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Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets.
Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US.
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he (IW) and another woman (GL) with the same condition have been studied extensively and helped us learn a lot about somatosensory systems, c-tactile afferents, and pain. somewhere out there is a list of all the studies they have been in. here's on example www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ian Waterman was 19 when he caught a virus that robbed him of his proprioception.
Over years he willed himself to learn how to deliberately move his body by focusing all his visual attention on it.
This 1998 BBC documentary tells Ian's story:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x12647t
#neuroskyence
A key point: the admin has made things worse & less efficient.
"American scientists already spend some 40 percent of their time on grant-related administrative tasks. Now they are being deluged by ever more paperwork, said Dr. Michael Lauer, who led external grantmaking at [NIH] until last year."
The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley).
Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died
It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.
Hey, it's not like the flu killed nearly 50,000 American soliders during World War 1 or anything
www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
Absolutely gutting story of how measles kills years after ‘recovery’. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Today in Teaching in Higher Ed
This book is great BTW.
And it's as close to exposing a "Moon-landing conspiracy" level lie as anything I've ever read.
Because the truth is that the government has millions of loyal, hardworking, and not just competent but ELITE people working for the betterment of all of society.
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Well loved Sutter P-80 puller w some handwritten instructions on lab tape and post its
Shiny new Sutter P-1000 puller straight out of the box
Celebrating the end of an era-we just upgraded to a Sutter P-1000 puller from the P-80 one a colleague handed me down when I started. I think that one may have been in use since the mid-90s and may hold a record!
NSF GRFP data, 2026.
MIT (~4.5 undergrads): 88 awards.
VERSUS
The entire University of Texas system (~200K undergrads): ~63.
Harvard (~7k undergrads): 51 awards.
VERSUS
The entire University of California system (~200K undergrads): ~300 awards.
2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Massive and important positive news...
#NSF #GRFP awards are out.
2,599 awards!
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1,440 Honorable Mentions.
A significant boost from last year.
Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!
& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
I learned something new today. My daughter's name is Asha and husband has played her some of Asha Bhosle's songs. Never knew she was being referenced in that song (or that he was saying Asha or 'on the' instead of 'only' quite frankly)
This is why these forms of sexual harassment and abuse at scale work to reinforce men’s dominance. If the woman’s “best” option is to quit, then this pattern of behavior can and IS used to keep women out of certain industries and positions of power and spheres of influence.
The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4ccudpF
Sounds like a smart cat. My parents were feeding a cat like this a while- www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
Let's annotate.
1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing.
2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next.
3. Calls out his own institution.
THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground.
bsky.app/profile/fros...
I see my AI rant made it into the Times Higher Education--to be clear Im not worried about my students lazing in bed, Im worried about them losing out on learning because they're being lied to by their universities, by ed tech, and by too many profs
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...
@lofgren.house.gov agrees with us:
She is saying the president does not have the legal authority to make these changes to NSF. We — scientists and societies like @aaas.org — should say that until the lawlessness is covered that way.
Teaching students to ask a question, find and consider evidence, and craft and clearly articulate an argument is at the core of all teaching. It is a slow, messy, non-linear process, but a skill that can be taught. AI short circuits that learning. As Karamanis writes, failure is the curriculum.
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
Just infuriating. Plus I know I want the people making my medical decisions sleep deprived and overworked 🙄
And shouldn’t hospitals know how many things can go wrong post birth for mother and baby?? So having someone else around is a really good idea. Such a horrible workaholic culture. I hope you had other support.
That is absolutely appalling. I’m still mad Y only had 2 weeks vacation time since he had just changed jobs. But his job was flexible and he worked from home some and didn’t have a Dr’s crazy schedule. Also why men saying they got so much accomplished bother me-shouldn’t you be helping your wife?
And you know the point is to get time w your child whether you are the birth parent or not. Also I think the exact words I used were ‘as the only person on this panel who has physically birthed a child’, so perhaps my rage was not all that concealed.
I think all parents need parental leave but many men get advantages from it. I was on a ‘work-life balance’ panel w a man who shared how much great writing he got done & how it can be positive. I barely concealed my rage when saying if you just pushed out a baby you need time to recover. 🤯
"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"