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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

With inspiration from @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I recently wrote an editorial in my hometown TN newspaper, the Herald Citizen, about DOGE actions to dismantle science agencies (link to read below). It's a VERY RED region of the country. How much so, you might ask? 1/4

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Go right now, don't wait, and read Harvard's response to the government's demands. Everyone needs to fight. Remember Columbia caving got them absolutely nothing back. You can see the gov demands from a link inside Harvard's response. view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...

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Rose Albert @rosemalb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.” Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

There are basically two groups of students being deported: a) those who have engaged in political speech, which has gotten the most attention; b) those who have had minor infractions with the law like a speeding ticket, which is likely the larger group. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

$Students removed for using political voice or being associated with protests — These are the most visible and obviously political cases, raising troubling issues about free speech. This includes Mahmoud Khalil, a former student who was a visible figure in protests in Columbia, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian scholar at Georgetown University whose studies peacebuilding, and or Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts co-wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper opposing the war in Gaza. Students removed for minor infractions with the law — This is likely the majority of cases, but Rubio does not mention them. Here, students removed not for political voice, but for low-level engagements with law enforcement. Dozens of students reported that their visas were revoked for traffic violations, such as speeding. One immigration lawyer said: “This is totally unprecedented…A brush with law enforcement that didn’t necessarily result in an arrest or a conviction is all it took.” Her client had a DUI from a decade ago, which he disclosed when applying for a new visa, which was approved. But now that visa has been revoked. Another immigration lawyer spoke to a woman who had been arrested when a man assaulted her; police subsequently acknowledged she was the victim, but her visa was terminated anyway.$

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 08/04/2025

There have been many lab leak articles in the media recently, but none had actual new data In a new preprint, @zachhensel.bsky.social and I analyze early COVID-19 cases sequence data that have been overlooked so far. These new data continue to point to a natural origin ▫️1/7 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Entre invention de preuve, faux témoignage, et recherche falsifiée.

Figure 1 from the preprint, showing the distribution of collection dates of the newly uncovered data and comparing it to the distribution of previous sequences collection dates; earliest new one is in early Jan.

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Figure 1. Temporal distribution of initial dataset and newly added sequences (samples collected between 24-Dec-2019 and
15-Feb-2020). Sequences in the initial dataset from market-linked samples and within a single familial cluster are colored green and
purple, respectively. Other sequences in the initial dataset are colored orange. Newly added sequences are colored blue. The arrow
indicates the earliest sequence in added data, which is market-linked.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some of the stats in here are really striking. Per one paper, federal investments in R&D account for at least a fifth of all productivity gains in the U.S. economy since World War II. And the societal return for every $1 invested in the sciences is *conservatively* estimated at $5.

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Sendoel Lab @sendoellab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our genome encodes > 7000 microproteins that have been previously ignored in genome annotations. How do these microproteins impact tissue function? Here, we use an in vivo single-cell CRISPR screen to systematically explore microprotein function in the mouse epidermis. 1/9

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I will discuss this issue with anyone who wants objective #s and evidence to understand how academic finances work: why the attacks on NIH are causing irreparable damage to science, will bankrupt hospitals and medical schools, and will ultimately harm our entire country. Ask your Qs below!!

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

An SRO I have worked with on and off for 10+ yrs was fired. This person had almost 20 years of experience in their job and had cultivated an entire discipline by managing fair, through and rigorous reviews of grants across the entire field. How heartbreaking.

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Yale MB&B @yalembb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We are excited to announce a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Computational Biophysics and Biochemistry, exploring the intricate molecular and cellular processes and the complex interactions of their macromolecular components. Join us in MB&B! Apply now at apply.interfolio.com/162132

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Carson J Bryant @carsonjbryant.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Thanks a million to @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for sharing an invite code with me and hundreds of other scientists!

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