He knows that NIH spent their apportionment but he also knows they did by sending dollars to upcoming years with the result of ~25% fewer proposals- which is a massive cut. He just lies to the face of Congress

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

MacGyver-ing with lab temperature in the 80s. Rutgers "Energy Management Systems" fail every year with seasonal transition to cooling

The universe has smiled upon me. My friend had an extra ticket for Springsteen at the Prudential Center next week. This Jersey girl is gonna see The Boss!!!! BRUUUUUUUCE

Dog walks and people on the street: a New Yorker writer sees what it's like for a scientist to run for office. New: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If you are around New Haven on Wed, April 22 come see my public Yale University Peabody Museum talk in O.C. Marsh Hall at 5pm! peabody.yale.edu/news/bass_le...

Found art

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

@neilshubin.bsky.social Is this really an activity organized by the NAS? I know you have not begun your term as President but surely you can speak out against platforming one of the architects of the destruction of American science. He was just as CPAC USA, for goodness sake!

Haven’t seen this since I left the worst coast decades ago.

Today reminded me that uplifting others is free and the reward is absolutely priceless.

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The legal world’s response to fringe ideas on birthright citizenship was good; many talked about why the ideas were bad, and also the agenda behind them. We are getting some of this in science but we need more people being honest about the radical institutions propping this up, and the goals. /end

“It wasn’t only that America was a big, dynamic country with many world-class research institutions. It was that here, unlike so many other places, differences of opinion were encouraged, and the prevailing ethos was to let the best ideas win.” Compelling article, must-read. 🧪

Perhaps the biggest impact of Trump/Project 2025 on US science is their attacks on scientific integrity. They are corrupting a free and fair marketplace of ideas by using money and power to create bias.

Here's a REAL video of a female octopus throwing things at a male. Not trash-ass AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

Yesterday, whilst driving on the M25, I mentioned the high number of arseholes driving. So, from the passenger seat, my husband @jbeston.dev drew me one. Honest to god, I laughed all the way back to Norfolk just thinking about it!

Manuscript accepted Friday COB is the best! TGIF!

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This week has been day after day of not doing the job fast enough, we're facing massive challenges to get things done, beatings will continue until morale improves, general OMB shit to all fed employees..... but yes please add being more empathetic unto the emotional beating the last year has been

RIP Greg Hannon. Big loss to the scientific community.

@barrlab.bsky.social Yes, I saw this... Here is the video of the response. "It ... promotes fairness to taxpayers..." Let's explore this a bit. 1/5

@jeremymberg.bsky.social , the federal register is accepting comments until May! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Just watched the NIH Strategic Planning input session... Some observations: (1) I am glad that NIH is doing this (although I do remain skeptical about how seriously they will take input which challenges their existing intentions). PEOPLE SHOULD STILL COMMENT! grants.nih.gov/news-events/... 1/4

It's been a while... dusted off some old code to see what the current publication lag times are at cell bio journals. At the end of the post there's the poor paper with the longest delay in the dataset... Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals quantixed.org/2026/04/09/h...

Hi everyone in the academic and STEM spaces… please check in on your friends, colleagues, and students. People are struggling right now and a lot of folks need support, a kind word, or even just to know you are there if they need you. Sending hugs to my community! We are in this together.

THIS Be kind to others and to your self

The worm community has lost a true legend with the passing of Don Moerman. Don's impact on C. elegans research is beyond measure. A friend to many of us here in MN, his work has been invaluable, contributing >5,400 strains (VC & DM) to the CGC, 20% of our collection!

This tweet is all of us.

2) Being apolitical IS political. Staying out of politics doesn’t keep you “above the fray” but instead endorses the status quo. (Which right now, is bad for both science and democracy.)

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

when I told him I claimed lfg as my allele code he hooted and hollered.

It is with great sadness that I'm sharing the news that Dr. Don Moerman passed away this weekend. He was such a legend in the #Celegans and Canadian science community.

What a horrible form of gender equality… anxiety about appearance for everyone. “Prescriptions for the drug in the United States tripled between 2017 and 2024… Feeding that anxiety is a mass-marketing campaign teaching men the same brutal self-scrutiny that women have long been trained to perform”

#Artemis is circling the Moon right now. And later this week, our team's experiment launches to the #ISS. Tiny worms. Defined gut microbiomes. Here's why the two are connected. 🧵 #WormsinSpace #CBIOMES #Celegans 🧪 🪱 🧬 🚀 1/n

Join us in celebrating @irinakitop.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 GSA Mentorship Award! 🎉 From discovering C. elegans to building a career as a staff scientist at @fredhutch.org, she advances research while mentoring the next generation. Read more: buff.ly/5MRPgiN

I did well in my Men's NCAA basketball bracket this year, picked the Final 4 & winner Michigan. Turns out picking teams because 'there's good science being done there' or 'I like their mascot' or 'they invited me for a talk' or 'my good friend went to school there' is not a bad way to do it. 🏀🔬🧪🧫🧠

Since 2019, postbacs in our lab have co-authored 14 papers in the Journal of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Journal of Cell Science & PLoS One, including 3 first author papers. 3/n tarheels.live/peiferlab/re...

Congratulations to NAS President-Elect @neilshubin.bsky.social on winning @sse-evolution.bsky.social's Stephen Jay Gould Prize! The award honors individuals who have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science in the spirit of #NASmember Stephen Gould. evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Really cool study using CLEM to determine the intermediates steps of intracellular ciliogenesis😉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #cilia #CLEM

Asking for an academic friend - anyone know of a lawyer or law firm that knows how to sue a University for damages inflicted by their actions on a faculty member's career?

I always stop for rainbows. Even the faint ones. 🌈

Another #cilia kinesin motor: kinesin-8 KIF19A localizes to ciliary tips of Drosophila mechanosensory neurons In 2012, Hirokawa lab showed KIF19A regulated ciliary length & localized to ciliary tips in mice; knockouts had hydrocephalus and female infertility phenotypes (PMID 23168168). #ciliopathy

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Big love to TSA Newark and United airlines, who used their ground crew to help move a big crowd thru security, kindly and efficiently. Not an ICE agent in sight!

My former colleague, Stan Forman, took this photo. He won the Pulitzer for it. It was his second in a row - a feat yet to be topped. He had won the year before for this shot of a woman and child falling from a fire escape. (Warning: she died. The kid lived.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Es...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

Hey all our NIH people…do us all a favor and go for ~a drive~ this evening. Let us know what you see, ok? Everyone has questions.

IDK you guys, but there are actual fireworks going off in DC right now 🤞

Spent the day cycling along the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and then all over Pittsburgh.