DUCK AROUND, FIND OUT! With our duck delivery in tow, we waddled up to the Hill to let our representatives know that it's time to send the Quack-In-Chief packing. #ImpeachRFK

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

We are just getting started. “American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating…” wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

LOTS of people and LOTS of energy for #NoKings in Newark DE! ❌👑❌ @indivisiblenewark.bsky.social

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

My favorite is the 'world tour' tee shirt 🤣🤣 Looking forward to this GRC!

Without basic science, there is nothing to translate.

💥Latest preprint from our lab is now live! We propose a crazy(!?) new mechanism for how the radical SAM enzyme Elp3 (a subunit of the Elongator complex) modifies tRNA! #RNAsky #enzymes 🧵...

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Tucson!🌵 #desert #photography

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Well done.

Yes, thanks to @aaup.bsky.social and others!

📣 GET IN, DORKS! We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣 This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊ #StandUpWithUS Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

🚨 BIG week for lawsuits against the NIH. Now 16 states have sued NIH and HHS for "engag[ing] in a concerted, and multi-pronged effort to disrupt NIH’s grants." "The result of these disruptions has been, in a word, devastating," they write. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Our 28-yr U-RISE/MARC NIH grant that has served over 500 students and made us one of the top institutions producing African American students who go on to receive MD/PhDs in the United States was just cancelled yesterday. What a unnecessary and tragic end to such an impactful program...

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Me, leaving the US for a conference in Europe.

Great crowd and a great time at #StandUpForScience DC today at the Lincoln Memorial! @standupforscience.bsky.social Photos… 🧵

Write for @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social A major property of communication is that only repeated messages stick. Even if there’s already an op-ed on science funding in your town, adding more makes an impact. After we @standupforscience.bsky.social today, let’s write to bring it home. 🧪🏠

Ready to #StandUpForScience tomorrow in DC! Let’s go! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Anyone have tips for making active homemade Phusion polymerase? We have a plasmid (no his tag), and are doing purification by heat denaturation and then sizing, from which we get *a lot* of purified protein. But we can't see any polymerase activity from these purified preps!

Let's go! Looking like a great Friday in DC! I'll be there!

Happy Homecoming to Biochemistry Professor and High School Science Olympian Jeff Mugridge from Central New York who wrote for The Post Standard about the rewards of science funding for NY health and economy 🍎 🧪🧬🔬🏠@jeffmugridge.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

I wrote an opinion piece for my hometown newspaper in Central NY about attacks on NIH/NSF/research and why this harms not just US science but local jobs and economies. Thanks @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for sparking these efforts! I encourage others to join in! www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

Yesss! #RNAsky

These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more. This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.

NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

um what? ...every grant recipient affected by indirect cuts can just sue? Yes, no problem there.🤣 Totally insane

#StandUpforScience2025 in the Boston Globe! 🌎 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

Ouch 😮‍💨🤣

Happy Person Must Either Be Stupid Or Evil theonion.com/happy-p...

Glad to see this post getting some traction, because the Federal Register is the WHOLE ballgame, folks. To drive this point home, a recent EO declares that all posts to FR now must be approved by the White House. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Courage is contagious! #CDC #SAVEUSSCIENCE #ATL

Really illuminating breakdown on direct and indirect cost calculations. Although the administration is trying to burn down the NIH, NSF, other govt-funded science, and US research universities, at least I'm learning a lot about federal science funding 😅😭

60% indirect = 60/160 = 37.5% overhead. 15% indirect = 15/115= 13% overhead. A restaurant: Direct: raw ingredients + cook Indirect: everything else A car co: Direct: parts + assembly workers Indirect: everything else A newspaper: Direct: paper, ink, reporters Indirect: everything else

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Yes - slashing indirect costs on research grants isn’t some wonky attack on Universities, it’s an attack on *all* Americans

A critical point👇, that Universities typically *lose* money on doing research. The indirect costs that NIH pays to Unis for research grants are not some amazing source of revenue… they just make it (barely) sustainable to support the science research that drives huge amounts of US innovation

Really hoping the courts will indeed stop the complete destruction of US research universities 🤞🤞🤞

Oh, great 😒 ...and here I thought we might have a brief reprieve from existential dread today

First post on Blue sky! Congratulations to graduate student Yorick Chiang and scientist Masa Ohashi on discovery of new copper dependent halogen from Nature @nature.com ! Many thanks to the wonderful collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

😖wow. not good.

CleanCap M6 inhibits decapping of exogenously delivered IVT mRNA: Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids www.cell.com/molecular-th...

Evergreen, sadly

Modern breakthroughs in biology are producing a picture of life that is increasingly incompatible with authoritarian preferences for neat boxes that dictate what people are and how they should behave. - @cbo.bsky.social A must read 🧪 🧬

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai