In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH.

But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔

NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards.

Here are funding curves for each.🧵

First up: F grants

These support individual grad students and post-docs (and some college students).

# of new grants issued through April 15 in

FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 652
FY2025: 402
FY2026: 74

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

A trans woman was tracked and monitored using AI technology at a Knicks game just for being trans.

This isn't 1940's Germany this is right now

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I'm teaching a programming course right now & supervising students, and it is so so rough. Students think that instead of making mistakes it's better to use AI, but they aren't learning a lot of important skills *at all* and I don't know how to convince them of it

This!!!

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These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Rotavirus is the largest killer of children in the world under 5.

There is a vaccine.

Tx also consists of rehydration w/simple oral electrolytes to replenish fluids, minerals, and electrolytes.

USAID distributed all of that saving lives across the world.

Trump killed it, and is killing them.

So here's the problem, Bhattacharya WILL NOT engage, in meaningful ways, with people who oppose him. ASK ME HOW I KNOW.

Fine you want to be a contrarian, but he is being a coward while he destroys science. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

absolutely. the first republican national convention post-trump’s death is going to have an AI Trump hologram blessing the nominee

One more country showing the urgency needed to respond to authoritarianism.

🧪 Me responding with vitriol:

There’s a reason biologists refuse to be empaneled with “creation scientists.”

There’s a reason climate researchers refuse to share podiums with climate deniers.

And it’s the same reason why platforming those destroying science is terrible. Hint: It’s not popularity.

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

🚨 New lab preprint alert! 🚨
A study 6 years in the making, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org support : "A multi-omic atlas in the African turquoise killifish reveals increased glucocorticoid signaling as a hallmark of brain aging" now on #biorXiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A 🧵 1/11 🧪🖥️🧬

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

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Congress is completely useless at this point.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

YOU: Hi my name is [name]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: Today, President Trump said that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That rhetoric is extreme, dangerous, and disqualifying. 
FOR THOSE W/ DEM ELECTEDS: I’m asking [ELECTED OFFICIAL] to publicly condemn this rhetoric and use every available procedural tool to stop further escalation, including support for impeachment and urgent public pressure on congressional leadership. FOR THOSE W/ GOP ELECTEDS: I’m asking [ELECTED OFFICIAL] to publicly condemn this rhetoric, press the administration and cabinet to treat this as disqualifying conduct. YOU: Calling this what it is matters. Even if removal is difficult, elected officials should treat rhetoric like this as unfit and dangerous. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENTS]

Script.

"His loss is felt deeply not only by those who knew him here at the University, but also everyone who understands his potential to have contributed to breakthroughs in science that would have positively impacted people around the world." -Dean of Engineering Karen Thole

I rest my case.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Academics of the world, do with this info what you may. Even better, uninstall it from your devices 🧪

This. A thousand times this.