Stephanie Grainger

HAPPY HALLO WNT
From the spooky wingless flies 🪰

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Photo of @dr-kevin-pruitt.bsky.social standing in front of slides from the podium where he gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute.

Gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute and greatly enjoyed meeting with pioneers in the field of Wnt signaling @sgraingerphd.bsky.social and @bartwilliams.bsky.social. Also reunited with amazing colleagues in the fields of epigenetics and RAS biology. What a vibrant research community @vai.org!

Look. I’ll own it, ok? It’s been hot and I’ve been using the AC. I will do better.

UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.

This is a great idea! 🧪

laist.com/news/educati...

Just ask histones to raise their PTMs

Giving me so much faith in the system of paying to publish.

Me: could we please have a phone call to go over issues 2 and 3? These really look resolved on my end and I need some help understanding where the disconnect is so that I can fix it.
EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper.
Me: …

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

Editorial office: please fix issue 1, 2, and 3
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown

Maybe this means my ND proposals are gonna be funded! Lol

Well that seems very bad

Gorgeous!

@gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social

I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged

congratulations to taylor swift, travis kelce, and to the whoever is about to drop the world's most unnoticed news dump

🚨| Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement announcement just BROKE Instagram.

Well that’s enough news for today

Table 1. Clinical trials of mRNA cancer therapeutics initiated in the years from 2019 to August 2024

Researchers have registered more than 120 clinical trials to date evaluating the potential of mRNA-based approaches for treating many types of cancer, including lung, breast, and prostate, pancreatic, and brain tumors.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

@aoc.bsky.social I hope we can count on you!

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.

"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

See how the NIH cuts are impacting your area. scienceimpacts.org

As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.

Good morning to all the reviewer 3s out there who believe in bioRxiv papers and the pandemic having disproportionate impacts on the junior faculty who started then.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.