There’s still time to submit your abstracts for poster presentation at CMBE 2026 in beautiful Puerto Rico! www.bmes.org/2026/cmbecon... #CMBE2026 #BEvision #BME #Bioengineering

We have no permanent president, CEO, or dean as of today. We’re either on the cusp of utopia or about to slide into a hell of blood and fire. Will report back.

Tell your senators to vote NO on Trump’s rescission package and protect foreign aid, NPR, PBS, world hunger, HIV/AIDS prevention, and more. These funds have already been allocated and Trump and the GOP want to slash them which will hurt millions of Americans & will dismantle our government further.

This is extremely bad: “expect placement by political appointees.” This is Lysenkoism, politics controlling science, and we know how it ends: with the death of science. “For successful science, reality must take precedence over politics, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

My daughter graduated two years ago, a niece last year. This was not the way. This has largely happened in just one year.

💥 👩‍⚕️ Human Stem Cells at "Closeout Sale" Prices 🧪 Induced human pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines for research

Re: the crisis at UVA. The world notices when a US president connives with local Republican politicians & wealthy MAGA donors to force an American university president out of office. They know that it means very bad things for this country as a whole. 👇🏽

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

Please join @kateycooper.bsky.social and @ascbiology.bsky.social for a webinar about LGBTQ+ experiences in biological sciences! June 18th, 2025 at 2pm EST. #pride #pridemonth #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb

The Trump admin wants to cut the NSF's budget by 57%. In terms of directorates, EDU and ENG would see the biggest cuts at 75%, while MPS is looking at a ~67% cut. The proposal also defunds nearly all postdoc programs and slashes the NSF GRFP budget by 55%. More here: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

“A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women infected with COVID-19, about 1 in 80 deliveries was a stillbirth — the loss of a fetus anytime after 20 weeks. That’s compared with 1 in 155 among uninfected women” Pregnant women need access to Covid boosters. TW for photos of Covid placenta:

Raise your hand if you want a Covid-19 booster! 🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚

FDA is set to restrict access to Covid shots for healthy people 6 months-64. I asked HHS if initial shots will be available to infants; no answer. One former CVS executive thinks healthy ineligible people who want a shot will face new costs. w / @maggieastor.bsky.social GIFT:

We tried to warn everyone that every Covid infection ages you, and we tried to warn them it would take a few years for the impact to manifest. On cue, everyone's talking about Gen Z's "accelerated aging," and they still refuse to acknowledge one major source of the problem.

My heart is absolutely breaking for US science

6 weeks now. No Funding Opportunities.

The FDA names Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

Scientific research is going to be hit by tariffs: Lab research supplier Millipore Sigma is going to add temporary surcharges on all orders shipped to the US. More @statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social: #chemsky #sciencesky 🧪🩺🧫💉⚗️ www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

A chance to explain personal connections to research we do, and how we serve the public with the federal dollars we work hard to earn. If in industry, the REU you did or NSFGRFP you got helped shape the scientist you are. Write about it! #SciComm #McClintockLetters @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇. That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.

Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates. Let them be ill: MAHA! www.nbcnews.com/heal... 1/2

I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience

We have the turnout today in the MILLIONS — sourced from handsoff2025.com directly and echoed by @moveon.org and @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Millions. Enormous turnout across all 50 states and globally. Please reinforce that to everyone you know.

So many great signs today!

Congrats @jennhammel.bsky.social and Jenny Munson on this great work! This model of the human lymph node stroma under fluid flow is super interesting and will be useful to answer many future questions. Always a pleasure to collaborate with you. #immunoengineering #LymphNodes #3Dculture

RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy Here’s my coverage in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

This is a disaster and its happening right now. Having spoken with some folks in Congress, this is a message they have not received--they are still back in Indirects and USAID (also important, BTW). Call Congress today unless you want ot lose colleagues one by one till all are gone

Reviewing grants on a Sunday night on the off-chance that our study section will meet, on the off-chance that council will meet, and on the off-chance that some tech bro named big balls won’t find something “too woke” about it and throw it in the trash. Fucking hell.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

The administration will have an impact on science and research that will take decades to repair. #PublicHealth #EpiSky #Research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards. But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.

Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders. They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social . My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

Bill introduced: "H.R.1497 - To replace the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with 3 separate national research institutes." 😢

Can confirm that pestering your reps works. Just got a reply from my Congressman’s office today that they are looking at this after multiple people brought it to their attention.

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

Biomedical researchers, @aimbe-official.bsky.social is seeking anecdotes about how recent policies have disrupted your grants/research: aimbe.wufoo.com/forms/qs9tsi... Your messages are critical for us to advocate to our Members of Congress to take action against these federal disruptions 👇

DEI initiatives remain lawful under federal law and Supreme Court precedent - see public memo nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Make some noise about this. Call your senators and house rep. And if you know anyone in media, let them know that NIH reviews are stopped again due to the federal register issue.

🚨🚨🚨 STILL LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! We'd love to have Stand Up for Science represented in all 50 states—and are so close! Please volunteer to organize your capitol or major city's protest if you're able! Link to volunteer form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

Attention scientists! Wondering what else can you can do to advocate for research funding? Let's all submit Programmatic Requests to Members of Congress next month, and flood the zone in a show of public support for #NIH and #NSF! ! #SciComm #Science #Medicine #MedSky 🧬🔬🧪 Details below⤵️ 🧵 1/n

Do you live in the Southeast U.S.? Did you receive a tornado or severe t-storm warning from the NWS yesterday? Did you feel good knowing someone is watching out for you & letting you know potentially dangerous weather was headed your way? If so, maybe let others know why you think NWS is important.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Wait, is the whole Gordon Research Conference #GRC for #SexDifferencesInImmunity just ... gone? Understanding the fundamentals of sex differences contributes to precision medicine. It helps everyone. Eliminating this meeting or targeting these scientists harms everyone.

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...