Mine start at 5:30am sharp!

This just makes me feel like humanity is bad.

Can’t wait to pour into the streets to celebrate the end of this regime.

So basically don’t bother submitting as an ESI until October. Got it. 😆

🌔 👋 The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission had some nice words for Earth as they regained communications with Mission Control. Watch with us: spklr.io/6001EyN07

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Science needs more than funding. It needs integrity.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

How Congress can restore the independence of US science Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.

For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

go.nature.com/46EZq32

I've just come to terms with using Microsoft products. I still kind of hate the planner but it does what I need in the end.

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

This is what we call false spring #1. There is at least one more before real spring.

A painting of a bird beside the text "we really fucked the dog on this one"

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Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you.

Reposts appreciated!

I just found a pizza vending machine on google maps in San Juan. Now I know my alternate second job after dog walker if this physician scientist thing doesn't work out: pizza vending machine owner!

Top-line budget numbers are a win w/significant caveats.

Budget enables same NIH MYFs as last year -> yet again, reduced award rates.

NIH's premier MOSAIC program for enhancing the diversity of the biomedical workforce? Gone.

NSF's postdoctoral fellowships? Now, all AI.

GRFPs? Slashed.

This was illuminating

Everyone in the White House involved in any way with that vile, sickening racist Trump post must be fired immediately: everyone in the communications department, everyone in the press office, every deputy chief of staff, everyone involved up and down the line. Not one more tax dollar for this filth.

We will never get more than what we celebrate Why allowing the Trump administration to reset our expectations will harm US science

As we start the think about F&27 appropriations, unpacking the FY26 budget may help set us up for next year.

We need scientists to engage in the process now - to fight for appropriation law that doesn't just fund NIH but fights to protect science and democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

Is it better or worse that presumably someone did those calculations for him?

The last person who told me to smile more was my direct supervisor who then lost his job because he had an inappropriate relationship with a patient. So…

"As of Feb. 1, people up to age 64 will have to work or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to remain eligible for food assistance. The work rules also expanded to include people who are homeless, veterans and parents of teens 14 and older."

Seems like a good reason not to risk your players' lives by sending them to the US for the 2026 World Cup....

Hugs. That’s a lot.

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here.
I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Graphic helps visualize how MYF funds FEWER grants despite the increase in budget approval by Congress. https://www.researchamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ACT-for-NIH-Multi-Year-Funding-One-Pager_October-2025.pdf

🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26.

Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.

Russel Vought is behind this.

It speaks volumes about where we are at as a society when we have the largest GDP in human history and yet my city schools have to close on very cold days because many buildings don’t have adequate heating & insulation to keep the classroom temperatures up.