Back in New Hampshire for some fun at the GRC Bioactives and Natural Products!! Stoked for a week of science and walking in the woods and more science

So I was doing some account balancing today and just noticed the Sigma is adding a "Tarriff" Charge onto our most recent orders ... anyone else notice that? #chemsky

A short Bluetorial about my early days as the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH. The importance of feeling responsibility and taking pride in doing the best job you can

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Lab earned a gold star today! Way to go team, keep up the hard work @ukresearch.bsky.social

Here is the dirty secret no one is speaking out loud: Trump does not believe that bombing the hell out of Iran is going to send Iran back to the negotiation table, nor has anyone in his inner circle suggested to him that outcome. He fully knows he has entered America into a war.

U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Group Photo Day! @ukresearch.bsky.social

Research drives discovery at UK. Funding from the NIH makes a difference. UK Acting Vice President for Research Ilhem Messaoudi explains how this funding impacts Kentuckians. Learn more: www.research.uky.edu/news/researc...

Some important additional considerations about the need to comment of the implementation of schedule F. First, several sources have indicated that Institute Director and Division Director positions would likely be converted but not Program Officers. 1/n

This is heartbreaking and terrifying

Really fun visit to @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for a seminar Huge thanks to @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social for the invite Tried my best to channel banana slugs and was rewarded with a couple along the walk in 😁

Somehow you knew this was coming. They will do anything to avoid responding meaningfully to FOIA requests.

See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down. Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year I asked the White House to explain. “This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.

Awesome visit to @utah.edu for a seminar in the Pharm Tox Department Lots of great neuroscience focused chats and great group of faculty plus snuck out to see a bit of nature as well

Another fun international collaboration (that started via email) resulting in a publication out today! Happy to be a small part of this awesome chemistry effort by the groups at Uni Bristol

All of the physics knowledge in the world and all of the paper published about NASA’s success and failures won’t save you if you fired the seamstress who knew the one weird trick to the stitches on a blanket or a parachute. Not all knowledge is translated well by text. (2/)

New paper with my collaborator in Cameroon exploring the utility of traditionally used plants as therapeutics and for discovering new leads for development. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

One new post on Federal Register about meetings in late March early April and three more that should be posted by tomorrow ... at least review can return and hopefully that means we can have a sense of grant funding soon

Before grants are awarded, they have to be evaluated in meetings called study sections. Before a study section can meet, it has to be listed in the federal registry for at least 15 days. These are the new study section meetings listed in the federal registry this year. 2/

In Frankfort! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Good lord

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Newest publication available on two linear veraguamides isolated and identified by the lab along with some interesting activity we have been exploring ... keep watching for future updates on the development of these scaffolds mdpi.com/1420-3049/30...

Excited to be in Oxford for a talk in the School of Pharmacy at Ole Miss

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Always a joy to see this brutalism style when coming to DC! Need to hustle to make my talk about our work with Cameroonian plants to discover new analgesics

Feel like I'm in grad school again ... Let's see if my old extraction method still works 😁

No notes Going to need a stack of these stickers to have on me at all times

Heading down to San Juan for the weekend to talk a bit about our science, learn a bit about the RISE program at UPR, catch up with some friends and collaborators, and eat some mofongo!!

Tidgewell will be giving a talk at the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants Conference (acmap.org) the first weekend in October ... if you'll be there come hear about some of our projects on Cameroonian Plants

Going to try and start moving more of our labs posts and interactions over here, so why not start off with a group photo! The lab has been at UK for over a year now and is excited to start getting some work published this year