Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

The mayor of an American city exercising his constitutional rights being detained by force by armed, masked federal officers wielding batons.

Bluetorial: Timing of getting grants out the door at NIH The pauses and low rate of releasing awards may be a problem in terms of getting the NIH appropriation spent by September 30, 2025

My trainee's F31 diversity from NIDDK "terminated" today. We received a NGA for $0.00. He worked his butt off for it and would have been competitive in the normal F31 pool. This is just blatant discrimination. If there are large lawsuits being put together, please share that info. #contractlaw

This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.

Hearing that NIH Research Fellows are being terminated willy-nilly by the DOGE and MAGA HHS crew. These are senior experienced scientists that NIH wants to keep, but HHS is blocking their renewal. This harms cancer research, and dementia, food, opiate, and mental health

SCIENTISTS: Schedule F is proposed, and it's here for your peer review. Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule, Schedule F potentially puts peer review into the hands of political appointees, and undermines the civil service. Public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):

85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin delivered his famous speech at the end of his first film with dialogue - The Great Dictator. He spoke these timeless words as Nazis rose to power, and the drums of war beat in Europe, echoing across the world. As relevant, and necessary to hear, today as ever #Resist

This is a discussion at every research university right now and the biggest issue is that it is simply not sustainable. Bridge funding is meant to be a short-term solution and this is a long-term problem. Private philanthropy simply cannot replace public support.

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work! Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week. Please share widely!

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Democratic leaders act like time travelers afraid to do anything that might change the future

Jersey strong @booker.senate.gov #handsoff

The Hands Off March in NYC had an amazing turnout! Walked back home close to the start and people were still coming 2 hours later...

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

"If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation. While the outcomes of basic science may seem unclear or esoteric at first, such work frequently forms the bedrock of future technologies, treatments, and therapies." 👏👏👏

Do y’all know how much you have to piss off those three to get them to work together

23andMe, maker of popular DNA test kits, has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. Here’s why customers should delete their info before it’s sold. nyti.ms/42cnBma

Good riddance. As a geneticist, I would have never given them my data they were sus from the beginning. A friend just posted a way to retrieve your data and delete it from their servers. Hope it's true 👇🏼

Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path" "Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR

As a NYer without a car congestion pricing has been magical. It's so much easier to get around and even my friends in NJ like it because they can find free street parking and coming into the city at night is overall cheaper. Now, please fix the subway!!

I know- it is absolutely devastating. Without a T32, I would have needed an NRSA (I did very different work from my mentor). But they're cutting the NRSAs too... so I would have been out of science. And the new OCD treatment now in clinical trial that started from my T32 would never have happened 😩

They are coming for your institution at some point. And it doesn't matter how much your institution does to capitulate or comply in advance. It all ends the same way. So put pressure on your institutions not to comply in advance! No collaboration with fascists.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

We have to remember that the American public being misinformed and lacking knowledge of what’s happening right now is only their fault *to an extent* Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs. A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.

The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on. What we are hearing from around the country: "this is big!" "biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years" The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.

Good crowd at the #StandUpForScience2025 rally in Trenton, New Jersey, today.

"Philadelphia, the scientists of America need us" @sarahmackattack.bsky.social teaches Stand Up for Science Philly about the good of chaos!! #standupforscience2025

The mad scientists are out in Trenton #standupforscience

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

#StandUpForScience👩‍🔬👨‍🔬📢Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, including our managing director, show solidarity with our colleagues in the US who are protesting against the attacks of the current US administration. @standupforscience.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

“The law of gravity works for you, regardless of who you voted for,” @cdelawalla.bsky.social said. If you used your cellphone today, or knew the name of a bird outside your window or brushed your teeth last night, she added, “it’s because of a scientist.” Thanks for your vision. #standupforscience

Good thread 🧵 on policy change for NIH peer review process. You should review the full thread. It expresses many of my same concerns. If you aren’t following @jeremymberg.bsky.social, you should. He’s a great resource and provides a great perspective on these issues. #NIH #Science #Medsky #RAdminsky

Everyone is ready for the Stand Up for Science rallies tomorrow!

JERSEY!!!! ARE YOU READY?!?! 💪🧪 Our #StandUpForScience2025 closing speaker is @samwang.bsky.social! See you at the Trenton State Capitol Plaza tmrw March 7 12-2pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

❤️ Just covered this paper, and a few others on this topic, in our Minority Health and Health Disparities course within my breast cancer disparities lecture.

$8M including indirects is a few grants. It is likely research on the effects of hormone replacement or gender confirmation surgery using mouse models. It's valid peer-reviewed research. Most of the programs he mentioned in foreign countries sounded amazing and promoted democracy 😢

So this company is showing off their mice with woolly coats and saying we genetically altered them to be more like woolly mammoths! Ok the mice are cute. But they're ignoring the fact that...WOOLLY MICE EXIST. www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Let me introduce you all to: The mouse Fancy.

Remember we rally on Friday! Spread the word. 💪🏼🧪🧬🧫

A friend who develops LLMs was explaining the new "reasoning" features in DeepSeek and now Claude, so I did some testing on my own. I was writing a review article and I find Claude can be quite helpful with editing, but I pushed him/it a little bit. In addition to editing for fluency and grammar...👇

We march on Friday #StandUpForScience

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

Even if the NIH cancelled their event, it's still Rare Disease Day! We work on rare neurodevelopmental disorders sometimes also affecting the muscle. We are thankful for the families, clinicians and collaborators helping with our studies. ❤️ #RareDiseaseDay #ShowYourStripes

My most painful childhood memories are measles (3), chickenpox (5) and mumps (6). I had a lot of respiratory issues after the measles and I never had a fully developed sense of smell. I also had shingles twice as a young adult. Why willingly put a child though this? 👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

UPDATE ON FUNDING These are data through 2/21/25. The lag in Reporter really does appear to be about a week. There was a second mini-pause as suspected from internal reports, but grants are being awarded. About 21% new or competitive renewals (compared to 29% in 2017, and 22% in 2021

seriously PIs, talk to your contacts at NIH, NSF, etc. they're trying to help this morning I chatted with the SRO of my cancelled study section, she's already working to reschedule it I thanked her for making it work, & just said it meant a lot to me that SROs, POs, etc are keeping science going