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...
I'm 95% sure that at least 2 of these Aims were generated by AI 😖
... run everything into the ground. But Sinners is an example of the kind of story that breaks every expectation and fits no mold, and exactly because of that, touches a nerve with the audience. We react to it the way we do because it keeps surprising us.
Our community creative space is really sluggish right now because business of these ventures (art, design, music, and movies) has chocked the life out of creativity. That doesn't mean that people are not creating incredible things but so few are able to break through because we've let MBAs...
This is the kind of story that is born out of human creativity, experience, and vision. It follows no patterns and yet pays homage to those that came before it.
Could never write. There is nothing expected about this movie. The pace of the first half. Characters. The melting of genres. Music. The sociopolitical commentary. The ending. None of these components are expected.
I recently got a chance to finally watch Sinners and the thing I kept thinking about afterwards is "This is the kind of story that AI would never write."
For translational work in mets, right now, it's treatment or bust.
For cancer people: there is almost no interest in studying prevention of metastases. Lots of reasons for this but the biggest one is that preventing metastases in lab models is fairly easy and preventing metastases in patients is hard.
Reviewers, check yourselves before you wreck someone's chance for funding by having more confidence in your opinions than you should.
Going through a summary statement where a reviewer said: "Some of the background information is inaccurate. It's hard to believe facts X and Y."
I just double checked and sure enough, facts X and Y are correct (and yes, they were supported by cited literature).
The extreme competency of NASA will be rewarded by…
massive funding cuts.
It really was too high - he was adjusting but he still had a delayed reaction, especially in his front legs. So the doctor is doing the right thing. But me fretting about breakthrough seizures is constant.
The dose of Bucky's seizure medicine was a little too high so they lowered his dose but now I am terrified that he's going to have a seizure and I can't relax.
The only grants I know of being funded this FY were reviewed last year (spring and summer). But also, every PO I know of has been telling PIs for ND-C grants to resubmit. I remain skeptical that any pick ups will happen in this pile (keeping an eye on NIGMS for this)
STAT: Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
by Megan Molteni @statnews.com @mmolteni.bsky.social
bit.ly/4tVncB5
This answer is a shameful act
(6) A question was asked about multi-year funding. The answer was so disingenuous and full of irrelevant nonsense that I went back to record it.
Here is a slightly shortened version.
I would hope that if I ever gave/give an answer this full of 💩 that someone would send me to a farm upstate.
4/4
I know some very high paying academics, including department chairs and center directors - none of them have anything similar to a $100,000 country club allowance (also, not one of them gets even close to a $7 million salary for the BB coach - but again, they only save lives, right?)
Can any of us imagine?
Congratulations on the new gig!
Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.
we had four years where we didn’t have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it
NIH watchers, you will be mostly unsurprised to see that the triage line will continue at ~one third past the first two rounds that were promised. I seen credible intel on that recently. In context that suggests this will be permanent. Ie CSR loves the results and the honoraria cost savings.
And good for China but it’s an illustration of what happens when you abandoned research- other countries leapfrog you and you are stuck watching clinical and scientific benefits realized by someone else
Bispecific antibodies are now being tested for TNBC and HER2+ BC but most of the preclinical and clinical work is happening in China.
ADCs are now available for those who fail frontline treatment. Turns out HER2 targeted ADCs work well even in tumors with very low expression of HER2 (which normally wouldn’t respond to HER2 antibodies)
Therapeutic advances in TNBC are as recent as 5 years ago. Keynote522 (immunochemo) became standard of care in 2021ish. Responses doubled and by all accounts so will the 5 year survival rate
My eldest has already decided he is moving to Europe first chance he gets. By his plan, that will be college.
To be fair, I have the same reaction when TV scientists grab a door handle with a gloved hand...
