Eric Lau (Le-Lau)

“Kids”

Sign the petition to tell Congress cancer research funding isn't optional – it’s essential ACS CAN is the leading cancer advocacy organization that is working every day to make cancer issues a national priority.

Sign the petition NOW: Help defend cancer research against devastating funding cuts. Without leaving the comfort of your own home (or office…or lab!)!

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Trump Administration Proposes New Rule To End Foreign Student Visa Abuse | Homeland Security The Trump Administration announced a proposed rule that, if finalized, would limit the length of time certain visa holders – including foreign students– are allowed to stay in the United States.

Nonsense legislation by those who TOTALLY LACK ANY UNDERSTANDING of the US education system but have clear DISCRIMINATORY intentions. Limiting F visas to 4 yrs will cause trouble for students working for their PhDs, which rarely take <4 yrs. Contact your representatives!

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Watch the video. Share far and wide. Now is NOT the time to be complacent if we want to have long and healthy lives.

We have to stop Trump well before the 2026 midterms, or there will be no free and fair elections.

The CR fight in September is the next chance for Congress to act. Democrats: be ready.

What an unexpected and amazing gift to protect and promote the ongoing fight against cancer! Thank you Mr. And Mrs. Knight for your generosity, vision, and humanity!

Because: “This is not a job. This is our life. Cancer does not discriminate. Neither will we.”

#GiveCancerHell

Finally, a Democrat who gets what's going on and who has enough of a spine to do what needs to be done.

This goes out to all the people who won’t shut up about optimism and what a great opportunity this is to “fix” science by gutting the training pipeline and eliminating peer review

WTAF

Wtf 🤬

A gaggle of geese joined Portlanders in the national "No Kings" protest at the waterfront.

Read more about the protest: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/06/people-protest-against-the-trump-administration-in-portland-and-across-the-nation.html 

🎥: Amaris Sachs

The Lau lab representin’ at the combined grad research retreat! @ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsuknight.bsky.social

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Happy Pride!

I’m proud to stand with our LGBTQ+ fam in TX-30 and beyond.

In the face of attacks, y’all keep showing up. Loud, proud, and unshakable.

Your rights, your joy, and your lives matter. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It’s almost like it’s a personal grudge or something.

Health expert calls Trump's medical research cuts "reckless destruction" Dr. Timothy Johnson says that by cutting more than $1.8 billion in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Trump administration risks destroying America's medical research infrastructure an...

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So…this is now a dictatorship right? Just want to be clear about the precise nature of operations…

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

40% cuts to NIH budget, while the Republicans are proposing nearly $1 billion in bonuses for ICE agents?!
Something definitely reeks of “waste, fraud, and abuse”, but it certainly IS NOT biomedical research.
Please contact and pressure your representatives now!

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

Mortifying…this is not what being American is about.

POLITICO: "Gavin Newsom rips Trump, RFK. Jr. over suicide hotline cuts"

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among LGBTQ youth.

It's indefensible that RFK Jr. is reportedly planning to remove LGBTQ-specific youth counseling from the national 988 suicide hotline.

NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

Destroying US research helps NO ONE.

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

Well this seems like a fantastic plan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

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This is terrible…😞

what on earth…how does rescinding policy on scientific integrity help anyone except those peddling misinformation and junk “science”?

what on earth…how does rescinding policy on scientific integrity help anyone except those peddling misinformation and junk “science”? 🤬🤬🤬

New journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fears The Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication. But its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned

New anti-vax NIH head founded a “scientific journal”, Journal of the Academy of Public Health. The board is all political appointees & anti-vaxxers. Only members of the new Academy of Public Health can submit articles; all are published & open access. Dissemination of misinformation. bit.ly/3XFlmGB

NEW: Baldwin, Welch Announce Former NIH Director, Researchers, Clinical Trial Patients as Witnesses for Forum on Trump’s NIH Cuts | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Peter Welch (D-VT) announced the...

It is so important to not only share the facts behind biomedical research but also stories of patients who have been saved by it. Please share, especially with non-research friends and colleagues to promote understanding of why funding research is so crucial!

www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-r...

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.