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#GenomeBiology manuscript: submitted Oct. 2024; over 10 reviewers contacted, 1 accepted
#NIHLRP application: submitted Nov. 2024; has been "Pending IRG Review" since Dec. 2024
Defunding science (& particularly #NIH) is MAJORLY impacting early-career researchers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#NIHLRP application: submitted Nov. 2024; has been "Pending IRG Review" since Dec. 2024
Defunding science (& particularly #NIH) is MAJORLY impacting early-career researchers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#GenomeBiology manuscript: submitted Oct. 2024; over 10 reviewers contacted, 1 accepted
#NIHLRP application: submitted Nov. 2024; has been "Pending IRG Review" since Dec. 2024
Defunding science (& particularly #NIH) is MAJORLY impacting early-career researchers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#NIHLRP application: submitted Nov. 2024; has been "Pending IRG Review" since Dec. 2024
Defunding science (& particularly #NIH) is MAJORLY impacting early-career researchers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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If you write grant proposals in the US, you might want to give this a look.
boingboing.net/2025/07/01/f...
boingboing.net/2025/07/01/f...
Free tool helps dodge grant rejections as federal censorship expands
ScanAssist, an open-source tool developed by Dr. Sean Mullen, helps grant writers avoid the Trump administration's censored words.
boingboing.net
July 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you write grant proposals in the US, you might want to give this a look.
boingboing.net/2025/07/01/f...
boingboing.net/2025/07/01/f...
Anyone hear any updates re: #NIHLRP awards? First time applicant over here, who's application status has been listed as "Pending IRG Review" since December 🥲
June 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Anyone hear any updates re: #NIHLRP awards? First time applicant over here, who's application status has been listed as "Pending IRG Review" since December 🥲
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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
www.importantcontext.news
June 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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I know this all comes from the authoritarianism playbook - "they come for the intellectuals and the universities" - but y'all we are less than 6 months in. LESS THAN 6 MONTHS IN. the destruction on all fronts (academe and far beyond) has been so swift.
May 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I know this all comes from the authoritarianism playbook - "they come for the intellectuals and the universities" - but y'all we are less than 6 months in. LESS THAN 6 MONTHS IN. the destruction on all fronts (academe and far beyond) has been so swift.
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We are here now.
“It was clear that if we held a meeting in the US we might not get enough people to register. We wanted to make sure that we [attracted partcipants] from many different parts of the world because that makes the best meeting and…the best science.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“It was clear that if we held a meeting in the US we might not get enough people to register. We wanted to make sure that we [attracted partcipants] from many different parts of the world because that makes the best meeting and…the best science.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are here now.
“It was clear that if we held a meeting in the US we might not get enough people to register. We wanted to make sure that we [attracted partcipants] from many different parts of the world because that makes the best meeting and…the best science.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“It was clear that if we held a meeting in the US we might not get enough people to register. We wanted to make sure that we [attracted partcipants] from many different parts of the world because that makes the best meeting and…the best science.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
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This is self-sabotage. I’ll say the quiet part out loud - training international students has always been a mechanism to retain the best and brightest so they produce knowledge and innovation in the U.S instead of at their home nations. Denying yourself that advantage is dumb.
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
www.forbes.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is self-sabotage. I’ll say the quiet part out loud - training international students has always been a mechanism to retain the best and brightest so they produce knowledge and innovation in the U.S instead of at their home nations. Denying yourself that advantage is dumb.
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Sleep loss is a metabolic disorder
"This review describes how sleep deprivation increases resting energy expenditure, leading to the development of a negative energy balance in highly active cells like neurons."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"This review describes how sleep deprivation increases resting energy expenditure, leading to the development of a negative energy balance in highly active cells like neurons."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sleep loss is a metabolic disorder
Sleep deprivation shifts metabolic resources and deprioritizes processes that support cognition.
www.science.org
May 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sleep loss is a metabolic disorder
"This review describes how sleep deprivation increases resting energy expenditure, leading to the development of a negative energy balance in highly active cells like neurons."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"This review describes how sleep deprivation increases resting energy expenditure, leading to the development of a negative energy balance in highly active cells like neurons."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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My latest @nature.com story shares the human stories behind the massive job loss and brain drain facing US science.
The quote I still can't get past: "We want to offer scientific asylum to our colleagues,” said Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University in France.
The quote I still can't get past: "We want to offer scientific asylum to our colleagues,” said Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University in France.
#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My latest @nature.com story shares the human stories behind the massive job loss and brain drain facing US science.
The quote I still can't get past: "We want to offer scientific asylum to our colleagues,” said Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University in France.
The quote I still can't get past: "We want to offer scientific asylum to our colleagues,” said Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University in France.
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Videos show Palestinians at north Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital evacuating their injured relatives on hospital beds, as Israel continues its attacks on the besieged enclave.
May 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Videos show Palestinians at north Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital evacuating their injured relatives on hospital beds, as Israel continues its attacks on the besieged enclave.
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From the archive. How did ancient humans cope with the cold? www.sapiens.org/biology/huma...
How Ancient Humans Came to Cope With the Cold
Two anthropologists explain how humans managed to dominate northern climates despite their biological predispositions to warmer environments.
www.sapiens.org
May 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From the archive. How did ancient humans cope with the cold? www.sapiens.org/biology/huma...
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My ongoing request:
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My ongoing request:
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
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As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives: The most extensive research on Medicaid coverage to date found that it reduced the risk of death by 21 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...
As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives: The most extensive research on Medicaid coverage to date found that it reduced the risk of death by 21 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...
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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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A Republican overhaul would reduce borrowers' repayments options from several plans to just two.
The future of student loan repayment, explained
A Republican overhaul would reduce borrowers' repayments options from several plans to just two.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A Republican overhaul would reduce borrowers' repayments options from several plans to just two.
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Scientists with consistent NIH funding produce more innovative work. A study of 642 grantees (1985–2021) found that those with renewed grants published more novel research. Stable support is good!
Something you might want to tell your congresspeople.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Something you might want to tell your congresspeople.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Renewal of NIH grants linked to more innovative results, study finds
Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Scientists with consistent NIH funding produce more innovative work. A study of 642 grantees (1985–2021) found that those with renewed grants published more novel research. Stable support is good!
Something you might want to tell your congresspeople.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Something you might want to tell your congresspeople.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):