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Beth Ryan

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Cornell C&CB PhD candidate • Ithaca College grad • NSF Fellow • mass spec nerd • she/her

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Beth Ryan @bethylacetate.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NCQBCS summer school knowledge coming in handy! So glad to keep seeing such strong attendance from our community.
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Mateusz Wagner @mateuszwagner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The first Lunch & Learn panel by the Mass Spectrometry Student Society (MS3) at Cornell was a great success! Full room of students eager to explore mass spec. Huge thanks to everyone who joined, our panelists, and the MS3 team: @bethylacetate.bsky.social, Herbert, Katie, and Yugandhar More to come!
A group of students in a conference room looking at the projected slideshow.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/06/2025
Good morning, dorks!...Today's your chance to stand up with us and 23,380 other proud science stans by signing your name to our Open Letter in Support of the 300+ NIH heroes of the historic #BethesdaDeclaration. Be historic with us! zurl.co/Jdx4s #StandUpForScience #NIHLoveLetter #GetInDorks
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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.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
They’re here! Introducing the Talented 12 Class for 2025. These early-career scientists are taking on big global #chemistry challenges. Meet the 2025 Class: cen.acs.org/people/profi... #CENT12 #chemsky🧪
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cutting research investment isn’t fiscally prudent. It’s economically self-defeating. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 15/05/2025
REVIEW | Kıvanç Birsoy, Monther Abu-Remaileh and colleagues @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social, @stanford.edu The authors provide a broad overview of #choline #metabolism, its cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.
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Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism - Nature Metabolism
Kenny and Scharenberg et al. provide a broad overview of the fundamental aspects of choline metabolism and cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Beth Ryan @bethylacetate.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
the power of bright pink pants! excited for the next few years, onwards & upwards
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...
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What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?
Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Track more illegally cancelled grants here, work from @noamross.net: airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ... As well as: jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... As well as hundreds of millions in NIH grants to specifically targeted universities: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... All after Bhattacharya started.
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Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say
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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 02/05/2025
Unbelievable. 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🧬⚛️🍎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Maya Emmons-Bell @maya-emmonsbell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
But there's a catch - if you normalize these data to the total number of R01s and F31s awarded in 2023, the story changes: a greater *percentage* of the trainee awards have been cancelled as compared to non-trainee awards.
a bar plot showing that a greater percentage of F31 awards have been cancelled as compared to R01 awards.
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 26/04/2025
This structure is absolutely _nuts_. Lipids are captured marching through the tunnel
a, Overview of the lipids observed in the LPD-3 complex, shown perpendicular to the membrane. Proteins are shown as a cartoon representation and the uninterpreted cryo-EM density is shown in orange. LPD-3 is coloured teal, Spigot is coloured yellow and lipids are shown as black sticks. b, Magnified view of the tunnel entrance, coloured as in a. c, Clipped view to show the lipid-transport tunnel. LPD-3 and Spigot are shown as a surface representation, coloured as in a, and lipids are shown as white sticks. d, The organization of lipids within the tunnel. Ionizable residues that interact with lipid head groups are labelled and shown as sticks. Lipids are shown as grey or gold sticks. e, The LPD-3 complex viewed parallel to the membrane. The arrows indicate the location of the four hydration portals. Modelled proteins are shown as a surface representation and are coloured as in a. f, Magnified view of a lipid within the tunnel. Residues that interact with the lipid headgroup are shown as sticks. g, Sliced views of the LPD-3 tunnel, showing the locations of the hydration portals. Slices are sequential from left to right and progress from RBG-1 to RBG-6.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
NSF halves graduate fellowship awards Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... 🧪
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NSF halves graduate fellowship awards
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wow. Turns out appeasement doesn’t work.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/04/2025
The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.
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U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge
Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.
