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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Julian Meeks @meeksandmilds.bsky.social · 3d

...And nobody has a clue why I chose that name anymore.

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Julian Meeks @meeksandmilds.bsky.social · 3d

I named our first (wimpy) lab computer (for mundane tasks like printing and filling in forms)"Milton."

a man is using a red stapler that says snapple on it

Alt: A man named Milton in a cluttered office cubicle is petting a red stapler that says Swingline on it. From the movie "Office Space"

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Julian Meeks @meeksandmilds.bsky.social · 3d

a man wearing glasses and suspenders is saying i 'm going to have to go ahead and sort of

Alt: A man named Lumbergh wearing glasses and suspenders is saying "I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of ... disagree with you." From the movie "Office Space"

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5d

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude www.wired.com/story/autism...

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude

Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.

www.wired.com

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Julian Meeks @meeksandmilds.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing!

Julian Meeks @meeksandmilds.bsky.social · 6d

Beavers?

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 7d

👇🏻 Fantastic 3 year postdoc opportunity here at Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

S. Craig Roberts @scraigroberts.bsky.social · 7d

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10d

So what are the bottom lines?

First, a HUGE thank you to NIH staff (particularly grants management specialists but program officers and others as well) for getting this work done in a compressed period with many other stressors.

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a cartoon of a person making a heart with their hands and the words thank you so much

ALT: a cartoon of a person making a heart with their hands and the words thank you so much

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 8d

More NIH chaos.

NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 8d

Jeanne Marrazzo, director of NIAID, claimed that the Trump Administration’s actions
endangered research subjects, defied court orders & undermined vaccine research.

Earlier, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez of the CDC.

Resisting unethical policies costs you.

🧪🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀

Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

Image depicting the napari viewer in grid mode with scale bars and color bars enabled

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 9d

🇺🇸 These dedicated public servants risked their careers to deliver an urgent message. 🚨

While the 1st amendment grants them the right to speak on matters of public concern, their protection is not guaranteed under an administration hostile to free speech.

Please take the time to listen and boost 🔥

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 9d

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:

"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."

youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 9d

The best email you can receive from students right after a really complicated lecture is: "I was just thinking about class, [...] and I just wanted to say that I have been so inspired to learn more. It is so awesome and mind blowing how it all works I am still trying to wrap my head around it." 🥰

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 18d

As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 19d

3 cheers for NIH grant staff! Regardless of everything else, they are heros!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 20d

Do you remember
The twenty deadlines
Of September

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 21d

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either.

m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

Trump imposes new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul - The Economic Times

H1B Visa Fees: President Trump has introduced a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visas, aiming to attract highly skilled individuals and discourage the displacement of American workers. This decision sign...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21d

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas

Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China

www.theguardian.com

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 21d

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · 22d

Two solutions that would bring back #MedPeds trained #doctors as well as increase #Pediatrics workforce:
1) pay #Pediatricians exactly same as adult medicine doctors for identical work (eg pediatric vs adult hospitalists)
2) provide same respect as IM doctors (which isn’t much, but more than Peds)

Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 22d

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER.

And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin.

Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 26d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27d

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence.

Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 29d

All my afternoon meetings got cancelled, and I’m at peak caffeine vs. typing efficiency. Fifty pages of analyses to write or review. LET’S DO THIS.

Hand-drawn plot showing typing speed vs. coffee content, with three highlighted regions. At low coffee, in blue and labeled “morning”, typing speed is slow. Further along is a green bar with moderate-high coffee and high speed, labeled “ideal”. Furthest is a red zone that extends below the X axis of the plot, in which typing speed appears to fall off a cliff, labeled “SHIT.”

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Sep 10

Another casualty of the war our govt is waging against itself. Already lost 117 filled positions + 57 open positions, then another 60 to be announced this week. Shaved ad'tl $ by cutting future "grad employees" ie slots for doctoral students to do research/teach
www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

University of Oregon announces 60 staff cuts, no layoffs for tenured faculty

The cuts did not eliminate any programs and delivered a softer blow than campus unions expected.

www.oregonlive.com

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Lori O'Brien @llobrienlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is me, one of those 211. My A1 R01 renewal would have been funded otherwise, and I was even initially told they planned to fund it. Now very unlikely. No more chances with this one. We had so many good things going-how do we keep moving forward? A question many of us will be asking.

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Sep 9

“This isn’t just about 211 missing R01 grants. This is about the 211 PIs (or multi-PI groups) that are not getting a new grant. This is about at least 422-844 non-PI level investigators who are not having their salaries covered.”

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Adding up the NIH R01s lost to Multi-Year Funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/a...

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