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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Made the poor decision to watch "The Love Hypothesis" this weekend and if you have any experience in academic science environments I strongly urge you not to. If the author, as claimed, indeed has a PhD in neuroscience from an accredited university I can only conclude that they wrote it as rage bait
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have you picked your favorite research visual yet? Voting for the Beauty in Biophysics contest is underway! Your votes help determine who takes home this year’s cash prizes, so don't miss your chance to weigh in. buff.ly/WmhPreA
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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The most worrisome issue here is that this effort in NIH predates the Trump administration (and they have found ready allies in Trump staffers) and there is a contingent of biomedical engineers that have oversold their capacity to model physiological organ function.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agree with my anonymous colleague. And @markhisted.org. The bright side of the past 20 months has been getting to know amazing people across the NIH who fully lived their commitment to public service, doing what was right and lawful rather than what they were told.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 23/09/2026
Undergraduate-led project on non-canonical estrogen signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Estrogen is Coupled to the Calcium Release Machinery in Human Leiomyoma Cells
Uterine leiomyomas, commonly known as fibroids, are benign tumors of the female reproductive tract. They are the most common tumor of the female reproductive system and the leading cause of hysterecto...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everytime you think the writers have well and truly jumped the shark, they find another twist. The new Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has published a case report on…. wait for it…. Leopards eating faces #ISYN www.joms.org/article/S027...
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Head and neck injury from a leopard attack: case report and review of the literature
Animal bites are frequently encountered in a trauma center and result in injuries ranging from innocuous to life threatening. In the United States, more than 10,000 patients are hospitalized each year...
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sir this is your political advisor I highly advise you to ban fishing before the midterms.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 18/09/2026
Claude is coding its successor, which is essentially the plot of Terminator
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 17/09/2026
Unbelievable
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 17/09/2026
First person with @kodakandlag.bsky.social !! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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First person – Goutham Kodakandla
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Goutham Koda...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“This is the latest — and the largest — sign that a New World Order is fast developing, one that doesn’t include the US.”
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Canada And The EU Come Together
The world decouples from America
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“proposing that individual members of grant-review panels be given a “golden ticket” to champion a controversial idea that might otherwise be squashed by their colleagues. “
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And there it is. As rumored, and as predicted by YHN from the gitgo, enhanced triage of NIH grants will continue. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 11/09/2026
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Critics warn using civilian health funds for military needs is legally dubious. Yet the agreement gives the DOD final authority over products “tailored to warfighter protection, military operational environments, and tactical deployment”, something NIH has no congressional mandate for.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 04/09/2026
"DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research" (specifically NIAID, unsurprisingly) democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s very definitely a cult.
A graph showing soaring Republican responses to:

A growing share of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S.
Do you consider the following to be an ally or an enemy of the United States? Canada (% who say "unfriendly" or
"enemy")
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Republicans
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some of the best British songs would sound completely different if it wasn’t for the Merseyside twang. #FabFour #GerryandthePacemakers #EchoandtheBunnymen #FlockofSeagulls and, er, Cilla Black.
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Self Saboteur @landscapes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ok, I’m not autistic but also don’t want the cops to kill me. What color envelope do I get??
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks metal post, I needed this
The top of a metal post with a sticker that reads “You’re doing great!”
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 03/09/2026
cc @kodakandlag.bsky.social
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 03/09/2026
Gross
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 03/09/2026
Grammarly thinks over half of this article was written by AI.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 02/09/2026
Diabolical
Eagles championship wine. See picture #2 lmao.Bottled in KANSAS CITY 😂😂😂😂😂
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/08/2026
Reporting live from the Canadian Department of “What the Fuck Are You People Doing?”
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 27/08/2026
TBT when I was in BuzzFeed ten years ago: “I’ve long been a vocal advocate that Santa Cruz antibodies suck” www.buzzfeednews.com/article/catf...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"For context, NIH has not funded anything close to the top 25% for >2 decades...The likely result is that everyone will resubmit their applications in the absence of more information, & review will be overrun with applications that may not have needed resubmission at all"
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 27/08/2026
"At minimum, nearly a quarter of all former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death." www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at death in National Football League players: retrospective population based cohort study, 2008-21
Objectives To determine the range of possible prevalences of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at death among National Football League (NFL) players and examine the association between CTE severi...
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My sources inside NIH tell me that grant applications at NIH will now be screened for policy related research and flagged for non-pay. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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NIH Reportedly Flagging, Freezing Policy-Focused Grant Applications
Political appointees of U.S. President Donald Trump have reportedly been “flagging and freezing policy-focused grant applications” to the National Institutes of Health.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I was trying to write up some thoughts on ORI now disappearing their Summaries of sanctions for scientific misconduct once the term of punishment has expired. I cannot be reasonable about this. I do not think the perps have rights that counter the impact of their fraud. ori.hhs.gov/content/case...
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Case Summaries | ORI - The Office of Research Integrity
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 22/08/2026
@dailyorange.bsky.social -> Syracuse.com -> @thehill.com K2 Julia keeps ascending! thehill.com/homenews/604...
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Leavitt to work at Trump-affiliated super PAC following White House departure
Karoline Leavitt is set to work at President’s Trump MAGA Inc. super PAC following her departure from the White House, the outgoing press secretary confirmed Friday. Leavitt shared her next career …
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
More on America’s growing food crisis. The FDA has upgraded a recall of frozen blueberries to the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" from E. coli contamination. What happens when you gut federal government protections.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The culprit? Like last year, NSF is spending more up front, discontinuing multi-year awards and paying off the mortgage on existing awards. But FY26 and FY25 have similar budgets. What accounts for the difference is that NSF has withheld $1 billion—$1,016,862,632, to be precise.
Chart showing total grants much are much lower in FY26 and FY25
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Seoul, making the most of Trump’s stupid decision to alienate a longtime ally. Wang urged South Korea to stay neutral between Beijing and Washington and called for stronger China-South Korea economic ties.
Chinese and South Korean ministers shake hands in front of flags
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dioiioib.bsky.social @dioiioib.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the RFK character, described as eating roadkill, having brain worms, and swimming in shit creeks, is believed to be nothing more than a satirical invention, mocking the political class of the time
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 20/08/2026
This is amazing news. An individualized melanoma mRNA vaccine demonstrated a 49% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death (HR=0.51; [95% CI, 0.294-0.887]) and a 59% reduction in the risk of distant metastasis or death. Approach is now being tested in many cancers www.merck.com/news/merck-a...
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Dean @deanrc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Took me a while 5 minutes to work out what this graph was telling me, and I've been working as different forms of data analysts for 13 years. Why did they label it so poorly
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NIH RFI on plans to stop using percentiles to select grants for funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/n...
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NIH RFI on plans to stop using percentiles to select grants for funding
The NIH issued NOT-OD-26-088 Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review on 8/14/2026. It proposes a radical upheaval of the way that NIH’s Pr…
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh, I think they are very well thought out. They are designed, with knowledge of the NIH system and various traditional semi valid complaints, to misdirect the naive and gain support for policies that will let them corrupt the system entirely.
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