@edsbs.bsky.social As Gamecock fan, multiple false starts from a Gamecock offense is an oddly comforting ASMR to experience again. Like a bing TV sitcom that you’re putting on for the 100th time.

Oct 27 for life sciences (neuro) and Oct 28 for psychology (cog neuro). Not a lot of time but worth the effort. Best of luck to everyone.

🚨 ACADEMIC JOB ALERT! We are hiring up to 2 tenure-track faculty (assistant/associate). Columbia is a fun, rapidly growing, & very livable city and USC is a great place to work. If you'll be on the market, I encourage you to take a look and consider applying. jobs.academyhealth.org/job/assistan...

There are currently 11 acting Institute and Center directors at NIH and this will add another. Two more and the majority of these positions will be vacant.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Happy First Day of School!

🚨 New publication alert! Our new study shows how training PharmD students can address breast cancer disparities in rural communities. Patients visit pharmacies 2-3x more than PCPs, uniquely positioning PharmDs to deliver accessible health education. 🧵 rdcu.be/eBfSL

@edsbs.bsky.social I’m at the zoo in SC in this August heat. A lot of goths in attendance. I respect their commitment to the game. 🫡

Jerome Adams was President Trump's Surgeon General. He is calling out the current administration for its dehumanizing language and tying it to the shootings at CDC last week. This isn't a partisan issue. Violence against public health workers is wrong full-stop. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

@jasonkirk.fyi @edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social We need a deep drive in old colleges who had football teams like the former Alabama Presbyterian College football team known as the “Predestinarians” www.lostcolleges.com/alabama-pres...

You know, smashing windows doesn’t really help with the whole “Stop Comparing Us to Nazis” defense.

TFW you're in a seminar and realize you've been pronouncing a drug name wrong.

Fair warning youths: these are the type of emails you get during your birthday when you get older.

I'm thankful for the NetVUE group for letting me write this piece! As someone torn between research deadlines & student needs, I was inspired by Tolkien's allegory "Leaf by Niggle" in exploring how mentoring isn't a distraction from our calling as academics, but is actually its true expression.

I'm thankful for the NetVUE group for letting me write this piece! As someone torn between research deadlines & student needs, I was inspired by Tolkien's allegory "Leaf by Niggle" in exploring how mentoring isn't a distraction from our calling as academics, but is actually its true expression.

Funniest person in Happy Gilmore 2: Scottie Scheffler

Here’s a study everyone should appreciate: It was discovered that Sesame Street improved early childhood education markers, especially among boys from disadvantaged backgrounds. Their estimated cost to improve these scores? Answer: $5 dollars/child per year pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

I saw this headline on The Scientist, and I sadly immediately thought of the Paulie from The Sopranos meme

Today was a wrap on Presbyterian College’s summer research program. Congrats to my student Tanya, who did a stellar job & will continue working this Fall. I’m always thankful for SC INBRE providing support & enabling us to train future scientists that will carry the torch of biomedical progress.

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

1. This sucks 2. An untethered Stephen Colbert on a podcast would be A-MAZING.

“Another reason companies hire consultants is to cover their ass. As the old saying goes, “Nobody ever got fired for hiring McKinsey”; even if the project goes poorly, the CEO can blame the consultant instead of management.”

I think a new game should be “National Enquirer Headline” or “Thing Trump Actually Said.”

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear: Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins. Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple. chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi #scipub #academicsky

Trump makes me think about “The Abolition of Man” a lot.

“For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.” -Pete Medawar

The "Big Beautiful Bill" isn’t the federal budget—it’s a reconciliation bill focused on tax cuts. The real FY26 funding decisions for NIH, NSF, and more are happening now in Congress. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

I know generative AI is going to destroy the fabric of society and whatnot, but it’s been nice helping me think through experiments and troubleshooting protocols, so…tradeoffs

Holy shit...I applied for a job with The Onion back in April and this was literally one of my 30 sports headline submissions. @davidjroth.bsky.social @robertsilverman.bsky.social

Bet it on red in remembrance.

This Hop Water from Sierra Nevada is Baxter-approved.

The SURE-First (R16) and SURE NOFOs have been published. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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TFW you find some strawberry DNA in your carry-on in the airport because you had it in there for your kid’s school career day

Very thoughtful piece by @youngshull.bsky.social about our misplaced anxieties about the place of AI in educational settings (and the human experience).

Words of wisdom from @youngshull.bsky.social on how to consider my role as an educator & mentor! A super a helpful framing for me as I re-think my assignments for the upcoming year...

Here is my latest Substack post as research director of a SLAC (Presbyterian College). I confess I took some editorial liberties for this post, but when mentoring students as scholars, the question about AI isn't "will AI replace our work?" but "what makes our work as humans irreplaceable?"

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

When you work on a manuscript in the morning but take your nephews to a WWE show at night 😂

R16 eligible institutions: less than $6 million/yr (total costs) from NIH in each of the preceding two fiscal years and enroll at least 25% of undergraduate students supported by Pell grants or HBCUs and TCUs. R16s were a lifeline for small univs with no other dedicated research funds.

You can include me in this group where I stopped typing in the middle of a sentence when I saw the announcement on Friday.

Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

@edsbs.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi Watching Paul Heyman live at a RAW event is what I imagine it was like watching Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre.

The overstated powers of AI make me reminiscence about days when we overstated the powers of genomics. Oh, those were the days!

I went to Career Day at my kid’s school, and I found this class-made poster in the 4th grade classroom. The next generation may be alright, folks.

Well the R16 grant submission, which helps build science infrastructure at institutions like mine, have been cancelled until further notice.