people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
"Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war" - Pasteur
Nice mood boost etched into marble at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. Seen yesterday at the moving, inspiring celebration of Carl Olson's life and career.
"This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces. But it asks something of all of us, too.... To stand strong, they need the assistance of students, faculty, and alumni."
Northwestern has a great new website explaining why the federally-funded research we do benefits everybody: www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...
"Our safety as Jews has always been tied to the rule of law, to the safety of others, to the strength of civil society, and to the protection of rights and liberties for all.”
How the Trump administration is "using anti-Semitism as a pretext to destroy institutions that they want to destroy for totally different reasons" – and the @aaup.bsky.social lawsuit challenging them – @jameeljaffer.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4j2TmoT
1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy?
🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵
🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
'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.'
NIH freezes *all* research grants to Columbia. Going for the throat now.
www.science.org/content/arti...
A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.
🧠 Now On the Stage: by Dr. Matthew Maas with Updates in Neurocritical Care at the C10 Neurology Update in room 6A- Come join us - we have a variety of topics all day!
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BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
iGABASnFR2: Improved genetically encoded protein sensors of GABA www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....
Silencing scientists, altering data, burying results; all things scientific integrity (SI) policies help prevent in federal agencies. We’ve heard concerning news about the Trump administration’s desire to rescind federal agency SI policies. Here’s why such policies are in all our best interests (🧵)
New survey data out from Navigator research shows the profound public concern and anger over the cuts in the Musk wilding spree. Unsurprisingly, voters are more concerned than almost anything by Trump and Musk shutting down cancer cure research (and research into cures for other diseases) in the U.S. 71% of independents says they're concerned or very concerned about it. 65% percent of voters over all. It's also something they've heard the least about. Here's the raw data for the poll and a powerpoint. And here's the chart on Elon and the billionaires. "Dangerous," "Power-Hungry," "Corrupt," and "Self-Serving" Are Best Descriptors of Musk and Other Billionaires' Actions Independents see them most as "dangerous," the job he is doing ao say they da greedy Oligarchic. American and inexpariEnced est lower across the body approve of * and "inexperienced" test lower across the board. Which of the following words or phrases best describes the actions of Elon Musk and the other billionaires working with the Trump administration? 2024 Trump Voters* Dem Rep Not-Strong Approvers Strong Approvers Dangerous 134% Power-hungry 134 Corrupt 131 Self-serving Greedy 129 MAGA Unaccountable Unelected 119 illegal Right-wing extremist Out-of-touch 115 114 Inexperienced Un-American IK Oligarchic Ik For more info, visit navigatorresearch.org n
ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics):
Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about.
And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social:
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graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
