Sometimes I think Wordle is just trolling us… Wordle 1,550 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions. Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

I never fail to be blown away by the intricate beauty of the Blaschka glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The skill and dedication that went into making these botanical specimens is just mind-boggling.

A fine example of Nature and nurture

My 8th and final year as director of our SURF program - it’s grown a bit from the three students in the year I first took over😃 Couldn’t ask for a better person than our new director @chvolmar.bsky.social to take SURF upwards and onwards!

just one of many small actions you can take that make a huge difference in your community, especially now in the face of SNAP cuts — and seriously, no one can stretch a dollar like a food bank

Never thought I’d miss having a Twitter account but here we are…

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s more important than ever now to remember institutions don’t love you back. Focus on your science, your trainees and collaborators, and your own well-being. Institutions will always find a way to move the goalposts.

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

Thank you @itaiyanai.bsky.social for an exciting research seminar and an engaging Night Science workshop! People are still buzzing about all the cool stuff they learned during your visit. (Loved the reminder to seek out science buddies who raise our game and encourage new thinking - very timely).

An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My wonderful undergrad Bhipasha received the Outstanding Honors Thesis in Biology award for her project characterizing metabolic dysfunction markers in our obesogenic prostate cancer model. Seeing my trainees thrive and succeed right now gives me so much hope.

We are looking forward to your visit @itaiyanai.bsky.social

Looking to hire a PhD level scientist with a solid tumor biology background to work with us on an exciting translational project centered on redox-regulated signaling and metabolism in cancer. Here’s the link (please re-post!): careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

My chocolate mint has come back to life so many times, it’s basically on the path to attaining nirvana…

Quick question for New PIs: We’re hosting a New PI Success Essentials Workshop next Friday, April 11, from 10am to 2pm ET. Given the challenging circumstances many of you are facing, we’re making this session free for PIs in the US. Consider it our small contribution ;)

Today’s happy place - spending the day listening to some amazing cutting-edge science at our annual Tumor Biology symposium. Great talks from external speakers Drs Koumenis, Akbay and Cunniff as well as from our stellar faculty and trainees!

Check our recent work on a CRISPR screen to identify regulators of human somatic cell reprogramming where we identify USP22 as an important factor. Now published @CommsBio. rdcu.be/ed1l6

Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Today’s positive was belting “Science is real” with They Might Be Giants and 100s of fellow S Floridians. A scientific theory Isn't just a hunch or guess It's more like a question That's been put through a lot of tests And when a theory emerges Consistent with the facts The truth is with science

Liver ALKBH5 regulates glucose and lipid homeostasis independently through GCGR and mTORC1 signaling | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This thread really brought home to me why the mental load is so crushing right now. Academic research requires so much planning ahead, risk management and handling uncertainty even at the best of times. Now, key support structures for our problem-solving are falling apart.

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you haven't read this scathing email from an EPA fed to Lee Zeldin yet, do yourself a solid and check it out: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

From an email viewed by me sent from the acting NIH director Matthew Memoli just a bit ago: "The last few weeks have been difficult for many of us, but we must prepare for further changes ahead. When this transition is behind us, NIH might look different... but our mission will remain unchanged."

My nervous system cannot handle any more New York Times email alerts with the subject line “Breaking News:…”

Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.

With all the carnage being indiscriminately wrought on scientists in the US, remember, a war on science is a lost war. Science doesn’t care what you or anybody else thinks. You either embrace science or you chase imaginary demons. It took us centuries to realize this.

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

Trying to focus on the positive here - had a blast presenting our prostate cancer work and learning from the experts at the nitric oxide and thiol signaling GRC. And the only thing better than a week spent sharing ideas and talking science was my kids running up to hug me at baggage claim.

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A post over a decade in the making… 🙌beyond excited to share our work out today in @science.org. We found that retrograde (mitonuclear) signaling regulates the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues.🧵 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org 🥳😃 🐣 Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

Reminder: You can always submit a grant late and include a cover letter saying why. NIH receipt and referral may take it. Or not. If you end up missing deadline because of these Commons access issues, there is this potential save move.

The timeline cleansing story I needed today 😂

The struggle is real 😅

A 70th percentile grant that got funded because someone actually thought about the potential impact from the proposed science despite grantsmanship flaws,and advocated for it at council. Imagine that…

As scientists going through difficult times, I think it’s important to remember the things that bind us together: 1) Our love of free food. 2) Our inability to explain what we do to our families. 3) Our hatred for Reviewer #3. Now please go do fun things this weekend and hang out with nice people.

These supplements have helped US science and medicine by supporting diverse cross-sections of society. Diversity is not some sinister code word, it reflects a whole made up of differing elements. Eliminating diversity is not a good thing. Ecosystems that select against diversity die out under stress

Getting rid of diversity supplements is devastating. I run a seminar series for up and coming scientists. One thing I can do to help is to ensure this series represents the full diversity of the scientists in our field. Pass this along and help us make that possible. bsky.app/profile/mike...

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Can’t even count on the weather to lift my spirits today. It’s ‘see your breath’ chilly, gray and rainy in Miami. Maybe working on my R01 will cheer me up…

Our lab's first paper of 2025. With @christhechang.bsky.social we find that NRF2 active lung cancer cell lines suppress labile copper and are vulnerable to copper chelation (1/3).

A Wordle first (and probably last) for me - have beaten the bot a few times but never had it not guess the word.

Hello undergraduates! Pew Research Center is now accepting applications for our paid summer internship program in Washington, DC. Our full list of internships is here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center... Applications are due Feb. 7.

I am thrilled to share our work on ganglioside-base Senescence Immune Checkpoints from @juliencherfils.bsky.social lab! If you are interested to know how senescent cells can escape the immune system 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...