A line graph titled "N.I.H. Funds Fewer New and Competitive Grants," showing the cumulative number of grant awards by fiscal year. The gray line representing the 2021-2024 average shows the highest cumulative number of awards. The light blue line for 2025 follows a similar trajectory but remains significantly below the 2021-2024 average. The dark blue line for 2026 shows a much slower pace of awards, trailing drastically behind both the 2025 and 2021-2024 benchmarks as of April.

"Instead of canceling grants en masse, as the N.I.H. did in the first year of this Trump presidency, it is now vetting them before approval with a 'computational text analysis tool' that scans for terms including 'racism,' 'gender' and 'vaccination refusal'..." 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

The Executive Orders Blocking Your NIH Grant This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)

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Next Monday!!! Spread the word!

AAI Immunology, we’re here! Will visit @robsorozco.bsky.social’s session later today. Who else can I say hi to?

My new comprehensive review of Immune Memory to Vaccines is out! It has an emphasis on human vaccines. It is also accompanied by a full video lecture. Enjoy!
@lji.org @cp-immunity.bsky.social
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Pancreatic cancer pill shown to nearly double overall survival time, drug company says The company reports the drug showed “clinically meaningful improvements” in overall survival.

Pancreatic cancer pill shown to nearly double overall survival time, drug company says thehill.com/policy/healt...

Hey immuno friends, please share with your networks and anyone you think might want to get involved with BII!

Of the many many lies that the MAGA & MAHA activist Jay Bhattacharya has spewed—a guy who has been Trump & RFK Jr’s most loyal ally—one of the most ridiculous lies is that he “stays out of politics”

He’s Guest Speaker at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservative activists

He is “apolitical” lol!

Keep thinking that it’s not just “longevity research”, it’s “controllable longevity for one specific person research”

Because we could increase human longevity on average just by better healthcare access everywhere

we want to do some pilot experiments doing gene editing of a mammalian cell line using guide-plasmid transfection in cas9-expressing cells. do you have a favorite cell line that transfects easily?

pls re-ski

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night.

That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

@aai.org is working to protect you from preventable diseases…AAI contributed to the brief that helped the court in this ruling:

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

“On Andrew Huberman’s podcast, he recently said….” And so that’s why we too need to…

NO. We’re not normalizing the grift of pop science. We need more public science communication but it needs to be accurate.

I am just a scientist asking other scientists to stop quoting Andrew Huberman as if he’s an expert- especially in areas he’s not an expert in (which is now most of what he podcasts about)

TX, it’s primary season! Early voting begins today for the March 3rd election!

LolPI moment of the week was talking to a trainee about the Super Bowl halftime show and mentioning Ricky Martin and realizing they had no clue what I was talking about 🤣

People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are named as the murderers of Alex Pretti.

Both with enough experience that the excuse of a new agent panicking won’t fly. These guys are supposedly elite (one was on a SWAT team). Yet they pumped 10 bullets into a man they had just disarmed.

Justice will come.

Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.

Find it here: www.icemap.dev.

Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools.

I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.”

Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say By Aleena Fayaz Updated Jan 24, 2026

NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance January 27, 2026

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

Lots of information about places to donate if anyone is still looking for ways to help MN

ICE OUT MN MARCH AND RALLY

Minneapolis, MN
The resistance!
1/23/26

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So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

ICE changes story on Christmas Eve shooting by agents in Glen Burnie Federal officials changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by ICE agents in Glen Burnie.

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by:

1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police

Now ICE is revising its story.

The latest from Alex Mann:

www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Minnesota today

Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.