How do you feel about having paid about $1,000 in Trump tariffs over the past year?

It’s not a banned word list. It’s just a list of words that if they are in a grant’s abstract it won’t be funded… big difference.

I have had to do this now with 4 clients since spring 2025. Less so lately, because we have learned and now we just automatically take those words out of these documents (you know, bad words like "female" and "women" and "health equity")

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website

'The relationship between quack medicine and right-wing extremism has a long history (...) extremists have been marketing medical snake oil, and snake oil purveyors have been financially supporting extremism, since the days when misinformation had to be disseminated through paper newsletters.'

Science is under attack in America and needs you to fight back for it. Fuel the fight for science by visiting standupforscience.net/donate Thank you! #science #RFKJr #ImpeachRFKJr #RemoveRFKJr #standupforscience

Great regional conference for virologist in the southeast. Abstract due next week.

“Success in US science has come from sustained funding and welcoming the best talent from around the world, yet both of these advantages are in decline” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

With continued uncertainty over federal government support for biomedical research, PhD students are struggling to find labs willing to take on new students, @jonathanwosen.bsky.social reports. New students are the future of US science. www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/f...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited about parasites? Love watching movies? Come join our Wellcome-funded project! Parasitology friends, please do share far and wide.

If this pisses you off…I’ve got something for you to do: attend a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th!! To learn more, volunteer, or host a rally in your town head to: standupforscience.net/march7 Turn your outrage into action with us! #standupforscience

Now out in Nature! We visualize infection of the RNA virus RSV in real-time with single-vRNP resolution to understand how RSV establishes viral factories, biomolecular condensates that act as sites of viral replication. A huge collaborative effort led by Dhanushika Ratnayake! rdcu.be/e1bBW

If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown. It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.

We are losing scientists from the government at an unprecedented rate - some were fired, but many more were forced out through trauma and fear. www.science.org/content/arti...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

First evidence in Europe of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a dairy cow. Antibodies against H5N1 detected in a cow with mastitis and respiratory signs on a Dutch dairy farm at the end of December. A cat on that farm had died from H5N1. www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do...

Confusion about the "multiyear" awards being reported differently across articles. Below, is the actual language ~ the NIH is allowed to fund multiyear awards in FY26 up to a max of the FY25 level. That's a problem - multiyear awards were the reason why 25% fewer grants were awarded in FY25.

The NIH's MYF policy in 2025 resulted in 4000 fewer grants and fellowships that touched every area of biology and medicine; continuing it in 2026 would be disastrous for science, technology and health in the United States 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Really excited our paper about how H5N1 rapidly adapted to cattle (and how these adaptations also increased its ability to infect cells from the human respiratory tract) is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool new work from Steve’s lab!

Trump’s rhetoric and threats towards Greenland are extremely dangerous. Republicans must stand with us to block this insanity.

@markpoloncarz.bsky.social A valued member of the scientific community right here in Buffalo is being held by ICE. Can you help? What can we do to help you?

The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.

With the loss of published paylines it will be harder to quantify changes in grant funding rates for 2026, but this analysis makes clear that paylines will go down substantially across the NIH.

That we're in a place, at a time, when someone has to write this headline, this article — it's almost unfathomable. Please do read @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social's take. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

The scientific (bureaucratic) uncertainty over what constitutes gain of function research is going to stymie important research into pathogens, just as the US & Canada are poised for a dramatic resurgence of infectious diseases thanks to the ‘wisdom’ of non-scientists who have abandoned reason.

Oh the irony of having to take a training course on conflict of interest in order to apply for a government grant.

STAT story about new childhood vaccine recommendations www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c... 1/3

As things at the Kennedy Center continue to devolve, I'm thinking of Guster's protest while performing there earlier this year as a bright spot for resistance.

Last weekend #USDA announced that Wisconsin had detected #H5N1 #birdflu in a dairy cow herd. Today the agency revealed that genetic analysis of virus from the herd shows this event was the result of a new spillover from "wildlife." www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

🧵 Thread on our new @natcomms.nature.com paper: TLDR -- ADP-ribosylation inhibits viral replication and represents a previously under-appreciated arm of innate immunity during flu infection. Read along for the details…. (1/11) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unfortunately the drop in ESI funding rates is not paired with changes in funding required to get tenure. It’s not just the next three years of our labs at risk, but the rest of our careers. We are also the cohort that started in the COVID pandemic- it’s been nothing but “unprecedented times”…

Sharing this here at the request of Dr. Florian Krammer: semmelweisinstitute.ac.at/training-car...

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

This is terrible news for the future of veterinary research. The world class introduction to research I received whilst a vet student at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk cannot be replicated elsewhere in the UK www.vettimes.com/news/vets/we...

Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a... by @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social via @statnews.com #HHS #FDA #CDC #publichealth #vaccines #science #MedSky

#VaccinesWork 🧪

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

Anyone at Harvard need a super well-trained undergrad next semester? Cell culture, molecular bio, microscopy and data analysis. Very careful and rigorous. Good lab citizen. Ready to jump in and learn/get some data! Has light course load, so plenty of time for research! Let me know of any leads!

Tarrifs are taxes. I know this because I just had to pay UPS $43.24 on a package from France that originally cost $169. That's an extra 25% (and it would have been an extra $12 if I didn't pay the tax in the 90 minutes between getting the bill by email and the package being delivered).

Are you fascinated by viruses? Would you like to design your own original research project in the UK's largest virology centre? Why not come and do a PhD @cvrinfo.bsky.social - application deadline 6th Jan 2026 (1/1): www.findaphd.com/phds/program...