🚨🚨🚨🧪 H1B scientists who are traveling outside the USA. Please be aware that current advice is to return to the USA IMMEDIATELY

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

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...

The racial profiling case is the first step in unraveling the civil rights act. That's all.

better things are possible!!!!

our department is seeking to hire an associate professor: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

The NIH Loan Repayment program is ongoing. NIH will repay 25% of eligible education debt, up to a max of $50,000/ yr for individuals qualified by higher degree status and US citizen, national, or resident status. Eligibility, subcategories&application guide/link: grants.nih.gov/funding/fund...

Really excited to get our seminars back up and running. @gracebower.bsky.social is going 1st and if you haven't read her range extender story, you're in for a treat! + @creminslab.bsky.social has the 2nd talk and will tell us about the amazing work happening in her lab!

The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?

sounds bad when you put it this way

1/ New preprint alert! In collaboration between the Rosen, Redding, Collepardo-Guevara & Gerlich labs, we uncover a surprising principle of chromosome organisation: electrostatic repulsion positions centromeres at the chromosome surface during mitosis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social! register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What a line-up! Looking forward to hearing some really cool science!

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

Read this thing and asked, could I have possibly made the colossally trivial statement "The numbers speak for themselves"? Well, yes, I actually did. I'm so quotable. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

Different results than those found in preserved samples www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gloves have risen an insane amount in the past ~5 years. They spiked during covid and then went up from there.

I’ve had a lab for less than 3yrs. In that time the costs of many science reagents have grown faster than inflation. I ordered an antibody today that I paid $383 for in 2023- today with a good promotion, I paid $467. Tariffs on top of that. Other easy examples: Grids are up about 30% Gloves up 25%

Calling all @apsphysiology.bsky.social members: let’s help raise some money to support ABRCMS student presentation awards! Goal is $1200/discipline to support 12 awards by Sept 30th! 🧪 abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Asking my #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social & #Neuroscience @sfn.org colleagues to join me in donating to the ABRCMS conference poster award fund. I am sure there will be 🤩 posters on these topics @ ABRCMS 2025 in Nov, let's make sure there is award $ to recognize their work! abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Have to take a deep breath and remember that I am a grown-up and not an angry toddler. But still, reviewing a paper in your field that directly ignores (aka doesn’t cite) all of your papers despite them being pretty much the only other papers like it can hit hard sometimes : /

We have every signal from the new regime that they plan to both prioritize the merit “” review of NIH grants and meddle with the outcome via regime “priorities”. CSR head fired. NIH advisory panels being reconstituted.

I have NIGMS R35, impact score 12 NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I) and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3. PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25." 😭

im sad i cant use m dashes anymore without being judged

Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so. Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.

Trump says he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. (video: @factpostnews.bsky.social)

My NIA PO said they have “closed the books” on this fiscal year. So my 10% scored Alzheimer’s R01 goes back into the lottery 😭 (I resubmitted it).

If you're still clinging on to the hope that the NIH will somehow return to normal in FY26, I just don't know what to say to you at this point.

This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

this job is not for the faint of heart. but it's a million times worse when you have adhd. 🙃

Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful. Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.

YOU KNOW I went on PubMed as soon as I read this and there are VERY valid reasons why he probably did not get hired anywhere 🫠

LMAO THIS GUY: "This isn’t a political stunt or publicity grab." 🙄

This is great news. But it's only half the battle: Congress has abdicated its power over appropriations by allowing the executive branch to withhold allocated funding, and if they do not exert control to ensure that appropriated funds are actually disbursed, any budget is imaginary.

Heisenberg 1922: I had been firmly convinced that science...was above...political strife...Now I made the sad discovery that men of weak or pathological character can inject their twisted political passions even into scientific life. (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumor cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse. Now, experiments show for the first time these rogue cells can be roused from their slumber by common respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 or the flu.

Lotta things contributing to this but one factor is surely national elites signaling that NYC potentially opening five public grocery stores represents a greater threat to the status quo than the decimation of the NIH

For 10 days, he slept in a chair. The lights were on 24 hrs. He's asthmatic & only has an inhaler he brought with him. He was given water to drink & "concessions" food to eat. His mother is a US citizen who immigrated to the US from Korea when Will was 5. He aged out of automatic citizenship.

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

love to see it /s www.wosu.org/2025-07-29/s...

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

Being a scientist means contemplating the breathtaking mysteries of nature with profound wonder, and asking "Can I get a paper out of this?" 🧪

Substack doesn't just let Nazis turn a profit. Now, it’s promoting Nazi content, swastikas and all. That’s not just a shift in platform policy. It reflects a shift in our broader social landscape.

WSJ story about OMB blocking NIH spending and grant making www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1/n

“[Vought’s] footnote stipulated that the agency’s funding for the remainder of the fiscal year could only go to staff salaries and expenses, not to new grants or certain grants that are up for renewal. Most NIH-funded research is done by outside scientists at labs across the country.” no words

and of course they do this approach q4 when so many grants get awarded. i really have no words fit for print on this

i mean it says it right there in project 2025 they want to sunset federal research. here we go.

For years, we searched for factors which are dysregulated in cancer and regulate development. We now describe elusive roles of DVL, a protein co-opted in #cancer and mutated in congenital disorders thanks to lab members & support from @unclineberger.bsky.social & @unc-phco.bsky.social rdcu.be/ewwsZ