumbstruck that so many religiously minded folks do not see the irony and the problems with this.

I mean, I remember in church growing up that they warned us about people like this. The stories of Jesus and the temple, etc.

I'm shocked that more people have not been killed, these fires moved so fast.

But these people's homes. Their lives. Pictures. Keepsakes. Memories.

The classic cars in some of those homes...

Congratulations Newly Elected ISER Officer, Vice President, Americas
Paloma Liton, PhD
Duke University
Durham, NC

New paper out discussing field standards for conducting human and other large eye perfusions! Go on and give it a read!

Vision science folks who are members of the International Society for Vision Research:
ISER ballots were sent out today for Secretary, VP Americas, VP Europe, and Early Career Representative.
Mine went to my spam folder! Please participate!

A white and cream cat tree with a tunnel and 3 shelves. A grey cat is laying on the top shelf with her eyes half closed. A chonky black cat is on top of the tunnel stretching up to the top shelf to see the other cat.

I joined the Black Friday consumerism this year… but it was for my pets. #blackfriday

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Extracellular vesicles as emerging players in glaucoma: Mechanisms, biomarkers, and therapeutic targets In recent years, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted significant scientific interest due to their widespread distribution, their potential as …

New review out - we discuss the role that EVs play in glaucoma. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #science #visionresearch #glaucoma

Fantastic session covering the incredibly interesting topic of personalized medicine! Organized by our favorite @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social and Preeti Subramanian of Brightfocus at #ISER2024 @iser.bsky.social

A cartoon figure showing the structure of the retina.

Come to our #ISER2024 session on retinal connectomics, Monday at 1pm to see work from @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social @csigulinsky.bsky.social William Grimes from NIH/NINDS Andrea Bordt from the Neitz lab group and Johan Pahlberg from the NIH/NEI!

Tell me things I don't know marketing spam... #newPI #science #funny

So excited for @edyong209.bsky.social keynote at #ARVO this year!

Comparison of the extracellular vesicle proteome between glaucoma and non-glaucoma trabecular meshwo... Extracellular matrix (ECM) materials accumulate in the trabecular meshwork (TM) tissue of patients with glaucoma, which is associated with a decrease in aqueous humor outflow and therefore an increase...

First publication from my lab is out! We compare extracellular vesicles between glaucoma and non-glaucoma TM samples.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

They're already going after public libraries. My library is joint use, both public and college, and I'm counting the days until they come after us as well. I'm ordering transgressive books as fast as I can, but there's only so much I can do.

An almost finished iced latte from Jack's Donuts in Indianapolis.

I love finding good coffee places at conferences. Bonus points if they have toasted coconut iced cinnamon roll donuts ☕🍩

Nooooo 🤣🤣

Cartoon of a dumpster on fire.

#NewPI problems. Getting very overwhelmed by the number of things on my plate at the moment. And trying to train 2 new people in the lab on top of it. It's all gonna be ok....

Left work and entered the outside sauna that is SLC at the moment. It literally smelled like that hot wood smell too 🤣🥵