The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

Excited to announce that I am joining the Aharoni lab @ UCLA as a postdoc! Looking forward to building open source infrastructures for Miniscopes and more!!!

That's sister with SUCH a cool paper!!

What can you even say at this point?

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Dying empire for REAL lmao

Bending over to promote a genocide at great expense and STILL losing their federal funding.... I have to laugh.

Signed my IRACDA contract for the year only for NIH and NSF to pull some bullshit and suspend all grants to UCLA.... GIRL......

Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.

How it feels not wading into the JGP discourse on this Monday

Funding restored for one more year

Wtf is "brain on a chip" supposed to look like lmao. Ofc it's PETA backed too

L.A. TACO has confirmed that Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20yr-old US citizen taken by federal agents while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is being held at the federal building in downtown L.A. ~ Aisha Wallace-Palomares reporting.

Pls not the 2016 "ur valid" approach!! Instead tell them one way or another we WILL make sure they get the access they need.

🧪 The final work from my PhD is finally out today! We found that synapses at the larval fruit fly neuromusculsr junction (NMJ) were individually highly diverse in their synaptic release properties. However... (1/5)

Cat's out of the bag!!! Super excited to be a part of this incredible community!

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... lmao????

It's still really unbelievable how the IDF just bombed Al Ahli hospital, the last standing hospital in Gaza, with its patients and doctors and there is not one post about it to be found on this website.

OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.

Well divas... I want to say it's over but my delusion says it's not quite over yet.

Lmaooo vindicated once again!

Excellent article sent by a friend. Really highlights a number of fears and thoughts I have re: the legal deterrence during this time therealcornpop.substack.com/p/the-us-is-...

Why the fuck would you publicly host instructions on how to cross ref federal records for trans identification? Do you not see how dangerous this is???

My incarcerated colleague Angel Ayala sent me this message from where he’s being held in solitary confinement. I’m sharing with his blessing—for me it connects deeply to @prisonculture.bsky.social ‘s wisdom that incarcerated people are the original victims of the fascism that’s engulfing us all.

REPORT: Information from the Ministry of Health database reveals that 73% of those killed in Israeli strikes today are children, women, or the elderly.

Some advice on activism and feeling less helpless: You probably cannot make a big change by yourself. That's okay. Find a thing you can do--either joining an existing thing or starting something small that you can sustain with resources you have--and start there.

Well..... How are we doing today

Just to spell this out: you, too, are not breaking the law. Versions of this could happen to any of us.

My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest. Everything I do is for my community 💜✨

Getting cited by the BBC is kind of iconic I think

OK maybe one last thought on all this handwringing: cis people don't have to benefit from research focused on models of trans health for that science to be seen as valid. It's perfectly fine to ask a trans specific question and obtain a trans specific answer.

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

Why are you all so afraid of admitting these are models that would help trans healthcare. BOO! There are mouse models examining the effects of hormones in multiple capacities. Now what?

Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/

How it feels trying to run experiments while all these anti-trans actions get pushed federally

I think we should abolish gender markers on all forms of ID including passports

SBN has been so consistently supportive it's been refreshing to see. When @megangmassa.com and I were being attacked by Ben Shapiro and co for our paper they issued a statement reiterating how they stood by us and our work.

Zohran Mamdani is MIRA NAIR'S SON?!

I’d like to sincerely thank various scholars and activists on Bluesky, especially Black scholars and activists, for giving me the language to express that “anti-DEI” means “segregationist”. That concept has been very helpful in forming my resolve to fight the efforts to re-segregate my university.

Ardem, I am sorry. In this middle of this chaos, HHMI will always hold the dubious distinction of being the first organization, federal or private, to cut an ongoing and funded DEI program. In the darkest hour, it ran for the hills. As a member of those groups, I can’t tell you how painful this is.

I know that a lot of trans people are scared and I keep seeing and hearing talk of wanting to flee the US BUT I feel like many of us have a duty to stay and fight. This last year seeing Palestinian resistance and resilience to the horrors of genocide has made me resolute in my decision.

From @dereklowe.bsky.social, for Science. My opinion: the clear intent is to re-segregate institutions.

Animal research saves lives.

I hope all biomed researchers are connecting the dots between this and anti-trans initiatives.

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to have your research being discussed in the halls of Congress except in classic Tragic Troy syndrome it’s because they want to stop you from doing it.