It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where on Roblox Your Children Are? - New York Magazine apple.news/ArvOV6m3PSW-...

BioArt bioart.niaid.nih.gov

American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose - The Atlantic apple.news/Aqq6mUEWrTUC...

AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds - TIME apple.news/AKpXe0IDHQHO...

This Report Explains Why Hiring Has Stalled, and Why it Matters - Inc. apple.news/AKGSdSCLSQsa...

It's been a busy time for NIH grants staff — the agency seems on track to spend its budget this fiscal year But, because of multi-year funding, fewer projects are being funded than in previous years. The number of R grants has fallen from 5,633 to 3,758 analysis by @jaspar.bsky.social

Opinion: It’s Time to Rethink the Academic Tenure Process undark.org/2025/09/11/o...

Are YOU a patient, patient advocate, or activist in an area that has been impacted by policy decisions and cuts to federal research spending???? WE WANT YOU TO SPEAK ON 9/17! We are passing the mic TO THE PEOPLE! DM or comment @ me or @standupforscience.bsky.social if you're interested.

After lagging far behind, NIH now seems on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by Sept. 30 www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...

Ready to make your mark in immunology? #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ is now accepting abstract submissions! Present your groundbreaking research to peers worldwide in Boston, MA, in April 2026. The deadline is October 15: immunology2026.aai.org

Has anybody seen/heard any recent pronouncement on model organism research from NIH? #NIH #celegans #modelorganisms

www.statnews.com/2025/09/08/n... Source: STAT

the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) created the Faculty Legal Defense Fund (FLDF): a free resource for public college and university faculty facing threats to their academic freedom or expressive rights. mailchi.mp/insidehigher...

This year's Lasker Awards went to scientists who studied the wiring diagram of life, a new state of biological matter, and a potent treatment for cystic fibrosis. Here's my story with Gina Kolata. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZlH1F

The 2025 Rally for Medical Research is scheduled for September 18. Advocates will meet with their congressional representatives to raise awareness about the importance of continued investment in medical research. Discover FASEB's support at: bit.ly/4lYrJOr #RallyMedRes

Participate in ATCC’s Celebration of International Microorganism Day As we approach International Microorganism Day on September 17th, the ATCC are encouraging our community to deposit their microorganisms with them. www.atcc.org/internationa...

My quote of the day Robert F. Kennedy (in his impromptu speech in Indianapolis on the night of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination) [Note: I am most certainly not comparing Charlie Kirk to Martin Luther King, Jr.]

I’ve heard from those who have received NoAs with the full budget and the expiry set to the project end date. No limits in the NoAs as far as they reported and explicit guidance from POs that annual budgets are flexible

Take down your posts. Now. youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ...

David Baltimore, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Caltech president, dies at 87 - Los Angeles Times apple.news/Av0B7I4fKRgS...

Medical school prerequisites should include microbiology www.statnews.com/2025/07/16/m... via @statnews.com

This explains a lot www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some encouraging news www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

Higher Ed Has a Bigger Problem Than Trump - The Atlantic apple.news/ACwGorwR3Ssy...

📰 The latest issue of the Washington Update is out! Stay informed about updates from Capitol Hill, science policy news, advocacy, and news from federal agencies here: buff.ly/7gksPV4 #SciNews

"The safety has already been compromised…We are flying blind in the U.S. already. If we continued…we would be complicit and would be facilitating the ability to go from flying blind to actively harming people," he said. www.cbsnews.com/news/senior-...

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Plague. They’re literally not doing surveillance for THE PLAGUE (Yersinia). What could possibly go wrong?

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

GOP senators sent a letter to Vought re: disbursement of NIH funding britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/07.24.25_Senate-Letter-to-OMB-re-FY25-NIH-Appropriations.pdf www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

LEADING IN GOLD STANDARD SCIENCE An NIH Implementation Plan www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 22! Friends and Family Friday! Recruit THREE (3) people to send Quack-o-Grams to their House Reps! 🐥DUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT!🐥 act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... #31doa #impeachthequack #DUCKAROUNDANDFINDOUT

Through this request, “Secretary Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky.

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#WeekendRead! #LiveForever & #MicrobiotaPower! Mittelbrun &co show @ Science Immunology that mitochondria alteration in T cells drives premature #inflammaging by decreasing Tfh & Treg cells which causes gut permeability & dysbiosis that can be corrected by T cell transfer! doi.org/10.1126/scii...

#WeekendRead! #MicrobiotaPower! Deshmukh Stevens &co show @cp-cell.bsky.social that antibiotics in infant mice & humans decreases gut microbiota-driven inosine dampening anti-influenza A virus CD8 T cell effector functions & Trm formation in the lung via altered epigenetic reprogramming #GutLungAxis

#WeekendRead! #WeAreWhatWeEat, #MicrobiotaPower! Takeuchi, Ohno &co show @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social that acetylated cellulose reduces body weight gain in lean & obese mice by favoring utilization of simple sugars by the microbiota, forcing hepatic fatty acid utilization! dlvr.it/TMKzHY

#InterferonPower! Thrilled for our latest work @cp-cell.bsky.social! With @danielboehmer.bsky.social, we dug into tons of papers & created what we hope will be a go-to resource for immunologists & non-immunologist about type I, II, III (& IV😉) #interferons! Free👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1leKGL7PXu...