Life Science Editors wrote a really great "Snippet" about our recent paper describing PDAR. @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social Why cells die without Pol II www.lifescienceeditors.com/2025/11/15/w...

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

RFK Jr. has a less-than-zero understanding of how science works. "Make the proof" should be disturbing for anybody who cares about health, truth, or democracy. Join our fight to impeach RFK Jr. here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-gram... #impeachrfk #impeachthequack

🚨 BREAKING: James Comey posts a video statement following his indictment "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump...But I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either...And I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith."

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences go.nature.com/4pBArFH

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

A nice Q&A with Nick Harper about the discovery of PDAR, and his road to becoming a scientist @umasschan.bsky.social www.umassmed.edu/dsb/dsb-comm...

I’m excited to highlight our latest paper, just published in Cell 🎉 We report the existence of a previously uncharacterized signaling pathway that is responsible for activating cell death upon loss of gene expression. 1/n 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

For who still thinks this can’t happen here… it’s already happening. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"[A] sleeper issue is the proposed 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health, in the White House’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year." Perhaps injecting some economic impact data may help awaken what should not be a sleeper issue... @prospect.org scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Things have been challenging over these last few months, but we also had a lot to celebrate... Tiana and Mika joining the lab 🎉, Kelly passing her QE 🎉, Gavin publishing a paper and submitting another 🎉, Megan publishing a paper 🎉, Nick getting excellent reviews 🎉 ...so we did a paint nite.

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not that anyone asked, but during my tenure on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board, under part of Obama-2 and all of Trump-1, we visited Military Bases domestically & abroad. At no time did any member of the Armed Forces I met say to me: “America needs less science funding.”

Grants on antibiotic resistance (and many other things) cancelled "due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." Every single Jewish org needs to stand up and speak clearly against this weaponization of antisemitism

"People should not take medical advice from me" ~ the man directly in charge of medical advice for the United States

Set aside the headline, this is a good primer on the how the federal govt wanted higher Ed to take on a bigger research role, and funded the infrastructure to make that possible via merit-based peer reviewed processes. The research funding is not entitlements and cutting it comes w real costs

Yyyyyyeeeeessssssa!!!! We are finally standing up!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harvard steps up www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

Here, with breakdown by type of F award. These kinds of training grants are essential to support the academic workforce pipeline. These grants are paying the salaries of the ppl who do the work

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

JFC, Fulbright scholar not accused of any crime, no immigration violation, no reason to expect any violence -- just Marco Rubio's whim -- and instead of summoning her first step is no-uniform / no-ID guys in masks and hoodies grabbing her off a public street.

Six masked agents in street clothes disappearing a Tufts Ph.D. student in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville. There is video footage out there every person should watch.

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Data for every State can be found here: 3/3 www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

By crushing cancer research, what are Elon & Trump making more efficient? Their NIH funding cuts are illegal—so instead, they're suffocating the grant approval process for cancer researchers with so much red tape that labs & clinical trials will be forced to shut down.

NIH funding creates medicines, jobs and economic growth

We just posted a preprint about a death mechanism that we find truly surprising. When you turn off transcription, cells die (duh!)... but did you know this happens due to loss of Pol II itself, not loss of Pol II activity!?! preprint here and a thread (1/n): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

Let's bring the #CellDeath community together here on 🦋 Just get in touch to join this Starter Pack go.bsky.app/R6mGrKU