it's really hard to 'focus on the science' when all i want to do is scream

This didn’t age well.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” (Desmund Tutu)

As we try our hardest to do science in crumbling buildings because we care about people and want to help them with medical advances.

One important thing indirect costs pay for is biosafety compliance and regulation. You know, the thing that stops lab leaks.

How we imagine institutional leadership after they respond to the hellscape that is biomedical research with "Pauses like this are a routine part of the transition of administrations"

Evergiven boat stuck in the Suez canal labelled "NIH and NSF program meetings and funding evaporating" and a tiny construction digger labelled "University wellness seminar"

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I had to talk to two of my trainees about opportunities we were applying for whose websites (and likely existence) simply disappeared suddenly. Pretty sure this was not covered in workshops on types of difficult conversations you might have with your lab members.

When is the professional development seminar for “How to help trainees deal with evaporating fellowships and funding opportunities”?

We’re sorry. We see you.

Oh great… the same new PIs who were hit by a global pandemic just as they started are now trying to renew their grants and get tenure when the funding agencies are actively being destroyed. But sure.... that COVID tenure clock extension reeaaallly made a difference....