🚨New paper!! I was lucky to get to collaborate with Becky Cramer, her team from Norway🇳🇴, and researchers from the museum of vert zoology at Berkeley. Unusual Sperm Morphology in Two Sedentary Songbird Species - Cramer - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

WARNING WARNING WARNING #ResearchAdmini I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

Vox has a very good article explaining the mess that just happened at the Supreme Court. In the end, they are ensuring that no matter what happens to the canceled grants, there’s no chance of resolving fast enough to matter for the work or PIs. Struck a death blow www.vox.com/scotus/45886...

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it

This is how you truly resist. It fed my soul to hear this young man speak TRUTH to power. We desperately need this kind of passion. Reminds me of the activists I grew up with, back when people were fearless.

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Is it just me, or is Spotify's enshitification recently in overdrive?

I'm the guest editor on this special issue on TBI. Awesome work from the Dean lab 🧪 💀

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

The speech Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems should have given the day after Trump's inauguration. quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/i-wrote-th...

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.

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At the very, very least you should view this as an opportunity to beat Trump instead of an opportunity to gloat.

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV.  Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

Well, I think it's the first time I've been put on a list. I guess studying brain trauma is woke. 🧪

Holocaust Remembrance Day is now "woke".

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

🚨Good news! The Tobiansky lab is moving to Providence College! I'm super excited to move back to Rhode Island and work with great colleagues in the Neuro and Bio departments! A light in these challenging times for research funding. #ScienceIsEssential #ProvidenceCollege #goodnews #biology 🐦🥼🧪🔬

„Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis, as I did for my book Serving the Reich, cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders“ 🧪

NIH funding supported : *** 412,041 jobs *** *** $92.89 billion in new economic activity*** *** $2.46 for every NIH $1 spent.*** We are a $100B industry. Let's act like it How about, at a bare minimum, we all just call our congressional reps www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...

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“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Please help support #wikipedia, one of the last bastions of shared truth! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

My intro to bio students loved this paper!!! Thanks for putting some light into the world @evornithology.bsky.social.

For people in DC: go to Treasury department Tuesday at 5:00pm. Ths is where DOGE crew is taking data and attempting illegal impoundments.

Apropos of nothing, here are 12 #birds that aren't dismantling the democratic order. #birdsky #1: Acorn Woodpecker Once accused of communism. Even used to be called the "California Woodpecker," amirite? And yet, not dismantling the democratic order.

Bro what?!?!?!

Our woodpecker grant is in! Who knows what will happen to it now... but it's really good! Congrats to a brilliant team: @dtobiansky.bsky.social, @talialm.bsky.social & Aki 🎉 🥳

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

All docs in sciencv in my #NCBI are gone like the #biosketch for me and my collaborators. Does anyone know what's going on? What is this craziness!!!

This will be an amazing resource. Thanks for sharing @evoneuro.bsky.social!

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

Does anyone have suggestions on which cDNA synthesis kits for qPCR to use when on a budget, while still being publication worthy experiments? The superscript kits are getting too expensive! #PUIneuroscience.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...