For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post

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Cancer neuroscience: The past, the present, and the road ahead Both the nervous system and cancer-intrinsic neural features can govern cancer initiation, growth, progression, metastasis, and treatment resistance, …

What are the current and emerging topics in Cancer Neuroscience, and what comes next for the field?

In our new review, now online @cp-cell.bsky.social, we discuss previous and ongoing research from leading laboratories and propose future directions for research. 🧠🔬

Curious? See link below 😀👇

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

This isn’t a “could face” situation.

It’s a “are facing” situation. And brain drain will continue to happen as long as we undermine science in the US.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines The Pasteur Institute of Iran is one of several healthcare facilities in the country to be targeted.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... destruction of Pasteur institute is disgusting

Cover of The Lancet's April 4, 2026 issue. Quote on cover reads: "The tools to cure most childhood cancers are already available. Achieving equitable outcomes now depends on delivering effective treatments to all children, not just to those in the wealthiest countries."

On the cover, our latest Editorial—'Childhood cancer: progress, but not enough'

Read this & more in our latest issue ▶️ spkl.io/63328AF70M

Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science.

This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now.

rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

So sorry to have missed this amazing event! I am in the middle of teaching a course so was unable to make it :(

Leaders in academic circles seem to want to downplay just how bad things are at NIH and for science in the US.

Not sure if this is naivety... Bhattacharya is quite a good propagandist and sounds reassuring. But certainly folks in academia are paying close enough attention to see through his lies?

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Lost rhythms: Breast cancer hijacks neuronal circuits that blunt GC rhythms to promote tumor progression In this issue of Neuron, Gomez et al. report that breast cancer disrupts diurnal glucocorticoid oscillations by disinhibiting hypothalamic CRH neurons. Time-specific neuromodulation restores rhythms a...

Thanks to Francesco De Virgilis & Christoph Scheiermann for writing a great Preview on our recent paper www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 😀

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.

Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).

Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.

To what end?

Awesome! Congrats!!

Thanks!! 🙏

Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis - Nature Immunology Sabatino and colleagues examine expanded CD8+ T cell clonotypes from a small cohort of multiple sclerosis patients. They identified several cognate peptide epitopes that derive from Epstein–Barr virus, suggesting EBV reactivation may drive pathogenesis in these patients.

The findings of a study in Nature Immunology shed vital insight into the role of CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis and support an important role of Epstein–Barr virus in MS immunopathology. #Immunosky #medsky 🧪

“Eye of God” nebula. SFRO collective image, I contributed ~23hrs: app.astrobin.com/i/ixz4v8

Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over? Diana Buttu on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’

"Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?"

@dianabuttu.bsky.social on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’

READ:
zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...

Congrats!!! 🎊🍾🎉 beautiful paper

Special thanks to @jborniger.bsky.social cial / Kevin Tracey for the neuroscience guidance. Grateful for support from @lustgarten.org en.org & @pancan.bsky.social ! 🎗️💜

Full paper: doi.org/10.1158/2159...

Now online in Cancer Discovery AACR Journals: Myofibroblasts Induce Neuroplasticity to Promote Pancreatic Inflammation and Cancer Progression - by Jeremy Nigri, David Tuveson, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @cshlnews.bsky.social

Sympathetic chain ganglia (T12) labeled with pseudorabies virus, showing neurons directly innervating a mammary tumor in a mouse (yellow) and tyrosine hydroxylase (magenta). Credit: Nik Holland

Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.

Shot, Harassed & Threatened: U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents deployed in cities across the U.S. testified before Congress on Tuesday. Amid harrowing testimony by three victims and the...

Shot, Harassed & Threatened: U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents

5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen A 5-year-old girl and U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother earlier this month. Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos lived in Austin, Texas, with her mom and family, where she was in ki...

5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen

The boogeyman nebula ~31 hrs LRGBHa #astrophotography

School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.

Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.

Thanks Karen! Looking forward to catching up at MCN 2026 as well :)

We’re thrilled to share that CSHL Associate Professor Jeremy Borniger (@jborniger.bsky.social) has received the 2026 Bakewell Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation. His lab is exploring synthetic torpor—a hibernation-like state—as a novel way to slow cancer growth. #ScienceMakesLifeBetter

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

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