Jacob (Jake) Skigen

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

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Grad Admission Impacts Survey It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.

If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Johnson & Umberger shows that walking at different stride frequencies at a fixed speed alters kinematics and GRFs, which are driven by coordinating by muscle-tendon mechanics.

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The Journal of Biomechanics will now share the latest research exclusively on Bluesky!

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Feb 20

Holiday: National Love Your Pet Day

TIH: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opened to the public (1872)

Feb 19

Holiday: Confession Day

TIH: Kansas became the first U.S. state to include the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in its state constitution (1881)

Feb 18

Holiday: Pluto Day

TIH: Toni Morrison, American author and Nobel Laureate, was born (1930)

Interesting state-level analysis of the impact of NIH funding 👇

Feb 11

Holiday: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

TIH: Nelson Mandela freed after being spending 27 years in prison for his role in resisting apartheid in South Africa (1990)

Feb 10

Holiday: Teddy Day 🧸
TIH: the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War between France and Britain (1763)

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Feb 7

Holiday: National Wear Red Day
TIH: in 1940, Disney’s “Pinocchio” had its world premier

I have a holidays and “today in history” board that I update each day in the office that people seem to enjoy, so I thought I’d share one of each here too

Feb 6
Holiday: National Chopsticks Day
TIH: In 1895, Babe Ruth was born

Hahaha I think it’s more likely that the algorithm was too busy promoting nonsense.

We should advocate for conferences/orgs to switch over. The only reason I didn’t completely delete my Twitter account was because groups like ASB and IWB post updates there

Smaug’s fire wouldn’t kill a Balrog, but a Balrog could likely pierce Smaug’s hide (weak spot or no).

So the answer to “Does the Balrog have wings?” is the biggest factor in here for me.

If yes, the Balrog wins.
If no, Smaug stays in the air and finds a way to kill it from a distance.

Man I really hope the biomechanics community will abandon Twitter soon. I never even used it much in the first place, but it’s gotten ridiculously bad lately

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...