🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

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Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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Interested in postdoc opportunities in Seattle, WA? Join us May 6th for Seattle DROP, a virtual event about biomedical research in Seattle. Hear from recruiting faculty, finding the right mentor and enjoy lunch on us via a delivery voucher within the US!

Registration: tinyurl.com/seattledrop25

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A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize the current moment for an everyday reader.
Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact.

Come and work with us - 2 Graduate Research Assistant positions available in genomic medicine, with a particular focus on variant interpretation and data analysis. Part of the Wellcome-funded PARADIGM project, and based in beautiful Exeter UK! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📣Study sections re-scheduled!
The study section that was supposed to review my grant in Feb (that did not meet because of Federal Register Blackout) has been rescheduled to April!
Fingers crossed it will actually get reviewed 🤞
#newPI #ESI #NIH #grants #studysection

Taking a cue from @cantlonlab.bsky.social, I have written an op-ed for my local newspaper about the impact of the NIH funding chaos. I'd appreciate it if you read and share. #NIH #Research #Science #Worcester

www.telegram.com/story/opinio...

My colleague and friend, Silvia Bunge, a developmental neuroscience professor at UC Berkeley, created these fantastic signs for Friday’s rally. Sharing them here in case they inspire others to make their own! @standupforscience.bsky.social‬
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠

www.science.org/content/arti...

Interrupting your doom scrolling to share some wonderful news...

I have officially been promoted to Associate Professor!

Thank you to all the wonderful mentors and colleagues who have supported me to achieve this, especially
@statgendan.bsky.social and my cohort of Mothers Leading Science!

The White House has ground NIH operations to a halt.

E.g., the NHLBI’s CCHS study section, which evaluates large patient-oriented cardiovascular research proposals, was cancelled at the last minute this week.

This is bad for science, scientists, patients/the public, and the economy.

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4