Are you finished with the proposal?
I've been... busy.
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Are you finished with the proposal?
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My quote of the day
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My quote of the day
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
The expression “making time” is strange. Time cannot be manufactured. It can only taken from one thing and given to other.
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The expression “making time” is strange. Time cannot be manufactured. It can only taken from one thing and given to other.
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Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
Ok. Didn’t know that was a thing. But I don’t judge.
October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ok. Didn’t know that was a thing. But I don’t judge.
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Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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Today is the last day to submit public comments on Schedule F, which is essentially designed to politicize the Civil Service. Here is the letter that I just submitted:
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today is the last day to submit public comments on Schedule F, which is essentially designed to politicize the Civil Service. Here is the letter that I just submitted:
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If universities do not unite on this, we will all fall. The entire country will suffer.
They will not stop at Harvard and Columbia. They are coming for ALL of higher education. Every single center of higher education will be targeted.
This is what authoritarians do. Again, and again, and again.
They will not stop at Harvard and Columbia. They are coming for ALL of higher education. Every single center of higher education will be targeted.
This is what authoritarians do. Again, and again, and again.
CNN story updated with specifics:
"the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.
A White House official said Friday afternoon that no final decision had been made on the cuts."
"the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.
A White House official said Friday afternoon that no final decision had been made on the cuts."
Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
www.cnn.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If universities do not unite on this, we will all fall. The entire country will suffer.
They will not stop at Harvard and Columbia. They are coming for ALL of higher education. Every single center of higher education will be targeted.
This is what authoritarians do. Again, and again, and again.
They will not stop at Harvard and Columbia. They are coming for ALL of higher education. Every single center of higher education will be targeted.
This is what authoritarians do. Again, and again, and again.
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From hundreds of terminated grants in biomedicine to selective prosecutions to organizational overhauls at the nation's science funding agencies, today's news reports salvo after salvo from a Republican administration dead set on destroying higher education—and with it, US leadership in technology.
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From hundreds of terminated grants in biomedicine to selective prosecutions to organizational overhauls at the nation's science funding agencies, today's news reports salvo after salvo from a Republican administration dead set on destroying higher education—and with it, US leadership in technology.
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All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
May 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
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FROM @reuters.com: The Trump administration has said addressing autism is one of its top health priorities. Records show it has also halted about a quarter of NIH's research funding related to autism.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
FROM @reuters.com: The Trump administration has said addressing autism is one of its top health priorities. Records show it has also halted about a quarter of NIH's research funding related to autism.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts
Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.
www.wbur.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
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"The future of biomedical research [amounts to] a race to see whether the biomedical research community can mobilize politically, access that vast but latent political power, before the White House can do enough sustained damage to make the whole question moot." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"The future of biomedical research [amounts to] a race to see whether the biomedical research community can mobilize politically, access that vast but latent political power, before the White House can do enough sustained damage to make the whole question moot." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A scientific Boston massacre.
May 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A scientific Boston massacre.
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A lipid nanoparticle–delivered base-editing therapy was custom designed for an infant with a ureacycle disorder. The affected infant was treated at approximately 7 and 8 months of age. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/42XF03F
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM
Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received
a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with
an estimated 50% mortality ...
nej.md
May 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A lipid nanoparticle–delivered base-editing therapy was custom designed for an infant with a ureacycle disorder. The affected infant was treated at approximately 7 and 8 months of age. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/42XF03F
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
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At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
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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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I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
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I never imagined I would see something like this happen to federally funded research in the US. I am heartbroken for all the researchers whose grants have been terminated and devastated for all the patients whose current (and future) treatments are being impacted 🧪 💔
Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...
Harvard Medical School
view.u.hms.harvard.edu
May 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I never imagined I would see something like this happen to federally funded research in the US. I am heartbroken for all the researchers whose grants have been terminated and devastated for all the patients whose current (and future) treatments are being impacted 🧪 💔
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Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...
Harvard Medical School
view.u.hms.harvard.edu
May 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...
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Slow grant making continues. Here is a graph through May 1st.
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May 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Slow grant making continues. Here is a graph through May 1st.
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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
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Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday.
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
NIH_since_1_20_25
jeremymberg.github.io
March 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday.
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...