How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

It was a big week in the lab, with two PhD defenses!

Congrats to two new Doctors!
Dr. Karen Peralta Martinez and Dr. Elizabeth Rudzki
@karenyperalta.bsky.social
@zoomingbio.bsky.social
✨🧬🏛️🧐🎉

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

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

Excited to share this newly published work by graduate student @karenyperalta.bsky.social !
🐿️💩🧫🦠🧬

Reviving diversity: cryoprotectants and culturing methods enhance recovery of mammalian gut microbes from field samples

academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...

Coming soon to J. of Mammalogy!!
"Reviving diversity: cryoprotectants and culturing methods enhance recovery of mammalian gut microbes from field samples" 🐿️🦠🎉

Presents an immense amount of culturing and sequencing work by @karenyperalta.bsky.social to optimize methods for the #microbiome field

well, I’ve finally made the switch, so here I am 🙃 I’m a fish biologist, doing ecophysiology, aquatic tracking (everything telemetry) and lots of other stuff. From salmon to hawkfish to eel to tuna to sharks 🐟 passionate about conservation of aquatic ecosystems 🌊 🤍