Interview: How a Hearing-Loss Grant Got Cut in the Fight Over DEI “It felt like the floor dropped out,” researcher Uri Manor said after the sudden suspension of his lab’s award.

How an amazing talended scientist with hearing loss lost his research grant studying ways to restore hearing!
undark.org/2025/07/11/i...

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’

Biologist whose innovations in gene editing led to life-saving therapies is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics & ‘skinny jabs. 🧪💉🧬

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

We are SO grateful to our French colleagues for Standing Up for Science all across France, today!

Joining forces in unity, is the answer to the attack on science and higher education.

Thank you @standupforscifr.bsky.social ✊❤️

Annoucement: International Symposium on Usher Syndrome USH2025 June 19th - 21st; Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
www.ush2025.org/en/
Abstract deadline: April 11h
Registration: www.ush2025.org/en/inschrijv...

For curious minds wondering about the benefits of science:

From the other site... (from EVP at Columbia to a training grant director)

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

Repeated threats to research funding and the mass firings of federal workers have pushed some scientists to take on unfamiliar roles as activists, speaking at rallies, calling legislators and forming new pressure groups.

https://go.nature.com/4bt2EI8

Stand up for #science!

March 7, 2025
12 to 4 pm

#StateHouse, Beacon Street, #Boston #Massachusetts

#standupforscience
#event
#rally
#activism
#advocacy
#communityorganizing
#nonviolent
#resistance
#civilresistance
#threpointfivepercentrule
#scienceisforeveryone

Sad milestone: As of today more than half of scheduled study sections this year did not meet as scheduled. Sections not meeting as scheduled today (2/26): BCO, CIHB, HHD, LHB, MABS, PMDA, TAG, CDIN, MPPA, ZRG IIDB-F. As of now, the NIH has no new postings to the Federal Register since 01/21/25.