Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

"In 2020, the median life expectancy for UK patients with [cystic fibrosis] was 36 but with novel three drug combinations, life expectancy is now predicted to be 82 y for patients who begin treatment by age 17"

Following up on the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative: how it happened, and why it matters, what we know and don't. By me, whole timeline is before the pay wall. fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs...

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

I miss the old brand #CDC

$2.4B of Harvard’s canceled research grants, visualized www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/u...

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

What's so wildly gaslighting about all of it is THIS IS A GOLDEN AGE OF BIOLOGY like the breakthroughs are unbelievable? It's like nobody cares??? they're talking about cancer vaccines?? cystic fibrosis treatment revolutionized?? The covid vaccine story is an absolute triumph???

Excited to share our recent viewpoint with @storerlab.bsky.social led by Kirsten Sadler, on epigenetic mechanisms of regenerative resilience. Ageing versus developmental silencing: Answers from the epigenome - Sadler - The FEBS Journal - febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This week on the @science.org podcast--the role of the immune system in endometriosis w/ @meredithwadman.bsky.social 🎧Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

SCIENTISTS OF BLUE SKY

Like our sister journals, you can also submit an additional language abstract at @dev-journal.bsky.social and we cater for non-Western characters for author names. Did you know Development also facilitates retrospective author name changes?

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

"NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails. You can use Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities." 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

4/5 The Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award: Dr. Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social, Harvard University, 👏👏🥂

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The Center for Reproductive Science is seeking applications for the Shaw Innovation Awards. These awards provide funding for sex-inclusive research, focusing on sex-based mechanisms and determinants of health and disease Learn more and apply: www.crs.northwestern.edu/awards-schol...

🤩 Very excited to share our new work! We have derived euploid and aneuploid trophoblast organoids and extra-embryonic mesoderm cell lines from early human embryos. In doing so, we have characterised the tissue requirements for their specification. If you want to know more, continue reading….

“They have dropped a bomb on themselves.” -Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine. The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China. "China has already taken over. Scientists will move." 🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

❌Research in Animal Models ❌Research using Human Tissues grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

📣 Happening next month: The 2025 Four Freedoms Awards will honor leaders advancing democracy, dignity, and justice. This year’s laureates embody FDR’s bold vision of freedom—from the power of journalism to the fight against hunger. Learn more: rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉 The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments. Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.

I am incredibly grateful and honored to be recognized with the Keith Porter Prize 🥹🥳 — thank you, @ascbiology.bsky.social and @iaincheeseman.bsky.social for being the best mentor!! Congratulations to the other awardees and I am looking forward to meeting everyone in Philly

This former Trump administration official, who is still working closely with Miller’s “task force,” is all but saying, “Great university you have there. Shame is anything happened to it.”

Congrats @jimmy-ly.bsky.social !!! 🤩

A new tragedy for the Endocrine community An outstanding scientist leaves us too soon

We need a new microscope objective. A $1.6k tariff for something that you can hold in your hand and that is only manufactured in Germany

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time www.science.org/content/arti...

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

Meanwhile, back to the Director's Corner... The other overarching issue is that Dr. Kleinsteuer conflates toxicology with efficacy in maddening ways. She is a computational scientist and, specifically, a computational toxicologist. 12/n

Donald Trump is ripping away America’s role as a world leader in science and innovation. Cuts to health care breakthroughs. Cuts to tech development. Cuts to energy research. How is this America first?

🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Officially tenured. Thank you to all the mentors who guided me, and to the trainees who made this possible with your ideas, hard work, and scientific joy.

1/ 🎉 Black In Neuro is turning FIVE — and we’re celebrating with our first-ever in-person conference! 🧠✨ Join us for 3 days of connection, learning & celebration with the BIN community! 💥 📍 Sept 10–12 | Washington, D.C. Registration is LIVE so register today at the link below! tinyurl.com/BINW25

This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

Young also has found "pervasive racial discrimination in selecting grants" to cut that will require a permanent restraining order to prevent the government from continuing this. He also finds an "unmistakable pattern of discrimination against women’s health".

New @berondam.bsky.social book! Pre-order ✅

My dept was lucky enough to screen the new @scicommlab.bsky.social film Observer this week (feat. @afroherper.bsky.social) and hear from ED Sarah Goodwin. A beautiful celebration of the ways in which people everywhere explore the world around them www.observerfilm.org/meet-the-obs...

Just like Northwestern