Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

Proud to be a part of this group!

I’ve been so lucky to have met and worked with these amazing scientists and fighters as a BD signer

You can tell I’ve really matured as a scientist in my postdoc because now I show up before 11 am and I’m wearing real pants

Liz Ginexi & I will be having the most exciting convo about federal funding you’ve ever witnessed coming to you to live from the octagon in hell, which is precisely where Russell Vought should spend eternity based on the millions he’s trying to hurt or kill.

"On Thursday, June 4, several thousand people marched for the fifth night in a row through the streets of Tirana...protesting against luxury real estate ventures by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president, and her husband Jared Kushner..." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Circling back around to this post in light of what happened at the ADA Annual Meeting yesterday. The actions of Kahn, et al., had all the elements of Good Trouble. - The action, itself, was harmless but agitating - They used their position to legitimize the action - They recorded everything

Is there a single legacy scientific org meeting the moment?

I wonder the dollar amount of government money used to purchase these fraudulently marketed antibodies.

As college skews female, and graduates skew Dem, and science is probably gay, this is a predictable outcome. Also, Heritage Foundation: "Ending higher education subsidies and offering school choices that include religious education should be viewed as key pro-fertility policies."

It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

So many things wrong with this speech, but it’s funny how now that leaders are salivating at the thought of replacing grad workers with ai and robots, they finally acknowledge grad students indeed are workers essential to scientific progress

Want to fix it? I'm with you. Reduce compliance burden. Fund longer grants. Create mechanisms for high-risk proposals. Raise paylines. All of that requires more investment, not less. The scientists writing grants all day agree the model needs work. Handing it to industry is not the fix.

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Scientific hot take: bring back the radioimmune assay

Starting to think that old guy who complained about women crying in the lab might have had a point about me, specifically

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

If I ever again get the thought "I bet a flowchart could make this easier to understand—I should make one," please give me an aversive electric shock

Most frustrating part of anti-NIH rhetoric is how it frames NIH as only doing one thing at a time. There has always been cancer research, there has always been diabetes research. All of NIAID was 13% of the NIH budget in 2024.

Art Arnold keynote speaker Boris Novakovic on hormones, genes and environment. Sex Differences in infection (male>) versus autoimmune diseases (female>). What can we learn from omics studies across individuals undergoing GAHT. See current Nature Medicine paper for more! #OSSD2026

Can’t be the only person who taps my cats whiskers and says “barrel cortex”

Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

The “it’s not that bad, science is still happening” crowd loves to ignore the ways in which this admin’s crackdown disproportionately affects certain kinds of research and certain kinds of researchers and I am so fucking annoyed

A good way to end the week. @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been reinstated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u... Her lawsuit continues...

a special may day reminder that it was a pair of FBI agents targeting civil rights activists who accidentally introduced zohran mamdani’s dad to the works of karl marx 🥰

David Morens' name should be trending. A 78-year-old doctor who worked in the NIH and has no criminal record was abducted from his home by armed federal agents and *stripped* before being transported away--all because the DOJ now works to validate right-wing conspiracy theories like the lab leak.

NIH wants to end our union to strip us of our collective bargaining rights and the protections our contract provides. Join NIH Fellows United UAW2750 to protect our contract and learn how our union is the voice of fellows at NIH #NIHFellowsUnited #UAW2750 #UAW #MayDay #NIHworksbecausewedo

The first category does not exist and has never existed, which you would know if you knew anything about how scientists feel about the NIH. Just take the L on this

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

Current events are reminding me of this old guest post. As the disruption of NIH continues to grind, PIs break. From the Archive: Sacrifice means you too. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/s...

I PROMISE you Trump doesn't know what the NSB is. This is another layer of Destruction a la Vought. And by the way...they can't call "saving money". The National Science Board is a volunteer position. This is about wiping the NSF completely off the face of the planet. PERIOD. Don't sugar coat.

Shared lab calendars are so fun, I love to sign the confocal up for a dentist appointment

I wonder if @nayeema.bsky.social would host someone like @jeremymberg.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social or @cdelawalla.bsky.social to discuss what it’s been like to stand up for science under this regime?

He did not ask for "a quick and devastating published take down" but I would argue he also went beyond casual misrepresentation and dismissal. He has repeatedly outright lied about BD signers. Specifically, he told Just the News that: 1) program officers were making up the banned words... 🧵1/?

We are excited to sponsor the “Future of Public Research for Behavioral Sciences” Town Hall hosted by NIH Alumni & Bethesda Declaration Signers including Saturday, April 25th, 10am, in Chicago following Society for Behavioral Medicine Meeting (SBM) www.27unihted.org/events/futur...

DC statehood yesterday

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Each individual layoff notice that was issued to a postdoc in May of 2025 was itself a greater degree of direct government censorship than Bhattacharya has experienced in his entire life.

The NIH director publicly told a fellow he would meet about the changes to our health insurance and then refused to meet with him. He followed up by unilaterally declaring our union derecognized and our CBA void. It’s hard to have a productive conversation with someone who lied to your face!

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Does greater Albania include the Bronx?

Pleased to share this review on sex differences in longevity interventions I co-authored with Nicole Riddle and @aewebb.bsky.social. We explore how interventions such as exercise, diet, and drugs affect male and female rodents differently www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is extremely fucked up

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Imagine if science postdocs had NIL and a transfer portal.