NIH supported more than 407,000 jobs in 2024. Research funding strengthens communities. Join ASBMB in highlighting the value of basic research: www.asbmb.org/advoca.... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

Kate Clowes Moster, of the Chuck Sanders lab, is the winner of the 2026 Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology! bit.ly/2026-karpay @vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

These statements about corruption in science are egregious lies. Kennedy is a tsunami of anti-science propaganda. This isn’t just a moral injury to scientists, it is downright dangerous. It is devastating that the U.S. Senate is permitting this.

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

This isn't a walkout. It's a clap out - a way we have often supported our leaving leaders. Staff are taking admin leave for it. And wow, what an amazing and inspiring show of community support. 💚🥹💚 The US Public Health Service (uniform: service dress blues) will be holding a salute send-off now.

⏰Early Bird and Talk Submission Deadline closing soon - Tuesday 26th August 2025 📣Don’t miss your chance to be part of the amazing #DRRSC26 meeting. 👉 Click here for further details & registration: bit.ly/46YQZjW

2/ How do viruses spread w/o bursting💥 & killing host cells? Awardee @drstarbird.bsky.social aims to discover the mechanisms of an understudied driver of viral spread-which could change the future of virology research! 🍾Congrats Dr. Starbird! @unc-bcbp.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @harmitmalik.bsky.social

I go to bed tonight proud to know how many people are willing to stand up for what’s right — and how few are willing to rally for his hate. Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "

Please join me and thousands of others who have signed this petition in support of the NIH staff who are pushing back. This is one of the pathways that we can fight for what is right. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

I just signed this letter. I encourage everyone to examine for yourself. actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Excited to share our latest preprint by @mihyun-kim.bsky.social showing how DNA incision activities in nucleotide excision are regulated to ensure genomic stability. We show that interactions between TFIIH and XPG control the 5' incision by ERCC1-XPF. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Want to learn about lots of careers at once? Want to network with people in those fields? Registration for ASPIRE's famous Career Symposium is open for one more day!! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-devel...

Join us for the 2nd Macromolecular Conformational Ensembles Conference on June 9th/10th at UCSF. The most compelling questions in structural biology cannot be effectively addressed using only a single structure. conformationalensembles.github.io @fraserlab.bsky.social

Basic science saves lives and fuels the economy, which is why I’m advocating for: ➡️NIH & NSF to spend FY25 funds ➡️$51.3B for NIH, $9.9B in FY26 ➡️Restoration of many canceled NIH & NSF grants Act now. Contact your lawmakers today: asbmb.quorum.us/campaign/123.... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

You hit the nail on the head- the danger of proliferating misconceptions at its finest.

We did a Canada! Conservative opposition party suffers devastating defeat and their leader loses his seat

I was delighted to read these words. Kudos to Harvard for standing up for what's right. I hope this starts a new trend for university's to follow. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Our lab was featured in an NHK-World news story on the impact of science cuts, including how they are trying to change the narrative on DEI. www.linkedin.com/posts/chryst...

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

Excited to share our new preprint presenting mechanistic details of how proteins fold on the ribosome. With co-first author @sammyhschan.bsky.social , @twlodarski.bsky.social , Alkistis Mitropoulou, Lisa Cabrita, and John Christodoulou. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #proteinfolding #compchem #NMR

President Trump has frozen billions of dollars in federal funds in an attempt to rid higher education of what he calls its woke ideology. Our reporter spoke to the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, who has vowed to fight. Listen to "The Daily."

A Playbook for Standing Up to President Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

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.

Meet Areetha D'Souza ... vanderbilt.edu/csb/2025/03/...

It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.

Ça fait bizarre de ne pas avoir "BRUKER" écrit dans le logo. 😮 (oui, c’est une vieille sonde) #nmr #nmrchat @brukercorporation.bsky.social

Yes, like this…assert your principles and hold your ground. Never more proud to be the father of a Georgetown Law Center grad!

Stand Up For Science TN (Nashville) was a success! Thanks to everyone who came out and @campbell4tn.bsky.social and @aftynbehn.bsky.social for coming out and adding their voices to the fight! @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

INBOX: March 7th — NASHVILLE + nationwide #StandUpForScience rallies as Trump & Musk dismantle the federal government while enriching themselves even further with taxpayer money. More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...

Check out our latest preprint on the role of the ribosome in the folding of its nascent polypeptides - an integrative study combining NMR experiments and atomistic simulations! #NMRchat #compchem #CompBio #ribosome #proteinfolding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of ASBMB reminding our Congressional officials of the importance of biomedical research – from breakthroughs to jobs – in all 50 states. Critical to do this, especially now! Scientists, join in! Very easy to send emails to your Senators and House Rep. – asbmb.quorum.us/campaign/108...

Excellent session ... and love the former grad student-former postdoc-current faculty Vanderbilt connection! Something to value and build upon.

And here we are again, now with Vivian!

Wow, thanks for the highlight @sbgrid.bsky.social and KeAndreya! #nuclearreceptors

I am happy to leave that 'now out of control thing' and join Bluesky for my limited social media presence. Anxious to see how this goes.