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37) We want to thank the NIH for providing federal funding for this work. And we note here that this grant was illegally terminated by the federal administration causing future studies on the manner in which these changes influence human disease risk and birth process to be ended.

2020-2024: Jay Bhattacharya says mRNA vaccines are inferior to “natural immunity,” encourages everyone to get Covid, and cashes in by implying vaccines are dangerous & don’t work

2025: Jay Bhattacharya says the public doesn’t trust mRNA vaccines because of all the lies he told them

In preparation of today's mark-up of the NIH appropriations bill in the Senate and other activities, I sent this note to Senator Susan Collins' office.

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How is it that the destruction of the National Cancer Institute is nowhere in the news today. People care about cancer research. Why is this not a top story?

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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Also: stop having arguments about different %IDC at different places - understand who you are helping by giving them an inch

Scientists,

I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:

Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.

It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists? Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute).

"let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔

www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

The updated table 6a doesn’t require GPA info for training grants anymore. So you can stop with the whole rejecting students b/c you don’t want to hurt your T32 chances BS now….

Watch out, Turkey!

Pikachu made an appearance at the Hands Off! protest in Washington, D.C.

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Am completing my R01 progress report and for this question…I really want to answer “the dissolving of the NIH as we know it will be a significant hurdle and impede my research”. Resolution? Stop firing everyone!

He is following the playbook of countless other authoritarians. Gotta keep an eye on this👀

Graph from the Washington Post showing declines in spending at NIH. New grants cut from 1 billion to around 400 million. Overall grants down from 4.5 billion to 2.4 billion.

Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.

A dynamic gene regulatory code drives synaptic development of hippocampal granule cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645686v1

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And wanted amplify the good that program did for decades

Yes, sorry... I was also funded by that T32😔

Project description on Reporter: 'The success of the training program is reflected in both the accomplishments of the trainees and in the diversity of the fellows. In the past 10 years, 32 fellows have been selected to enter the training program; 52% female, 13% minorities....'
How dare...!!!

Science is under assault because Trumpists are illegally purging labs, deleting data, and censoring research. This is actual fascism. It’s not “cuts”.

Don’t normalize what they are doing.

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons - Nature Behavioural-state-dependent pyramidal neurons have a distinct pattern of long-range glutamatergic inputs, with a larger proportion of thalamic versus motor cortex inputs compared with non-behavio...

And they just published a tour de force www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So proud of @gordfishell.bsky.social for standing up to this nonsense! Dr. Soohyun Lee is truly one of the best neuroscientists🧪

Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies.

What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction

Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.