“The loss to state economies would be about 40% greater than the federal savings, as losses ripple through state and local economies. In other words, for every $1 the federal government saves, state and local economies would lose $1.40.” mediarelations.gwu.edu/new-research...

A global perspective on autoinducer-2-mediated cell communication in prokaryotes - in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

My quote of the day Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Annie Besant

New @neal-lab.bsky.social team photo! ❤️ Leaning on each other more than ever during these times & grateful for this resilient, inspiring group. #NealLab

Thrilled that our latest paper showing that DCs undergo either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation to restrict Legionella is now online at the @asm.org journal mBio! Congrats to 1st author @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! 🎉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Wondering if your grant will be reinstated from Monday's ruling? Check here. Plaintiffs have uploaded a list of 848 (of the ~2400 total terminated) they say are covered because they're to institutions in the states aforementioned or a part of APHA/UAW. The judge must approve the list first.

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

Some positive news in troubled times: New preprint by Vincent de Bakker, Xue Liu @jonbakerlab.bsky.social Infection-mimicking conditions+transcriptomics/proteomics/'essentialomics'/lipidomics shows many cool things! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2030STEM in partnership with Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is building a new, catalytic resource to advance the careers of early to mid-career STEM researchers and professionals who are motivated to build an inclusive STEM ecosystem. Get more informarion at 2030stem.org/fellowship-1

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Reminder for when we talk about improving NIH grant review. Huberman brought blind review up with Bhattacharya. “redaction caused applications from White scientists to score worse” elifesciences.org/articles/71368

New opportunity to help sustain global health research re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

🚨Incredible opportunity alert!! 🚨 #microbiology

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

TBC this freezing of reimbursements to some institutions, like Northwestern, have not been accompanied by ANY terms or requests. They are simply holding this funding hostage illegally

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New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university) This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/2

NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis. Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

With all our recent graduations, we’re hiring!! Interested in supporting a lab of diverse scientists studying microbiology and circadian clocks? Must be willing to work with animals - beyond that, there are several open projects. See thread #srbr #zebrafish recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01905

This also means that all international postdocs were just fired.

Appeal from colleagues at Harvard: "...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."

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Huge congrats to Colin for completing his masters talk! His project investigated how sepsis and meningitis affects circadian rhythms. To do this, he leveraged zebrafish genetics and had to generate some new tools that have never been attempted before - a true pioneer!! Congrats Colin!!!

Huge congratulations to Jaden Knight, MS who gave an awesome graduation talk! Jaden bravely lead our lab into the world of chemistry and made huge strides towards uncovering the identity of a novel molecule that modulates the circadian clock. Cheers!!!

🤩🤩 Check out this selection of amazing images on the Node! #devbio thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

The goal of biomedical research is not just to help and save those who are already seen as healthy, but to protect the vulnerable as their lives matter too.

Our Pittsburgh grade 6-12 science program inspires students to see themselves as the next generation of scientists, but funding freeze threatens its future. www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

She was jailed for writing an opinion column

If you're at one of the targeted institutions and have an active NIH grant you might want to check ERA Commons immediately for an "updated" NoA

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Absolutely stellar and relevant talk - I learned a TON - highly recommend!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪

Huge opportunity for postdocs gearing up for an academic job search, hosted by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and UCSF!

Holy shit

1. The DOJ has sent threatening letters to several medical journals, focused around whether these journals are spreading misinformation that harms the American people and suppressing alternative viewpoints. I study how the norms and institutions of science facilitate discovery and self-correction.

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

Come and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇

Maybe it's just me but I feel very sad that the United States has a #measles tracker in 2025, when we have had a vaccine that is 97% effective for over 50 years. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Are you looking for a #PhD project at a world-leading, independent research institute? Want to contribute to ground-breaking and innovative science, to help address global challenges? Look out for opportunities at JIC, such as this project with @antdodd.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Same for ZFIN! @zfinmod.bsky.social put them in your papers' acknowledgements and cite them (Bradford et al. 2022 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...)

Now this is what we’ve all been waiting for!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 😂

I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences! It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social omix.midauthorbio.com

If a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