I am also confused as to his dismissal of "research assistants." I cannot imagine anyone who is going to be more helpful moving forward than someone who can do the grunt work of generating data (which is what most research assistants do). Until Claude can show up in the lab at 3 am to do a 12 hr...

I realize it's important service, but I'm not gonna lie. It's getting hard to accept NIH study section requests when 1) they aren't funding basically anything and 2) it seems like they're just ignoring us anyway and funding what the administration deems acceptable.

Update: On the last day possible, NIH/HHS have extended the terms of all 6 members of the minority-health institute council. Their terms will now expire on 8/27/26 and can't be extended any further. Without new voting members, the institute won't be able to fund applications at the 2/12/27 council

Left a Kit Kat half eaten recently because it tasted like cardboard. It cost nearly three bucks! Couldn’t even get my kids to eat it. The elites and business class have ruined dang near every simple pleasure we have.

This makes me want to take my public writing in some new and colorful directions.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

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we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later. we will do nothing with this information as a society

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

The Center for Christian Virtue has been leading efforts in Ohio to push Lifewise Academy (Bible instruction for public school students during the school day) and voucher expansion, a windfall for religious schools at the expense of public school students and taxpayers.

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Ohio school district bans ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ poster over inclusion of rainbow, trans flags Little Miami School Board deemed the flags to be “sexuality content.” by Ben Jodway thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/02/28/l...

Apparently all 27 IC websites will be going dark soon. Heads up.

“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

Hi, elder millennial here, imposed regime change never goes well, even if initial military objectives are completely successful. Everyone will eventually have always been against this, as they say, but support is already starting out very low.

Consider this when boosters say that chatbots will triage care and enable doctors to see high-acuity cases 🙃

Struck a deal to contain Iran's nuclear program forever. Didn't go to war in Iran. DID IT ALL IN A TAN SUIT.

I want off this crazy train.

BREAKING: Adolescent teenage boys have taken over the Pentagon.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

Can you believe that the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize lied to us?

“It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state associated with granting coverage under this permit is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.” 😮‍💨

After the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement, states with higher rates of postpartum uninsurance saw a 10.9% decline in hospitalizations 61 to 180 days post partum among mothers with Medicaid-paid deliveries. ja.ma/40xqdKV

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Fun fact: The law firm of Ohio State Board of Trustees chairman John Zeiger filed an amicus brief against Julie Brown in defense of… Ghislaine Maxwell… three years after her 20-year conviction.

The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

A year ago I started the process to get licensed in multiple provinces, submitted an Express Entry application for lottery admission, and have things teed up to get a job quickly if need be.

Yep. Funding is about a year late for a post doc program that was supporting one of my fellows. An award already made, but no dollars released. Also hearing similar things from faculty about R01s.

A stone cold rizzler if I ever saw one

I had to renegotiate my F99/K00 award twice in 6 months, and on both occasions I asked what specifically “DEI activities” means. I didn’t get clear answers, so I was hopeful the person that directive came from could specify (the NIH Director). I asked the on @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social podcast

Barrett wrote in her Skrmetti concurrence that there wasn’t a history of de jure discrimination against trans Americans, and the GOP has relentlessly sought to prove her wrong.

A reminder that the United States is the only United Nations member that hasn’t ratified the UN Convention on Rights of the Child.

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

What now? These families are having to uproot and go to WA or CA mostly. Or Canada. Trans and intersex kids deserve access to care that meets their specific needs & I hope this is one of the first things reversed in January 2029.

Tim McGraw and The Chicks on tour?! Lib country is back, baby. Year of the fire horse indeed.

Commentary: A review of plastic "forever chemical" studies from each of the Great Lakes found the highest PFAS concentrations in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, which represents the vast majority of Ohio's northern border ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/23/p...

Stuff like this makes me thankful to be in a feminized academic field. I‘m well aware that nurse scientists aren’t as respected as other scientists (& that causes probs for us eg in grant review panels) but at least we get to see and appreciate other extremely smart, fierce women on a daily basis.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Central State University is one of two historically-black colleges & universities (and the only public HBCU) in Ohio, and alumni include the Columbus US congressperson Joyce Beatty. CSU will have lost 38 faculty in the last 3 years, which this Dispatch article says is 1/4 of their total faculty.

Things have been…interesting lately.

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

I’m living this in my current job. It makes teaching significantly less enjoyable. Even traditionally conservative faculty hate it because some of these measures bite both ways.

I can't read this because it's behind a paywall, but if ChatGPT is trained on prior knowledge (which it is), then of course it would advise women to ask for lower salaries. Misogyny is baked into the historical data.

I understand every word…there are advantages to being a mom of teen boys rn.

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.