DOGGETT: Doesn't your budget propose another 12% cut for NIH?
VOUGHT: Most of what you said is untrue. NIH was not cut at all--
D: My Q is don't you propose another 12% cut?
VOUGHT: We propose a cut
D: Is it your feeling that we just can't afford to invest more in doing something about cancer?
Oh goodness, for REAL?!?!?!🫠
I'm trying to get back into running. It is really hard at this stage of life and living in CA with a heat wave! I am still proud of my 3.6 miles this morning.
Congrats to Brayden Chin on being the first MS student from our lab to defend! We are proud of you and you are a great scientist!
I haven't had the time to build a tweetie bird lego with my 4 year old, between submitting an R35 and getting ready for my 160 person class first exam this week. I feel you.
everyone's vision is going to go downhill real quick
I have done it two different times because my first one deleted and even the second time took 3 hours!
Preprint Alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Title: Endothelial Cell Autophagy Suppresses Metastasis In Mouse Mammary and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Models
also, it's not her job to be an expert at poison control!
this smile is terrifying
I did this too while making some walks across campus!
Agreed.
Words matter!
I'm from someplace very snowy and this was amazing, I needed this article this morning
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
Thanks @drsalinaslab.bsky.social for a great talk at SDSU yesterday!! I definitely learned a lot.
Today is a great day to #VOTE if you haven't and you're in the US!
Mom academic life today:
Me: Hey, let's draft my paper discussion
Daycare: calls pretty much immediately for pickup of my daughter.
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Powerful
I hope this is an incredible boost to family wellness and their economy and I hope other states take note!
IACUC protocol year 3 review due in 5 days OMG.
This is 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, killed in the horrific violence at the Annunciation Catholic Church. We must honor their memories and hold their families close as we come together to heal.
the light out on College was a real mess.
1/56 Californians is COVID positive right now! Part of the reason I feel compelled to share this is because a lot of the infrastructure on communicating this to the public has been disrupted. :( www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Important- if you had an illegally terminated grant that was reinstated, you might not be safe. Staff are being told that grants *may* be canceled after October 1st, 2025 if not "in line with agency priorities". POs are being muzzled and can't tell grantees directly.
#NIH #NIH_funding
RIP Jim Lovell. While I wake up and think about biology every day, I think space is amazing and Apollo 13 is an incredible story and mission.
This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country.
See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us
Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.
Join us at a Teach In for Science event in San Diego next week, to talk about why funding cuts to biomedical research affect every person living in America. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/this-affec... 🧪
