Rita Tamayo
@ritatamayo.bsky.social
Professor of Microbiology, C. difficile pathogenesis, Latina in Science, parent of 2, she/her. Views are my own.
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For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
July 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Exciting work from my new colleague @jakechoby.bsky.social!
Excited to share the work with @dweisslab.bsky.social and great collaborators on how gene amplification generates dynamic heteroresistance to new beta-lactams, like cefiderocol. We hope drug developers will consider heteroresistance during antibiotic development rdcu.be/euijW
Copy number flexibility facilitates heteroresistance to increasing antibiotic pressure and threatens the beta-lactam pipeline
Nature Communications - Choby et al. show that dynamic increases in the copy number of preexisting β-lactamase genes in heteroresistance enables resistance of continua of cellular...
rdcu.be
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Exciting work from my new colleague @jakechoby.bsky.social!
Evening at Missy Lane's, Durham, NC
June 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Evening at Missy Lane's, Durham, NC
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This NY Times podcast discusses 1,700 NIH grants that were cancelled mid-stream. They largely fell into two categories: (a) studies of underrepresented populations (e.g., black women, gay men); and (b) studies by researchers from underrepresented groups.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...
Breaking Down the Massive Cuts to Science Funding
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This NY Times podcast discusses 1,700 NIH grants that were cancelled mid-stream. They largely fell into two categories: (a) studies of underrepresented populations (e.g., black women, gay men); and (b) studies by researchers from underrepresented groups.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...
New review article from the lab!
"Maximizing bacterial survival: integrating sense-and-respond and bet-hedging mechanisms": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by PhD student Nicole Gadda & former-PhD student from the Cotter lab Lilli Lowrey
Access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHuj_,2Ci...
"Maximizing bacterial survival: integrating sense-and-respond and bet-hedging mechanisms": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by PhD student Nicole Gadda & former-PhD student from the Cotter lab Lilli Lowrey
Access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHuj_,2Ci...
June 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New review article from the lab!
"Maximizing bacterial survival: integrating sense-and-respond and bet-hedging mechanisms": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by PhD student Nicole Gadda & former-PhD student from the Cotter lab Lilli Lowrey
Access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHuj_,2Ci...
"Maximizing bacterial survival: integrating sense-and-respond and bet-hedging mechanisms": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by PhD student Nicole Gadda & former-PhD student from the Cotter lab Lilli Lowrey
Access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHuj_,2Ci...
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Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial priority pathogen
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
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...
1/n
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...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
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...
1/n
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...
1/n
Inspiring as always @peiferlabunc.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Inspiring as always @peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Setting up for printing at #standupforscience, Raleigh courtesy of @biovarg.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Setting up for printing at #standupforscience, Raleigh courtesy of @biovarg.bsky.social
BV study section rescheduled for mid-April, posted on the Federal Register yesterday
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BV study section rescheduled for mid-April, posted on the Federal Register yesterday
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Super duper. What could go wrong?
NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.
March 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Super duper. What could go wrong?
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Join us today, in Raleigh NC and around the nation, as we remind our communities what science brings to the nation--solutions to our toughest challenges, new cures for disease and good jobs that pay a living wage
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience2025.org
March 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Join us today, in Raleigh NC and around the nation, as we remind our communities what science brings to the nation--solutions to our toughest challenges, new cures for disease and good jobs that pay a living wage
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience2025.org
Good company makes evening work better
February 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Good company makes evening work better
We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...
February 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...
Bacterial Virulence study section was cancelled this morning. The email was sent 2 hours before the meeting start time. I feel terrible for the investigators 😡
February 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Bacterial Virulence study section was cancelled this morning. The email was sent 2 hours before the meeting start time. I feel terrible for the investigators 😡
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February 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Exactly 👇
I just received the first strongly worded email from my leaders indicating they would fight this most recent change to IDCs. All I hear was that it wasn’t worth fighting for when it was about trainees, early career scientists, and POC. Heard loud and clear.
Thoughts for the US scientific community drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/02/07/t...
February 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Exactly 👇
So.... Will there finally be pushback from universities? We know people and science don't matter to them, but this is an enormous hit to their bottom line.
Flat 15% indirect costs across all grants (notes this will work because only 3 places - MIT, UMich, UAB - ever REFUSED a grant for lower than expected previous indirects). Impacts of this cut will presumably destroy research - current indirects are ~50%+
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
So.... Will there finally be pushback from universities? We know people and science don't matter to them, but this is an enormous hit to their bottom line.
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⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
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If institutions are not going to use their multi-billion dollar endowments to protect us, then I agree with the GOP, tax them to hell. What the fuck are they there for?
February 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If institutions are not going to use their multi-billion dollar endowments to protect us, then I agree with the GOP, tax them to hell. What the fuck are they there for?
Teacher agrees (in September) to write my high school senior a recommendation letter for college apps. Says they'll write it over the break. Teacher has a chronic illness and has been out for two weeks. Teacher cannot be reached (unfortunate but understandable). Application deadline is January 1.
December 21, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Teacher agrees (in September) to write my high school senior a recommendation letter for college apps. Says they'll write it over the break. Teacher has a chronic illness and has been out for two weeks. Teacher cannot be reached (unfortunate but understandable). Application deadline is January 1.
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Bacterial ncRNAs influence various cellular functions & have complex 3ry structures. @tinalence.bsky.social @ffaberlab.bsky.social &co show that the #ncRNA ModT is conserved in 2,500 bacterial spp and regulates growth transition & sporulation in #Cdifficile via c-di-GMP #PLOSBiology plos.io/4iIpgYm
December 18, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Bacterial ncRNAs influence various cellular functions & have complex 3ry structures. @tinalence.bsky.social @ffaberlab.bsky.social &co show that the #ncRNA ModT is conserved in 2,500 bacterial spp and regulates growth transition & sporulation in #Cdifficile via c-di-GMP #PLOSBiology plos.io/4iIpgYm