Updated data from NIH Reporter on awards to Yale during the month of February. It's an improvement from the prior information, but still at ~40% last year on a per $ basis. Still only non-competitive renewals and no GM grants. Last year 11/61 were new. BUT - it is reassuring info for active grants.

It is important at this pivotal moment to @standupforscience.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on why this should be a national priority at tomorrow’s rally in SF:

When the CRG's Vivek Malhotra first identified a handful of protein-coding genes called TANGO in 2006, he had no idea that one of them, TANGO2, would eventually be linked to a life-threatening disorder in children. His team has continued to study the protein since.

This is awful. The language is so dystopian. I really want to wake up from this nightmare.
Instead this is my motivation to get back to work this morning and keep fighting.

In one week! Join us in Hartford to Stand Up for Science! Schedule and speaker line up to come soon. Excited for a Science Story Slam!

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Hey - please help save jobs and lives!
Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk!

Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.

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Die neue US-Administration schränkt die #Forschungsfreiheit ein – Förderanträge werden nicht geprüft, Mittel eingefroren. Das betrifft auch viele unserer Partner. Umso wichtiger ist es, den transatlantischen Austausch zu stärken. Gespräch im @spiegel.de u.a. dazu (€): www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.

More information to come.

A useful tool and a great thing to do...

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Here they describe, much more eloquently than I, why what HHMI did is so problematic. “Anticipatory obedience” is the term. I have benefited from HHMI funding and policies, but for that same reason must say: hard to be aspire to be leader of scientific culture, values and excellence while this.

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.

Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes

Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

This is catastrophic for US research universities as it ignores the real cost of doing research. The US academic-gov’t partnership forged post-WWII is the greatest creator of knowledge in history and is critical to US economic and technological competitiveness.

New year, new Science Speaks #interview. I had the great honor talking to Prof. @juliavonblume.bsky.social. Her team studies protein trafficking and sorting at the Golgi apparatus at the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University.

www.science-speaks.com/julia-von-bl...

Excited to share our latest findings on how the phosphoinositide PI4P pool at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) is regulated through a SYS1-ARFRP1-ARL5-ARMH3-PI4KB pathway, in which ARMH3 (also known as C10orf76) acts as an ARL5 effector to activate PI4KB. rdcu.be/d1dZ2

Great opportunity for postdocs interested in molecular neuroscience/ biochemistry to study presynapse formation in human neurons funded by the ERC (see www.leibniz-fmp.de/haucke; Rizalar et al Haucke (2023) Science). We are a certified green lab. Apply now to haucke@fmp-berlin.de before 5 Dec 2024.

Considering a PhD in molecular biology?
There’s still time to apply to join the LMB in October 2024.
Applications close on 3rd DEC.
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Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career.

Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers!
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