"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know. ⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget. Personal examples help. My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

The National Science Board, the governing body for NSF, meets tomorrow. Timely too with today's NSF employee dissent letter. CLOSED agenda items include: NSF staffing, relocation, and director search. PUBLIC items include updates on "Gold Standard" science & Grad Research Fellowships.

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

🚨 New update on threats to funding for STEM education and training of future scientists 🧪 In past week, early signs from Congress are: "we don't want to destroy NSF". However, STEM education and training—which are vital to NSF's mission—remain particularly targeted. Thread 🧵

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Excited to share a new survey being conducted by CSN graduate student @abbypigeon.bsky.social looking at how participating in science communication and outreach during graduate school affects post-graduate outlooks: umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

@repbillfoster.bsky.social sounds the alarm on Trump’s attacks on science, from slashing research funding to firing our nation's top scientists and engineers. House Democrats are fighting back to protect America’s scientific leadership and keep us moving forward—not backward.

Registration for Eterna's annual online conference July 26-27 is open! Come hear from both researchers and players about new approaches to structure-based RNA design and understanding RNA structure. #citsci Full program and free registration at eternagame.org/eternacon/2025

Biologist Katie Digianantonio writes home to Ohio: The medical breakthroughs that often reach Ohioans first are now at risk from federal cuts. Her work mapping molecular shapes helps design treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative disease. 🧪🏠 www.cantonrep.com/story/opinio...

RIGHT NOW: The full Senate appropriations committee is meeting today (now!) to deliberate on yesterday's subcommittee recommendations. New detail: Cuts for NSF going from... 56% (President's request) --> 0.67% (Senate subcommittee proposal, NOT 67%) Long road still ahead, but HOPE!!

Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA. Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

'Made in the U.S.A.'—many of the world's most important scientific advancements can boast that imprint. But now, Trump's cuts to the NSF are stalling groundbreaking scientific discoveries. As a member of the Science Committee, I'm fighting to restore our global leadership in science.

This is genius

The "Big Beautiful Bill" isn’t the federal budget—it’s a reconciliation bill focused on tax cuts. The real FY26 funding decisions for NIH, NSF, and more are happening now in Congress. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Are you a grad student or early-career STEM professional interested in experiencing careers in #sciencepolicy? Apply for the 2026 #MirzayanFellowship @nationalacademies.org in #DC Mar 2–May 22! I was a fellow & am happy to answer ?'s via DM! Apply by Aug 20, 2025: mirzayanfellow.nas.edu 💡🔌🧪#chemsky

Cool story and amazing microED structure from Yale's new instrument!

🧪"NSF ... received $6.5 billion of the congressionally appropriated $9 billion it is supposed to spend on research ...Because of the halt in funding, new research ... is not getting underway" Awful mechanism to undermine Congress. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... wapo.st/4niZnjS (gift)

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

America's national science agency officially homeless

“But where is the basic and early-stage research, for which the NSF is world renowned? Such a limited, myopic scheme will severely damage U.S. science — perhaps beyond repair.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🥊🥊🔔 Ding ding. Round 2. This time for NSF. LFG!

I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing! We are looking to hire several positions including: - Event and volunteer coordination - Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media) - Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉) 🧵

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Does anyone know what happened in the AAU vs NSF indirect costs hearing? Implementation of the 15% cap was only delayed through today, the date of summary judgement hearing

NSF just announced 500 more GRFPs awarded this year - good news! But... 1500 total awards is still 500 awards below the 2024 level and half of what was authorized in CHIPS and Science. And if the PBR becomes law, the numbers will decrease further next year.

Hosting a congressional meeting might be easier than you think! ➡️Check out this recap of a recent webinar on making your voice heard in district offices: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-.... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

We did a poll on hashtags and there was a tie--use both or either of them: #jaylies and #truthmatters. 3/ You can see the hearing in real-time here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

Covering this morning's Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the FY26 budget request from NIH.

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

The President's budget request is just that - a request. Now, it's our turn to let Congress know the devastating impact of these cuts! 📨 Send a letter: asbmb.quorum.us/campaign/123... 🤝 Request a local meeting: asbmb.quorum.us/campaign/122... 📰 Write an op-ed: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

President Trump's FY26 Budget Request recommends slashing key federal agency budgets. This adds to a growing array of actions that threaten the future of American science. ASBMB calls on Congress to reject the proposed devastating cuts. www.asbmb.org/advoca... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

More NSF news: here's a letter from 89 former members of the 12 dissolved advisory committees to the NSF, House, Senate, and NSB. drive.google.com/file/d/1N44A...

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Are you a grad student or postdoc at the bench in the UC system? If so, please DM. (for the record, this is a question about laboratory procedure, not any individual PI) #chemsky ⚗️

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Join us at 11 a.m. Eastern tomorrow for a free webinar, with @nmrkaygee.bsky.social of ASBMB's public affairs advisory committee and @faseborg.bsky.social's Jennifer Zeitzer, on how to advocate with elected officials in your district and state! ➡️Register: ow.ly/4vNO50VWHNZ. #ScienceServesUsAll

Last week, 22 ASBMB members convened in D.C. for the society’s Capitol Hill Day. Their mission: defend basic science in the face of growing threats to research funding & agency restructuring & urge policymakers to invest in innovation. www.asbmb.org/asbmb-... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

🚨ATTENTION SCIENTISTS🚨 👀 Are you looking for a way to connect with the press to share your story? 📰 We are excited to announce the *safe and secure* SUFS Press Connect System. Whether you are looking to be a face or stay anonymous--we have you covered. actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

Looks like similar language to NIH (April 25: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...), but NSF added a more expansive definition of discriminatory prohibited boycott...

UGH www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

🧪 To clear up some confusion: NSF continues to issue some new awards, but at a *very slow* place. It's enough to say, "yes, new awards are being made". ⚠️ But the big concern: A crash collision for not spending down this year's appropriated funds by Sept 30 (end of fiscal year).

Let's continue the momentum from ASBMB Hill Day! Your voice as a scientist supplies the real-world perspective that policymakers need to hear. These tools will help you take meaningful action to shape policy: www.asbmb.org/advocacy/sci.... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

A great day on the Hill today with @asbmb.bsky.social! One takeaway: let your electeds know when the system isn’t working - grants cancelled, programs terminated, etc. It takes <5 min to make a phone call… help your elected officials advocate for you! ☎️ #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

I’m on Capitol Hill, visiting with @repcasar.bsky.social staffers to discuss the importance of basic science research! A major need: Congress provides at least $9.9 billion for NSF in FY2026 to protect American science leadership. #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates #AdvocateForScience #BasicScience