If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some awesome, fundamental work here: Lucy Shapiro, on bacterial cell differentiation, Dirk Görlich and Steve McKnight on IDRs & protein gels in nuclear pores and biomolecular condensates, & Michael Welsh, Jesús González & Paul Negulescu, (overdue) for bench to bedside work on cystic fibrosis 🧪 1/2

✨ #TuesdayInspiration We’re celebrating ASBMB members Luis Cedeño–Rosario & Elizabeth Kaweesa, recipients of the Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social. This award honors outstanding early-career scientists advancing research. Congratulations! #ASBMBmembernews ow.ly/qy1450WU9xk

A highly lethal type of brain tumour often steals key nutrients to aid its aggressive growth — a habit that can be exploited to slow the cancer’s spread go.nature.com/42bZipf

"For our scientists" 🧪 By ellecordova on Instagram

Read former NIAID Director, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s, Whistleblower complaint. It mirrors the concerns we expressed in the Bethesda Declaration and confirms the administration knew full well the harmful consequences of their actions. (Scroll down to the bottom.) katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to my great friend and colleague @bradylabupenn.bsky.social for this well deserved award! @pennmedcso.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

This job is such that I did not get a single thing done on my main to do list this week, and yet I worked almost nonstop.

I am honored to be on the steering committee for this wonderful symposium that is highlighting scientists entering the job market. Tune in with us!

Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...

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

📢 North Carolina is showing up BIG on Labor Day to remind those in power who they actually answer to 🇺🇸 Stop the Billionaire Takeover. Find a protest or march near you! ✊ open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/... #MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC

History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.

Good 🧵on grant terminations

I'd love to spot "mitochondrial challenges" just by giving a look to people.

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

In case you were wondering how hiring a $10 million football coach when the Legislature is implementing $70 million in UNC-CH budget cuts starting in fiscal year 2025, with ~$29.5 million in cuts occurring this year, here the answer: for "safety" most of us are banned from much of campus Monday

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

Guess what? We have an awesome seminar lined up for next week! Very excited to host Jess @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

defunding children's brain cancer research. @endpts.com

This year's Annual Review of Nutrition is out and full of really great reads. My contribution details the broad history of nutritional guidance in America & covers the forces (science/politics/culture) that have driven the evolution of nutrition guidance. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Dear [email protected], dear [email protected], to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

If you believe that keeping your head down and being quiet will spare you from this fate, you are mistaken. This will be all of us.

Would recommend constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck’s take which is more optimistic! www.tiktok.com/@steve_vlade...

Guess what? We have an awesome seminar lined up for next week! Very excited to host Jess @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

this is me today

Join me in donating to ABRCMS. For many of us early in our careers (and for many of us now), this is THE conference. Let’s make sure future generations get the same experience. I was told if each poster judge donated $25, their goal would be quickly met, but I think we can do better! 🙏🏾💪🏾

Hey @nytimes.com “for Disfavored Research” is a funny way to spell “in continuation of fascist takeover”

Throughout this whole saga, I’ve felt the collective agony of being in constant contact with other MOSAIC scholars facing the same shitty fate. I don’t want to downplay the deep solidarity/support, but what I feel most acutely is the wave of grief crashing over hundreds of early-career scientists.

Here is the video from the Clinical Center patient in a different format. Thanks for @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social for covering this story.

5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling. thehill.com/regulation/c... I have no (printable) words...

When the NIH decides to terminate grants, utilizes lump sum payments to reduce the # of awards (+ plans to reduce funding in future years), advocates for consolidation and cutbacks, then this is what happens: highly-reviewed proposals by expert panels will not get funded & the US will fall behind.

I have NIGMS R35, impact score 12 NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I) and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3. PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25." 😭

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

This! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online [Gift Link] wapo.st/415HpYM 1/4

The UAW/ACLU/APHA are seeking details on NIH grant applications that were delayed or withdrawn. The previous deadline of August 4 has been extended to August 25. I’ll include screenshots of FAQs in the replies. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Personally, the humanities influence the way I see the world. This directly affects the types of scientific questions I ask and am interested in. Why is the conversation here about “being punished” when the conversation can be: “how do we bridge the two for impact? For social good?”

When I was a kid, my parents didn’t enforce seatbelts. They weren’t popular in our circles, or among many Americans when first introduced. But they do save lives. Just like mRNA vaccines. Sure glad Jay Bhattacharya wasn’t in charge of vehicle safety requirements back then!

Are you an undergrad thinking about grad school? Check out the St. Jude @stjuderesearch.bsky.social Symposium for Predoctoral Research! 🧪 *Reposts appreciated! 🤓

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Read this. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

An update from us here at PBS 💙

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.