The administration is building a legal pathway for ad hoc grant terminations: "if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities" Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.

Hey fam, @27unihted.bsky.social is having a FUNDRAISER!! Dec 12 7-11 pm, featuring THREE AWESOME BANDS @allstrike.bsky.social @ammoniteband.bsky.social The Laterals At Chacho Distilling Co 6031 Kansas Ave, DC $10 at the door Psst spread the word

I got really good/ helpful reviews on an article and while I understand the importance of blinded review, I wish I could reach out and talk science with the reviewer!

browsing the timeline during #sfn2025 #sfn #sfn25

This kind of disgusting behavior toward vulnerable grad workers on visas is incredibly common, and one of the reasons why strong grad workers unions are necessary

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Remember when the AMA was against the Obamacare public option? They’re Olympic gold medalists in being wrong

Interesting to watch in real time as people realize that men complaining about "cancel culture" have likely done something worthy of being cancelled (as many of us always assumed)

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL

Hearing a rumor that NIH/HHS may now plan to retaliate against other Bethesda Declaration signers. I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/

Now a national news story as it must be, @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social placed on admin leave; not a household name for her title but should be for her courage to speak out in *her personal capacity* in defense of NIH's mission via The Bethesda Declaration and beyond. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

🚨🚨 @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is a force. Her voice carries power, truth, and courage—threats to the regime. The only thing authoritarians fear more than a voice they cannot control is a chorus. So let’s give them one: speak up, speak loudly, and don’t stop. Stand with Jenna. ✊🇺🇸

Are you fucking kidding me, this is outrageous. Jenna has been an outspoken, incredible advocate for American science and the American people

Today, we're giving out the Certificate of Being A Weenie award to a few folks on Capitol Hill. Follow along and (do not) congratulate the (self) preservative filled winners of this major award.

Help: We have developed an organoid model of diabetic neuropathy. It has oligodendrocytes, myelin, and adding diabetic stimuli makes them lose myelination, and break down mitochondria. Further yet, we show this can be prevented with pharmacological intervention. Which foundations may like this?

This is the cabinet where we keep Ted’s dry food. Conditioned place preference?

It is easy for Senate Democrats to disabuse us of that assumption — they just have to publicly make the popular call for new leadership.

I’d believe any of this if Pete 1) endorsed or congratulated Mamdani at any point or 2) called for Schumer to resign

Angry and disappointed tonight. All this damage and stress was for next to nothing. Expressing this in memes. Please share widely, especially with your Senators.

Who is going to primary this spineless loser

Cretaceous period minority whip caving on healthcare for regular Americans while he has enjoyed several replacement joints on the taxpayers’ dime

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

The senate dems’ pathetic capitulation wasted everyone’s time and effort. Schumer needs to resign, and everyone who voted for this needs to be primaried

I think I should go for it

Coding is about to get so much more fun hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

What in the fucking fascism is this shit I hate it here

i know it’s kind of hard to understand when you haven’t received death threats for years for working in public health, then watched 500 bullets shot at your colleagues/friends, & then learned of the HMS bombing, but man, we could really use a little more grace & empathy from folks

My seventh grade family tree project resulted in the devastating discovery that four of my uncles were in fact, my dad’s cousins. It’s not Mamdani’s fault English lacks descriptive enough kinship terms!

Is “freelance bioinformatician” a thing one can be? I would kill for a dataset to analyze right now

I dreamt of this kind of study three years ago when my dad was diagnosed with PDAC

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Americans pay for our elaborate biomedical infrastructure including the lion’s share of preclinical/ basic research and they do not get to see the benefits because of our corrupt and capitalist healthcare system.

Been thinking about how MAHA in its current articulation is a movement that allows them to harness people's real and justified anger at things like the betrayals of healthcare and insurance and turn it on scientists as scapegoats, by using conspiracy theories

And thus my endless search for a very specific remix of marina and the diamonds “I am not a robot” I ripped from ThisSongIsSick.net using YouTube to MP3 converter in 2011

Okay still on my soapbox but this is what happens when university financial decisions are made by board members who do not work at the university or value the mission of the university to do teaching and research. S/o @dennismhogan.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The cut rate labor business of grant funded academic science revealed in one tweet.

What I don’t understand here is how laboratories will continue to run without grad student labor- lab techs are paid similarly without the ability to get fellowships/training grants to defray costs. Postdocs are more expensive.

How does the brain know when puberty should start? 🧠 In our new paper, we uncover how hypothalamic circuits and metabolic cues coordinate pubertal development. 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41108362/

Hey vigils fam, we are ONLY 8 followers away from 1600 - do us a solid and give us a follow to push us over the edge!! 🙏🙏🙏

Wish the national guard would get out of my house (the Dupont circle metro)

The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious. Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy. 1/ 🧪#NoKings

Today I kicked off No Kings Day with hundreds of fired up patriots at NIH who are standing up to this lawless president. Together we said NO to his attacks on public health. NO to his assault on our Constitution. NO to kings in America. And YES to standing up for our democracy.

Excellent showing at the @nihvigils.bsky.social #NoKings

jump scare of seeing mayor Adams in a plis what is even happening here

It’s my sworn duty as a free American to give the national guardsmen the 👁️ in the metro every morning.

Screaming at JD Vance on face the nation as he lies to the the American people. Blaming the democrats for trump firing federal scientists is disgusting.

Fresh out of the @aewebb.bsky.social ! Congrats @doudouyu.bsky.social

For any of our Fed family and friends, we see you and we are you. 🫶 If you receive a RIF notice, back up every file you think you may need before access is cut. You did nothing wrong. You have held the line with incredible strength and we will continue to stand with you all the way. 🤍✊

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun." Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law. Congress can stop this. A thread: 1/