Summer Thyme
@sthyme.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UMass Chan Medical School BMB Department; PhD @ UW Baker Lab; PD @ Schier Lab; Down Syndrome, ID, zebrafish, computation, protein engineering. MomX3!
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Pls Repost: I am putting together an edition of “Methods in Molecular Biology” focused on early development, encompassing gastrulation. I am making a list of potential authors for chapters. If interested, please contact me - An excellent opportunity for trainees to co-author with their advisors.
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Pls Repost: I am putting together an edition of “Methods in Molecular Biology” focused on early development, encompassing gastrulation. I am making a list of potential authors for chapters. If interested, please contact me - An excellent opportunity for trainees to co-author with their advisors.
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IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
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Public comments have been opened back up!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Public comments have been opened back up!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
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"There have been many funding cuts to cancer research, and it's playing out many ways. Here are a few stories from people I know. I spend time in cancer circles. I am an recliner advocate nowadays.
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"There have been many funding cuts to cancer research, and it's playing out many ways. Here are a few stories from people I know. I spend time in cancer circles. I am an recliner advocate nowadays.
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
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UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...
uab.peopleadmin.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
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We get news of an apparent breakthrough in pancreatic cancer — usually a death sentence, one of the cancers with the worst outcomes — and Trump and Musk are blowing up NIH and with it future cancer cures.
The American people didn’t vote for this.
Not even close to 49.8% did.
The American people didn’t vote for this.
Not even close to 49.8% did.
current status of American science in two posts:
existential crisis vs transformative breakthrough
a metastable state that will collapse into one future or the other
existential crisis vs transformative breakthrough
a metastable state that will collapse into one future or the other
February 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
We get news of an apparent breakthrough in pancreatic cancer — usually a death sentence, one of the cancers with the worst outcomes — and Trump and Musk are blowing up NIH and with it future cancer cures.
The American people didn’t vote for this.
Not even close to 49.8% did.
The American people didn’t vote for this.
Not even close to 49.8% did.
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THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
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One of the remarkable things about #NIH is how rigorously its grants, research, and employees are reviewed. NIH science and scientists are held to a high standard by external reviewers — via study sections and councils, or BSC/site visit reviewers. And the reviews have teeth. 🧪
I’ve served as one of several invited external reviewers for evaluation of an intramural division. The process was rigorous, detailed, and we external reviewers were not afraid to give sharp feedback. Program leadership heard it earnestly; the quality of the intramural science was extraordinary.
February 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
One of the remarkable things about #NIH is how rigorously its grants, research, and employees are reviewed. NIH science and scientists are held to a high standard by external reviewers — via study sections and councils, or BSC/site visit reviewers. And the reviews have teeth. 🧪
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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.
February 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.
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Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
www.nbcnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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This is incredibly stressful to our Alzheimer's community (families and researchers). There are Alzheimer Disease Research Centers that are in limbo now - no council meetings means no notice of awards, means all the research we are doing to slow or prevent this disease is paused indefinitely.
This. 👇👇👇👇
No study sections, no council meetings = nothing funded. If it's not in the federal register, not happening. Nothing in there after 2/20/25 re: NIH.
Era commons is not being updated. Still says my Advisory Council Meeting was held on 1/28/25 at 3pm. It was not.
Clearly.
1/2
No study sections, no council meetings = nothing funded. If it's not in the federal register, not happening. Nothing in there after 2/20/25 re: NIH.
Era commons is not being updated. Still says my Advisory Council Meeting was held on 1/28/25 at 3pm. It was not.
Clearly.
1/2
I still don't think it's sunk in to many that after February 20th, there ain't no study sections.
February 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is incredibly stressful to our Alzheimer's community (families and researchers). There are Alzheimer Disease Research Centers that are in limbo now - no council meetings means no notice of awards, means all the research we are doing to slow or prevent this disease is paused indefinitely.
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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.
I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.
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Important article. This center was taking new approaches to studying Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Everyone who knows someone with dementia is being hurt by Trump’s cuts to medical research. 🧪
Everyone who knows someone with dementia is being hurt by Trump’s cuts to medical research. 🧪
Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.
