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Excited that Lena's undergraduate research efforts have been recognized by funding in the form of a Magellan Scholar Grant. We look forward to learning more about how RTK-mediated signaling allows fat tissue to communicate to ovarian tissue in #drosophila. 🪰🔬

I’m so excited to share that I’ve accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Colorado Anschutz, BMG department and Barbara Davis Diabetes center! I’m so grateful to many who have helped me get here, especially mentors at Joslin, @hmsbpa.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social

Our 5th annual HBPA symposium is coming up in 2 weeks! Friday December 12th at HMS

We are now accepting abstracts for:
-Poster presentation only
Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract Submission Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Such a fitting honor for Zara! Her passion for science and Justice inspired us. Apply to join the 7th Cohort of LE, an amazing community of scientists that has given me tremendous support

It’s #BlackInMicro week! This year’s theme is HARMONY and we have a great program scheduled. You can find more info on our website: blackinmicrobiology.org.

Register for free to check it out. Everyone is welcome! 🦠

We’re so excited for our 5th annual HBPA symposium, Friday December 12th at HMS

We are now accepting abstracts for:
-Oral Presentations
-Poster
Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract Submission Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 10/31/25

I think this is on point! Universities must unite, and is time for Harvard to lead! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Really enjoyed this one too and learnt a lot!

Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours - Nature An understanding of the molecular mechanisms promoting the generation of immunoregulatory and tumour-promoting monocytes and macrophages is key to breaking the cycle of tumour myelopoiesis and develop...

🔬Our paper from the @miriammerad.bsky.social lab is now online! This is a story shaped over years of cross-disciplinary endeavor at @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social and labs across the world. 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Major Congratulations!

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
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Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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A joint statement with @savehealthresearch.bsky.social on the supreme courts decision today that will pave the way for hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH grant terminations. We are heartbroken and stand with the extramural community during this devastating time.

Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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From dust to discovery From makeshift classrooms in Uganda to postdoctoral research in Chicago, MOSAIC scholar Elizabeth Kaweesa builds a legacy in women’s health.

Elizabeth Kaweesa was recently featured in ASBMB Today. Here's the link! ow.ly/k7EF50WykAJ

3 female scientists with NIH, EPA, NASA written at the bottom

Scientists stand together

So joyful! Love to see it!

The image is an announcement graphic for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colourful geometric patterns. Below the geometric frame is bold orange text reads “BLACK IN NEURO CONFERENCE.” Event details follow: “Wednesday, Sept 10 - Friday, Sept 12, 2025, University of the District of Columbia.” An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25". Next to this is the Black In Neuro logo.

The image is the conference schedule for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colorful geometric patterns. Below the top geometric patterns is bold orange text that reads "Conference Schedule" and below in italicized black text that reads "Celebrating 5 years of diversifying the neurosciences". Central to the image is the conference schedule: 10 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #Seminar Series (industry); #Neuro Across The Diaspora (symposium); #Exploring BIN (professional development workshop); #Picture a BIN Scientist (poster session); #Black In Neuro Family (social). 11 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #NeuroRacism (seminar); #Black In Neuro Futures (keynote); #Seminar Series (academic); #Black In Neuro Alt-Careers (symposium). 12 Sept: #BINterdisciplinary. An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25".

1/ 🎉 Black In Neuro is turning FIVE — and we’re celebrating with our first-ever in-person conference! 🧠✨
Join us for 3 days of connection, learning & celebration with the BIN community! 💥

📍 Sept 10–12 | Washington, D.C.

Registration is LIVE so register today at the link below! tinyurl.com/BINW25

🌠 Announcing our latest awardees! 🤩 These talented scientists are uncovering how viruses infect cells, decoding cell behavior, and exploring the hidden biology in the ocean: bit.ly/HFAwardees.

Meet the awardees & hear about their bold projects from our #HFScouts 👇 /1

Congratulations 🎉🎈

Congratulations 🎊! So happy to see it!

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!!

Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.

👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.

➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

I really hope this is not true about MIRA! People keep suggesting apply for regular R01, and I was like I have ideas but no preliminary data yet. The Katz would have been great. I don’t know if people are oblivious of facts or want to say positive things

So true. I just saw Katz Early Stage investigator R01 is ending 😭

If I was hunting for a postdoc, I would definitely apply for this one! Dr. Gibbs truly cares about mentoring and pursuing really cool science. Apply! Apply!

Smiling woman with brown hair, black jacket, green purse with a green baseball hat with a Gila monster on it, standing in front of a cherry tree covered in pink blossoms.

In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research.

Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland.

We are hiring postdocs & postbacs!

Please reach out :)

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

Have a look on this upcoming meeting