Small good news: Since getting my PhD, I’ve been reading for leisure again I finished 5 books so far this year and we’re onto #6 (#3 of the SA authors) #books #fiction

Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓

It’s the end of an era! 🙁 Announcing the Final Release of WormBase blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

The White House's proposed budget would cut NIH research by billions, including slashes to cancer research. My new home state Texas is projected to lose $2.1B in economic activity from the budget cuts, including $353M in losses from cuts to cancer research. How about you? scienceimpacts.org/fy26

This is infuriating, scary, and horrible. NIH needs to support a wide array of science that applies to ALL people. We never know when a finding in one area can apply to another disease or situation.

This is all very bad.

Picking new members takes time: NIH staff spend 1-2 years screening candidates, getting approval, doing background/ ethics checks. Some staff are now screening candidates’ social media to see if they've said anything negative about the Trump administration or have been involved with DEI efforts.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin.

From From Mark Schlissel former President of University of Michigan! @umich.edu www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

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Apparently the only difference between brassiere and brasserie is where the “i” goes 🙃 Good thing I learned the difference before I walked into this place 🤡

Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Late-breaking workshop news! The NSF will be offering an information session to discuss new and ongoing programs and the merit review process. Registration is free. More information here: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr... #Evol2025

You want to talk about government efficiency? Every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the US returns a savings of $11, thanks to preventing illnesses, and saving millions of lives.

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

Incredible reporting by @propublica.org. We are actively losing so much it's difficult to wrap one's head around it. projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Thank you to all the animals that support biological research 💕 here’s a tribute to our Sentinal who ensured the safety of our colony #compassionawareness #cultureofcare #umich #zebrafish

Update: I would like to stop living through events covered in the 2075 AP US AND World History Exams

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THIS 1. When people lose their healthcare, the costs for people who still have healthcare go up 2. Many hospitals rely on patients with medicaid. Big cuts to medicaid close hospitals 3. Higher medical costs mean people have less money for other things, hurting/ruining UNRELATED small businesses

And not just any Kleenex, it had to be the lotion ones

You're going to make me turn the central heating back on, aren't you. AREN'T YOU. <shakes fist towards the sky at nothing in particular>

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris

🧵If anyone tells you Medicare isn't being affected by cuts, tell them they're dead wrong. I have both severe asthma & COPD. My lung function was 33% in 2023, while *on* all my meds. Only one type of steroid inhaler works for me; I've tried the others. All of them. But this year, the Aetna... 1/6

This is poetry 🫡

This was wild 😅

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing. Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

Um can someone answer if these #tariffs are going to affect the price of chocolate? For science?😬

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

lol these tariffs are about to make being a woman in America WAY MORE EXPENSIVE and we need to talk about. A thread/

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Walking into class carrying the weight of knowing our public health infrastructure is being dismantled 10,000 professionals who dedicated their lives to our safety, banished from governance

As a Missouri resident, I could see everything that’s happening coming a mile away because they already did it to my state. Defunded schools, kicked kids off Medicaid, refused the will of voters, attacked marginalized communities, and sold off farmland to foreign companies. We knew.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

My wife identified Noem’s look—we both, journalist & historian, recognize that the politics here are *about* the look, not Noem’s generic “tough” words—as “Lara Croft, Tomb Raider.” “There’s a way in Trump world in which performing a certain kind of ‘sexy’ is ‘serious,’” said the historian. 2/

Stanley Tucci‘s dinner party show is really good and relaxing to watch while cooking Also the inclusion of scientists is 🙌🎉🍻 I kinda wanna host a dinner party now 🥺

And this will have long lasting effects on the US economy, national security and disaster mitigation readiness - way after this disadministration vanishes

The COVID-19 pandemic was so painful and so disruptive to so many people’s lives. And yet science pulled off genuine miracles. At no point in history have we been able to mobilize to complete such large trials of vaccines so quickly and identify MULTIPLE safe and effective vaccines.

It is used insidiously to suggest that infectious disease researchers do not have the best interests of the public at heart, and, subsequently, is used to post hoc justify withdrawing support for infectious disease research under the mantle of biosecurity.

Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. 2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream. This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did. But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.

If it's not clear to you yet: DOGE is not the department of government efficiency. It's the department of government elimination. They have not made one single thing more efficient; they have found neither fraud nor waste. All they have found are jobs, departments, and people to eliminate.