This rule allows your taxpayer dollars to be spent in secret, by political appointees & disregards the independent scientific judgement of experts. It will will rob you and your loved ones of future cures and unimagined discoveries, and leave the country unprepared for the challenges we face.

Apply to be a NIH PO. Open application portal, closes June 5th. www.usajobs.gov/job/870714000

One week left to apply for two 3-year postdocs in the lab on molecular mechanisms of Burkholderia pathogenesis. Posts associated with Magdalen College. Our lab is based in the Dunn School of Pathology with amazing collaborators at Oxford and MORU magdalencareers.pinpointhq.com/postings/c90...

Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Here a clear instructions on how to write a good comment about how you would be personally harmed by the new OMB rule that would drastically reshape American science. Comments from people at any career stage are valuable! Members of the public too!

Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents. As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.

If you wish to submit a public comment on this, you can do so at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM.... Public comments regarding the legality of the rule, how arbitrary and capricious the changes are, negative impacts on cities and states, etc can be used as evidence in subsequent lawsuits.

🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 16 @ 3pm ET. Faculty in US and Canada are eligible to apply Grant Amount: $505,000 over five years More information here: buff.ly/mBR4XST #bwfpath

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

Our NIH-funded research - including as part of CREID - developed, deployed, and established capacity for many of the core tools and countermeasures used during outbreaks. Diagnostics, sequencing, monoclonals and vaccines. As we're facing a new foe with none of those, all that work, defunded. Gone.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

1/5 Cell identity is written in the proteome, not in the DNA, and not always in the RNA. Out on bioRxiv today: The first cell type-resolved, MS-based proteomic atlas of the human body. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This sounds like an important job: "STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science… This is a new role at STAT.”

So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

At the start of ur research career funding can make or break it. You use it to run experiments, hire ppl, and share findings. @elizabethginexi.bsky.social and I wrote about 5 programs that support early career researchers. New awards fell 20% from FY24- 25 www.notbeinggreen.com/p/politics-h...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Evangelical Republicans - pro-life words. Federal scientists - pro-life actions.

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

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“It’s not too late to restore funding to cancer research and save thousands of children’s lives. What else is the point of all this wealth and technology that our country has amassed, if not to put it to work saving the lives of little boys like Rakan?” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Starting my lab in 2021 it feels like its been nothing but unprecedented times, but this news is one of the most fantastic things I've ever heard!! It couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you to the members of my lab (past and present) and all those who supported me from near and far ❤️

This post is not about average Americans being at risk from the Andes Hantavirus. It’s about how ideology from current CDC leadership has finally become acquainted with reality. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Absolutely extraordinary work from Hui Gao, John Briggs and co @mpibiochem.bsky.social on the structure of the influenza matrix protein in situ, particularly in filamentous virions. It's beautiful, and answers questions I've been wondering about for twenty years www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We just had our second -80 freezer failure in four years... On a Friday evening of course. All samples transferred safely, thanks to the amazing dedication of my team. Eppendorf CryoCube is disappointing in every possible way - it's neither a cube, nor does it stay cold.

Scoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Those of you submitting for the May 27th NIGMS MIRA deadline, are we supposed to or not supposed to include a myBibliography link in the Biosketch? The regular directions say No but the MIRA NOFO (PAR-26-121) says Yes. Which is it? Don't want this bounced for this reason.

Excited to announce that we are moving the lab to Minneapolis to join the University of Minnesota Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute on Infectious Diseases this summer!! We will be hiring so please reach out if interested in viral evolution, viral immunology, etc.!!

ASV is eager to assist early-career virologists who have lost their research funding but would like to attend #ASV2026 in Minneapolis. Please see more details here: asv.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...

The administration says they are prioritising early career scientists, but throttling new awards disproportionally affects trainees (who need fellowships in a time sensitive manner) and new faculty who need their first grant for tenure.

R. Chris Skinner et al. (@uvmvermont.bsky.social) explore the impact of a Western diet and binge drinking on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in male and female mice 📖 buff.ly/dZE2v8Z

‘Influenza A virus NS1 sequesters RNA:DNA hybrids to evade RNase H1-dependent innate immunity' - a project from Florence Kwaschik, who defends her PhD in a few months, is now preprinted. Thank-you to co-authors Ian Pichler, José Ruiz, Verena Kufner & Michael Huber. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Even if ivermectin did all those things (which it doesn't), hantaviruses don't replicate in the nucleus. We do actually need drugs that work against hantaviruses, but for that we need federal grants to support that research.

🚨New paper!🚨 Our study showing that H5N1 influenza viruses can remain infectious in unpasteurised milk for, basically, as long as you are likely to encounter that milk has now been published: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Still time to apply for one of three joint virology PhDs @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social, including one with myself and the fantastic @peacockflu.bsky.social! Informal enquiries welcome by e-mail (including re the primary location of ours, which is negotiable), deadline 8th May

this 2-3 year reporting fellowship for the paper in Martha's Vineyard (comes with a furnished 2-bedroom guesthouse!) looks like it ruuuules vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle...

I am traveling today to Shanghai representing @plosbiology.org for some exciting site visits followed by the #CSHA on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense which has an amazing program with two of our Academic Editors 💙 If you are in the area and want to chat, feel free to reach out!

Hanta virus is not nice at all. Hope the other people ill or not yet with symptoms ok

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Do you have a passion for communications and engagement? Do you think viruses are cool? We are recruiting maternity cover for our Comms and Engagement Lead here @cvrinfo.bsky.social, the largest virus research centre in the UK. Hybrid working options, generous salary, great people. Please share!

I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! [email protected]

I don’t know how to feel about grant rejections anymore. When you get a score that would have been funded at any other point in history, except right now, how bad can you feel? I see scores from friends and colleagues (and my own) and it just breaks my heart more than anything.

New opportunity for PhD fellowships at interface of ecology & evolution from the Simons Foundation. Application deadline June 30, 2026. My interpretation is that this applies to prospective PhD students & those accepted/not yet matriculated. Full details: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Let’s see how this goes over: