Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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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.

American science is shrinking.

A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."

[Gift article]

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

congrats!

hang in there! it's not an uncommon place to start, plus the last couple rounds have been absolutely brutal. You've good data and good ideas and the scores will come in time.
If you want another pair of eyes on anything I'm always happy to read stuff over.

obviously this poll did not properly weight it's sample for four year olds

she called them inappropriate but she never said they were wrong 💅

We're hiring a Research Assistant - Hope you'll consider applying if you're interested in a career in behavioral and/or addiction neuroscience!

Open to either BS or MS level candidates, ideally looking for 2+ years in this role.

Deadline is May 13.
careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

hey this is bad

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

they've had a good run, but it's time to cut down all the trees.

I'm sorry since when does pollen come in EXTREME

"'In the end, it was three women in a group chat trying everything in our power. It really has just been us'...

They worked to find pro bono legal counsel for the women and decided to direct them to a single news outlet, CNN...

'We’re just getting started.'”

THE POWER OF THE GROUP CHAT 🙌🏽

Screenshot of live feed highlighting CBIOMES

Our tiny #Celegans astronauts are 30m out from docking with the #ISS! Tune in live here plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...

#CBIOMES #spacebiology #microbiome #wormsinspace 🚀🧪🪱🦠

I'm not religious, but I respect the importance that faith plays in people's lives. Posting an image of yourself as God is literally blasphemy. It shows a disregard for sacred imagery and, by extension, for the very concept of the divine. Trump should apologize.

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Welcome back, moon poets

Female octopuses intentionally throw debris at harassing males YouTube video by New Scientist

Here's a REAL video of a female octopus throwing things at a male.
Not trash-ass AI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

is that what your lab looks like

fine, I will also learn about the Avignon Papacy

Really thrilled to share my lab's latest work where we characterize the role of the CeA in integrating exogenous GLP-1 signals.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

during my first research experience as an undergrad there was one memorable day when I burst into tears after trying and failing to do this calculation three times.

Now I run and lab and have tenure and average about 50% of successful lab math. No tears though

2022 Tweet from Caroline Keroack: "I have a whole PhD I whisper to myself, as I write C1V1 = C2V2 on a paper towel for the 8000th time."

This tweet is all of us.

I get tons-there's a super competitive science/tech high school in northern VA and those kids are relentless.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

you know Philly will bring the energy of the original trials (at least one executioner who lied about their experience to get in on the hanging action)

You can safely ignore anyone who insists that you should become not-you to be taken seriously in your professional life.

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

Notionally Trump claims exclusive (false) credit for it. But the Artemis mission has this uncanny quality, like an alternative timeline where things aren't all wretched, absurd and degenerate - rooted in science, human striving, injgenuity and purpose. The contrast w the war in the Gulf is so great.