Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What reading the news feels like every damn day now:

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

The VC model is the antithesis of good basic science. Basic science is best when many labs are funded over the long-term, when many different scientists pursue their own ideas. Let a thousand flowers bloom —and support them. VC investment is about relentless, exponential growth.

The way the mainstream media is treating Charlie Kirk’s bigotry is the way a highly dysfunctional family treats racist crazy pedo grandpa. “Oh come on, that’s just how he is, he doesn’t mean It, that doesn’t count.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was. @FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods. theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...

Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.

Very few PhD students finish within 4 years. But international students will need to do that if US proposed visa rules change go through. Sound reasonable to you? Fed register is accepting comments for next month. Details at the link & comment button www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Important new document available regarding SCOTUS and NIH grants. scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-s... 1/2

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Packing our lab up and headed to Baltimore and @um-mind.bsky.social next week! I'd say packing is going well...

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

I’m appalled…yet again…at the Trump administration’s assault on important health research. The latest: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via @statnews.com

✨EXCITING NEWS!✨We're hosting our first ever, in-person event! Join us immediately before #SFN for a keynote, panel discussions, networking & more! Interested in attending? Fill out the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Nov 15 | 9am-1pm | Tata Hall at UCSD Help us spread the word!

“Children can be registered as early as birth to receive new, high-quality, age-appropriate books addressed to them in the mail each month until their fifth birthday.” Dolly’s Imagination Library has gifted more than 287,000,000 books to date 📚 www.argusobserver.com/free_access/...

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

#SCIMaP estimates current & future economic losses in local communities across the US (counties & Congressional Districts). We explain our approach in a new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... (w @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social)

I enjoyed writing this little blog post on why LLMs are incompatible with being a credible scholar. www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/how-...

Try the extension "Bye, Bye Google AI,” which works in Chrome or Edge or any desktop browser that supports Chrome extensions. www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block...

i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Vaccines save 2-3 million lives every year. They are incredibly safe. The risk of a serious adverse event after vaccination is ~1 in 1,000,000. Context: The risk of dying in a car crash: 1 in 100. The risk of peanut allergy: 1 in 200,000. The risk of dying from choking on food is 1 in 2500. 1/

I always forget Dr. Seuss did political cartoons before kids books!!!

🧪 After the workshop on 7/7, the FDA and NIH are asking for public comments on implementing novel methodologies and other strategies to reduce the use of animal testing by 7/14: www.fda.gov/news-events/...

As much as Trump wants to appear all-powerful, he is an unpopular lame-duck president who just signed into law the worst piece of legislation in modern American history. But we don’t just have to sit back and take it. Instead, we choose to organize. Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups

AI is literally a tool for devaluing knowledge and skills. Our book's longest chapter is on that and the need of unions to push back and take control over knowledge production and dissemination. This is the opposite of that.

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity. Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance. www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

This is exactly what I was describing yesterday. So much very questionable verbal guidance. If you get a verbal order that you believe is illegal or unethical, don’t act on it. Instead, summarize it by email back to the person who spoke it to you and ask for confirmation.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

probably a good time to bring this back

Jay, please stop gaslighting early career researchers.

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

i feel like the entire media is the kid who doesn't read the syllabus, but the syllabus is the constitution

My full story about the court's ruling today, which @scott-delaney.bsky.social called an “extraordinary repudiation” of the Trump administration. The judge ruled the “whole enterprise was rotten to its core” by declaring the “ideas that animated the policies” illegal, he told me.

Columbia, SC showed up! #nokings

MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers. Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

It was never about celebrating the military. There are thousands of veterans who need real help, but instead this is what they choose to spend money on. #nokingsday

Here is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?