hug received - thanks!

today it feels like everything about my job is trying to kill me

Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.

For example👇

1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.

🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Gwenifer Raymond: Tiny Desk Concert The Welsh guitarist's fingerstyle playing drones with a haunted quality, but her flurry of bends, slides and chord clusters rip open the firmament.

Six strings, ten fingers, three tunes, zero amplification, and I swear I could run through a brick wall listening to it

BREAKING: An appeals court rejected President Trump's effort to revive his executive order targeting gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19.

The order will stay blocked nationwide as our lawsuit moves through the courts.

🧪

“You’ve been in this position for 14 months, if you’re still claiming today that you have not seen evidence that supports vaccines, this is a remarkable failure of leadership and …of refusal to avail yourself of information that is…relevant to your role in government”.

Rep. DeLauro to RFK Jr.

You know who didn’t sign up for this? Bears.

hear hear!

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I just finished using this, which I became aware of due to @clairewillett.bsky.social.

I cannot believe I am saying this about a web app in the year 2026, but: it is well designed and easy to use

a mallard duckling swimming on water, a little bit of water on their beak connecting to the water. ive added a little bit of a golden sun effect to the left

"No, *I* will blockade the Strait of Hormuz" - Duckling 🪶 🐣

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough”

The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

welcome home

don't know - but seems unlikely to me

ha ha thanks for the endorsement, in some parallel universe perhaps

same!

kind of astonishing that they are giving people TWO WEEKS to apply for the NIH Institute Director position at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Almost as though they want to push through some hand-chosen political hack

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

Our nation is at a moral crossroads.

Trump asked Congress for over 1 trillion to fund the Department of Defense and his war of choice. To get it, MAGA Republicans want to defund childcare. Healthcare. Education.

I won't stand for that.

NH sucks

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too.

Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

call for his removal. now.

AAAAHHHHHHH IT WORKED THIS IS WHAT I WANT GOVERNMENT DOING

Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress.
rdcu.be/fbd4a

Nature publishing group, profiting shamelessly off of scientific publishing while claiming to validate the literature: "oh my, what ever is to be done?"

A good day to read the 14th amendment, to understand the gyrations of logic needed to rule against birthright citizenship:"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Inside the NIH Forecast Graveyard What NIH Is Canceling, What It Is Burying, and What It Means

More on the NIH funding opportunity graveyard from Liz Ginexi.

NIH has stopped the vast majority of funding opportunities.

Some were officially terminated. Others are many months overdue, a death by delay, including congressionally mandated programs.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/inside-the...