Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done! rdcu.be/feOj6

This meeting could’ve been a karate match

Fighting through snow so I can do my science. Animal care staff, building staff, clinical staff, nurses, doctors, veterinarians all work through these weather conditions to make the NIH run.

Today I submitted a grant and I’m also getting a tooth pulled today which do yall think will be worse

This is the fucking best. Rip city forever indeed

Hello lab my old friend.

“I’m a transgender service member and today was my last day in uniform. After 11 years, eight months and 1 day I’m taking the uniform off for good. I will always be yours bc this rank, these skills, this name will always be me.” ~Technical Sargent Altesse Aurum #TransInMilitary 🫡 🏳️‍⚧️ @altessaurum

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

Heartbreaking effects of NSF, Americorps cuts to Pittsburgh’s after school programs that support and enrich our city’s kids. The need and benefits of these programs is obvious. Isn’t this what we pay taxes for? Doubt philanthropy can take over. www.publicsource.org/federal-fund...

This, more than anything else they are doing with funding levels etc, will ruin US Science and innovation.

Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable. Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi

⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇

Amazing super cool and IMPOSSIBLE without a) NIH funding and b) ANIMAL RESEARCH

Ok so I agree re: HIM but sadly what he’s saying here is “do your own research and be skeptical of experts”.

The canceled grants aren't a perfect 1:1 with DEI-related projects, but what a reminder of who is and isn't doing the work to make science more equitable.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

The intense racial and gender segregation of science funding will be even more pronounced going forward. This was always the intent.

they put french fries in sandwiches rich that is what the heck is going on in pittsburgh i am all for it tbh

EvolvingSTEM in action at Pittsburgh Perry HS @evolvingstem.bsky.social www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

I had an NSF grant on AI education canceled yesterday. I wasn’t given any kind of reason but I have a theory and it’s just as stupid as you might think. (I will probably have more to say on this once I have more details but for right now just: 😡 )

Just one example: In the past 2 weeks, NIH has terminated dozens of programs to support students pursuing scientific careers. These MARC or U-RISE (T34) grants provide rising undergraduates with opportunities and stipends to participate in science. Where are these programs? Not in the Ivy league:

Ai to predict how a specific monoclonal antibody will distribute throughout the body 👍

Here’s how they’ll do it: 1. Say a lot of people are faking it 2. Vaccines 3. Food

Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.

Given today's onslaught on HHS, I'm resharing my OpEd in @elife.bsky.social. You are not alone, and you do have an important voice! Many colleagues remain unaware that the foundation of US biomedical research is crumbling under attack. Tell them! Full text 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Banning diversity, equity, and inclusion - say it out loud - is catastrophic for US science. It attacks the core of the inclusive strengths of 🇺🇸 science - red or blue, rich or poor - despite the long road ahead. Thank you @stacyfarina.bsky.social for leading! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

me in the national security team group chat

Hegseth could be def sec for only one scaramucci

as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech bsky.app/profile/need...

Pay us to do it.

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

Surely given Jay Bhattacharya's concern about censorship and academic freedom, he will step in and promptly reverse this decision.

I usually stay around my own neighborhood, so when I venture down to south Philly I get the treat of seeing a different set of street art. This one is by Sean Lugo, whose signature is animal heads on people’s bodies. His stuff is SO good. Love this cat.

this guidance is all but useless there are no objective criteria that define allowed and disallowed categories of research that vagueness will undermine crucial health-disparities research, which by law addresses unmet medical needs (including access to care & differential treatment response)

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

This is it right here. Just utterly criminal and cruel.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is coooooool

Omg mRNA vaccines don’t “alter the patients body” any more than protein based.

Local Pittsburgh TV anchor asked the administration to comment on the NIH funding freeze. Deputy PS Kush Patel wouldn’t comment on camera and offered this BS statement. 1/2

Can speak from personal experience that some non-competitive renewals are also not going out. We were expecting a non-competitive renewal on 2/1/25 that has not been received

NIH operates three cycles of grant review, approval for funding, and actual notice of award right now all three cycles are blocked if noncompeting awards are frozen, that's a fourth block American science is running out of oxygen because of an acute airway obstruction

Or transgender health disparities?

The horror show moves to the next level… Grant termination based on studying transgender issues!