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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 5d

5. I don't know that US will ever be a stable place for science again. I know that sounds nihilistic but the 50% of the country that voted for Trump is not going anywhere and they appear to be ok with blowing up the entire research infrastructure for shits and giggles.

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 5d

When I was in TX, you could get your kid into the public school gifted program by having a third-party analysis of your child's intelligence. It created an entire industry of pay-to-play for gifted program admission.

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 5d

Reason #1000 I'm glad I escaped UT six years ago
www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 7d

Great thread on why Hegseth is an idiot

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8d

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 8d

I get nervous when the administration appoints someone competent. I'm waiting for the other show to drop

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 7d

The amount of empty seats at Yankee Stadium is crazy

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 8d

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Graph showing total R35+R01 awards issued by NIGMS from 2020 to 2025. R01 in black showing a steep decline. R35 showing an increase. Total awards in 2025 slightly up from 2024 but these years are lower than 2020-2023

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 8d

Go for it! The dudes running the place are super cool. Teaching my 17 yo to drive a stick too.

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 8d

I almost bought a car from these importers last year, but I already have WAY too many cars. www.capitaljdm.com

Homepage - CAPITAL JDM

Current Inventory Available Inventory Incoming inventory Compare 43 1998 Toyota Century 1998 99,500 miles Automatic Gasoline Rear Wheel Drive $19,998 Compare 43 1998 Toyota Century $19,998 1998 99,500...

www.capitaljdm.com

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 8d

We are getting a lot of interesting JDM cars with the 25 year rule

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com 🙏🏽

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

This should be repeated constantly:
"In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone."

We need to have a real response to this!!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 8d

In 2024, there were about 17,616 new projects awarded by the NIH. In 2025, this number was 11,190 (my number includes things like supplements). That is an ~37% cut in funding of new projects by the NIH.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here are the data by institute and center.

All amount in millions of dollars.

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A table of funding by NIH institute and center for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Most institutes and centers have committed the same level of dollars in fiscal year 2025 as in fiscal year 2024 with NHGRI and NHLBI being farthest behind.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11d

Each R35 award funds one and only one laboratory. Meaning that as many as 36 research groups across the country may shut down due to grants not funded by a single institute, over *just* the period from September 7 to approximately September 16 (any later funding actions are not yet in the database).

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 11d

“Solved a self imposed crisis meant to harm science with a solution that also harms science, just not quite as much” is a bit unwieldy for a headline.

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Dominik Hrebik @dhrebik.bsky.social · 9d

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic.
m.xkcd.com/3056/

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 9d

AFC is trash

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HurkaDoesSports @hurkadoessports.bsky.social · 9d

Shouldn’t be allowed to call games, period.

boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 9d

Brady should not be allowed to call TB games

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 9d

Brady should not be allowed to call TB games

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11d

though it would be hilarious for me to invite like a conservative think tanker, so they can see how little universities pay people for talks

here's a $250 honorarium and reimbursement for your flight that you'll get 6 months later

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 12d

Sorry, Alex. My last R01 also ended in the spring. I'm surviving with undergraduates and an indirect account for consumables.

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 12d

Apple's approach to protein structure is great for accessibility - & potentially biological realism - reasons.

Eg, prediction could be achieved w/ smaller compute & the generative nature of prediction allows for multiple conformations

A summary here: genomely.substack.com/p/simplefold...

SimpleFold and the Future of Protein Folding

A Generative Shift in Protein Folding

genomely.substack.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

Since there is some discussion that NIH institutes should not simply use paylines to determine which grants to fund, I thought I would share some old data.

These are plots of funding probability fas a function of percentile score for 9 institutes.

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Graphs of funding curves for nine NIH institutes from fiscal year 2012.

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