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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy. buff.ly/NrHlEKD

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org asm.org/press-releas...

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I 100% agree! When we notify authors that their preprint has been reviewed, the ones that respond are generally receptive!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Holy moley — just flagrant violation of court orders there need to be sanctions and enforcement put NIH under an external receiver?

Grants Terminated: Washington state’s attorney general alleges the Trump administration has violated a preliminary injunction intended to stop it from cutting research grant funding.
Whistleblower Revelations: Internal NIH records obtained by the state attorney general appear to show research grants were cut in response to presidential executive orders.
DOGE Role: NIH officials testified that DOGE was directly involved in hundreds of grant terminations.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Went to primary care doc today and broke down crying as soon as they asked how are things in my life right now. Just to illustrate how scientists/academics are doing despite our game faces.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sharing an actual communication sent to a student that applied for an F31 Diversity Fellowship. This is an unnecessary, targeted attack on this student and thousands of trainees in similar positions.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

About to cry emo tears cause a RA in another lab was venting about how stressed they are to their PI and she said “If it’s weighing on you, take the weekend [to decompress]. There’s nothing important that we need around here and I hope that we haven’t made you feel like you have to push yourself”

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“In this transitional stage of my career, I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

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Flyover Country

What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just a reminder that these actions by the admin violate the 1A as surely as the exclusion of the AP from the WH press pool does. Is any academic institution going to fight back? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Postdoc Small Joys: Seeing the results of an experiment that used a technique that you recently learned.

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Something that makes me happy? Being so collaborative in my approach to science that I meet my daily steps goal walking across campus to partner labs.

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

People being abducted on the street. Science being obliterated. State secrets being shared. Federal agencies being dismantled. There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 18/03/2025

By Arthur Caplan: "many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years." "the only way forward is speaking truth to power."

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Something I’ve been thinking about coming out of February is how many scientists that study chronic diseases have told me that they think they’ll be fine after all the NIH dust settles because they don’t study infectious diseases or cancer or gender, as if we are not on the same burning boat.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.”

“N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.”

He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Caitlyn Sebastian @csebastianbio.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

With everything going on I went to check the NIH Postbac Program and was sadden to see this on the main page. For those who don’t know, I was an NIH IRTA Postbac and I attribute so much of my training from this program. I did not get much research experience during my undergraduate. (1/7)

A screenshot of a web page of the NIH Postbac Program. The message on the page reads “The NIH Intramural Program has paused the recruitment of IRTAs, CRTAs, and Visiting Fellows in all training programs pending guidance from Health and Human Services. Check back daily for updates.”

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Stop Investigate the source Find other trusted sources Trace claims and media Stop spreading of mis and disinformation.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/02/2025

I think it’s important to analyze this activity in terms of power: 1. They are threatening current & future federal employees about what happens if they don’t follow orders 2. Creating openings for loyalists 3. Creating opportunities for privatization 4. Raiding for resources, money and info Etc

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My dad sent me a receipt from the commissary recently. This is true. But also, painful to know that this price gouging is happening while inmates are not adequately fed.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

An article that is medicine for me? This article on establishing your identity as a scientist. www.science.org/content/arti... There is so much uncertainty in academic research right now, but my entire trajectory and existence in this space has been uncertain. I can do this.

science.org

How to establish your identity as a scientist

Researchers in a range of disciplines and career stages share their perspectives

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

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Stand Up And Be Counted

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Government isn't a business. The goal isn't to save money. Success isn't measured by budget surplus. The goal is to spend money, investing in society. Every dollar spent on education, healthcare, and science is an investment in our collective wellbeing.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

An irony of the push to lower overhead rates on grants to reduce waste / fraud is that a significant amount of overhead goes to “grant compliance” because of a Bush II focus on grant oversight. Every university has a huge office filled with staff ensuring no grant dollar goes where it’s not allowed.

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Paula Croxson (she/her) @paulacroxson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Are you an early-career #scientist who has been affected by the ongoing uncertainties surrounding US federal research funding and hiring? We at @stellatecomms.bsky.social want to help! We are offering 📝 free resume/CV reviews for those whose jobs are at risk: forms.gle/CCbbu2X5GJwH...

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Prof Tanya Parish @proftanya13.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Where will this end? 🦠🧪 #WomenInStem

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.

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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

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Jackie Caplan-Auerbach @geophysichick.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It’s been a brutal couple of weeks in the US, so for #MisconceptionMonday I’m going to dive into one that is critical to the political environment right now: the extent to which the public is being misled on the concept of DEI. I’ll focus on DEI in science. 🧪

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Today, my privately owned university called an emergency faculty meeting and told students of color that all mentions of DEI on online communications must be taken down based on changes made by the federal government. 🙃

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hey scientists, we gotta do better at communicating the reality of our jobs. I had an insightful conversation with a conservative person from back home regarding the restrictions placed on NIH activities by the current administration this week. 🧪

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I too have vivid memories of committee members falling asleep during my meetings

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Nothing is more fulfilling when a senior faculty member asks the same question in a seminar that you wrote down to follow up on later. #Smalljoys

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Writing personal statements about my challenges navigating the STEM pipeline is draining. Idk it was hard bro. I survived. I’m here. I took notes on how to discern abuse for the future along the way. No, I wouldn’t put other people through it.

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Darian Carroll, PhD @betacellbelle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Gave my first lab meeting in the new lab yesterday! 🥳 Didn’t utterly confuse anyone until the very end when I started talking about my overthinking around the timing of exposing cells to nutrients and microbiota derived metabolites in vitro.

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