Loved having (almost) the whole lab in attendance at the #CancerNeuro26 meeting in Houston last week! Such a great meeting full of catching up with friends and building new collaborations! Big thanks to Wiley’s #AdvancedPortfolio for continuing to support the #cancerneuroscience field.

Arrest them.

📢Publication out now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !! CGRP signaling links tumor-associated pain to immune evasion in oral squamous cell carcinoma Highlights ⬇️ #cancerneurobiology #research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out my latest piece in @hechingerreport.org ! First of many as an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

1/ Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!! www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Cancer-induced Nerve Injury Unveils a Sympathetic-to-Sensory Nerve Axis in Head and Neck Cancer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677339v1

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

📢Happy to announce the Scheff lab's contribution to this important exploration of #neurobiology of #cancer, out now in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! Thanks to @andremartel.bsky.social!

Cancer #pain isn't just a symptom, it can influence survival. Our new commentary in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social explores the idea that choosing the right analgesic could improve tumor immunity. Thanks to my co-authors for their support with this piece! #cancerneuroscience www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Katalin Kariko won the Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccine technology. She is certain that RFK Jr is endangering public health by killing $500 million in mRNA research www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

“Bhattacharya’s trick, one well-known by all the billionaires that have supported him over the years, is to ask for freedom of speech for speech he likes, while ignoring free speech principles when others are persecuted for speech he doesn’t like. DEI is a good example.”

A new NIH mandate, announced last week, would get rid of funding opportunities that use animal research exclusively; neuroscientists worry this is premature. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

I finally made it through this @hubermanlab.com podcast with Jay Bhattacharya. It took a while because it’s 4(!!) hours long and I had to take multiple breaks for deep breathing. (Not gonna lie, I played it at 1.25 speed.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... Some reactions… 🧵 1/8

“The bill’s fate in the Senate, however, remains unclear. A cohort of Republicans have aired qualms with some of the provisions in the measure — namely cuts to public broadcasting — prompting questions about whether the package will ever make it” So call your Senators rn!!!!!

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...