Abby Cheruiyot

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".

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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

Yay! Congratulations 🎊

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Announcing the Biophysics Week IDP Trainee Symposium on March 27 at 12pm CT hosted by @idpseminars.bsky.social & The BPS IDP Subgroup! Join via Zoom for talks by talented grad students & postdocs. Abstract submissions are open! See flyer for more details! #BiophysicsWeek @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Science funding is key to the future of America and the health of our community I am a Biology professor at UNC and this semester I am teaching a course called Cancer Biology to a group of juniors and seniors. I began teaching this course 20 years ago and it’s been incredible to see and teach about the improvements in cancer treatment. Between 1991 and 2019, the cancer death rate decreased 32%. New treatments for breast cancer, colon cancer, and most recently melanoma have saved millions of lives—many of us know a cancer survivor. Similar advances occurred in treating heart disease, with drugs like statins changing outcomes. Even more exciting changes are starting to roll out: these include the first gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease and Type 1 diabetes. It’s been exciting to be a small part of this—our lab helped define how signaling between cells goes wrong in colon cancer. None of these new treatments arise in a vacuum. All rest on decades of basic and translational research, and follow-up clinical trials, most of which is funded by our tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH). North Carolina and especially the Triangle play an essential role in this, making science and technology key drivers of our state and regional economy. In 2023 NIH awarded $2.28 billion (yes, with a b) in grants to NC institutions, and this helped us create more than 25,000 jobs. Nationwide more than 400,000 jobs are supported by NIH grants, and this generates $92 billion in economic activity. The National Science Foundation, which funds scientific research more broadly, has a similar impact, fueling, for example advances in solar energy or helping us understand the impact of climate change on the NC coast. NSF provided $220 million in grants to NC Institutions in 2023. In total, UNC received $800 million in federal research funding in 2023, Duke $860 million and NC State $416 million. This not only creates jobs directly but is also the reason …

It's time to educate our neighbors about the importance of science funding. Local news papers still exist and are read by folks. Here is the op-ed I wrote for this week's "News of Orange", a local paper in Orange Co NC. Full text is on the alt-text 🧪

Let's go @ascbiology.bsky.social #scientistsinaction #useyourvoice #leadership

find your representatives www.govtrack.us
Call daily!

Still waiting for publishers, institutions, companies, and individuals who care about science to stop making statements and start making a plan. You have the collective means to fund science that’s been attacked. Now is the time to use that rainy day fund to preserve the values you claim to share.

I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well.

Please send leads, please amplify!