THEY DID NOT RESURRECT THE DIRE WOLF. HIRE REAL SCIENCE JOURNALISTS PLEASE.

Please, please @rollingstone.com talk to an actual scientist before publishing such nonsense!

Host-transposable element coexistence: a matter of resistance, tolerance and trade-off Read this new review by Séverine Chambeyron, Charlotte Grimaud, Mikiko Siomi et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

Congratulations to the newest Mellone Lab PhD: Dr. Prachi Patel who successfully defended her dissertation today!

Deadline alert! At #EMBLTranscript, experts will share breakthroughs across the full spectrum of #transcription – from cis-regulatory function and long-range regulation to 3D looping, #chromatin modifications, #epigenetic inheritance, and more 🧬🧪 Submit abstract by 25 May: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Wow the price of this reagent for CnT shoot up by 50% in just a couple of years. But research funds have remained stagnant. www.epicypher.com/product/cuta...

I think we need to talk more openly about how white men in the U.S. benefitted from affirmative action for 200 years (i.e., systematic exclusion of women/minorities). This concept is missing from the national discourse and the public's understanding of the context underlying DEI initiatives.

Been training for this moment my whole life.

We were! It was super cool.

Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM

Rita Levi-Montalcini was born #OTD in 1909. She won a Lasker Award for the original concept that cell growth is governed by protein molecules, and for the discovery of Nerve Growth Factor. 🥚🧪Read how her research involved chick embryos and snake venom: http://ow.ly/H63Z30oehyo#OTD #WomenInSTEM

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

Your Sunday morning weep:

Very upsetting to hear the sad news of Greg Hannon’s passing. I always enjoyed our far too few conversations we had over the years. He had an interesting and insightful perspective on any science being discussed. He will be missed. www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"

Here are some of my favorite signs from the #NoKings protest in Willimantic CT. I know some people are gonna say sign holders aren't doing enough, but as someone who has also written emails, signed petitions, called Congress reps, boycotted, donated $, & more, stop yucking our joy.

Exciting News! Grant-witness.us now has dynamic funding curves like mine for NIH available. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 1/2

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Spindle pole proteins confine chromosomes to ensure their expulsion during female meiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713942v1

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all. #scipub #scientificpublishing

What a racket

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

This gotta be the most pro-cancer administration in our country's young life

FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live! There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.

Angelika showed us all how to pursue science with limitless enthusiasm, rigor, and generosity. Excited to announce the call for this year's Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award! Please encourage PhD students outside the United States who embody her infectious passion for biology to apply.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Noooooooooo!

Professors: come learn how to teach creativity to PhD students and postdocs? We'll teach you how to lead a 'Night Science' course about the creative scientific process at our train-the-trainer event in NYC on April 24th! Get a 10% discount from now until 3/31! night-science.org/train-the-tr...

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

The plot is only part of the story. The data do not include lost science via terminations, freezes, stalled payments, and award delays. The collapse in awards rates will lead to job loss, gaps in research programs, and drive scientists to spend more time writing grants rather than doing science.

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

The Nelson lab is presenting at #Dros26 today! Stop by Daisy's poster to learn about rDNA instability in somatic aging (680F), and Caroline's poster about the role of an mRNA binding protein in regulating germline rDNA expansion (777F)!

Getting involved as an organiser of one of our Workshops is easy. We focus on the logistics, so you can focus solely on the science. Watch this video to hear from some of our previous organisers. The call for proposals for 2028 programme runs until 29 May. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShr...

idk that seems to be the understatement of the week. this is actually happening, postdocs and RAs are being let go, and projects falter. 'could face funding gaps'? this is actually happening at a large scale. 'Worry' doesnt reflect the existential crisis that many of my colleagues are in.

Spent four hours in the ER with my daughter (she's fine!) and overheard the patient on the other side of the little curtain -- a college student freaking out because she has midterms and can't waste time getting treated. Students, take care of yourself. I promise you, your profs will understand.

I’m thrilled to share that my PhD work has been just published in Cell. After a long and bumpy ride, we uncovered the core function of nuclear speckles -splicing of GC-levelled exons- and traced the evolution of this gene architecture and condensates themselves to amniotes.

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

I mean, it's this, or we just send chatbot-written e-mails back and forth to each other forever

Excited to present our work on a novel centromere-targeting metazoan retroelement next Tuesday March 3 at 11am US East Cost time!

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

This is hilarious and now I’m kind of glad I screen recorded the site yesterday. I especially love that they deleted the “Will my professor know?” question.