Professor Dave has done a yeoman's job in debunking the misuse of science by vaccine denialists that are so rampant on social media. Check it out! I make an appearance around the 1:20 mark! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFQ...

CDMRP decisions dropped today. They funded 19 grants. Total. For the whole program. 1.9%. Not sure how anyone is supposed to survive this kind of environment.

I would also love to know this!

Does anyone know when/if CDMRP-PRMRP funding decisions and reviews are being released? The lack of info is killing me!

Not sure if any of you cannabis scientists associate with CannMed, but if so, I suggest you cut ties. The founder is a transphobic bigot that uses invalid research to promote vaccine denialism. Wish I had known that before I went on their podcast!

Antifa supersoldier reporting in #NoKings

New paper! This is the marquee effort of my talented student Jessy Bowden, who identified a unique role for Src kinase signaling in microglia for promoting opioid signal transduction and pain relief in the spinal cord. Congrats Jessy! journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Harassment and discrimination reporting system at the NIH: public.era.nih.gov/shape/public...

Please please please help me get the word out about this. I’m afraid everyone is ignoring our emails. We’ve sent literally thousands and have <10 people enrolled. For reference, we need several hundred. So if you’re not a PI in one of these programs but know someone who is, pls send them this 🙏🙏🙏

Abolish ICE

New post: On the failure of rescoring in virtual screening. Or why automated virtual screening and docking remains hard and why expertise remains essential. medchemash.substack.com/p/on-the-fai...

These guys *desperately* need cognitive scientists as a part of these projects.

Just saw a graduate fellowship that specifies an "*unmarried* female graduate student." What????

I've been thinking a lot about the question of replication rates. Many people claim that ~50% replication rates represent a "crisis" but I've never seen that judgment justified (or even explained). What should the rate be? Why should be expect that rate? Why SHOULDN'T it be 50%?

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Come the fuck ON, @hhmi.org! You have money and you have lawyers.

"Look for private foundation funding..."

She was 9 weeks pregnant. She died. The state of Georgia is making the doctors keep her alive to incubate the baby. She’s been dead for three months. This is REAL. this isn’t about what should or should not be done. This is about having a VOICE. This is about having a CHOICE.

And our IMSD T32 goes down. Guess we don’t want students from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds getting into science. Fuck these people. There is no hell hot enough for them.

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I have a very important announcement. We have a family itty bitty baby quail living in our backyard. 🥺

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

They aren't going to stop. Yes, there will be lawsuits and the institutions will likely get a TRO - but the administration knows this and they did it anyway. Because the goal is to destabilize and destroy, and the chaos helps them do that.

Fascist dictatorships do not stop; they have to be stopped.

Abolish ICE

In the past few months, ICE has shown itself to be completely lawless. Acting with no uniforms or ID, “deputizing” vigilante groups, acting against explicit judicial authority, knowingly detaining innocent people, and lying about all of it. Abolish ICE.

To be fair, “Trump” stands for one whole party and parts of the other as well as substantial sections of the media, without whom none of this assault on higher education and research would have been practicable. But let’s run another profile of Chris Rufo or a piece on woke Oberlin kids taking over

Abolish ICE

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

Ah, another grant with a 25th percentile where we did everything the reviewers asked with some beautiful new data, returned with a Not Discussed. Must be a day that ends in -y.

Someone doing actual politics and leadership. I’m looking at you, institutional leaders. Take notes.

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Context: WIN55,212-2 is a synthetic non-selective cannabinoid agonist (both CB1 and CB2). This also isn't new, since a variety of cannabinoids have been shown to have protective effects in Alzheimer's, and furthermore, WIN compound will never be used clinically, and is decades old.

👏Stop👏with👏the👏advance👏compliance👏and👏cowtowing. The goal is and always has been to destroy higher ed, DEI, epidemiology/ID research, and climate change research. Everything else is just a smokescreen.

They are are eating the checks; they are eating the balances. The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace. At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight For the people that is!

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

Just got one of my non-competitive renewals. Under a CR cut, but hey, such is where we're at that that I'm relieved and grateful just to have my funding continue.

I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Technical restrictions are one thing, but i while i am absolutely in no way advocating anyone do anything illegal, i am saying that, from a cultural theory and philosophy standpoint, it is very definitely long past time for everyone to realize that "moral" and "legal" are not the same thing.

“scientists will go elsewhere” no we won’t! there is no elsewhere! there just literally will not be scientists anymore

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To state the obvious, I think what we are seeing today is the actual dismantling of the NIH. At the very least, this will render certain ICs completely non-functional, which obviously is the point. Buy, hey, study sections and council meetings are back on 🙄