Big week! Paper accepted AND I've received pilot funding from the @caseccc.bsky.social for some really exciting work! Here are my success chain pictures!

And taught me to ask questions, answer questions, and present data both orally and written, skills that I now try to pass on. All my best wishes to Jon on his retirement. I'll always remember how he could show up to a seminar 10 minutes late and ask a great question one minute later.

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender." The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.

Big congratulations to my graduate mentor on his retirement! Jon is a classic academic, and I got the best training there. In my mind, the Cooper lab will exist at the Hutch forever.

My R01 was just assigned to a study section! (Not the one I asked for, but who can be picky right now?) And it finally has an ID number. I'm going to choose to look at this as progress.

Wow. Cancelled that subscription immediately.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Research funded by NIH is the foundation for these advances -- contact your Congress person to support continued funding for science. 🧪

Cell Painting is the new Cell Press journal, right?

Yes! These saved me so many times in grad school. If only they were cheaper - would be such a great gift for the lab white elephant.

Still can't give a talk sitting down 😂

FAK inhibition suppresses breast cancer progression via DNA methylation-mediated DAB2 gene reactivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624992v1

Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.

Research funded by NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023 [a total of $92.9 billion] www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...