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Cheri Sirois @cherisirois.bsky.social · 26d

“The loss to state economies would be about 40% greater than the federal savings, as losses ripple through state and local economies. In other words, for every $1 the federal government saves, state and local economies would lose $1.40.”

mediarelations.gwu.edu/new-research...

New Research: Proposed CDC Budget Cuts Harm Public Health | Media Relations | The George Washington University

A new report by George Washington University researchers finds that proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if enacted, would endanger public health an...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jul 19

A global perspective on autoinducer-2-mediated cell communication in prokaryotes

- in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

A global perspective on autoinducer-2-mediated cell communication in prokaryotes

Biological sciences; Molecular biology; Microbiology

www.cell.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

My quote of the day

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant

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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · Jun 19

New @neal-lab.bsky.social team photo! ❤️ Leaning on each other more than ever during these times & grateful for this resilient, inspiring group. #NealLab

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Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thrilled that our latest paper showing that DCs undergo either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation to restrict Legionella is now online at the @asm.org journal mBio! Congrats to 1st author @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! 🎉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Dendritic cells activate pyroptosis and effector-triggered apoptosis to restrict Legionella infection | mBio

The innate immune system senses bacterial pathogens by employing pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and guard proteins that monitor pathogen disru...

journals.asm.org

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wondering if your grant will be reinstated from Monday's ruling? Check here.

Plaintiffs have uploaded a list of 848 (of the ~2400 total terminated) they say are covered because they're to institutions in the states aforementioned or a part of APHA/UAW.

The judge must approve the list first.

storage.courtlistener.com

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Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social · Jun 19

Love this!!!!

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Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations!!!!

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model

The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

www.wsj.com

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 15

Some positive news in troubled times: New preprint by Vincent de Bakker, Xue Liu @jonbakerlab.bsky.social Infection-mimicking conditions+transcriptomics/proteomics/'essentialomics'/lipidomics shows many cool things!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multi-omics profiling reveals atypical sugar utilization and identifies a key membrane composition regulator in Streptococcus pneumoniae

The human body comprises many different microenvironments, each with their own challenges for microorganisms to overcome in order to survive, and possibly cause infection. The human pathogen Streptoco...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · Jun 10

2030STEM in partnership with Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is building a new, catalytic resource to advance the careers of early to mid-career STEM researchers and professionals who are motivated to build an inclusive STEM ecosystem.
Get more informarion at 2030stem.org/fellowship-1

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Frances Yap @ribo1214.bsky.social · Jun 10

1,600 names needed toward the next 12,800 target. Support NIH and research

SBGrid Consortium @sbgrid.bsky.social · Jun 10

Stand up for science and sign your name in support of NIH staff and The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence.

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

actionnetwork.org

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Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social · Jun 11

So sorry to hear this :(

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jun 10

Reminder for when we talk about improving NIH grant review. Huberman brought blind review up with Bhattacharya.

“redaction caused applications from White scientists to score worse” elifesciences.org/articles/71368

An experimental test of the effects of redacting grant applicant identifiers on peer review outcomes

Redaction, intended to obscure personal and institutional identity, reduced the gap between Black vs. White applicants in simulated review of real NIH scientific grant applications, thus providing qua...

elifesciences.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 10

New opportunity to help sustain global health research

re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

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Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨Incredible opportunity alert!! 🚨
#microbiology

Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jun 9

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

apnews.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

www.nytimes.com

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Jun 10

TBC this freezing of reimbursements to some institutions, like Northwestern, have not been accompanied by ANY terms or requests.

They are simply holding this funding hostage illegally

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 10

JB: Working on resolutions with those paused grants. Hopeful that universities will come to terms with the Administration.

Durbin: Disappointed. We have made a big difference together, and you are wiping this out. You are wiping out hope.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Jun 9

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Ask Zebrafish? @askzebrafish.bsky.social · Jun 9

Query from Slack: Does anyone have good recommendations for antibodies that label mitochondrial DNA encoded proteins and work well in #zebrafish? #AskZebrafish

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university)

This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-25-124: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-124. NIH

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Jun 8

NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Brown University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $15,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $10,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 10% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Columbia University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $40,000,000 and $60,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to approximately $20,000,000 in April 2025 and to $0 in May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years fluctuate but remain generally above $25,000,000. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain mostly below 20%.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Cornell University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show some variability but generally stay above $0, with some dips. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show more variability than Harvard and Northwestern, with some spikes, as well, but returning to normal levels after.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Northwestern University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $30,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $25,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 15% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 7

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.

Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jun 8

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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