For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

I love the south and its glorious strip malls. Cremation Society of Virginia smack dab between a Dunkin’ and a nail salon

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

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the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

Registration is now open for the Mutational Scanning Symposium!! This is one not to miss. Invited speakers include @mehurles.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social
#VariantEffect26 Register soon for the early bird rate!
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One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

I got my COVID and flu shots at CVS totally without incident today…I was even offered a free bag of popcorn

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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[Looks up from coding]

[Sees updates]

[Goes back to coding]

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

I’m to the “build a miniature greenhouse model” phase of faculty app procrastination

Frankly, this is the only thing that will lead to change at this point.

And further, scientists, both in healthcare, academia, and industry, need to do the same. Let's see how well the country functions when the college classrooms, labs, and hospitals are empty.

I see we’ve moved on from pumping face creams with plant stem cells

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I'm team "stay and fight for better for all academic workers"

We want to call attention to a few sections of this post from @safa-science.bsky.social from a few weeks ago:

"My grant wasn’t affected in this case. Why will this [ruling] affect me?"

"Don't we need to respect SCOTUS to protect rule of law?" and

"But if SCOTUS says it's legal, how can we argue?"

Percy honoring the age-old tradition of falling asleep during sports

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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AAMC: “Make no mistake: This was a decision critical to the future of the nation, and the Supreme Court made the wrong choice. History will look upon these mass National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant terminations with shame.”
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Throughout this whole saga, I’ve felt the collective agony of being in constant contact with other MOSAIC scholars facing the same shitty fate. I don’t want to downplay the deep solidarity/support, but what I feel most acutely is the wave of grief crashing over hundreds of early-career scientists.

Exactly what I expected, but disappointing nonetheless