I am a PI and I have R01s. I pay graduate students from these R01s. T32s do not *just* pay graduate student salaries. They provide a training program with research seminars, journal clubs, formal mentorship in a specific topic area that can't be recapitulated in a single PIs research group.

Training grants are critical to developing the next generation of scientists. I have been supported by training grants. These current graduate students and postdoctoral trainees have lost their training program environment and salary support. This is horrible.

🧬🧠📈🟦 I was poking around on the Wayback Machine (@waybackmachine.bsky.social) to determine whether NCBI content was backed up there.

Using my own publicly-released gene expression data as a litmus test, it appears that the pages describing the datasets are backed up, but the data itself is not.

Speaking of which -
🧬🦠🧠🥼📈🟦 Bioinformatics and Open Science folks:

Has anyone heard of efforts to mirror or back up NCBI?

NCBI doesn't seem to be under fire yet, but there are many datasets on NCBI that include variables like gender and race...

@openbio.bsky.social @iscb.bsky.social @cos.io

I wondered the phone line had so much static when I called!