Whether you think limiting student visas to 4 years is a good or bad thing, please comment. Be heard.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

PSA: You can get an updated 2025-26 Covid vaccine with a prescription in North Carolina. If you are a UNC student, visit/message your Campus Health provider and they can prescribe you the vaccine. It is not available on campus yet, but you can get the prescription sent to the Target CVS on Franklin.

OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

Updated update I downloaded the data from NIH Reporter too soon. The large end of the month update had not occurred. Here are the results as of this morning. NIH grants management staff have been busy making awards. 1/2

Doomscroll break. Couldn't decide which were the best videos for this, so a short thread of videos from my walk this morning.

Reconstructing long-range axons from dense brain images is tough. This study introduces a novel method that separates axon identification from global statistical rules, showing big improvements over existing tools for mapping neuronal projections. buff.ly/OBKr9cM

It’s been anything with any sort of foreign involvement, usually if question 6(?) on form is clicked yes. I’ve had a several K99/R00 apps pulled last 2 rounds because they have a Foreign collab offer to help with data analysis or even just “mentoring” but they didn’t include the justification doc

Sharing my desk pet, Bertie, in case you don't have your own.

Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.

AIMBE prepared a doc summarizing information about the number of departments that have reduced student enrollment for next year. This doesn’t have the number of slots and how it changed but still confirms a lot of the trends you have been writing about: aimbe.org/wp-content/u...

Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

While many institutions are capitulating to Trump, my favorite scientific societies are fighting back. Aug 1 @ascbiology.bsky.social, @asm.org, @asbmb.bsky.social, & @faseborg.bsky.social jointly filed an expanded amicus brief with the Supreme Court in American Public Health Association v. NIH 1/n

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

A significant challenge of non-university researchers is attracting and recruiting ECRs. Folks don't think to come to the NHM for their postdocs or to look to us to support funding/fellowship apps.

Hey, it's out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Aligning Big Brains and Atlases, ABBA in short, is published in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social . @biancasilvalab.bsky.social's lab added an analysis pipeline on top of it (BraiAn) and did all the relevant biological work. What is it ? Short thread:

NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.

If you find a tick that's been feeding on you for some prolonged period, you can extract it w/tweezers, put it in a plastic bag, send it off for analysis. Many states & universities offer lab services, or go to tickreport.com and pay to have it analyzed. If positive, get an Rx for doxycycline, soon.

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Tucked away in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is the requirement that all visitors to the US must pay $250 just to enter the country starting 1 October! For a family of 5 that's $1250! I doubt this will help America's crashing tourism business which is down 10% already since January

Needed to look up something fundamental, so hit the books. Miss these titans in the field. They had very different personalities but shared dedication to microscopy access and discovery.

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for the action alert and easy instructions to find the appropriations committee member in your state, with an example script. I just called, it takes max 3 minutes. www.ascb.org/society-news...

More 1st year grad students unable to find a lab because of funding shortages in rotation-based programs. #fundingcuts What advice would you give to an incoming 1st year to try avoid this?

Boston folk, I’ll be doing a plankton painting workshop at MIT museum next weekend July 12th 11-12:30pm. Come see plankton from the harbor and the Charles, and print out your timelapse creation. There will be plankton stickers! #sciart #microscopy

Posted my "Digital Imaging: Putting FUN in Fundamentals" lecture up on our HCBI YouTube. Hope you like it 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-gg...

Here's the end-of-workday update, on Day 1 of the United States of Science. A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles! The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025

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Everyone knows that if you're NIH funded, you're on the hook for gold OA fees for papers accepted on or after 7/1/25, right? grants.nih.gov/faqs#/public...

As a follow-up to _Calling Bullshit_, Jevin West and I developed the course about LLMs that we think every college freshman should take. Yesterday I talked about the course in a seminar at UNSW. And thanks to my colleagues there, 24 hours later the video is already online.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

The choice when writing up your paper: you can work really hard so that someone else can quickly understand what you did, or you can do it very quickly so that the others will need to work really hard to figure out what you did, unless they simply give up trying..

Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N

when you discover new tools and ideas via biorixv, sometimes you don't even notice when it is published, some great stuff here : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is Juneteenth, an opportunity to reflect on Black history and celebrate emancipation and freedom in the US. In this 2023 Cell piece, Black scientists talk about what Juneteenth in STEMM means to them. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Juneteenth #BlackInSTEM

The all-or-nothing framing is how you know it’s a scam. Whether it’s issued by a man at a bar or a sales rep at a tech demo it’s the same truth. People who don’t want you to THINK before you act ARE STEALING FROM YOU. Where is everyone’s survival skills??

Adrian Andrew Martinez, a U.S. citizen, tried to intervene as federal immigration agents questioned another man in a Walmart parking lot. ICE agents violently swarm him. Now missing. By law, he has a right to an attorney. This is how police states operate.

The news really sucks today. Instead of boosting a harmful Supreme Court decision, here’s something better: a practical guide on how to support the LGBTQ+ youth in your life. Because they deserve our attention, our protection, and our love. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/ar...

Congratulations, Crystal!!! 🎆

Congratulations, Chrystal!!! 🎆

I know what I'm buying my family for Christmas this year!