The unofficial final weekend of the summer will feature widespread cooler than average temperatures across the United States.
Here’s a look at various cities and the outlook for the holiday weekend:
Here are the Durbin and Murray clips rolled together youtu.be/UYq-sni57Xc
Today’s NIH Bulletin is not fucking around lol
So basically, when you write - think about reviewers. Make sure it is super easy to navigate your grant, easy to find things, & that you make a compelling and strong argument in your abstract and aims - not just in longer sections. Abstract & aims should be able to stand alone.
Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare.
Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.
Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl
What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)?
You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success”
❌ NOPE!!!
1-3%
because 80% of the budget is for existing grants
New science? Starved
Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢
#FundingScienceSavesLives
Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
with respect to all, I am done with questions
SEC HHS lied to Congress about his intentions
He has taken unprecedented action to remove bona fide experts and replace them with unvetted and unqualified stooges
The AMA (a tortoise-like organization) insists he resign
Happy to cosign that Rx
New resource regarding terminated grants
Blue background with text that says “ Last weekend, the National Cancer Institute had 28 Scientific Advisors.” Underneath that are headshots of the 28 current cancer institute advisors. then, another line of text says “today, it has Zero” with a blank circle.
The National Cancer Institute has disbanded its Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of experts that played a vital role in shaping the future of U.S. cancer research. Here’s why that matters. 🧵
He said / Xi said…nothing.
Action Report #6 Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF.
So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants.
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
RFK jr says the US was healthier during his childhood than it is now. Really? I’m 1950s, 45%of Americans smoked. Now it’s < 12%. Infant mortality rate was 29/1000 births. Now it’s 5.6/1000. Maternal mortality rate was 95/1000 live births. Now 12.5/1000
@jreinermd.bsky.social
#medsky
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
#NIA at #NIH alerts you that the small business program is accepting applications until September 5. Registration can take up to 6 weeks, so start early. #geronsky #sciencesky #agingresearch #ADRD #smallbusiness
This is some funny shit. Bleak, but funny.
My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪
It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend
Tweet with black-and-white photos of angry white protestors and young Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. Marshals in 1960. The overlaid text reads: “The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”
There’s some truth here.
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
Our students are leading the way in resisting the war on science. One key is informing the public. UNC's SACNAS & WinSPIRE are hosting a public screening of the documentary Picture a Scientist at Chapel Hill's Varsity Theater this Friday April 11 at 6:30 PM. 1/n
Some troubling information
A red banner appeared on the NeMO (The Neuroscience Multi-omic) webpage.
"This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives."
What effing Administration directives relate to a neurosciece multi-omic repository?
1/3
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
Columbia
Penn
Harvard
Princeton
Brown
and now Cornell and Northwestern
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
