Torsten Wittmann
@microtubule.bsky.social
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🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
Meet Paul Maddox
Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....
www.maddoxforcongress.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
Playing around with how to represent volume in #Snouty light sheet data. Here is a dividing hiPSC with endogenously tagged histone in all three orthogonal projections. Bluer is further away. If anything, it distracts from politics.
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Playing around with how to represent volume in #Snouty light sheet data. Here is a dividing hiPSC with endogenously tagged histone in all three orthogonal projections. Bluer is further away. If anything, it distracts from politics.
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'Innovation does not occur in a vacuum. It requires raw materials: the findings of basic research. We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it.'
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up | EMBO reports
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October 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'Innovation does not occur in a vacuum. It requires raw materials: the findings of basic research. We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it.'
Some first raw (not deskewed) data of live human induced pluripotent stem cells from #Snouty now ready for some serious live imaging. Light sheet moving at a 38-degree angle through the cell layer; coverslip is on the bottom.
August 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Some first raw (not deskewed) data of live human induced pluripotent stem cells from #Snouty now ready for some serious live imaging. Light sheet moving at a 38-degree angle through the cell layer; coverslip is on the bottom.
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I’m heartened to see this.
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
August 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m heartened to see this.
Finally having some time to play with ‘Snouty’ again. Thanks a million once more @tanner-fadero.bsky.social and @amsikking.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Finally having some time to play with ‘Snouty’ again. Thanks a million once more @tanner-fadero.bsky.social and @amsikking.bsky.social
Vaccine samples from the 1880s in Louis Pasteur’s laboratory in Arbois … Vaccines work!
July 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Vaccine samples from the 1880s in Louis Pasteur’s laboratory in Arbois … Vaccines work!
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Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
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March 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
Got stentor … thanks @wallaceucsf.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Got stentor … thanks @wallaceucsf.bsky.social
At the North Bay Science Discovery Day today in Santa Rosa
March 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
At the North Bay Science Discovery Day today in Santa Rosa
Crowd is forming in SF #standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Crowd is forming in SF #standupforscience
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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 2:04 AM
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
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“The idea is that the public has the right to know who’s giving advice to the federal government and when they’re meeting,” said Jeremy Berg, a genetic scientist who has overseen NIH funding in the past.
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[I am a genetic scientist in the sense that I have genes, but I am a biochemist]
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[I am a genetic scientist in the sense that I have genes, but I am a biochemist]
February 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“The idea is that the public has the right to know who’s giving advice to the federal government and when they’re meeting,” said Jeremy Berg, a genetic scientist who has overseen NIH funding in the past.
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[I am a genetic scientist in the sense that I have genes, but I am a biochemist]
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[I am a genetic scientist in the sense that I have genes, but I am a biochemist]
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Myths vs. Facts regarding federal cuts to f&a (indirect) costs on NIH grants...
🧪 medsky 🛟😷 sociology idsky
ucop.edu/communicatio...
🧪 medsky 🛟😷 sociology idsky
ucop.edu/communicatio...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Myths vs. Facts regarding federal cuts to f&a (indirect) costs on NIH grants...
🧪 medsky 🛟😷 sociology idsky
ucop.edu/communicatio...
🧪 medsky 🛟😷 sociology idsky
ucop.edu/communicatio...
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I can’t believe this is happening: grants awarded by the NIH cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of a hold on submissions to the Federal Register, where such public notices about upcoming meetings are required by law to be posted
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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February 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I can’t believe this is happening: grants awarded by the NIH cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of a hold on submissions to the Federal Register, where such public notices about upcoming meetings are required by law to be posted
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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"At NIH, offices involved in reviewing and administering grants to researchers outside the agency, such as at universities and medical centers, were hit hard, one staffer with knowledge of the situation said." www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Health agencies lose staff members in key areas as Trump firings set in
As the dust settles from the first wave of firings at health agencies, here's how many people got cut and the impact of the roles that were lost.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"At NIH, offices involved in reviewing and administering grants to researchers outside the agency, such as at universities and medical centers, were hit hard, one staffer with knowledge of the situation said." www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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No! Only study sections already announced in the federal register have resumed. Nothing has been posted by the NIH to the federal register since Jan 21.
I am finding it wild how many professors don't know this. Please spread this info to your Universities!
I am finding it wild how many professors don't know this. Please spread this info to your Universities!
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
No! Only study sections already announced in the federal register have resumed. Nothing has been posted by the NIH to the federal register since Jan 21.
I am finding it wild how many professors don't know this. Please spread this info to your Universities!
I am finding it wild how many professors don't know this. Please spread this info to your Universities!
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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Internal NIH guidance updated yesterday. Just canceling stuff each day from here on out I guess, pending new guidance. Killing science off both slowly and incredibly rapidly.
February 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Internal NIH guidance updated yesterday. Just canceling stuff each day from here on out I guess, pending new guidance. Killing science off both slowly and incredibly rapidly.
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For those who aren't biologists: This is a biosafety cabinet. Every biomedical research lab in the country has one or more of these bio safety cabinets. They use air flow to protect cells from contamination by bacteria and fungal spores while you are working with them.
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
For those who aren't biologists: This is a biosafety cabinet. Every biomedical research lab in the country has one or more of these bio safety cabinets. They use air flow to protect cells from contamination by bacteria and fungal spores while you are working with them.
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