The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US NIH didn’t affect all groups of scientists equitably. A survey suggests that it disproportionately hit researchers from under-represented groups. go.nature.com/4tffr8c

A loaf of cat boule

Happy Caturday She’s off to an (almost) top drawer kind of day 🩷

My Ash isn’t feeling great but he’s still a magnificent being ❤️

Just a girl and her pillow, not impresssed with the field goal/punt so far

Kitty with kitty sock

Probably means I’m both nerdy and of a certain mature age - but still love seeing the joy in Jeopardy contestants making it the finals.

Monday….

share.google/Aj9vEYbqqnrZ... When I let fear drive my bus,I miss a lot of stops and end up back where I started. To avoid the scary bus loop, I’m embracing less fear to get me on the route to fearless, or at least the first stop.

Super meeting, great venue, wonderful science. Thank you Farah Sheikh and Jen Davis for organizing a fabulous event #bcvs2025

The 2025 Collagen Gordon Conference was spectacular! Chair Doug Gould with @rachellennon.bsky.social & Alex Nystrom put together such a fabulous line-up. So excited for 2027!!

Because one pillow is not enough ❤️

🗣️🗣️calling all cardiovascular researchers in the Chicago area and surrounding states.This one day symposium at Loyola is a great opportunity for trainees and researchers to network, present their research, and hear from the great Dr. Leinwand. 🫀🫀🫀 #cardiosky @barefieldlab.bsky.social

There's a circulating rumor that no studies have ever compared vaccinated to unvaccinated children when investigating autism risk. That's simply false. Here are just a few of the many high-quality studies that have made this comparison—and found no link ⬇️

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... Rachel Biggs et al is available on line! Check out our new paper on fibroblast phenotype in heart failure.

Almost 60% of SC taxpayers would owe more income taxes for 2026 under GOP plan The first hearing on the bill is this morning scdailygazette.com/2025/04/01/a... by Editor Seanna Adcox

Happy Trans day to all my trans friends 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Taking action for justice takes courage, wisdom & spiritual grounding. How do we discern when & how to act? How do we prepare for risk while staying true to our values? Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen’s resource offers guidance for accountable action. 💡 bit.ly/4i6T7sA #Justice #Liberation #UU

A new member of the Susan Collins club! Fitzpatrick is “very concerned” about politicization of the FBI…

"President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress. Medical school faculty who helped treat him are facing potentially devastating federal funding cuts..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

When was the last time that Lindsey Graham held a town hall?

Flow- so beautiful. My Meli cat also loved it!

“My colleagues and I are all worried about getting reinstated and then promptly fired again.” My latest story for @science.org—about an order to bring 6000 fired USDA workers back to work, at least temporarily. www.science.org/content/arti...

Registration is still open to this exciting meeting! Besides cutting edge science and nice people, it’s also a fantastic location to take a bit of a break from it all!

Registration for the 2025 Collagen Gordon Research Conference is now open: www.grc.org/collagen-con... Looking forward to seeing many of you there this summer! #CollagenGRC #TheMatrixIsEverywhere

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

We are #celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by highlighting some of our members! New entries are still welcomed, so keep them coming!

This is actually unhinged.

U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for others.

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

BREAKING: As a result of the lawsuit filed last night by @democracyforward.org on behalf of City of Baltimore and @econaction.bsky.social, the Trump admin agreed not to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the case is heard. Read Here: bit.ly/4jXGSjm (1/3)

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

Here's a script: "“Hello, my name is [XX], and I live on [XX]. I am a [biomedical researcher at the State University], where I study [briefly describe your research]. This research is funded by the [NIH] and is crucial because [in one sentence explain why your research is important to the public].

"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Stand fast, We have as many friends as enemies.

Join us for this very important e-symposia in March! #WomensHealth #ECMatrix #ScienceNoBoundaries

Mark your calendars!!! #ASMB 2025 Biennial Meeting👇🏻 🗓️When? November 16-19, 2025 🏙️Where? Baltimore 🥅What? #ECMatrix #Marvels ❓Why? 25th anniversary with lots of new features 🥳 plus all the leading #ECMatrix research (and we all know how fundamental it is to life!)

Roberto Fonseca's mastery of the Cuban piano tradition fuels this fiery performance.

It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of these raids is, but from the outside it appears that DOGE is mainly concerned at this point with amassing huge stores of data, from payment information to private personnel records. @mattbaidc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

Unions asked for a temporary court order to stop the US Treasury Department from handing over personal and financial data on Americans to Elon Musk and DOGE

The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies

Super excited to host @tranejoan.bsky.social for @unioulu.bsky.social seminar series!!! Cool stuff about #collagen coming in 3...2...1...

No, it wasn't a dream. The #Lakers are really acquiring Luka Doncic.

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.