TODAY at #ASH2025 New Frontiers in Neutrophil Biology. W311 at 4pm. Ostuni, Bonnet, Findlay. See you there!! @welner.bsky.social @leegrimeslab.bsky.social

NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors. The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance. This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.

Methodology

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Thanks for all the supportive comments from folks in the chat - it means a lot. I want to address the comment from the anonymous HHS official. Is it “radically leftist” to believe NIH policies should not harm research participants? 1/2

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

No Kings-Chicago, IL

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

Jamie Raskin FTW.

A fun list to inspire.

I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

“If a new pandemic began today, mRNA vaccines are currently the only type of vaccine that could be developed quickly enough to disrupt its spread” www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/h...

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP David Baltimore. A true giant of biomedical research. Made so many fundamental discoveries: Reverse transcriptase; NF-kB; Rag genes (among others) Also shut down his lab for a week in 1970 to protest the US invasion of Cambodia.

Big news! As experimental hematology evolves, so do we. ISEH has been hard at work creating a new website that reflects who we are today — modern, mobile-friendly and built for you. 🚀 The new ISEH website launches next week — get ready for a fresh, streamlined experience!

This is RFK Jr.'s doing. He must go. He's coming for your children's vaccines next. The US is going to be one, big Petri dish soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

I stand with Joachim Frank. I would hope that others would have had a better understanding of history. 2/2

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

ASM, ASBMB, ASCB & FASEB are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling allowing cancellation of $800M in NIH grants, threatening labs, jobs, and early-career scientists. Stable funding is vital for U.S. science. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

This week on #SimplyBlood🩸 we're delighted to share an inspiring conversation with Dr. Toshio Suda, Editor-in-Chief of ExpHem! @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social had the unique opportunity to discuss the journal’s evolution including its future vision and ongoing efforts➡️https://www.simplyblood.org/

Earlier this month we had a great time at our departmental retreat-- hearing some science, WINNING some trivia, getting a little nature & art therapy, and just taking a breather. I am grateful for this team and it is a true privilege to work together. #MacLab2025

I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs. Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Russell Vought wanted to shut down all extramural grants from NIH in this current fiscal year, putting stop to ALL research across the US. Someone in the White House had better sense. But Vought is a dangerous man, who will stop at nothing to destroy science in America. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Beach therapy

Here is a good link to watch the meeting and COMMENT www.fda.gov/news-events/...

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Five things to remember about war:

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

What should you expect from #ISEH2025? Brilliant science, a welcoming community, and an amazing venue 🏯! Interested in learning more? Visit www.iseh.org/2025Registration. Early registration rates apply until 7 August.

Gonna fact check Jay B on his lies to the Senate in real time. Follow along for what promises to be a deeply annoying time. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

Back from the #Phagocytes2025 #GRC - great science, & community. Spent some time in nature and got to share our work. So proud of grad student Rachel Grazda for being selected for a short talk! Huge thanks to amazing chair @alisoncrissuva.bsky.social

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

We are here, and the rains have stopped. #Phagocytes2025 "welcome, phagocytes" 😁 Grateful for the opportunity to be spending the week thinking about cool science.

Excited to see the first commentary in Experimental Hematology (@isehsociety.bsky.social)! Kudos to Aishwarya, Linde ‪@lindemileslab.bsky.social, and Grant @challenlab.bsky.social for highlighting recent papers in Exp Hem on cell-extrinsic factors in Tet2-mutant clonal hematopoiesis!! bit.ly/4k3pEAI

If you have hummingbird feeders please read this.

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.