Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! 9-16-25! 😎📐🍰

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!

Important:

12. Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists bsky.app/profile/scin...

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Did Axons Evolve by Activating Cytokinesis During Interphase? A Hypothesis on the Origin of Neurons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737258/

If you use novel mouse models in scientific discovery research, please complete this survey:

Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Another good use of 5 minutes of your time.

Congratulations to our very own Ray Keller from UVA, and all the new members of the National Academy! 🤩 www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

"A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in research and development accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Can we please just call it Artificial Dumbness instead of Artificial Intelligence?

Bill Kaelin @harvardmed.bsky.social explains how federal investment in academic science and medicine fuels American prosperity and world leadership in medicine and biotechnology 👏 www.amjmed.com/article/S000...

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Hearing that NIH Research Fellows are being terminated willy-nilly by the DOGE and MAGA HHS crew. These are senior experienced scientists that NIH wants to keep, but HHS is blocking their renewal. This harms cancer research, and dementia, food, opiate, and mental health

Good box turtle news!

Hoo boy. This is worse than the fake dire wolves. But a funny piece. youtu.be/z_CoMShIaV4?...

The NIH fellowship study section I'm on that was supposed to meet this week got postponed. ☹️ It's not clear why. The SRO is heroically trying to reschedule it for next month.

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Every $1 we give to NIH (National Institutes of Health) returns average of $2.56 to our economy! And that doesn’t even count the long term benefits of new inventions, lives saved, health preserved! www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH funding has the best economic return on investment of any government spending, >$2.40 generated by each $1 of NIH funding. Nationally, $47B from the NIH directly supports >400k jobs and >5x that number (>2m) of private sector activities derived from NIH research.

If you are an NIH researcher affected by grant cancellations, please feel free to reach out: emullin.06 on Signal or [email protected].

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THOSE WRITING NIH GRANTS: the word "inclusive" in your grant, even if referring to equipment, can get it flagged and delay the notice of award. Not kidding. This just happened to a scientist I know. It's absurd. It's Orwellian. It's Newspeak.

Stand Up For Science event in Charlottesville, VA, March 7 at 5pm! cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Wow, congrats Pleasantine! Bravo!

Here are the data for non-competitive renewals, downloaded today. The last awards in NIH Reporter are on 2/22. Given the lag in posting in Reporter, I think this pause is real and this is supported by inside sources who indicate that folks are being told not to issue NoAs.

Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...

Good resource about your state... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Francis Collins is leaving NIH www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Please sign this petition started by Tom Maniatis: chng.it/28kNz52QRz

Obit for my former postdoc mentor Dennis O’Leary (1954–2024) written by many lab alumni. "O’Leary’s work over two decades established a conceptual framework for cortical arealization...and topographic mapping in the visual system". We miss you Dennis! ❤️🧠⚾ #devneuro www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

There is a belief in MAGAland that the private sector will just fund this stuff. For example, Sean Hannity said that “most of the solutions for cancer are going to be found in the private sector, not with public money.” But thats simply not true.

Great use of a cumulative frequency plot to illustrate the slowed pace of NIH grant awarding this year:

Check out this fantastic new review on lysosome resilience mechanisms from a highly respected lysosomologist!

SfN joins 600 organizations & more than 3,500 people across the country in @researchamerica.bsky.social's coalition letter urging Congress to protect vital NIH funding. Read the full letter: bit.ly/3XhgFCJ #NeuroSky #NeuroAdvocate

ATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

This article is unhelpful, implying the problem has been solved-it has NOT 1)Study sections are still not being posted in the FR 2)Study Section SROs have NOT been told meetings can resume and 3)Even if some study sections are allowed to meet no new grants can be approved without council meetings

Yo-we can't buy your products if you don't labor to reverse the funding freeze, and you'll have to close your plant in Mebane NC @milliporesigma.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.