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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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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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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 5d

A couple of related-unrelated thoughts that have swirling in my head:

1. This is a bad time to become a new PI in the US. Probably the worst since WWII. If you're negotiating for a position, know your road is way harder than it was for the people on your TT committee. Negotiate accordingly.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting “The compact asks universities…to require undergraduate applicants to take the SAT or ACT.” I’m not sure the white supremacists of the regime are going to like where this goes.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 6d

This is Russ Vought's wet dream playing out in real time. Pray for the NIH.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 7d

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates...now that it is white folks being affected drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/l...

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates…now that it is white folks being affected

Mike Lauer, prior head of the Office of Extramural Research at the NIH, has been quoted in a recent Nature news bit by Max Kozlov on the Fiscal Year 2025 grant funding picture. Kozlov writes, in pa…

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 8d

Going to use this for the next lab meeting.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

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Trump says he will fire U.S. military leaders if he doesn't like them

President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 8d

4014 fewer grants funded in FY25. Did I read that right?

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here are the results in terms of the number of projects.

The number of funded projects in FY2025 is 4014 fewer than the number for FY2024.

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A grant showing the number of projects funded for FY2021 through FY2025. The number for FY2025 lagged behind and did not catch up with 4014 fewer projects funded in FY2025 compared with FY2024.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 8d

Weak

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9d

Ezra Klein’s moral collapse is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in politics

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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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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 11d

"near miracle"

Is it though??

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

New article from the Washington Post

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NIH pulled off a ‘near miracle.’ Scientists say there’s still a problem.

The National Institutes of Health is on track to give away all of its grant money to labs, but research on cancer, aging and diabetes is still being left behind.

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

For example: of the 26 most recent NIGMS, R35 NGAs, 9 appear to be MYF. By my count, instead of 26 awards, NIGMS could have funded 62.

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 12d

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 12d

Correct read. Schumer just finding a way to support the CR.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 13d

Want to see the actual data first. I'm very skeptical of company press releases.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 15d

OK, I never believed that the earth and humanity was part of some weird board game invented by aliens for their own amusement....but I think it might actually be true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 15d

Jesus. We are our own worst enemy sometimes.

Just drop the whole "of course the NIH needs reform, but..." stuff altogether. Now is NOT the time for nuanced conversations, as this piece in the NYT perfectly demonstrates.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16d

Of course some processes at NIH & in US science in general should be reformed. But uncritically presenting Jay Bhattacharya as a naive idealist rather than a hypocrite & political operative charged with NIH’s destruction is wildly divorced from reality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Opinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17d

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17d

An absolute clown show.

Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump administration tries to tamp down panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul

The president announced Friday that H-1B visas will now come with a $100,000 annual fee, but a U.S. official said it will only apply to new visa applicants.

www.politico.com

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 17d

Yeh the J1 is not a safe haven anymore.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 17d

Without giving away too much, we have already been told not to match these candidates.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 17d

This will negatively impact residency applicants needing/currently on an H1B too. It's that time of the year.

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