Chiara Manzini

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

In a similar story my friend's husband was hoping for a mRNA vaccine for colangiocarcinoma and funding was halted because it's an mRNA vaccine. 😢 They don't know mRNA vaccines were originally intended for cancer and repurposed for Covid.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

The mayor of an American city exercising his constitutional rights being detained by force by armed, masked federal officers wielding batons.

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

Bluetorial: Timing of getting grants out the door at NIH

The pauses and low rate of releasing awards may be a problem in terms of getting the NIH appropriation spent by September 30, 2025

My trainee's F31 diversity from NIDDK "terminated" today. We received a NGA for $0.00.

He worked his butt off for it and would have been competitive in the normal F31 pool. This is just blatant discrimination. If there are large lawsuits being put together, please share that info. #contractlaw

This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.

Hearing that NIH Research Fellows are being terminated willy-nilly by the DOGE and MAGA HHS crew.

These are senior experienced scientists that NIH wants to keep, but HHS is blocking their renewal.

This harms cancer research, and dementia, food, opiate, and mental health

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...

SCIENTISTS: Schedule F is proposed, and it's here for your peer review.

Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule, Schedule F potentially puts peer review into the hands of political appointees, and undermines the civil service.

Public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin delivered his famous speech at the end of his first film with dialogue - The Great Dictator.

He spoke these timeless words as Nazis rose to power, and the drums of war beat in Europe, echoing across the world.

As relevant, and necessary to hear, today as ever

#Resist

This is a discussion at every research university right now and the biggest issue is that it is simply not sustainable. Bridge funding is meant to be a short-term solution and this is a long-term problem. Private philanthropy simply cannot replace public support.

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work!

Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week.

Please share widely!

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Democratic leaders act like time travelers afraid to do anything that might change the future

Jersey strong @booker.senate.gov #handsoff

The Hands Off March in NYC had an amazing turnout! Walked back home close to the start and people were still coming 2 hours later...

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

🤞🏼 you get some good news soon. We all need a win right now.

I go into eRACommons every day now just to check my pending sex differences grants are still there. Today every single one gave a 404 error, so maybe even if you check there will be no score...

"If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation. While the outcomes of basic science may seem unclear or esoteric at first, such work frequently forms the bedrock of future technologies, treatments, and therapies." 👏👏👏

Oh, that is quite helpful! Now that I live right next to the great BDFM/NRQW intersection, I've been so confused and hadn't taken the time to trace them all.

Do y’all know how much you have to piss off those three to get them to work together

A quote from Max Eddy, a Wirecutter writer covering privacy, security and software: “There’s not a lot of regulations around the kind of data that 23andMe and other companies like it are holding. This information is not covered by HIPAA, which is legislation that limits how far medical information could be spread.”

23andMe, maker of popular DNA test kits, has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. Here’s why customers should delete their info before it’s sold. nyti.ms/42cnBma

My true test will be how often I need to clean the black sticky residue on my windows coming from the street below. Our AD center people were saying they don't eat grilled meat because the burnt residue increases risk and I went 😂 "I live in NYC. I breathe that stuff every day. Let me have steak."

It's been really great, and I hope we don't go back! Having had some type of ecological/congestion regulation in Milan for around 20 yrs, it's really not that bad when people adjust....and the brown air bubble that I used to find Milan from hundreds of miles away growing up is not there any longer.

That's why I have been so grateful to all my NIH POs who have been responding faster than before. I think they are just trying to feel helpful. I would send them cookies or chocolate, but I can't because it would put them in trouble. I just thank them as much as I can. 💔

How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy When the California biotech firm filed for bankruptcy, there was one looming question for customers: What's going to happen to my data?

www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n....

Good riddance. As a geneticist, I would have never given them my data they were sus from the beginning. A friend just posted a way to retrieve your data and delete it from their servers. Hope it's true 👇🏼