Daniel Gorelick
@danielgorelick.bsky.social
Science is real
gorelicklab.org
Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
gorelicklab.org
Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
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Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5):
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5):
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
A second reflection from my recent trip to India 🧵
January 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM
A second reflection from my recent trip to India 🧵
Scientific talent is global. Our systems don’t always act like it. 🧵
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Scientific talent is global. Our systems don’t always act like it. 🧵
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In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 AM
In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!
The enshittification* of scientific publishing 🧵
*when a high-quality system degrades as profit takes priority. Yes, this unfortunately applies to academic publishing
*when a high-quality system degrades as profit takes priority. Yes, this unfortunately applies to academic publishing
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The enshittification* of scientific publishing 🧵
*when a high-quality system degrades as profit takes priority. Yes, this unfortunately applies to academic publishing
*when a high-quality system degrades as profit takes priority. Yes, this unfortunately applies to academic publishing
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I am still tracking the detentions of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents
If you know something or want to share your story, please get in touch
✉️[email protected]
Signal: nicolefoy.27
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
If you know something or want to share your story, please get in touch
✉️[email protected]
Signal: nicolefoy.27
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I am still tracking the detentions of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents
If you know something or want to share your story, please get in touch
✉️[email protected]
Signal: nicolefoy.27
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
If you know something or want to share your story, please get in touch
✉️[email protected]
Signal: nicolefoy.27
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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So the statement "When you see Development on the CV of an applicant, you know it's high-quality, trustworthy work" represents a different view from, say, eLife. Because when you see "eLife" on a CV, you know you have to read the peer reviews to see if it is high-quality, trustworthy work... 3/n
January 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
So the statement "When you see Development on the CV of an applicant, you know it's high-quality, trustworthy work" represents a different view from, say, eLife. Because when you see "eLife" on a CV, you know you have to read the peer reviews to see if it is high-quality, trustworthy work... 3/n
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100% this. Funders AND research institutes shouldn't mandate where to publish. But their policies can & SHOULD discourage wasteful use of money on publishing in journals with meaningless peer review.
This can be implemented many ways: bans, limits to APC spend in journals of X, Y, or Z type, etc...
This can be implemented many ways: bans, limits to APC spend in journals of X, Y, or Z type, etc...
Should funders mandate where grantees can publish?
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
December 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
100% this. Funders AND research institutes shouldn't mandate where to publish. But their policies can & SHOULD discourage wasteful use of money on publishing in journals with meaningless peer review.
This can be implemented many ways: bans, limits to APC spend in journals of X, Y, or Z type, etc...
This can be implemented many ways: bans, limits to APC spend in journals of X, Y, or Z type, etc...
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ending the year with kindness from a stranger. I didn't have my ID to buy flu medicine for my son. Woman near me offered to buy it for me. "How can I repay you?" I asked... "Just be a good human" she replied. Done. Will pay this forward always.
January 1, 2026 at 12:55 AM
ending the year with kindness from a stranger. I didn't have my ID to buy flu medicine for my son. Woman near me offered to buy it for me. "How can I repay you?" I asked... "Just be a good human" she replied. Done. Will pay this forward always.
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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made a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
made a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence
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Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n
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Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is?
1024 x 768
1024 x 768
January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Should funders mandate where grantees can publish?
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Should funders mandate where grantees can publish?
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
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Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
journals.plos.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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The story is based on data presented at the NHLBI Advisory Council meeting.
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The story is based on data presented at the NHLBI Advisory Council meeting.
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
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On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Shocking absolutely nobody, NIH is having problems finding competent & experienced scientists to fill institute director positions. When you elect a clown, you get a circus. I trained to run a research group, not a circus
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Shocking absolutely nobody, NIH is having problems finding competent & experienced scientists to fill institute director positions. When you elect a clown, you get a circus. I trained to run a research group, not a circus
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Why do people publish in shoddy journals?
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Why do people publish in shoddy journals?
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
Become a Summer Intern in DCEG
DCEG offers a summer research internship in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics fo college, postbaccalaureate masters-level students, and graduate students, including medical and dental st...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
Finally someone understands!
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Finally someone understands!