Anand Ray
@anandray.bsky.social
Lab on olfactory behavior, neurobiology, machine learning, gene expression, epigenetics etc and serial entrepreneur ...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."
E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.
nyti.ms
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."
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Flybase is like the encyclopedia of everything for fly researchers. Extremely worried about how things will proceed....
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Flybase is like the encyclopedia of everything for fly researchers. Extremely worried about how things will proceed....
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FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations
The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social
Oh gosh ....
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Oh gosh ....
Bye bye Muskwagon - Hello Ioniq .... (if you are considering a switch, added bonus: charges faster, and handles curves better)
March 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Bye bye Muskwagon - Hello Ioniq .... (if you are considering a switch, added bonus: charges faster, and handles curves better)
Lying scumbag
Elon Musk has made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs in recent weeks. Here’s a fact-check.
Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending
The world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lying scumbag
How can journal editors send back crappy revisions that are >100 pages long with 25 pages of rebuttal??? Just start using F...ing AI to pre-screen.
Such a waste of effort.
Such a waste of effort.
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How can journal editors send back crappy revisions that are >100 pages long with 25 pages of rebuttal??? Just start using F...ing AI to pre-screen.
Such a waste of effort.
Such a waste of effort.
Jim Corbett wrote of his experiences hunting that a wounded man eating tiger was far more dangerous. Biden & Garland's fumbling created this wounded man eater who is destroying everything precious. In 2020, there was 1 overwhelming responsibility, democracy and they failed miserably 🤬.
March 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Jim Corbett wrote of his experiences hunting that a wounded man eating tiger was far more dangerous. Biden & Garland's fumbling created this wounded man eater who is destroying everything precious. In 2020, there was 1 overwhelming responsibility, democracy and they failed miserably 🤬.
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In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
news.harvard.edu
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there.
Trump Officials Warn 60 Colleges of Possible Antisemitism Penalties
The administration’s warning came just after it pulled hundreds of millions of dollars from Columbia University.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there.
news.ucr.edu/articles/202... Press release about 2 exciting NIH projects to develop next generation mosquito interventions to protect entire homes/patios. Previous support led to a startup Sensorygen and a safe natural repellent currently in EPA for home pests & mosquitoes. (tax $ at work!)
Enhancing mosquito repellent effectiveness
Two NIH grants to UC Riverside support a machine learning approach to identify insect repellents
news.ucr.edu
March 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
news.ucr.edu/articles/202... Press release about 2 exciting NIH projects to develop next generation mosquito interventions to protect entire homes/patios. Previous support led to a startup Sensorygen and a safe natural repellent currently in EPA for home pests & mosquitoes. (tax $ at work!)
How about a March in Riverside ? @ucrsom.bsky.social
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How about a March in Riverside ? @ucrsom.bsky.social
DOGE = Destruction of Our Government by Elon ........................(copied from FB)
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
DOGE = Destruction of Our Government by Elon ........................(copied from FB)
PASS IT ON
“The 24 hour Economic Blackout"
- Posted by Jon Stewart
WHEN:
Friday February 28th from
12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store:
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere!
Do not spend money on Food & Gas;
Do not use cards
“The 24 hour Economic Blackout"
- Posted by Jon Stewart
WHEN:
Friday February 28th from
12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store:
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere!
Do not spend money on Food & Gas;
Do not use cards
February 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
PASS IT ON
“The 24 hour Economic Blackout"
- Posted by Jon Stewart
WHEN:
Friday February 28th from
12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store:
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere!
Do not spend money on Food & Gas;
Do not use cards
“The 24 hour Economic Blackout"
- Posted by Jon Stewart
WHEN:
Friday February 28th from
12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store:
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere!
Do not spend money on Food & Gas;
Do not use cards
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
No more AirBNB
time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
February 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
No more AirBNB
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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
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So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So how’s it going so far?
Preprint of our honey bee paper out in ELIfe elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Machine learning of honey bee olfactory behavior identifies repellent odorants in free flying bees in the field
elifesciences.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Preprint of our honey bee paper out in ELIfe elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...