Good morning, dorks!...Today's your chance to stand up with us and 23,380 other proud science stans by signing your name to our Open Letter in Support of the 300+ NIH heroes of the historic #BethesdaDeclaration. Be historic with us! zurl.co/Jdx4s#BethesdaDeclaration #StandUpForScience #NIHLoveLetter #GetInDorks

They’re here! Introducing the Talented 12 Class for 2025. These early-career scientists are taking on big global #chemistry challenges. Meet the 2025 Class: cen.acs.org/people/profi... #CENT12 #chemsky🧪

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Cutting research investment isn’t fiscally prudent. It’s economically self-defeating. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

REVIEW | Kıvanç Birsoy, Monther Abu-Remaileh and colleagues @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social, @stanford.edu The authors provide a broad overview of #choline #metabolism, its cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

the power of bright pink pants! excited for the next few years, onwards & upwards

Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

Track more illegally cancelled grants here, work from @noamross.net: airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ... As well as: jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... As well as hundreds of millions in NIH grants to specifically targeted universities: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... All after Bhattacharya started.

Unbelievable. 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🧬⚛️🍎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

But there's a catch - if you normalize these data to the total number of R01s and F31s awarded in 2023, the story changes: a greater *percentage* of the trainee awards have been cancelled as compared to non-trainee awards.

This structure is absolutely _nuts_. Lipids are captured marching through the tunnel

NSF halves graduate fellowship awards Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Wow. Turns out appeasement doesn’t work.

The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.

The 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award goes to Professor Jeremy Baskin! Congrats to Jeremy & our other esteemed presenters for yesterday's great symposium! Jennifer Prescher, @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Carsten Schultz, @chembiobryan.bsky.social, @sonjakrane.bsky.social, @pubs.acs.org

It’s an honor to receive the ACS Chem Biol Young Investigator Award! I’m most grateful for the contributions from all past & present lab members — it is an award for all of you as much as for me. (& also grateful to still be considered young 😅) axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... @acsbiol.bsky.social 1/2

“The suppression of scientific inquiry into an area of study that has already saved millions of lives and has the potential to be one of our best defenses against future pandemics puts all of us in harm’s way” By @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

so honored to be selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry #LINO25 this summer! thrilled to have the opportunity to meet some of my scientific heroes and other young chemists from all over the world. sometimes the long shots pay off, can’t wait till June! 🧑🏼‍🔬

NIH cuts are hitting young scientists the hardest. By David Baker. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...

Are lipids actively sorted during clathrin mediated endocytosis like proteins? @mathilda95.bsky.social addresses this key open question together with our collaborators from the Honigmann and Modes labs using a new Lipid-STED workflow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

🚨New preprint: There's this overlooked phospholipid with 3 acyl tails called NAPE that is made during ischemia. We identified its interactome & found it regulates lactate flux, suggesting metabolic functions in response to hypoxia. Congrats to Dylan Chiu! doi.org/10.26434/che... #lipidtime #chembio

One class of NIH grants that are crucial to developing future generations of biomedical workers are NIH training grants using the T32 mechanism. These awards provide direct support for graduate students and/or fellows during at least part of their training periods. 1/n

NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

Here's what we know about the recent layoffs at federal agencies and the ripple effects they're expected to have on US science. cen.acs.org/careers/empl... #chemsky🧪

Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology at Cornell should apply by Apr 14. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...

“Universities appear to be exercising caution, with some freezing positions and not taking new applications, or accepting fewer students than normal… The abrupt narrowing of training opportunities is leaving many future researchers at the start of their scientific journey in limbo.”

This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

My first-author paper on uncovering a non-canonical Tel1 motif using phosphoproteomics has been published in JBC! Amazing to work with @rainshj.bsky.social using both untargeted and targeted mass spectrometry. Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience

So there it is. The idea of block grants for NIH has been around for decades. Let’s hope that this dies now, as it did in the past. /fin

If only that breast cancer commercial ended with a notice about all the research funding cuts the current administration is pushing through and how it has immediate negative impacts on breast cancer research and screening.

And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists

What to tell your trainees, your students, your teams, and yourselves, when you feel the doubt and darkness encroaching: your work is under attack *because it matters* Keep at it.

The NIH Notice about the new indirect cost rate "plan"

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

At the NIH, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social on X. 2/x

in positive news, there was pizza at all three of the meetings / seminars I had today. calling that a grad school hat trick.