Man, I just read a quote from Carrie Fisher that's going to be burned into my brain forever. "Things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards."

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Would you like to know more about how to stand up for vision research / NIH funding? This is a fantastic resource to help you broaden your knowledge and get involved. www.seewhatmatters.org

Happy to share our collaborative work showing a switch in integrin signaling in young versus old primary human trabecular meshwork cells. a5 integrin expression is lost in old cells, while avb5 becomes activated. iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Senate hearing on the FY26 NIH budget with Jay Bhattacharya June 10, 10am ET www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

Happy Friday 😄 #fluorescencefriday

Includes bladeless LASIK surgery. #fundNIH #fundNSF

This is a great idea. There are going to be many brilliant brains let go.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

I need to get more eyeball themed clothing for next year's conference! (although these will be hard to beat👀 #ARVO2025

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I came home today and sat out in the yard listening to the birds sing, while the woodpecker was hammering away. A great destressor!

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

These are my thoughts entirely

The vultures are circling (I feel very fortunate that this is the view from my office window).

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

I heard about bloom scrolling, so here you go 🌱🌼

Tis the day for opinion pieces! This one in eLife by my favorite person who is not on bluesky, Nick Gilpin at LSU. Here he lays out why NIH is a great investment for taxpayers. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Happy to share our latest study investigating fibrosis gene expression in glaucoma cells. Several fibrotic biomarkers are elevated, but you should check out the size of their focal adhesions. Mightily impressive!!

There’s an HHS official database for all the grants they are canceling..they wouldn’t want you to miss all their “efficiency” and “savings” 🫠 taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

NASA capsule was lowered using 4 giant Tunnocks tea cake wrappers!

Currently watching the live NASA feed of the space capsule undocking from the ISS🛰️. After an unexpected 9 months there, I'm sure Suni and Butch are looking forward to being back on Earth. 🌍

Almost 100k papers have been published in the last year with NIH funding. These are the top 200 most frequent title words from 10k of them. Disrupting NIH will cause incalculable harm to US citizens 🧪

Yay: Most postponed study sections have been rescheduled at this point. Yikes: To do this, CSR has scheduled *289* study sections from 03/24-05/16/2025. For comparison, there were only 96 study sections from 3/24-5/17/2024. And NIH still plans to RIF more staff. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Skies cleared just in time for a cool lunar eclipse. Blood moon. (taken with my phone in my backyard).

NIH is the epitome of government efficiency - turning tax $ into real wealth.

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

NIH announces that it will move all grant reviews to Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and terminate about half of its review staff. This comes as there is already a building backlog from cancelled review meetings and layoffs. "We're already massively behind schedule," a review officer tells me.

This checks out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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@mcuban.bsky.social Could you invest in the NIH too? It's being decimated. NIH returns approx $5 for every $1 invested.

... and right at March cycle of R01 submissions. By coincidence?🤔

We all know that Elon and his tech bros are part of the problem. So how about asking our Governor to cut electricity of data centers in our state to a cap of 15% "to ensure taxpayer dollars are used in ways that benefit the American people and improve their quality of life"

It's a war on academia. OHSU provides healthcare for so many Oregonians, but this will cripple our Institution. Scientific research is crucial so we can understand diseases and find treatments and cures.

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WOW - great artwork!👁️‍🗨️

Send in manuscript for review. We answer the concerns. Two reviewers accept, 1 reviewer = minor - you must mention normal tension glaucoma (this manuscript studies normal cells, not glaucoma). Rebut. Now the editor reviewed and we're back at 'major' stage. WTF. Utter BS.

This is just awful for researchers and I'm sure it's just the start of how he intends to dismantle academia.

Three countries eliminated trachoma. This news is a huge win and shows how public health initiatives work. Hope that 2025 has some more successes.

As a parent of teenagers, this was very informative for me. Its easy to jump on the 'myth' bandwagon and perpetuate what you already believe. But this article summarizes the research, both pro and cons. As always, it's complex but it helps me re-evaluate my somewhat naive positions.

If you are lucky enough to have health insurance, then they will stick you for every penny so that the insurance agencies can make billions in profit. Time to cut out the middle man.

Gift link for those who want/need it: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

I love woodpeckers! This one is a frequent visitor to the suet hanging outside my living room window.

More NIH double talk about diversity appears in the AREA / R15 FOA drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2024/11/21/m...

A big day of output for the Human Cell Atlas, a global collaborative project with 100 countries to understand our ~37 trillion cells A Wikipedia of our cells, a "remarkable achievement" nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/immersive/d4...

Reposting to remind myself to read this one. (Is there no bookmark function on bluesky? )

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Mt. Hood playing peekaboo