Wow - Sharon Dent is amazing - this is so great! Congratulations Sharon ❤️

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social and all the other @aaas.org Fellows! 🥳 geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/so...

Spring dinner - Kale Leek Galette

It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

Horrible news - The Adolescent Medicine Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) funded by the NIH has just been terminated. Stopping a clinical trial mid-course like this is insane. www.nichd.nih.gov/research/sup...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US. If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org

PhD students, postdocs and early-career faculty members of the C. elegans community - Do sign up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So happy to join the dream dean team at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences!

This is a beautiful story / check it out!

Stand Up For Science next Friday (3/7)! In 2024, Georgia institutions received just over $1 billion in funding and had more than $30 billion in economic impact in GA. That's a PHENOMENAL return for tax payers- let's share that news!

A tribute to my friend R. Scott Hawley: biologue.plos.org/2025/02/11/r...

Important to note that the pause applies only in the 22 suing states. That means the rest of the country is still subject to the 15-percent cap.

Could be an interesting opportunity to build a red/blue state coalition?

We are encouraging -Wackiness -Scrappiness -FOCUS on people who DO NOT GET ANY SCIENCE. Not schools. -Ensuring that people don't need to "come to you" to experience your project -And again- I mean it- putting science *where it does not currently exist*.

Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

My lab strives to reduce infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects. We want y’all to have healthy kids. I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin. It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark. Call your representatives

So sorry and thinking of all the people Scott helped in his storied career - hugs

Hear hear, our 4 keynote speakers! #MAYosis May 7th: Elvan Böke @crg.eu May 14th: Felicity Jones @unigroningen.bsky.social May 21st : Ofer Rog @theroglab.bsky.social @utah.edu May 28th: Francesca Cole @francescacole.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/... 🧵⬇️

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Watch this trailer of the documentary "Democracy Under Siege". A warning for the next four years. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/democracy-...

Mule deer - I think she was smelling our dinner prep (apple and onion pan sauce)

Last sunset in Big Bend - thanks for the show!

Petroglyphs are so amazing - can you find the javelina?

Cool rocks!

Sunset

Gotta buy more from Costco

Awww - our home away near Big Bend National Park! First sunset!

Almost time to put the roast in! Some goodies baked today: Pear Apricot Frangipane tart, Nectarine Cake, Baguettes

Chicken Liver Parfait - too extra Xmas over here!

Chicken roast - not burnt!

Ugh - I burnt my pesto Xmas tree - sigh - but a good reminder before the Xmas feast to check the treats early

The perfect tree topper doesn’t exist… Uh.

BASIC SCIENCE ROCKS!

Our lovely neighbor gave us some Hibiscus calyx so I made Hibiscus Galangal syrup for a Mezcal cocktail to go with our vegan Swiss fondue by Joe Yonan. It was super cheesy tasting but uses rutabaga!

Delighted to share the ground-breaking work from BBSRC Discovery Fellow @whgittens.bsky.social mapping physiological Top2 activity without poisons. Acute sensitivity enables sub-minute visualisation of Top2 hotspots hidden within sites of latent topological stress: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

what a beautiful conclusion. thank you, @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Baguettes and Gingersnaps - tree is up and will be decorated today - roast chicken, yucca, and salad to come

What cocktail are y’all thinking for Thanksgiving this year? I’m going old school: Maple walnut old fashioned 1/2 oz maple syrup 2-3 dashes black walnut bitters 2 oz bourbon fresh rosemary garnish

New podcast about Navajo fight for water rights. I knew some Natives on their reservation didn't have water, didn't realize it's *most* people and even if they have running water, they have to haul their drinking/cooking water. And of course it's bc of colonization. abcaudio.com/podcasts/rec...

Hubbie made dinner after my all day Thanksgiving prep - so good and thankful over here

deeply appreciate this framing: “Faculty governance was not just meant as job security. [It] was meant to buffer students’ experience of the university from administrative creep. We’re supposed to stand in the gap…When we use faculty governance to defend our students, students will help defend us.”

Almost done today with Thanksgiving prep: Cranberry sauce Mayo rub for the turkey Make ahead gravy Dressing Baguettes are in the oven Having a well deserved glass of Sancerre. How are you all doing?

Hi everyone! My name is Anika and I’m a marine ecotoxicologist PhD candidate at UConn. I study how contaminants (mercury primarily) move through food webs. Here is a picture of me at the Denver botanical garden!

Another busy work day but managed day one of Baguettes and Spatchcocked and Dry Brined the Turkey. I took tomorrow off so I only have two work meetings 🤣 and have a lot of cooking to get ready for Thanksgiving. What say you all?

Now that there are people here, I want to post about the highlight of the summer for me: My lab's 25th anniversary reunion, organized by several former members. They made a wonderful website that I looked at frequently. I made a timeline poster of everyone that's been in the lab. 1/5