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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! It makes staying on track so much easier! And it keeps conversations focused, so respectful of your time and theirs.

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! You’re gonna do GREAT! 😊 Number 1 for me is figuring out effective communication formats that work for BOTH of you (email, 1-on-1’s, written reports, etc). Then apply them regularly. For me, I like weekly 1-on-1’s and ask for some document, their choice on format.

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · 3d

You matter.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · 11d

Very cool work!!

Markus Hafner @markushafnerrna.bsky.social · 11d

This work was spearheaded by Masataka Suzawa in my (NIAMS) and Chen Qiu in Traci Hall’s lab (NIEHS IRP) and initiated together with Masashi Yamaji’s group at Cincinnati Children’s. Wonderful collaboration with @eugenevalkov.bsky.social and Vittorio Sartorelli.

Markus Hafner @markushafnerrna.bsky.social · 11d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Delighted to share the story of two germline RBPs - one with little (DND1) and one with no (NANOS3) intrinsic sequence-specificity - that together build a continuous RNA binding surface recognizing a 7-mer (AUGAAUU) in target mRNA 3’UTRs, leading to deadenylation.

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone should read this. The take home: we will be less heathy if we cut NIH funding.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

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

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

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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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Aug 24

A good report, but I worry too late.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 24

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · Aug 24

Peer Review--2025 Version

It's been a minute...life has been busy.

Last time, we went through the Peer Review Process as it was before January 2025.

Let's look at what has happened since the inauguration.
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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Jul 22

This makes my scientist heart happy!

Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jul 22

The #BethesdaDeclaration signers killed it today during the roundtable with Jay.

Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues:

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧪 THIS.
JB being schooled on what clinical trials have been canceled. This clip is worth listening to.

A clinical trial is a huge undertaking, a multi year commitment.

Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million it wastes $4 million.

Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · Jun 10

JB cannot say how many clinical trials have been ruined.

FYI: You cannot just stop and start experiments.

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Jun 12

@aoc.bsky.social THIS! It isn’t just vaccines, but our entire medical future (treatments AND preventions) he is endangering. Ask him how he, a self-proclaimed non-expert, is going to improve upon a system widely considered to be the very best.

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is a great point! I definitely follow the two reviews per submission rule.

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 10

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad

A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

dynamicecology.wordpress.com

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Jun 10

Fantastic resource!

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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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · Jun 9

🔥🔥 BREAKING NEWS!!! 🔥🔥

NIH workers wrote a letter to Jay Bhattacharya asking him to stop the disruption of the critical science and health care that is at the heart of the NIH mission.

It has been signed by over 300 of us.
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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Jun 4

This weatherman is EXACTLY what we need right now.

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · Jun 3

"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts"

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 31

Great read. VERY informative.

Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · May 30

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 29

Hi! I’m a scientist and without a doubt, we all appreciate whatever you are doing! We, of all people, know it is hard! Keep doing what you can, take care of yourself, and know you aren’t alone. We’re all in this together. 💕

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 27

Signed! As every scientist who wants to do real, rigorous, unbiased, and non-politically influenced science should.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

actionnetwork.org

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 16

A lot of really good ideas in here. My one question: how can we connect interested researchers with interested groups?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 16

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research

Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks @schindlerlab.bsky.social ! This was a FANTASTIC time with an amazing group of trainees!

Karen Schindler @schindlerlab.bsky.social · May 15

Last night the FIRbees at the @mblscience.bsky.social did a hands on activity to learn about how the Retinoic Acid wave controls spermatogenesis and how that impacts tubule staging. Such a cool and powerful activity from Beth Snyder- @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social!

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 8

LOTS of good resources for making a difference here!

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · May 7

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community

Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

scienceimpacts.org

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · May 8

This is an AMAZING resource if you want to reach out to your hometown about the cuts to science funding!

CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com

Science Homecoming

sciencehomecoming.com

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · May 5

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is the sort of thing that makes me tear up.

Kaia Mattioli @kaiamattioli.bsky.social · Apr 28

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

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rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social @rnaisthenewdna.bsky.social · Apr 24

If you don’t want research dictated by politicians, say something!

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM

Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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