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Jason Bini, PhD

@sciencedrbini.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor, Yale PET Center, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research: diabetes, obesity, metabolism, endocrinology. PET imaging of pancreas, liver, adipose and brain. (opinions my own) Family 👪🐶🐶, swimming, cycling, trail running, 🎸

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you have patients or folks you know who have recently been diagnosed with stage 1 or 2 Type 1 Diabetes in the Northeast. Have them contact us! Recruiting for longitudinal PET/MRI studies!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 25d

A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue

Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic

Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you haven't seen it yet, check out our article highlighted Up Front as an editors pick in the @DiabetologiaJnl September issue!

Diabetologia @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Up front & free to read in our Sept issue #editorspicks: Measurement of brain glucose metabolism in obesity and diabetes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Measurement of brain glucose metabolism in obesity and diabetes - Diabetologia

The brain consumes a large amount of glucose to fuel its high metabolic demands. Understanding brain glucose metabolism is critical for understanding the brain’s normal physiology and the pathological...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 31

The National Institutes of Health’s budget, and structure, would be preserved under a Senate bill for the 2026 fiscal year.

With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency

Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts

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STAT @statnews.com · Jul 29

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

NIH is shrinking the number of research projects it funds due to a new Trump policy

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Concerns are rising that President Donald Trump’s administration is finding new ways to shrink the U.S. biomedical research enterprise [right now]"

Great article from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite

Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨 Required reading for every scientist, academic admin, and member of Congress 🚨

The shift to multi-year funding is a Trojan Horse designed to cannibalize NIH funding with zero congressional oversight

The effects will be immediate. paylines will crater, labs will shutter, Americans will suffer. 🧪

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Jul 28

We hope this review provides a call to researchers to pursue further studies examining brain glucose metabolism and a roadmap of how this can be done with PET and MRS.

Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Jul 28

Within a range of physiologically relevant plasma concentrations; plasma and brain glucose scale linearly. In the limited number of studies in T2D/obesity, this relationship seems to diverge. Conclusions based around CMRglc in T2D/obesity also vary and would benefit from further studies.

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very excited for this review to be out! A dive into PET/MRS techniques for measuring brain glucose concentrations and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose in the context of diabetes and obesity. #neuroimaging #obesity #diabetes #metabolism #neuroendocrinology

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 2

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week.

That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports.

Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Universities and the government: Which needs the other more?

From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · May 29

The university endowment tax in the Republican/Trump economic plan sets a dangerous precedent of the government slapping excessive taxes on institutions it disagrees with ideologically. It also will cause cuts in jobs, financial aid and research funding. wapo.st/3HiYtDv

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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · May 29

The "Make America Health Again" Report has the word "obesity" in it 51 times and yet the primary US institute that researches the impact and new treatments for obesity (NIDDK) would be sure to have their budget cut under the current spending bill or the White House recs (40% cut to the NIH budget).

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · May 29

Obviously, the mission of universities should be education but let's not lie to ourselves and say big time college sports, a uniquely American thing, is not something a vast majority of the population celebrates and participates in, either playing or spectating.

Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · May 29

It's not a fully formed thought but someone needs to connect the collapse of universities/colleges all across the country with the collapse of the sports (scholarships) industrial complex. I would guess a HUGE economy is kids sports in hopes of playing big time college sports.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · May 28

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.

"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"

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NOT-OD-25-115: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibility for Mentored Career Development Award When an Award Ended Ear...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibi...

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · May 21

Sworn testimony of NIH officials and internal emails reveal just how much DOGE is calling the shots in killing peer-reviewed biomedical research grants. More bombshell reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social in @nature.com:

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

www.nature.com

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

www.science.org

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Apr 27

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Apr 24

Opthalmology Chic. Keeping that eye health in check!

Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thanks to The Grey Matter Project, Sreya and Prof Sara Schaefer for the invite and organizing! Really fun to talk to the HS students who are the next generation of Drs and researchers about neuroendocrinology.
medicine.yale.edu/neurology/ed...

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Alice Callahan @alicecallahan.bsky.social · Apr 16

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article)

Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Apr 16

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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Jason Bini, PhD @sciencedrbini.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you have patients or folks you know who have recently been diagnosed with stage 1 or 2 Type 1 Diabetes in the Northeast. Have them contact us! Recruiting for longitudinal PET/MRI studies!

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Lahari Basu @laharibasu.bsky.social · Mar 26

I am excited and proud to share that the full version of my first research article is now available at Diabetes 🥳 Our manuscript shows the effects of cisplatin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent, on pancreatic islet function in mice.

diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...

Cisplatin Exposure Dysregulates Insulin Secretion in Male and Female Mice

Cancer survivors have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with the general population. Patients treated with cisplatin, a common chemo

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