The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated 🙏
Yay! Joy & excitement for the #science ahead & for our #team @ciri-lyon.bsky.social, who is getting @erc.europa.eu #Consolidator grant support to work on the FUNctional EVOlution of mammalian innate immunity #FUNEVO ! So thankful to #ERC and #everyone who contributed & provided support along the way
WHY YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO GET THE COVID-19 VACCINE EVERY YEAR 01. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to be high in the elderly (over age 65) and very young (under age 2). In 2024, nearly 50,000 people died in the US from COVID-19 and it is still the third leading cause of death in adults and eighth in children. 02. Among children and adolescents ages 6 months-17 years hospitalized with COVID-19, 41% had no underlying health conditions. In adults, COVID-19 related hospitalizations increases with underlying medical conditions. 03. Most adults hospitalized with COVID-19 had received no COVID-19 vaccine since September 2022. In children, majority of those hospitalized were not vaccinated. 04. While efficacy on protection against infection is low due to the evolving variants and does also wane, studies have shown the updated vaccines are still nearly 60% effective against hospitalization and death. 05. Studies show that those who were vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine and get infected are less likely to develop post-COVID conditions such as Long Covid and MIS-C compared to those who are unvaccinated. 06. Despite what some disinformation spreaders say, the COVID-19 vaccine is very safe. On myocarditis, countless studies have shown that the risk is significantly higher and more severe with infection compared to the lower incidence with the vaccines. Sabina Vohra-Miller
Why you should continue to get the COVID-19 vaccine every year!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New announcement from NIH has been very succinct since this year. Hope you will find it helpful to identify new funding possibilities.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Our work on a patented myxoma virus immunotherapeutic platform is finally out!
www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...
Humanity.
Here is a link to a good CNN story including an interview with two of the NIH folks who wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration and stood up.
More bravery facing the cameras.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8y...
I signed the Bethesda Declaration support letter and please consider signing it as well! Support NIH scientists and staff!!
1/10 New pre-print(s) from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with Leifu Chang's Lab! We uncover the unprecedented molecular mechanism of CRISPR-Cas12f-like proteins, which drive RNA-guided transcription independently of canonical promoter motifs.
Full story here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.
Quietly, F32 mechanism expired and academic postdocs may not be eligible for the revised postdoc grant...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms, etc
www.latimes.com/california/s...
When hurricane season hits but we have no warning because NOAA was disbanded & no one can get help because FEMA was disbanded, when it’s open season for every infectious disease under the sun because CDC was disbanded, I hope we still appreciate the military parade that only serves one person’s ego.
We got it to bloom in the pot but it took 2 years. I was told that peonies take time to adjust to the new environment. Thank you for the info, and now I know what environmental element it could be!
Excited about #ASV2025?! You should be! We have a line-up of amazing speakers and activities. Example: our Satellite Symposia "Emerging Zoonoses and Priority Pathogens" will focus on work being done globally to prevent and respond to emerging pathogens including HPAI, mpox, Nipah virus, and others!
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
If your grant is "reassigned" or removed this week before the study section review. This may be due to a new round of review on NIH research priorities under NIH's statutory and regulatory authorities. Hang in there.
Shapes and forms to make one feel isolated and defeated. Sometimes it sounds "I won't prioritize you, and you sure will understand". Other times, it goes "I never see anyone as pregnant as you." If any of these sounds familiar, don't take them seriously. Survive first.
Good morning from Arkansas! Here for science.
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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.
Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪
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Well, based on evidence, funding this study will be a waste of taxpayers' money. I often tell my trainees, don't follow emotions to do science, follow the evidence. Science does not care what you like. Am I wrong?
