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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 16h

Congrats to the winners! Its notable that Omar Yaghi was a refugee. Refugees and immigrants once again making American science great!

Nature @nature.com · 20h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 2d

RFK Jr. insanely moves MAHA to end animal testing, with NIH securing $87M for a center shifting to 3D tissue models. An 80% poll backs the phaseout. PETA applauds. A research group warns of risks. Grants can fund the rehoming of lab animals.

RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement focuses on animal welfare

Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced it had secured $87 million for a new research center.

www.newsnationnow.com

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 5d

The pedestrian and bicycle bridge at the edges of that photo happens to be the site of the worst bicycle accident I’ve ever had. Aug 9, 2013.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

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ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Does anyone understand how NIMH is using RF1 and UF1s?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8d

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 8d

Consistent with this, I’ve heard (secondhand) that program officers from NIGMS are telling applicants who got outstanding scores that their R01s that they won’t be funded because they’re not MIRAs.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11d

*banjo picking and sporadic musket fire* dearest martha, the horrors of war-torn portland cannot even be described

Yellow roses and city buildings, a classic Portland view from in front of the art museum

The Hawthorne bridge looking downtown, under perfect blue skies

A classic car and old craftsman homes in late summer light on Portland's east side

A woman cycling down a rainbow painted street in front of a condo building on Portland's east side

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 25d

Yes, in five years, it would reach equilibrium, where universities were getting the same overhead as before, but it would be a very painful transition.

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 25d

Trying again: instead of awarding 5 grants that spend all of their year 1 money that year, they award only 1 grant which will only spend a 1/5th of its money that year. So the total overhead collected by universities is 1/5th. (Overhead is only collected when universities submit invoices).

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 25d

Another consequence is that although the same amount of money is committed, only 20 or 25% (4 or 5 year grants) of the money will be spent in year 1. Thus the overhead flowing to universities will drop dramatically, even if the overhead rate stays the same.

I believe that is the intended purpose.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25d

Here is a plot of 4-year multi-year funded new R01s for 2015-2025. NIH has made some 4-year R01s late in the fiscal year to invest the last of the appropriation, but what is happening this year is quite different.

I estimate that these new R01s are ~25% of the multi-year funding since July 1.

A graph showing nearly 500 million dollars of NIH investment in 4-year R01s since July 2025.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · Sep 5

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

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Katsu Funai @katsufunai.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share!
@uofunuip.bsky.social

Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah, Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | 12844064

The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · Sep 2

becasue if you do, you will be condemned to repeat it

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Jun 22

yes i am sure

tvos app text:

Are you sure you want to exit HISTORY?
Ok
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Rae Loren @aspwriter85.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today, in my hellhole home of #Chicago, I walked to the farmers market with my family and bought flowers, cheese, honey, fruit, and tomatoes.

Then we went to the local park to enjoy the 70s and breezy weather we have been blessed with.

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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Comic-Con was last month and in a different city.

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 27

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It is horrifying

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