The NIH moving to only allowing 6 total applications per year will have a disproportionate effect on marginalized scientists.

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.

Wow

I agree with EVERY SINGLE ONE of these rules. I came to most of them on my own because I never had any mentorship for my mentorship. And despite being published in PLOS Comp Bio, they apply to EVERY undergraduate and masters student project.

Marching and protesting is great but real action is even better. If you can afford it, find and donate to a local food pantry in your area. The families that depend on SNAP benefits could really use the support over coming weeks to months.❤️🫂 give.feedingamerica.org/SnP--N8F9EuA...

Hey guys... this is serious please go and opt out NOW!

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Please give feedback. I know I'm considering the new NIH mandate that open access has to be immediately available, meaning that grantees are footing open access bills at journals to meet the mandate. That can mean $5-$12K a paper of taxpayers money.

No, no, this is all wrong. The quote is actually supposed to be "let them eat cake". Apropos of nothing, Happy Bastille day to all those who celebrate.

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

$123,536,510 of federally appropriated funding has been stolen from Virginia schools

On just one Friday the Supreme Court brought my citizenship into question and the Trump administration gutted my employer and possibly threaten my career. I could only write about one of those things. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

In the fallout of James Ryan resigning from UVA, @sivav.bsky.social provides a clear argument of what higher ed is facing & why capitulation will not save you. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

thank you, @sivav.bsky.social, for putting a lot of what I’m furious about in plain language. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

So happy to see this work is out and I hope it helps people find their best lab fit!

Charlottesville is turning into an e-bike city! Great article from @nathanalderman.bsky.social on the @cvillecityhall.bsky.social e-bike voucher program, which is one piece of the city’s efforts to create a better transportation system. c-ville.com/citys-e-bike...

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect. We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

This is devastating for American science, health, technology, and the economy.

We updated the reporting form today to clarify that we're also collecting info on "stop-work orders, unexpected non-renewals, or effective termination through updated notice of award." grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

“The results revealed that researchers who received renewals without a funding gap were less likely to switch research topics and investigate a wide array of subjects than were those in the control group, and they produced papers featuring newer or more unconventional combinations of ideas”

I heard the new pope is a math major. So that means he understands both sin and sin^-1 right?

It has been scientifically shown that all dogs can engage an anchor mode by which their effective weight is quadruple their normal weight.

For Charlottesville peeps, MAGA-endorsing businesses include Charlottesville Tire and Auto, First Free Coffee, The Gym, Start 2 Finish nutrition, and several contractors and photographers.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Update: I have been able to confirm grants worth ~$6M were terminated but think the total may be as high as $94M. If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.

John Oliver's new segment on trans people in sports is pretty good. On content I give it like 7 or 8 out of 10, but you should def go watch it. It's so surreal seeing a high production quality media team actually do some research and treating trans people as human youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0?...

If Pete Hegseth had even a tiny bit of honor and sense of responsibility, then he would hand in his resignation this morning.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

As a person and president, Trump is always about being the greatest. I'm in complete agreement with him on that. We're heading not just a big recession, but the BIGGEST RECESSION It won't just be a Great Depression, but the GREATEST DEPRESSION Go big or go home, I guess...

One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.

If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

Both are excellent op-eds. If they were published in the Washington Post, I would become a subscriber!

A few days ago I estimated canceling an NIH study section wastes ~$5M worth of time and effort. NIH Center for Scientific Review has >175 study sections. That’s ~$875M wasted if no grants are funded this cycle. No CSR meeting has been added to the Federal Register since January 17.

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

This piece is excellent. Republicans have abandoned democracy and they are paving the way for authoritarianism. "He now dominates the Republican Party, which, purged of its anti-Trump forces, now acquiesces to his authoritarian behavior."

So many people are hoping that if they comply a little bit now, they will be in a position to resist big later, but that's not how it works You comply a little bit now and they move the goal posts and you comply a little bit more and they move the goal posts and eventually 10+ million people die

But, they’ll keep the pubmed id on slides thing right??? Because not prestige signaling as their lasting legacy is paradigm shifting after all

Hey Elon👋🏽 Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That's legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you're breaking them to steal American's sensitive data. PS. This video is manipulated, and I wasn't even at the event shown.