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ACS BIOL: Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology @acsbiol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award goes to Professor Jeremy Baskin! Congrats to Jeremy & our other esteemed presenters for yesterday's great symposium! Jennifer Prescher, @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Carsten Schultz, @chembiobryan.bsky.social, @sonjakrane.bsky.social, @pubs.acs.org
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s an honor to receive the ACS Chem Biol Young Investigator Award! I’m most grateful for the contributions from all past & present lab members — it is an award for all of you as much as for me. (& also grateful to still be considered young 😅) axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... @acsbiol.bsky.social 1/2
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Dr. Jeremy Baskin wins the 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
Get to know more about Dr. Baskin's work and career in this exclusive interview.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 20/03/2025
“The suppression of scientific inquiry into an area of study that has already saved millions of lives and has the potential to be one of our best defenses against future pandemics puts all of us in harm’s way” By @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Anti-Vax Culture War on mRNA Just Got Worse
This time the government, by cutting NIH funding for research, is leading the charge.
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Beth Ryan @bethylacetate.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
so honored to be selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry #LINO25 this summer! thrilled to have the opportunity to meet some of my scientific heroes and other young chemists from all over the world. sometimes the long shots pay off, can’t wait till June! 🧑🏼‍🔬
cover of the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry program which depicts  a rendition of proteins and organelles within the cell
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Luke Timmerman @luketimmerman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NIH cuts are hitting young scientists the hardest. By David Baker. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Are lipids actively sorted during clathrin mediated endocytosis like proteins? @mathilda95.bsky.social addresses this key open question together with our collaborators from the Honigmann and Modes labs using a new Lipid-STED workflow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...
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A Bleak Future?
Recent layoffs and funding cuts have not only crippled morale among scientists, they’ve also set an alarming precedent for the future of science
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Dan Nomura @dannomura.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🚨New preprint: There's this overlooked phospholipid with 3 acyl tails called NAPE that is made during ischemia. We identified its interactome & found it regulates lactate flux, suggesting metabolic functions in response to hypoxia. Congrats to Dylan Chiu! doi.org/10.26434/che... #lipidtime #chembio
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
One class of NIH grants that are crucial to developing future generations of biomedical workers are NIH training grants using the T32 mechanism. These awards provide direct support for graduate students and/or fellows during at least part of their training periods. 1/n
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death
Researchers recommend kids stay up to date on the COVID vaccines.
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WESA @wesa.fm · 21/02/2025
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here's what we know about the recent layoffs at federal agencies and the ripple effects they're expected to have on US science. cen.acs.org/careers/empl... #chemsky🧪
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Thousands of federal employees fired from US regulatory and science funding agencies
Impacts expected to be wide reaching
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology at Cornell should apply by Apr 14. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...
Flyer for Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium at Cornell University, with QR code at bottom to obtain more information
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Universities appear to be exercising caution, with some freezing positions and not taking new applications, or accepting fewer students than normal… The abrupt narrowing of training opportunities is leaving many future researchers at the start of their scientific journey in limbo.”
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Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research
In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/02/2025
This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi
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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Will Comstock, PhD @wjcomstock.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My first-author paper on uncovering a non-canonical Tel1 motif using phosphoproteomics has been published in JBC! Amazing to work with @rainshj.bsky.social using both untargeted and targeted mass spectrometry. Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 11/02/2025
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience
Image showing cards depicting a number of contemporary women in chemistryImage showing a selection of women in chemistry history graphics
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So there it is. The idea of block grants for NIH has been around for decades. Let’s hope that this dies now, as it did in the past. /fin
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bart simpson from the simpsons says this is the worst day of my life
ALT: bart simpson from the simpsons says this is the worst day of my life
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If only that breast cancer commercial ended with a notice about all the research funding cuts the current administration is pushing through and how it has immediate negative impacts on breast cancer research and screening.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What to tell your trainees, your students, your teams, and yourselves, when you feel the doubt and darkness encroaching: your work is under attack *because it matters* Keep at it.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The NIH Notice about the new indirect cost rate "plan"
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 08/02/2025
Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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