Christal Sohl
@thesohllab.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Biochem @SDSU, NIH MARC PI, enzymologist/structural & cancer biologist, fighter for diverse access to STEM, enjoys cookies
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Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
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The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures.
Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.
This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.
This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures.
Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.
This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.
This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
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A retired colleague and a younger cousin are joining me in this, so this campaign has cross generational appeal. RFKJ is a quack spreading deadly misinformation about vaccines and other public health issues. He is completely unqualified to lead HHS. #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A retired colleague and a younger cousin are joining me in this, so this campaign has cross generational appeal. RFKJ is a quack spreading deadly misinformation about vaccines and other public health issues. He is completely unqualified to lead HHS. #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
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This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion
Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, was ...
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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The lede was buried.
May 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The lede was buried.
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RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year.
That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday!
Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...
RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year.
That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday!
Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...
How Vaccines are Developed and Approved for Use
Learn how vaccines are developed and approved for use.
www.cdc.gov
May 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year.
That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday!
Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...
RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year.
That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday!
Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...
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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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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...
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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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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
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HAPPY TAX DAY!
How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits.
🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS.
Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay
How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits.
🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS.
Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
HAPPY TAX DAY!
How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits.
🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS.
Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay
How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits.
🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS.
Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay
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Trump admin pulled Princeton's grants, citing their NOAA-funded research "suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration"
Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates
With billions in grants put on hold, targeted universities will see research crippled.
arstechnica.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trump admin pulled Princeton's grants, citing their NOAA-funded research "suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration"
🚨New paper alert!🚨J Biol Chem
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
We have a long-standing interest in the many mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in cancer patients -- many alterations @ residue have been reported (eg R132H/C/G/S/L), all able to make the tumor-driving oncometabolite D2HG (1/6)
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
We have a long-standing interest in the many mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in cancer patients -- many alterations @ residue have been reported (eg R132H/C/G/S/L), all able to make the tumor-driving oncometabolite D2HG (1/6)
Catalytically distinct metabolic enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutants tune phenotype severity in tumor models
Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) impart a neomorphic reaction that produces
D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D2HG), which can inhibit DNA demethylases to drive tumorigenesis.
Mutations affect resid...
www.jbc.org
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
🚨New paper alert!🚨J Biol Chem
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
We have a long-standing interest in the many mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in cancer patients -- many alterations @ residue have been reported (eg R132H/C/G/S/L), all able to make the tumor-driving oncometabolite D2HG (1/6)
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
We have a long-standing interest in the many mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in cancer patients -- many alterations @ residue have been reported (eg R132H/C/G/S/L), all able to make the tumor-driving oncometabolite D2HG (1/6)
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@sandiegostate.bsky.social Professor Eunha Hoh and her lab are featured in Out of Plain Sight, a documentary based on the LA Times investigation into the environmental crisis of offshore DDT dumping.
Watch the debut at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on April 25: sdaff.org/spring2025/m...
Watch the debut at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on April 25: sdaff.org/spring2025/m...
April 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@sandiegostate.bsky.social Professor Eunha Hoh and her lab are featured in Out of Plain Sight, a documentary based on the LA Times investigation into the environmental crisis of offshore DDT dumping.
Watch the debut at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on April 25: sdaff.org/spring2025/m...
Watch the debut at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on April 25: sdaff.org/spring2025/m...
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Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
April 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Grant cancelled? 👇
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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March 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Grant cancelled? 👇
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If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
March 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
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Adding CBC News to my daily reading
(which includes The Guardian, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mourning the loss of my lifelong standbys, now sane-washing a rapid slide into autocracy
RIP Washington Post, NYT, LA Times
(which includes The Guardian, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mourning the loss of my lifelong standbys, now sane-washing a rapid slide into autocracy
RIP Washington Post, NYT, LA Times
March 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Adding CBC News to my daily reading
(which includes The Guardian, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mourning the loss of my lifelong standbys, now sane-washing a rapid slide into autocracy
RIP Washington Post, NYT, LA Times
(which includes The Guardian, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mourning the loss of my lifelong standbys, now sane-washing a rapid slide into autocracy
RIP Washington Post, NYT, LA Times
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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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We will keep fighting and standing up for science.
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We will keep fighting and standing up for science.
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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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