NIH funding is back in limbo, and it’s a mess. Between a 90% drop in new funding notices and White House spending blocks, only about 800 new awards have been made, less than a third of the usual rate. If these "spend plans" don't clear soon, we’re looking at a major gap in biomedical research.

A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs but were harvested without her consent. Novartis has settled a lawsuit by Lacks’ estate that alleged the pharmaceutical giant profited off her cells. https://bit.ly/3NgCeBs

Some exciting news! NCBI has finished the annotation pipeline for our new #zebrafish reference sequence GRCz12tu: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annot... This is a big step up in data depth and quality and should be super helpful going forward.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, and in the midst of two major public health crises (the ongoing measles and bird flu outbreaks), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces that it is cutting 20,000 full-time jobs. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm excited to share that we have a new paper out! This is a review about a #RareDisease. We propose that #TBCK Syndrome, #PPP1R21 related intellectual disability, and #FERRY3 intellectual disability, all rare disease, may constitute a new disease class. (1/4) journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

"This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.

Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed

Hope this is real.

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

Can someone please explain to me the legal basis for dismantling DEI programs? I get that the Supreme Court ruled against using race-based affirmative action for Higher Ed admissions but, if you take race out of the equation, does that make every program that mentions DEI ‘illegal’?

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Once again, this administration reveals how it stands in the way of scientific progress and process: Preprints enable scientists to communicate their science more rapidly and widely. 🧪

This looks awesome! I hope people will use it in combination with @adrienjouary.bsky.social 's megabouts.ai, which can lower the time resolution needed for bout identification, helping to enable low cost experimental set-ups.

I'm thrilled to announce that our paper describing Marigold, a free machine learning-based webapp for zebrafish behavioral analysis, is officially published! Marigold features a user friendly graphical user interface to enable training of a neural network for analyzing behavioral recordings.

On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

People are about to learn just how many programs, departments, events, roles, etc for Black and brown folks were federally funded (and in some cases federally protected). All the Black ppl who always ask "what have the dems even done for us" are about to get the most dramatic answer possible.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

NIH Study Sections are getting abruptly cancelled, folks. 🧬🧠

The guy who manufactured the outrage against Critical Race Theory and Elon Musk are now just simply firing non-whites and non-males in the federal government.

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

Thoughts about January 20th- Happy MLK Day! I spent the long weekend on Martha's Vineyard. While there, I went to a nice talk at the MV History Museum and heard about how MLK spent his time on the island thinking, writing, and, perhaps most importantly, resting. (1/5)

Looking to enhance your timeline for 2025? Check out our Starter Pack of outstanding Group Leaders and Scientists from the #zebrafish community! #WomenInScience go.bsky.app/4BegEjv 🧪

Zuck kneels for the umpteenth time before his MAGA god king.

We're finally here on Bluesky! We are the premier discovery-driven training opportunity for the next generation of neuroethologists and systems neuroscientists located at the Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social

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The Neural Systems & Behavior course at @mblscience.bsky.social is now open for applications (deadline 1st Feb 2025, tinyurl.com/329nbtzp). Students often describe this 8-week training course as a life-changing and eye-opening scientific experience. Apply and join us in magical Woods Hole 💫🐙🧠🔬

I’m not sure what it says about me that I really like feeding fish on Christmas. Anyway, happy holidays from me and the fish!

I haven’t seen this pre-print shared here yet, but it should be! Happy to see this work. The #zebrafish community need these and other #CRISPR genetic expression tools optimized! 🧬🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39345571/

Very happy to share our latest, a review on #ExpansionMicroscopy across organisms (including zebrafish, mice, Drosophila, and C. elegans) with @galhaspel.bsky.social and more :) #zebrafish #microscopy doi.org/10.1117/1.NP...

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds @cathleenogrady.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...

I wish I could relax as well as my pets in front of a warm fireplace on a winter evening.

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Selfie taken at our lab lunch to celebrate the end of the semester and the holidays. Happy holidays! I hope you are able to find some joy and relaxation over the next few weeks.

Whoa! This sounds crazy time. How exciting! (pun intended) 🧠🧪

Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...

What’s the deal with birds?! @healeylab.bsky.social @fnmadison.bsky.social

Let your timeline shine with these outstanding #WomenInScience! 🧪 #zebrafish go.bsky.app/4BegEjv

Is anyone else planning to run the BMW Berlin Marathon in 2025? If so, hit me up! I’m looking to connect with others before or after the race. #running #marathon

Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.

So. Well. Deserved. 🥲

A back yard with fresh snow and a happy puppy.

What did they think would happen? I just knew that the only Black person in Trump’s cabinet would be director of HUD. That’s def one of his black jobs. It would be funny if not so insulting and pathetic. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...