This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

@uupinfo.bsky.social, PSC, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social, and @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social, together representing more than 80,000 academic workers, today issued a call for an end to the brutal treatment of immigrants and those peacefully demonstrating against actions by ICE. psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

Third, journalists, non-profits, social media influencers, and everyday people need to be VERY discerning and careful about not amplifying unsubstantiated rumors about ICE or other law enforcement at or near the polls, because false rumors (even if well-meaning) WILL suppress the vote.

My weekly update on NIH funding. This is for all projects. The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow. 1/4

My outstanding postdoc is looking for a research job in Albany, NY. Please forward all leads and RT!

Morning class! Syllabus for Mobilizing for science 101 🤓✊ - Contact your rep and ask them to #ImpeachRFKJr standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr - Mark your calendars for March 7th! Volunteer at or host a local rally: standupforscience.net/march7 - Fuel the fight: tr.ee/piiPYJ - Share this post!

I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

My weekly update (Grants with Notice of Award dates up to 1/23/26) All projects 1/3

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! 👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity www.cell.com/current-biol...

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🧪✊🔬 March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC. We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science! Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)

The NAACP has set up a simple way to contact your Senators and demand an end to funding for ICE--it literally takes less than a minute naacp.org/actions/tell...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

Join the CUNY Immigration Assistance Project on Jan. 29 at 6pm EST for a Zoom webinar to learn more about the program, receive the latest immigration law updates and hear about available resources. This resource is available for current students, faculty, and staff. To register: ow.ly/q1NE50Y0lAO

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

Allen Sun representing the Savage-Dunn lab at Biology Department Symposium! ~~~ #Celegans

Lipocalins and Scavenger Receptors affect the luminal matrix that prevents narrow tubes from collapsing - now in press in Development! #aECM #Celegans journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

@cuny.edu Dr. Mitchell Baker’s winter ecology course was a success! ❄️ @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social students sampled stream life, studied tree rings, & joined @cornellbirds.bsky.social Project FeederWatch. Best of all: Ravensbeard Wildlife Center’s Birds of Prey, including Hudson the Barred Owl! 🦉🌲

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2

2026 #NYAWM is about to begin to a packed audience at #NYU ! so fortunate to meet and talk science and #Celegans

🙏We need your help!🙏 Mass grant terminations are back, this time at SAMHSA. We're tracking terminations to support advocacy and possible litigation. Please report info on specific SAMHSA grant terminations here: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... We'll have a tracker online ASAP. Spread the word!

The lab is looking to hire 2 new undergraduate researchers! You'll get to work on yeast experimental evolution & genomics. UW students only (and this link won't work for others, sorry). Work study students very welcome to apply! Pays the prevailing minimum wage. app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/106...

If your grant on substance use or mental health was just canceled, please get in touch! Signal: melodyschreiber.06 Email: [email protected]

Check out this story! Atlantic writer Alexandra Petri visited my lab and played with some fruit flies and human organoids as she wrote about experiencing things that were affected by government cuts. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

🚨My department is hiring a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad Genetics & Genomics, upper-level Genomics, and an inquiry-based Computational Genomics course where students can do authentic research. 🧬💻 I’m on the search committee. DM me if you’re interested. Please share! 🙏

We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...

@cswormlab.bsky.social took time with Meléndez and DuBuc labs for a holiday gift exchange! Grateful for this wonderful community.

Thanks to @dmmjournal.bsky.social for a clear and helpful editorial process!

This month's Editor's Choice highlights an article on the connection between #InnateImmunity and #LipidMetabolism, investigated using the worm model #Celegans Read the short, simple retelling here journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/... More details in the thread. @cswormlab.bsky.social

Big news! Our episode of The College Tour is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video! 🎥😁 This is the first-ever @cuny.edu episode filmed on the Queens College campus, featuring ten students who share what QC is all about. Watch now on Amazon Prime Video and meet the students who bring QC to life.

I am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...

Are you interested in learning more about #micropublications ? Check out the roundtable at #CellBio2025 Monday, December 8, 12:00 pm @ascbiology.bsky.social, @micropub7n.bsky.social

A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Something to be thankful for ~ our paper on the intersection of fatty acid metabolism and host-pathogen response in #Celegans is now published in DMM! journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

#aECM Cub starts next week Nov 18 with talks on patterning the Drosophila lens, mouse tectorial membrane, and C.elegans cuticle furrows. You can still sign up for access using the link below.

A short story about our heroes inside NIH: Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble. By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.

Micropublication @micropub7n.bsky.social is peer reviewed and PubMed indexed. A great way to get the data out in uncertain times 👇🏼

I am so excited to have this published today detailing a new system for growing biofilms and observing the resulting populations (stress on the plural!) in chemostats! A chemostat-based model for growing bacterial biofilms | Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. [email protected] scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Saturday morning, waiting for kid's soccer game, is a great time to indulge in the lowest form of humor: LAB HAIKU! 1. Does anyone know whose PCR is in there? BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026. Registration by 16 January 2026 Abstract submission by 17 October 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm #EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