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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t want to brag, but the institutional biosafety committee chair just said “your lab is the poster child for OCD.”

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Lindsay K Pino @lindsaykpino.com · 2d

Still got our latest preprint bookmarked in an unread tab of your browser? We got you. @afederation.bsky.social presenting @talusbio.bsky.social's work-in-progress on Wednesday! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 #MassSpectrometry #Proteomics

FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 2d

🎃 🥁This Wednesday in our 1st session of spookiest month👻 at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @sanimr.bsky.social & Alex Federation!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 2d

*Deep sigh* This is all such a waste of everyone’s time, but aside from that, the damage that has been done by this confusion is going to cost lives. Are people who have written off getting the vaccine because they “didn’t qualify” a week ago going to realize things have changed? Maybe. Probably not

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines.

While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination for Chickenpox in Toddlers

ATLANTA—October 6, 2025— The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill. The schedules will be updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.

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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 5d

What an exciting opportunity! Setting up a new lab with the great @madalenamrp.bsky.social at one of the best institutes around. Apply! 🧪🐟🧬

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 7d

Are you interested in a PhD in the area of "Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis?" Apply now for a PhD @mpi-cbg.de! Overview of all participating RGLs: imprs.mpi-cbg.de/5761/researc...

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Gang Yu @gangyuplant.bsky.social · 4d

Chromosome architecture affects virulence and competitiveness in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chromosome architecture affects virulence and competitiveness in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

Chromosome architecture influences Agrobacterium fitness, competitiveness, and virulence, shaping its adaptation and evolution.

www.science.org

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 6d

Really an embarrassment of riches re: things to panic over. No need to go searching.

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 6d

Before people panic, I will note that this banner is standard fare during government shutdowns.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

A new banner on PubMed about the (potential lack of) updating.

Some recent papers have been posted but it is not clear if some are missing.

I will be tracking this going forward.

New Banner on PubMed

Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 6d

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Jul 13

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

media.tenor.com

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 6d

Geology (especially petrology/volcanology) people:

What's the significance (if any) of basalts being shoshonitic?

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The Lustgarten Foundation @lustgarten.org · 7d

NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 7d

So uh…I looked up the NSF GRFP deadline for kicks and giggles and…what’s the over/under on how screwed this year’s students are gonna be? 🙃🙃🙃🙃😬

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 9d

Thousands fewer projects will be funded so success rates for grant applications hit all-time lows.

“That is extremely demoralizing,” says ex-extramural chief Mike Lauer. “We want people to be excited about being in science. This will do even more to chase people away from doing science in the US.”

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 9d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Rui Gonçalo Martinho @martinholab.bsky.social · 8d

Quick Drosophila question: I’m planning to integrate a construct on the second chromosome but would like to avoid the attP40 landing site. Any suggestion for a good alternative attP site on chromosome II? It’s for a skeletal-muscle–related project.
Thanks! 🙂
Rui

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 8d

My PhD work simply would not get funded in this environment, which is incredibly depressing.

Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 9d

Fly researchers everywhere trying find ways to link their basic science projects to…uh…*checks notes* cancer? No. Uhhh…neuroscience? Blood? Diabetes???

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 9d

As someone whose PhD was funded almost exclusively by a NIGMS R01, this is…grim.

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 9d

Many of you have asked about gifts to us during a shutdown, mainly doordash types of things. No. Instead, donate to local food banks like Manna in MoCo, Capital Area Food Bank in DC, Find Food in PGC, and Food for Others in Fairfax. These serve everyone. Please repost. #fedstrong #shutdown

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Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 15d

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

www.colorado.edu

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 14d

Disappointed to report that eRA Commons does in fact send you email notifications for significant developments and that obsessively logging in three to five times a day is probably a waste of time. Probably. (I will learn nothing from this.)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16d

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 22d

New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28!

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

RFA-DA-27-004: BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allo...

grants.nih.gov

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 19d

How would your lab and research be impacted if F and J visas were changed to a fixed period of time instead of the entire duration of studies in the US? Please share this link and leave comments by Sep 29. You can comment anonymously as well.
www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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