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Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

Exclusive: Four institute directors at NIH and another top agency official who have been in professional limbo since being placed on administrative leave in the spring have now been fired, ScienceInsider has learned. https://scim.ag/4nIyF3S

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

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Science Magazine @science.org · 8d

Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8

"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for
nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

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Science Magazine @science.org · 9d

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

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Meagan Phelan @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social · 21d

During #PeerReviewWeek, @science.org
heard from individual authors who talked about how peer review strengthened their work, making it functionally richer, more accessible, more pointed regarding limitations--sometimes in collaboration with preprint review. See author posts in thread below. 🧵

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Science Magazine @science.org · 23d

Increasing the breadth of researchers trained as peer reviewers is crucial to upholding quality in academic publishing. Last year, the Science journals began a pilot in which invited peer reviewers could add trainees as co-reviewers, with more than 2200 scientists participating. #PeerReviewWeek

White text on a red background: Science thanks each of our reviewers for their critical contribution. #PeerReviewWeek

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 24d

As I wrote about for @motherjones.com, people are already crossing state lines to get the Covid vaccine—which may become more common if the CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends limiting them this week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Welcome to the new era of Covid vaccine tourism

Trump and RFK Jr.'s anti-vax crackdown is driving Americans across state lines—and making some pay out of pocket.

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Kara Estelle-Powers @karaestellepowers.bsky.social · Aug 14

Another fun animated cover this week 😍

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 14

Researchers have developed a #DeepLearning system called BioEmu that rapidly generates diverse protein conformations, enabling fast, accurate insights into protein flexibility and function.

Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/3JdQVD4

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · Aug 11

Scoop from @cohenjon.bsky.social: NIH may massively increase HIV 'implementation science', to $1 billion annually, at the expense of basic research. Some HIV researchers are alarmed. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH ponders overhauling HIV budget to capitalize on prevention breakthrough

Scientists warn $1 billion push for “implementation science” spurred by promise of lenacapavir will hurt research on new treatments and vaccines

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Kara Estelle-Powers @karaestellepowers.bsky.social · Aug 9

So many great suggestions here 📚

Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy #BookLoversDay! Looking for your next book to love? I asked my colleagues at @science.org for their favorites—and they had some great suggestions! That and more in this edition of #ScienceAdviser:
www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Alt: Rapunzel pulls books off a shelf

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy #InternationalCatDay from Larry!

Larry, a mackerel tabby with green eyes, stares into the camera bewildered. He wearing a shark costume.

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · Aug 8

I traveled to Guinea to find out what U.S. budget cuts mean for the fight against malaria. Here's my story in @science.org - with powerful photography by Marta Moreiras. www.science.org/content/arti...

In Guinea, the United States helped beat back malaria. Now, the disease is set to soar

Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 15

In an exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors. scim.ag/4lYu3pl

‘Something remarkable has happened’: Cancer treatments bolster evidence of a natural HIV cure

In exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 11

Exclusive: In response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, the National Institutes of Health has begun a crackdown on dozens of studies it was funding, ScienceInsider has learned. scim.ag/44oJIbw

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns

Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 10

Breaking news: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. scim.ag/4eIo0m4

U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 10

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding

Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

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Kara Estelle-Powers @karaestellepowers.bsky.social · Jul 7

“So what’s working? Original reporting can break through the noise and even overcome … the hurdles that social-media companies have created. Publishers now place a premium on content that reinforces their voice and sensibility … It’s also a matter of meeting readers where they are.”

Worth the read!

Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social · Jul 7

The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble:

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Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse

The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 3

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave today and launched an investigation into their signing of an open letter criticizing agency leadership.

See our initial reporting. ⬇️

Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 30

Hundreds of employees at the EPA released a “Declaration of Dissent” today, accusing EPA officials of politicizing the agency and undermining its core mission to “protect human health and the environment.” scim.ag/4lB937S

EPA employees accuse Trump officials of undermining the agency’s mission

“Declaration of Dissent” denounces partisan messaging, rollback of environmental regulations, and dismantling of science office, among other concerns

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Jul 3

"An absolute moral failure."

Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"An absolute moral failure": Disability advocates react to Trump's Medicaid cuts

"At the end of the day, this Congress lacks the courage to do the right thing."

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cheese really might give you strange dreams—especially if you have a sensitivity to dairy. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🧠

a piece of cheese with flames coming out of it on a dark background

ALT: a piece of cheese with flames coming out of it on a dark background

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 2

Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out

Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Jun 30

In the latest from the @science.org podcast series of books on science and death, we hear about the fate of virtual you after physical death w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/podc...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 30

Hundreds of employees at the EPA released a “Declaration of Dissent” today, accusing EPA officials of politicizing the agency and undermining its core mission to “protect human health and the environment.” scim.ag/4lB937S

EPA employees accuse Trump officials of undermining the agency’s mission

“Declaration of Dissent” denounces partisan messaging, rollback of environmental regulations, and dismantling of science office, among other concerns

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Shraddha Chakradhar @scchak.bsky.social · Jun 28

I refer folks to @theopennotebook.bsky.social all.the.time. Just yesterday, I told one of @science.org's fantastic interns about TON's (free! email!) Master Classes. And that's just one of many (did I mention free?) resources. Help them keep it that way? Donate here: www.theopennotebook.com/donate/

Support The Open Notebook - Support Science Journalism

Please help support The Open Notebook, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to foster a supportive, diverse, and inclusive global community that enables journalists who cover science to learn and...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 23

#ScienceAdviser is turning two! 🎉

To mark the #newsletter's second anniversary, we’re giving away 50 pairs of exclusive socks to randomly selected subscribers who enter between June 23 and June 27. 🧦

Sign up here: scim.ag/4lnaVB5

Images showing the ScienceAdviser socks, which are brown and white with tardigrades

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