Great department, great institution, wonderful colleagues! This is an outstanding opportunity

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

We initiated this open letter yesterday, before the solicitation came out. We made an update this morning, and are working on additional response and actions focused on the eligibility change.

Please sign and share the letter if you can! And add an email for updates.

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This was (horrible) news to me. Took a few minutes to sign - you should too!

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

“This isn’t just about 211 missing R01 grants. This is about the 211 PIs (or multi-PI groups) that are not getting a new grant. This is about at least 422-844 non-PI level investigators who are not having their salaries covered.”

Just heard from someone who had a 1% grant not funded through NIMH.

Why?

Perhaps no payline for 2026?

2025 all full up?

Unclear. But totally bonkers and indicative of the complete gutting of the NIH/NIMH senior and grants processing peeps.

The ones who remain are working so hard.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!

House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.

To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

This is an important read for those universities whose leadership is increasingly from a business background and are pushing for “optimization”.

Article is here: academic.oup.com/spp/advance-...

My forever meme.

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out"

"A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding."

🎁🔗

Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

Now online! Transient gene melting governs the timing of oligodendrocyte maturation

SCOTUS decision "in a scientific sense...a total loss"

"Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5

Aria Huang's @azyhuang.bsky.social paper is out on beautiful embryonic kidney 3D cultures that branch properly and enable live defect analysis. She also finds intriguing effects of adhesion and stiffness on explant size, shape, and nephron formation - boundary conditions matter!

rdcu.be/eBSUK

New special issue from Journal of Experimental Biology

This issue considers the functional roles of the #gut, from the #cellular level to its interactions with other #organs and tissues, including its role in #ecophysiological and #biogeochemical processes.

journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

People weren’t healthier “back in the day.”

In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.

Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.

Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.

We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.

youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...

5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood.

This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

For years, we searched for factors which are dysregulated in cancer and regulate development. We now describe elusive roles of DVL, a protein co-opted in #cancer and mutated in congenital disorders thanks to lab members & support from @unclineberger.bsky.social & @unc-phco.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ewwsZ

Requests that were previously submitted via the prior approval module will not be reviewed, and recipients will need to initiate the first no cost extension within the Status module by using the Extension action

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here:

research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc.

Good luck!

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

…starting to see tariff charges come through on ordering reagents for the lab. Not a great feeling 😑