This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?
newrepublic.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Important article. This center was taking new approaches to studying Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Everyone who knows someone with dementia is being hurt by Trump’s cuts to medical research. 🧪
Everyone who knows someone with dementia is being hurt by Trump’s cuts to medical research. 🧪
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Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.
Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.
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The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.
But infants under 12 months old are not eligible for the vaccine, leaving them vulnerable.
When measles spreads due to low vaccination rates, it puts our youngest—and most defenseless—children at the greatest risk.
But infants under 12 months old are not eligible for the vaccine, leaving them vulnerable.
When measles spreads due to low vaccination rates, it puts our youngest—and most defenseless—children at the greatest risk.
In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children.
We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread.
www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...
We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread.
www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...
Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 58 cases — the state's worst in over 30 years
A measles outbreak in Texas has led to 58 confirmed cases, making it the state's worst in over 30 years — and local health officials say additional cases are likely to occur.
www.cbsnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.
But infants under 12 months old are not eligible for the vaccine, leaving them vulnerable.
When measles spreads due to low vaccination rates, it puts our youngest—and most defenseless—children at the greatest risk.
But infants under 12 months old are not eligible for the vaccine, leaving them vulnerable.
When measles spreads due to low vaccination rates, it puts our youngest—and most defenseless—children at the greatest risk.
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If anyone has been in touch with press covering the NIH situation broadly (firings, funding freeze etc), please encourage them to cover the sinister way in which HHS is preventing grant review and funding from happening, by blocking posting to the Federal Register.
HHS blocked posting indefinitely. Not enough press is being given to this back door approach to blocking NIH grants. If and when it is lifted will still be 35 days before study sections can be held
Still no SS meetings being posted to the Federal Register. www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...
February 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If anyone has been in touch with press covering the NIH situation broadly (firings, funding freeze etc), please encourage them to cover the sinister way in which HHS is preventing grant review and funding from happening, by blocking posting to the Federal Register.
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We are hearing that Andy Singleton, director of a new and promising Alzheimer's research center at NIH, just announced his resignation.
This will disrupt innovative new Alzheimer's work to go beyond the "amyloid hypothesis." Bad news for anyone who's been touched by this disease. 🧪
This will disrupt innovative new Alzheimer's work to go beyond the "amyloid hypothesis." Bad news for anyone who's been touched by this disease. 🧪
February 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We are hearing that Andy Singleton, director of a new and promising Alzheimer's research center at NIH, just announced his resignation.
This will disrupt innovative new Alzheimer's work to go beyond the "amyloid hypothesis." Bad news for anyone who's been touched by this disease. 🧪
This will disrupt innovative new Alzheimer's work to go beyond the "amyloid hypothesis." Bad news for anyone who's been touched by this disease. 🧪
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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
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I'm #standingupforscience because when I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma in 2018, I was terrified. The survival statistics for my type of melanoma was around 20%. But these statistics did not include the lives saved from the recent NCI and CRI funded studies of immunotherapy drugs. 1/6
February 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm #standingupforscience because when I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma in 2018, I was terrified. The survival statistics for my type of melanoma was around 20%. But these statistics did not include the lives saved from the recent NCI and CRI funded studies of immunotherapy drugs. 1/6
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Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your family. Talk to your friends. Tell everyone what is happening and why science matters (this is not a USA-only post, because we know this is happening everywhere)
Just talked to a friend whose spouse is a contractor for the VA. They are worried about their job and their future. But what shocked me was that they had no clue what happened at NIH, USDA, CDC, NOAA. The word is simply not getting out. The average American just doesn't know.
February 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your family. Talk to your friends. Tell everyone what is happening and why science matters (this is not a USA-only post, because we know this is happening everywhere)
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Please help NIH: speak to the press, speak to your local TV, tell everyone you know:
Trump and Musk are killing cancer research.
They’re chasing science out of the US, making the US poorer.
Thank you for what you’re doing. /end
Trump and Musk are killing cancer research.
They’re chasing science out of the US, making the US poorer.
Thank you for what you’re doing. /end
February 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Please help NIH: speak to the press, speak to your local TV, tell everyone you know:
Trump and Musk are killing cancer research.
They’re chasing science out of the US, making the US poorer.
Thank you for what you’re doing. /end
Trump and Musk are killing cancer research.
They’re chasing science out of the US, making the US poorer.
Thank you for what you’re doing. /end