Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Some quality placenta drawings for you. So many different structures out there and so many different ways they are drawn. All are my favorite. #placenta #drawing 021
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Longing for pre AI and pre Biorender schematics in scientific papers? Me too. 520
Reposted by Jon BoyleWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 24/05/2026It’s like Iran On your wedding day 351761235
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done! rdcu.be/feOj6rdcu.beA single-cell atlas of Toxoplasma sexual development in the feline intestinal tractNature Microbiology - Single-cell RNA sequencing is used to study the sexual development of Toxoplasma gondii in cats, generating a transcriptional atlas and showing that the female-specific gene... 2153
Reposted by Jon BoyleViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This meeting could’ve been a karate match 826549
Reposted by Jon BoyleKaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Fighting through snow so I can do my science. Animal care staff, building staff, clinical staff, nurses, doctors, veterinarians all work through these weather conditions to make the NIH run. 0548
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Today I submitted a grant and I’m also getting a tooth pulled today which do yall think will be worse 020
Reposted by Jon BoyleLiz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“I’m a transgender service member and today was my last day in uniform. After 11 years, eight months and 1 day I’m taking the uniform off for good. I will always be yours bc this rank, these skills, this name will always be me.” ~Technical Sargent Altesse Aurum #TransInMilitary 🫡 🏳️⚧️ @altessaurum 1173136482065
Reposted by Jon BoyleKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants. 501373396
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 29/05/2025Heartbreaking effects of NSF, Americorps cuts to Pittsburgh’s after school programs that support and enrich our city’s kids. The need and benefits of these programs is obvious. Isn’t this what we pay taxes for? Doubt philanthropy can take over. www.publicsource.org/federal-fund...publicsource.orgPittsburgh after-school programs left scrambling as federal funding cuts hit the regionPittsburgh-area programs reel with recent federal grant terminations from the National Science Foundation. 02311
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This, more than anything else they are doing with funding levels etc, will ruin US Science and innovation. 010
Reposted by Jon BoyleGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/05/2025Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable. Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi 121050409
Reposted by Jon BoyleBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇aclu.org‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU 26222
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Amazing super cool and IMPOSSIBLE without a) NIH funding and b) ANIMAL RESEARCH 182
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Ok so I agree re: HIM but sadly what he’s saying here is “do your own research and be skeptical of experts”. 000
Reposted by Jon BoyleCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The canceled grants aren't a perfect 1:1 with DEI-related projects, but what a reminder of who is and isn't doing the work to make science more equitable. 15119
Reposted by Jon BoyleNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant." 311286940
Reposted by Jon BoyleTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The intense racial and gender segregation of science funding will be even more pronounced going forward. This was always the intent. 315065
Reposted by Jon Boyledarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025they put french fries in sandwiches rich that is what the heck is going on in pittsburgh i am all for it tbh 4474438
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 07/05/2025EvolvingSTEM in action at Pittsburgh Perry HS @evolvingstem.bsky.social www.wtae.com/article/pitt...wtae.comFederal freezes threaten Pitt's STEM outreach in high schoolsScientists at the University of Pittsburgh have been teaching inside local high schools for ten years through the Evolving-STEM program, which now faces potential federal funding cuts. 073
Reposted by Jon BoyleDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I had an NSF grant on AI education canceled yesterday. I wasn’t given any kind of reason but I have a theory and it’s just as stupid as you might think. (I will probably have more to say on this once I have more details but for right now just: 😡 ) 1817035
Reposted by Jon BoyleNoam Ross @noamross.net · 14/04/2025Just one example: In the past 2 weeks, NIH has terminated dozens of programs to support students pursuing scientific careers. These MARC or U-RISE (T34) grants provide rising undergraduates with opportunities and stipends to participate in science. Where are these programs? Not in the Ivy league: 38556
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Ai to predict how a specific monoclonal antibody will distribute throughout the body 👍 110
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Here’s how they’ll do it: 1. Say a lot of people are faking it 2. Vaccines 3. Food 000
Reposted by Jon BoyleChrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab. 4121585
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 01/04/2025Given today's onslaught on HHS, I'm resharing my OpEd in @elife.bsky.social. You are not alone, and you do have an important voice! Many colleagues remain unaware that the foundation of US biomedical research is crumbling under attack. Tell them! Full text 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/106... 11812
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 26/03/2025Banning diversity, equity, and inclusion - say it out loud - is catastrophic for US science. It attacks the core of the inclusive strengths of 🇺🇸 science - red or blue, rich or poor - despite the long road ahead. Thank you @stacyfarina.bsky.social for leading! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comBanning DEI Is Catastrophic for U.S. Science (opinion)An attack on DEI is an attack on science itself, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Stacy C. Farina, Parvin Shahrestani, Vaughn S. Cooper and Gilda A. Barabino write. 77228
Reposted by Jon BoyleChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction. 272110812949
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/03/2025My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...elifesciences.orgScience Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energizedMany individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis. 817280
Reposted by Jon Boylegeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/03/2025me in the national security team group chat 951261
Reposted by Jon BoyleNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2025as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech bsky.app/profile/need... 3328115
Reposted by Jon BoyleIgor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...forbes.comNIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New ReportNational Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research. 4193106
Reposted by Jon BoylePuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other. 5962421934
Reposted by Jon BoyleCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/03/2025Surely given Jay Bhattacharya's concern about censorship and academic freedom, he will step in and promptly reverse this decision. 535558
Reposted by Jon BoyleSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I usually stay around my own neighborhood, so when I venture down to south Philly I get the treat of seeing a different set of street art. This one is by Sean Lugo, whose signature is animal heads on people’s bodies. His stuff is SO good. Love this cat. 735627
Reposted by Jon BoylePrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/03/2025this guidance is all but useless there are no objective criteria that define allowed and disallowed categories of research that vagueness will undermine crucial health-disparities research, which by law addresses unmet medical needs (including access to care & differential treatment response) 19631
Reposted by Jon BoyleMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”nature.comExclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grantsStudies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature. 17785372
Reposted by Jon BoyleDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This is it right here. Just utterly criminal and cruel. 25626
Reposted by Jon BoyleMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grantsStudies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature. 391304889
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Omg mRNA vaccines don’t “alter the patients body” any more than protein based. 000
Reposted by Jon BoyleVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 03/03/2025Local Pittsburgh TV anchor asked the administration to comment on the NIH funding freeze. Deputy PS Kush Patel wouldn’t comment on camera and offered this BS statement. 1/2 44712
Reposted by Jon BoyleZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Can speak from personal experience that some non-competitive renewals are also not going out. We were expecting a non-competitive renewal on 2/1/25 that has not been received 108326