Adorable of me to think that Dept Chair things would slow down after commencement and I'd be able to get back to grant writing.

Did pottery painting with the lab this afternoon, can’t wait to see what this will look like after it’s fired.

I found 777 grants with title changes. Here is a word cloud of the words that had been removed. 2/5

SHAFT

For your consideration: these deviled eggs secret ingredient this year was a dash of MSG 😎

New Data Management and Sharing Plan format required for NIH grants submitted after May 25, 2026 (so for EI MIRAs due May 27, 2026) 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants-proce... grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

Reminiscing about our time in NY, discovering just how good cocktails could be at Milk & Honey. Left: a Paper Plane adaptation made with orange juice bc we were out of lemons. Works great since Nonino & Aperol both have orangey notes Right: a Queens Park Swizzle, one of the true M&H originals!

POV you’re in the platform party. Happy graduation to all who celebrate!

Down 70% (!!!) from the before times. We've plateaued and it's only April. So, so many labs will close this year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

Many of us have actually lost the struggle already. My lab is closing in June, and I'm not the only one. By far.

This interpretation is exactly right.

“A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year” 😢

yeah i bet a car would have won too

The story includes a funding curve graph showing the delay in making new and competitive renewal grants. 2/8

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Big highlight this week was the end of the year party for my lab. Potluck lunch, field day games, and handmade superlative awards for our graduating seniors. I have such an amazing team!

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Big "Concepts of a plan" energy

So excited to see this out Jeremiah - it's a really important piece of work for the field. And these reconstructions are mind-blowing and absolutely beautiful. Locus coeurleus is just - amazing 💙.

If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

I am hearing from several sources that NIH will be doing the bulk of multi-year grant funding later in the year Apparently the goal (presumably from OMB) is that NIH should hit the max legally allowed amount (the same as last year) which was intended as a cap not as a goal Vought with this plan...

Knowing there are people out there like Anthony from "Company Retreat" gives me the tiniest bit of hope that we dumb humans might actually get through this.

If this upsets you (& it should), contact your SRO copy your comments to [email protected], call your congress reps, and DEFINITELY provide feedback on this & other concerns about the NIH Strategic Plan through the Federal Register! Link on this page: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Have you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

“The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding...

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

I get asked pretty regularly when traveling to give talks where I think we are with SABV. As a policy it seems to be safe for now, but the scrubbing of NIH websites mostly remains, and scientists have fewer resources to help them navigate their own experimental decisions. undark.org/2026/03/30/s...

My lab made a “pin the blazer on Becca” game 😅

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

#NoKings Boston where thousands came to say no to Trump and a second time no to monarchy! Let’s go!

drop shadow on the yellow text is a signal of deep thinking grounded in history

The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”

I hate it here.

It's rare that you get "started" and "going" in the same screenshot

Welp, another "we like you, we just don't LIKE like you" score from study section. I know everything is horrible for everyone right now, but feeling my career be yanked away from me for a second time is really, really hard.

I did some smaller versions of the physics ink paintings. They need to dry for a while, stay tuned #sciart

I need to find an opportunity to use this line

good news though (sarcasm), in advance of the NIH hearing in the house today, OMB yesterday opened up NIH money. Not only do we have to pass laws twice to get Russell Vought to follow the law, apparently now we need a big public event to stop each one of their cases of law breaking

It is absolutely insane to me that Travelodge did not have “don’t give strange men room keys to women’s rooms without consent” as a policy until just now 🤬🤬

NIH/NSF funding is, for all intents and purposes, frozen again. This somehow almost feels worse than last year. They are running out the clock on biomedical science and all PIs can do is scramble to finish projects before our resources dry up. www.science.org/content/arti...

A 42% loss in mental health research and a 52% loss in Alzheimer's and aging. This government wants us stupid, sad, and afraid.

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

Please read this thread. It may feel like things have gotten somewhat back to normal at NIH, but they are most definitely not. American labs are still deeply under existential threat.

A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine. Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.