Latest paper from the lab in collaboration with Gordon Carmichael, JD Beaudoin, and Chris Holley’s labs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Zero chance Trump wins the peace prize tomorrow.

The President of the United States just stood in front of top military leaders and declared that there’s a “domestic enemy” days after he said he was “authorizing full force” against an American city. This entire country should be outraged, not apathetic because it’s Trump.

I said what I said.

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.” PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism… …including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

They are literally canceling culture

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.

🧪That’s not how it works. Science doesn’t care about your feelings. So essentially if the people don’t like science we should ignore the potential it has. In his op ed in the WaPo, JB has proven that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.

If the Supreme Court rules for the Trump administration in this case, biomedical research is finished in this country.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten: “American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”

Absolutely this 👇

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

What a sad story in @science.org How Trump upended science A chaotic 100-day push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences www.science.org/content/arti...

Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance.

The American public is being subjected to a disinformation campaign by our own government. The HHS Secretary, NIH Director, and FDA Director are knowingly and willingly passing along utterly false information about vaccines. Every Republican supports this, without exception.

*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. *They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

More Trump attacks on universities in thr name of fighting antisemtism. Not good for america and not good for Jews. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“Harvard is prohibited from having any aliens on F- or J-nonimmigrant status” To be clear, this includes international postdocs as well as international students. (I was at Harvard on a J-1 visa for two years.) Thinking of all my fabulous colleagues over in Cambridge, Mass.

To Fight Anti-semitism at Harvard, Trump Bans Israeli Students www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

100% decrease in graduate education funding (80% decrease in overall education funding) means we will not have scientists. Between this and the brain drain, you can say goodbye to American science. But the wealthy will have their tax cuts, and that’s what’s important /s

Just utter lawlessness from the Trump Administration, with no goal other than to punish institutions for refusing to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

How dare they do this to Harvard or any school! apnews.com/live/donald-...

You are not alone in this NIH grant game drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/y...

They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Nobody better ever ask me again why I don’t just give the Trumps and #maga a chance.

Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard: Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead “It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war" www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

RFK Jr. says he doesn't think people should be taking medical advice from him. A key part of his job as HHS Secretary is to communicate broad public health guidance and recommendations. Who else agrees that if he can't fulfill that responsibility, then he should resign? 🙋‍♀️

$85M in tariff related costs for Illumina

For $5 million, you can buy yourself a pathway to U.S. citizenship! Musk is currently leading the tech rollout of the golden Trump Card Visa, allowing fast-tracked U.S. residency to wealthy buyers. Make way for oligarchs! U.S. citizenship and influence are for sale! www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

🎓 From journalism major to expert in alternative splicing and RNA-binding proteins: a registration mix-up sparked Brenton Graveley’s path to becoming a leader in RNA biology. ⬇️ #RNAExonEditing #TeamAscidian #Biosky

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

An example of the disruption to science caused by the NSF’s 15% overhead dictate: At the University of Washington, all newly awarded NSF grants are now on hold indefinitely with no advance spending allowed.

Check this chart. Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000. This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.

Significant: The Trump administration's policies are disrupting trials at NIH Clinical Center, @jonathanwosen.bsky.social and @jasonmast.bsky.social report. www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/t...

Introducing Ascidian’s Scientific Advisory Board – trailblazers in #RNA biology and gene expression who’ve made groundbreaking contributions in the field of RNA splicing and to research, mentoring and education. Join us in welcoming them 👏 #Biosky ascidian-tx.com/wp-content/u...

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen: NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still: 💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets. 📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

Another mechanism by which the Trump administration is defenestrating American scientific research. Cut grants, cut overhead, freeze funding decisions, gut leadership, raise prices, fund junk science. Making America ignorant.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Science and R&D has traditionally received strong bipartisan support in the US Congress. But the White House is supposedly pushing cuts of 55% (NSF), 44%(NIH), 27% (NOAA), 50% (NASA), 100% (USGS ecosystems). Meanwhile China INCREASED their R&D spending by 8.3%

For many working in this field, decades of scientific advances and public-health progress had put the AIDS endgame within reach. Now Trump has blown up the global fight against AIDS. Can it recover? (3/3) www.nature.com/articles/d41...