Very upsetting to hear the sad news of Greg Hannon’s passing. I always enjoyed our far too few conversations we had over the years. He had an interesting and insightful perspective on any science being discussed. He will be missed. www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...
Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.
All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
so glad I visited there two years ago! amazing place. Sorry that this was lost.
crazy times. I live each day as if it were my last day, as a way to maximize my remaining time on this earth. Easier said than done, I know! I enjoyed meeting you here in Utah.
Devastating……..abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-hi...
I have been avoiding social media for the past 7 months, so I was not aware you were moving! then, I saw your post that your spouse passed away. My condolences. Sorry to see you leave Utah.
I have spent my afternoon reading a book that argues that we still don't really have a convincing explanation on what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. It's reassuring to know that it is still possible to return to the absolute moral and cognitive certainties of social media.
Not on social media much, but will note here that I got ~20 minutes alone (at museum opening) with the only piece by Da Vinci in America just a couple of months ago. Amazing, and so much better than the crowds at the Louvre!
Ginevra de' Benci
www.nga.gov/artworks/507...
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Pepperidge Farms remembers an article about this movie being a long way from being profitable.
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏
youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
agree. Lots of insults flying around these days.
reviewing for NIH study section now. Quite a joy to read this. 🤮
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
Amazing move Sinners. This interview goes into some of the symbolism. Highly recommend watching it in theaters. I went to IMAX last weekend and loved it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mU_...
I have basically given up on trusting any journal or any peer review process. You have to read the article for yourself, sadly, as peer review can be absolute garbage in many instances, as all of us are so busy with so many other tasks. Just sad that journals still are the major gatekeeper.
just published finally.
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and ManagementRecommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be/ejNYr
yeah, nature in Utah gives me tremendous solace.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
yeah, that is what I said to myself in 2009. Took me 11 years, but finally started hiking them much more in 2020 onward. They are incredible!! amazing trails....
Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024) Guardian obituary #chemsky 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
I was talking with my sister about how weird it was that people used the Four Humors theory even into the 20th century, isn’t it so stupid to reduce everything to these chemical systems?
And she said “Look at the way people talk about dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin on TikTok”
Huh.
A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.
totally agree. Seems so obvious. Oh well.
