”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature. The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct" This should terrify every single scientist in America.

The perils of HbA1c for diabetes detection www.wired.com/story/diabet...

Today’s xkcd cartoon… xkcd.com/3081

NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

Just pushed an update to Healthicons.org with great new icons from our volunteer illustrators. New icons include: - Dry eyes - Autoimmune disease - CPAP - Social determinants of health - Tumor - Cell tissue - FHIR2 - IV drip and lots more!

WashU is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes & Related Metabolic Diseases (T32 DK007120). If you are eligible for T32 support (need to be a US citizen or permanent resident) and are interested in working with stem cell-derived islets, please contact me!

Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine. @franceinfo.fr

www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... “The total includ[es] $5 billion to pay for biotech research that industry was unlikely to pursue on its own.” As anyone in biotech or pharma will tell you, their talent, targets, and drugs critically depend on NIH funded basic, translational, and clinical research.

Columbia Penn Harvard Princeton Brown and now Cornell and Northwestern www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

26% des chercheurs français aux Etats-Unis remettent en cause leur expatriation. Mon passage sur @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

#StandUpForScience Article in French. A French scientist going to a meeting in Houston was denied entry and kicked back to France because *on his phone*, he had exchanged messages with colleagues criticizing the actions of the Trump administration on Research: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

@elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪

Shipments out. Supporting 20 research projects across Canada, North America, Europe and Asia. We have room for more. Give us a shout if you need islets, pancreas, intestine, adipose…. for research. https://www.bcell.org/faqs.html

One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

“We’re actually going to kill people is what it amounts to” new piece in AP on NIH funding cuts and grant review delays…lil’ quote from yours truly in there too 😊 apnews.com/article/trum...

Does anyone know if in the few study sections that managed to meet in early-mid Feb, were reviewers instructed to consider or ignore SABV as a score-driving criterion?

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq

Read Tom Maniatis’s commentary on the dire consequences of slashing indirect costs to 15% and sign the petition. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... chng.it/Yzkjx5gFbd

#DefendResearch www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#DefendResearch www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I've been feeling a bit like Cassandra lately. Evidently, I'm not the only worrier. Will They Come for PubMed Next? — Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource by Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH, MS February 26, 2025 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #medlibs

The NIH intramural program is a unparalleled in both its ability to do bleeding edge science and train the next generation of scientists. Not renewing Title 42 employees is hellacious. www.science.org/content/arti...

Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A little informal conversation from me about GLP-1-based therapies. medschool.umich.edu/department-n...

This story has everything: a mom who found an NIH-funded team at @uofmichigan.bsky.social's children's hospital whose work helped her entire family, an emeritus prof explaining in plain language how NIH funding works & @sbagen.bsky.social explaining #healthpolicy: www.freep.com/story/news/h...

New paper alert!! Thread from recent PhD graduate Jamie Chu

NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

Major U.S. health agencies, including the NIH and the CDC, are firing thousands of probationary employees this afternoon. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:

NIH awards have quite literally flatlined since the change in administration. Council meetings, where the decisions on which grants to fund are made, are being canceled daily. No meetings, no decisions, no grants. The freeze is most definitely on, folks.

32 minutes to cook the perfect boiled egg… www.nature.com/articles/s44... I suspect they might get a Darwin award for this one :-)

We did a thing! Our first human islet isolation at Michigan by @cortig.bsky.social in partnership with our wonderful friends in the Alberta IsletCore @bcellorg.bsky.social. Excited for this to be the first of many to support diabetes research! 🤩