Alumnos de la UPR-RP destacan en el ámbito científico al recibir el 'Jury Choice Award for Promising Scientific Impact' y lograr el sexto lugar mundial entre 80 equipos. Un gran logro para la educación en nuestro territorio. dialogo.upr.edu/alumnos-de-u...

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’ go.nature.com/3SVNXI7

The kind of heat wave that the Northeast and eastern Canada is suffering through this week would have been “virtually impossible” in those areas before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday. nyti.ms/4fiIpQA

💪 The Lancet comes out swinging on how the MAGA/MAHA Administration is destroying US science Trump’s new OMB rule will “silence independent experts, codify ideological censorship, prioritise politics over data, & erect new barriers to international collaboration” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crónicas de una muerte anunciada

The debate of the QED 1% ranking reminds me a lot of the Southpark episode on Walmart. Maybe the problem is in the mirror? 😂 youtu.be/4F3qESu6JFI?...

“Our simulations are barely worth the papers we print them on.” @kordinglab.bsky.social on the tiny worm with just 300 neurons that scientists still can't simulate — even with every connection mapped. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

I think we just passed oops.

From a month ago!

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

THANK YOU for all those that have helped us take action thus far. Haven't had a chance to take action yet? Follow our link here for multiple ways to join the fight 👉 fight2win.standupforscience.net

This shift comes at a large cost to be borne primarily by young investigators at Janelia, at a time when scientific environment is exceptionally uncertain. How innovative it is to repeat, in fish, what was done in flies remains an open question tbd. Not an open question: immediate cost and who pays

Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

I hate the framing of this as a war on diversity: it’s a war on people who aren’t white men. And it shouldn’t be hard to say that.

Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

so I just realized I forgot to #skeetprint my Contactomes paper... (is that what we're calling it?) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @kordinglab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social smithneurallab.weebly.com @jhuapl.bsky.social #academicsky #preprint #neuroscience

"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science." A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.

An important editorial from @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social in @science.org on the X-Labs proposal. The critiquew of research project grants are legitimate and we need to experiment new models for publicly funded research. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neuroscientist here, who has talked about the US losing science ground to other countries: The biggest problem for generating future cures for brain diseases is the ongoing utter destruction of US basic neuroscience. It’s not about regulation.

Thanks for the principled stand by past Principal Officers of the American Diabetes Association. Hopefully, this letter will get the current leadership to reach out in an appropriate manner and set the record straight. They owe it to everyone, and particularly to people with diabetes.

The relentless assault www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

The struggle is real

Several diabetes experts were escorted out of an influential medical conference by the police on Friday after they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific research.

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The European Union’s push to attract foreign scientific talent has taken a step forward, with applications opening for a new supergrant aimed at “outstanding researchers” from around the world. https://scim.ag/4x6d1vK

Yesterday—4 days after OMB released its proposal to revamp all federal funding—there were 3500+ comments. Today there are nearly 4,500. Our story on the damage the proposal could inflict on science and the researchers pushing back. Reported w/@marilenharo.bsky.social:

An innovative idea might be for organizations to stand up for and advocate polices that protect the future of science, in particular, with regards to those that directly affect the prospects of trainees and junior scientists staying in science www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

2026 summarized in one headline

Join us this Thursday for two exciting talks on how the dynamic compartmentalisation of metabolism and metabolites can drive cell function and fate. @albrechtlab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social

Spinal Tap will not be performing at the Freedom 250 event, in Washington DC.

Fun read! Another classic example is Cynthia Kenyon's discovery that loss of the insulin receptor DAF-2 extends lifespan in C. elegans, which came out of the control for a clever mutant screen in which progeny of single F2s are sent into dauer with daf-2(ts) to track lifespan of the parent.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR

“My son Marcus just turned 6. He has no idea that his mother had two brain surgeries before his first birthday or that a drug, created by research funded through federal dollars now at risk, saved my life before he took his first step.”

The U.S. government has recently convicted multiple postdocs from China for improper shipments of biological materials. Some see a replay of the 2018 China Initiative. https://scim.ag/4txj2hZ

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine are standing up for science today, May 11th at 8am ET.

The chocolate biz is raising the bar with a lab to assess cacao beans from around the world. (Talk about a sweet gig!) Consumers and farmers stand to benefit from the "Standard of Excellence" program.

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but the National Institutes of Health in 2025 said the work wouldn't continue

During a brief ceasefire in March 2025, Haneen al-Amasi visited the Great Omari Mosque library for the first time since the war began. “Entire archives of books, manuscripts and historical documents were burned or shattered in Israeli attacks.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/under-r...

El Centro Molecular de la UPR enfrenta riesgos debido a un estancamiento en la financiación, lo que podría afectar a 42 científicos y 225 estudiantes en su investigación. Es crucial encontrar una solución. periodismoinvestigativo.com/2026/05/upr-...

California Bill Would Create A $23 Billion Fund For University Research

In 1986, John White published "The Mind of a Worm," the first complete wiring diagram of any animal's brain. 7,000+ synapses in C. elegans, mapped by hand. This year he won the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences. And he's donating his share to OpenWorm.

The longest gestation period for an animal belongs to the humpback whale, which after 18 months gives birth to a 3 ton, 25 feet creature. For reference, that is about 3-5X faster than finishing a scientific study (not considering Reviewer 3)

thinking about the gould quote again

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

I think most people would prefer this. #Science