Michael Sesma
@ms878.bsky.social
Neuroscientist | Educator | Retired Federal Bureaucrat | Politico | Lover of Food Art Music Sports | Husband Father Grandfather FamilyGuy | Opinions are mine
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The unofficial final weekend of the summer will feature widespread cooler than average temperatures across the United States.
Here’s a look at various cities and the outlook for the holiday weekend:
Here’s a look at various cities and the outlook for the holiday weekend:
Here’s where it will feel like fall — and where summer holds on — for Labor Day weekend
Traveling for Labor Day? Here’s a city-by-city forecast for various cities going into and through the holiday weekend.
wapo.st
August 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The unofficial final weekend of the summer will feature widespread cooler than average temperatures across the United States.
Here’s a look at various cities and the outlook for the holiday weekend:
Here’s a look at various cities and the outlook for the holiday weekend:
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Here are the Durbin and Murray clips rolled together youtu.be/UYq-sni57Xc
Jay Bhattacharya's testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee
YouTube video by Hypoautonomic
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here are the Durbin and Murray clips rolled together youtu.be/UYq-sni57Xc
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Today’s NIH Bulletin is not fucking around lol
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today’s NIH Bulletin is not fucking around lol
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So basically, when you write - think about reviewers. Make sure it is super easy to navigate your grant, easy to find things, & that you make a compelling and strong argument in your abstract and aims - not just in longer sections. Abstract & aims should be able to stand alone.
December 1, 2024 at 7:25 AM
So basically, when you write - think about reviewers. Make sure it is super easy to navigate your grant, easy to find things, & that you make a compelling and strong argument in your abstract and aims - not just in longer sections. Abstract & aims should be able to stand alone.
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Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare.
Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.
Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl
Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.
Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl
Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
sph.yale.edu
June 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare.
Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.
Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl
Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.
Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl
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What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)?
You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success”
❌ NOPE!!!
1-3%
because 80% of the budget is for existing grants
New science? Starved
Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢
#FundingScienceSavesLives
You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success”
❌ NOPE!!!
1-3%
because 80% of the budget is for existing grants
New science? Starved
Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢
#FundingScienceSavesLives
June 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)?
You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success”
❌ NOPE!!!
1-3%
because 80% of the budget is for existing grants
New science? Starved
Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢
#FundingScienceSavesLives
You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success”
❌ NOPE!!!
1-3%
because 80% of the budget is for existing grants
New science? Starved
Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢
#FundingScienceSavesLives
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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
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with respect to all, I am done with questions
SEC HHS lied to Congress about his intentions
He has taken unprecedented action to remove bona fide experts and replace them with unvetted and unqualified stooges
The AMA (a tortoise-like organization) insists he resign
Happy to cosign that Rx
SEC HHS lied to Congress about his intentions
He has taken unprecedented action to remove bona fide experts and replace them with unvetted and unqualified stooges
The AMA (a tortoise-like organization) insists he resign
Happy to cosign that Rx
June 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
with respect to all, I am done with questions
SEC HHS lied to Congress about his intentions
He has taken unprecedented action to remove bona fide experts and replace them with unvetted and unqualified stooges
The AMA (a tortoise-like organization) insists he resign
Happy to cosign that Rx
SEC HHS lied to Congress about his intentions
He has taken unprecedented action to remove bona fide experts and replace them with unvetted and unqualified stooges
The AMA (a tortoise-like organization) insists he resign
Happy to cosign that Rx
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🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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New resource regarding terminated grants
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
New resource regarding terminated grants
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The National Cancer Institute has disbanded its Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of experts that played a vital role in shaping the future of U.S. cancer research. Here’s why that matters. 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The National Cancer Institute has disbanded its Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of experts that played a vital role in shaping the future of U.S. cancer research. Here’s why that matters. 🧵
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He said / Xi said…nothing.
April 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
He said / Xi said…nothing.
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Yessss, Pete!!
Buttigieg Explains What He Wants 'Everyday Life' To Look Like For Americans In Pitch Perfect Rant
Yes, Pete!
www.comicsands.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yessss, Pete!!
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So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants.
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
April 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants.
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
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#NIA at #NIH alerts you that the small business program is accepting applications until September 5. Registration can take up to 6 weeks, so start early. #geronsky #sciencesky #agingresearch #ADRD #smallbusiness
NIA Small Business Programs (SBIR & STTR)
Non-dilutive Funding for Healthy Aging InnovationsConnect With UsEmail the NIA Small Business Programs to determine whether your research project is a good fit for NIA.Join our mailing list and follow...
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April 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#NIA at #NIH alerts you that the small business program is accepting applications until September 5. Registration can take up to 6 weeks, so start early. #geronsky #sciencesky #agingresearch #ADRD #smallbusiness
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This is some funny shit. Bleak, but funny.
Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
April 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is some funny shit. Bleak, but funny.
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My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy
Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information
christinapagel.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
April 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
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BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
April 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
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I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
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@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪
It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend
It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend
Sharing Stories of Science through Letters to the Editor
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites scientists and experts to a science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts o...
secure.ucs.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪
It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend
It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend
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There’s some truth here.
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There’s some truth here.
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'