jp flores (he/him)

The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.

More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.

✨ Welcome to JP Flores’ Library ✨

If you want to hear more stories of resilience in science check out his podcast @fromwheredoesitstem wherever your podcasts.

Tune into our newest episode to learn more about his research on 3D chromatin structures!

Thank you @abankston.bsky.social for having me along with the best in @siararouzer.bsky.social & Crystal!

Today's webinar on #impacts of #science #funding #cuts on #early #career #researchers highlighted the importance of their #voices for the future of the #field. | Adriana Bankston Today's webinar on #impacts of #science #funding #cuts on #early #career #researchers highlighted the importance of their #voices for the future of the #field. We discussed the negative impacts of th...

Hear from early career researchers how they are being impacted by the federal turmoil!

@jpflores.rbind.io @abankston.bsky.social @siararouzer.bsky.social and others speak to how the future of science is being affected.

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🎙️Get to Know: JP Flores🎙️ @jpflores.rbind.io

🎧Episode available now! Listen at the link in our bio.

#scicomm #science #sciencecommunication #biology #bigbiology #sciencepodcast #sciencecommunicator

To get a grant(s) to support the half dozen or more students/postdocs who work in your lab and depend on you for their livelihood, you now have to score better than 96% of grants submitted. Lol.

UNC-Chapel Hill Unveils Plan to Cut $70 Million in Response to Funding Pressure UNC-Chapel Hill will cut 2 percent of its operating budget ahead of anticipated federal and state funding reductions.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders revealed a plan on Wednesday to cut approximately $70 million in costs—or 2 percent of its operating budget—over the next two fiscal years ahead of anticipated federal and state funding reductions.

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

The evolutionary foundations of transcriptional regulation in animals Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00864-9In this Review, Coyle and King explore how genomic and functional data from diverse species are providing new insights into the types of mechanistic changes that accompanied the evolutionary origin of animals.

FYI: New online! The evolutionary foundations of transcriptional regulation in animals

Engaging in science communication can help you explain your research to anyone whether it’s to a politician on Capitol Hill or your grandma at the dinner table. 👵🍴

In my latest (the start of my 2nd year as author of @undark.org's 'Selective Pressure' column), I examine the "Pivot penalty," where new data suggest that scientists are penalized when they move into a research area outside of their home area.

undark.org/2025/07/03/o...

Melbournevirus encodes a shorter H2B-H2A doublet histone variant that forms structurally distinct nucleosome structures Nature Communications - Melbournevirus encodes a conserved shorter H2B-H2A doublet variant. Here the authors report a cryo-EM structure of a nucleosome-like particle reconstituted with viral H4-H3...

our paper is online! rdcu.be/exXBX . Who would have thought that some #giantviruses not only have #histones, but even histone variants that make weird #nucleosomes (pdb 9CVT). Fantastic work from Ale Villalta and Chelsea Toner, with Hugo Bisio @molbiolgv.bsky.social and Chantal Abergel

‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Super excited to share this episode with y’all! It was so fun chatting with Molly @bigbiology.bsky.social!

🎙Student Spotlight: Finding passion in science communication and advocacy 🎙 OUT NOW!

Hear how science communication can make research more accessible and inclusive with grad student JP Flores @jpflores.rbind.io

Listen here: bigbiology.substack.com/p/student-sp... 🎧

Cover Art: Keating Shahmehri

Quote by Agustín Fuentes from Princeton University stating, "To do better science ... the scientific community needs to build an environment that welcomes and supports all." The text is white on a black background.

"To retreat from [diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward," writes Agustín Fuentes in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/4kS8ZQi

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.

I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

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Still lots of talk but no walk 🙃

Any speculation on how to fund research and/or science outreach and community engagement at these different types of institutions? Only been exposed to / have only experienced Occidental + UNC Chapel Hill

OPINION: Moments are being taken away from the next generation of scientists I’m 17 years old. In AP Psychology, our final project is to design an experiment, collect data, and write up the results. My teacher suggests that our group, fascinated by

"Science is not just something I do; it’s a core facet of who I am. If science is taken from me, an important piece of me will be gone."- @feliciatuchman.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social

Bravo, friend! So well done. We can't just switch off what inspires us, especially when it is under attack.

EPA eliminates its scientific research arm The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated.
#NoWords
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW:

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.

I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:

Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.

www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

Hiya! I can't access and would love to take a look :)

More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science This opinion piece discusses the Bioconductor project for open-source bioinformatics and the engineering concepts underlying its effectiveness to date. Since the inception of Bioconductor in 2002 with...

www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

#bioconductor #rstats

Breaking Down Barriers for Hispanic/Latinx Scientists: Dr. Benjamin Garcia

In this episode of “From Where Does it STEM”, @jpflores.rbind.io and I interview @garcialabms.bsky.social, a Department Head at WashU School of Medicine.

Dr. Garcia discusses his journey from community college to becoming a world leader in mass spectrometry: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ncx...

Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
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International STEM Graduate Students: A Key to Strengthening the American Economy and Building Competitiveness Read “International STEM Graduate Students: A Key to Strengthening the American Economy and Building Competitiveness” a Policy Brief from Volume 25, Issue 01 of the Journal of Science Policy & Governa...

Excellent piece in #JSPG by #SNAP member
@bdavisbio.bsky.social and other grad students at @jhu.edu, "International STEM Graduate Students: A Key to Strengthening the American Economy and Building Competitiveness"

#SciPol #SciencePolicy #GradWorkers

www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038...