Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

Dr. William Bryant Lynch

I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! [email protected]

Excited to share our new study on how the brain generates placebo pain relief! We developed a mouse model that recapitulates key features of human placebo analgesia, then used it to identify causal circuitry. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... today.ucsd.edu/story/neurob... 1/n

This is exciting!! States can take away Citizens United by removing the Power of corporations to spend money on politics. No Supreme Court. No Constitutional changes. Montana is voting on a referendum this year. Every state should do this! Almost all voters hate corporate spending. Come on 💙 States!

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

Day 75 of Winter Brain happening today! (seems like these daily email updates never end)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

If you've experienced something similar or heard about something similar, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

A reminder as Congress finalizes NIH appropriations: the bill must limit multiyear funding (MYF), Vought's way of cutting the NIH budget without cutting the budget. MYF will devastate the research workforce. @safa-science.bsky.social wrote this in July. Still relevant: substack.com/@scienceandf...

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

How long before U.S. heath protocols and vaccine schedules start affecting travel? Only a matter of time before traveling with proof of measles vaccine will be required to enter countries that still understand science #scicomm 🧪 #vaccines

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

New preprint alert: we use sign errors as a test of how well TWAS works. Very worryingly we find that TWAS gets the sign wrong around 1/3 of the time (compared to 50% for pure guessing). You can read more about our analysis here, and what we think is going on 👇

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

"New" paper from my lab identifying the baseline and methamphetamine-induced striatal RNA-binding targets of hnRNP H1. Glad to finally have this published! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Faculty position at the department of medicine, University of Chicago. Please share.

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Still kicking! 🙏

This is shocking stuff. John Quackenbush has been brilliant since forever. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

woohoo!

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

err.dang.year since 2015!

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Symposium deadline for IBANGS 2026 in Pittsburgh (June 8-11) is November 7! @ibangs.bsky.social www.ibangs.org/symposia-sub...

🚨 Please RT! We’re recruiting a motivated postdoc to dissect the neurocircuits of affective pain. Expertise in behavioral models of pain/SUDs, stereotaxy, microscopy, opto/chemogenetics, or fiber photometry encouraged. Apply 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10647 #Neuroscience #Postdoc

Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

⚠️ Paper alert: Using a novel CRISPR screening approach, we mapped the entire regulatory network controlling Xist—key for X-chromosome inactivation. 👉 We discover how sex and development signals are decoded at a single gene locus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇 Bluetorial

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

Great clip. About PhDs here on H1B’s that “create entire industries.”

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

Let’s all place bets on what RFK Jr. identifies as the “causes” of autism in his upcoming blockbuster reveal. I’ll take the low-hanging fruit and go with vaccines and heavy metals. What he won’t acknowledge is the overwhelming contribution of genetics, because he can’t sue someone over that.

it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine

Turkiye!

Jack White, 2028. This is how it’s done.

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism.

More than a little misleading. But Francis Collins is being polite. Say it straight: RFK and Bhattacharya are liars, selected for their ability to mislead the public, like so much of this administration’s picks. Why are so many Trump appointees Fox hosts? For this reason.

turkish coffee prepared over mangal coals after a long tasty dinner

We're hiring a tech with primary responsibilities including rodent colony maintenance and genotyping. please repost. Apply here! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

And getting to hang out with colleagues and chat about inspiring research is always the best part. @camronbryant.bsky.social @davidmoorman.bsky.social