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Corentin Cras-Méneur

@cortig.bsky.social
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Developmental biologist, Diabetes researcher, Former Microsoft MVP (Mac:Office), Mac geek, software localizer and more I guess :-)

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Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Extremely dark days for science, for freedom of speech, and for America. If the US ADA is not safe for its flagship journal editor in chief, then imagine how un-safe it is for others. One of many reasons I’m not at the #ada2026 . Missing my friends/colleagues but not the pervasive fascism.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very nice article (in French) on the representation of a "consensus" human genome: La fin du génome linéaire : Bienvenue dans l'ère (complexe) du Pangénome bioinfo-fr.net/graphe-de-pa...
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Graphe de pangénome : la fin du génome de référence linéaire
Fini le génome de référence linéaire ! Découvrez comment le graphe de pangénome révolutionne la bio-informatique et résout le biais de la référence.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
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Randy J Seeley @seeleyrj.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nice piece in NY Times today about the myriad of potential uses for GLP-1 agonists. A few quotes from me and @danieljdrucker.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | GLP-1 Experimentation Is Everywhere, and Science Can’t Keep Up (Gift Article)
Millions of Americans are experimenting with the drugs. Science can’t keep up.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Really thorough blog article on the analysis of the erratic and aberrent patterns of the Dexcom G7 CGM (with an open source algorithm to analyze them). It illustrates the shortcomings of the G7 and the severe consequences for T1Ds: danheller.substack.com/p/the-cgm-pa... #T1D #DexcomG7
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A 42% loss in mental health research and a 52% loss in Alzheimer's and aging. This government wants us stupid, sad, and afraid.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NIH/NSF funding is, for all intents and purposes, frozen again. This somehow almost feels worse than last year. They are running out the clock on biomedical science and all PIs can do is scramble to finish projects before our resources dry up. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cool cool cool 🫠
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Listening to a great talk on PanKbase. I’ll have to explore it more but it looks like a great resource for islet biologists. pankbase.org
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PanKbase | PanKBase
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Uh hi this seems bad (essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature. The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct" This should terrify every single scientist in America.
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Joyce Lee MD, MPH @joyclee.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The perils of HbA1c for diabetes detection www.wired.com/story/diabet...
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Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?
Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today’s xkcd cartoon… xkcd.com/3081
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PhD Timeline
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Daniel Burka @dburka.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just pushed an update to Healthicons.org with great new icons from our volunteer illustrators. New icons include: - Dry eyes - Autoimmune disease - CPAP - Social determinants of health - Tumor - Cell tissue - FHIR2 - IV drip and lots more!
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Dr. Jeffrey Millman @jeffreymillman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WashU is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes & Related Metabolic Diseases (T32 DK007120). If you are eligible for T32 support (need to be a US citizen or permanent resident) and are interested in working with stem cell-derived islets, please contact me!
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
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Roland Lescure @rolandlescure.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine. @franceinfo.fr
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... “The total includ[es] $5 billion to pay for biotech research that industry was unlikely to pursue on its own.” As anyone in biotech or pharma will tell you, their talent, targets, and drugs critically depend on NIH funded basic, translational, and clinical research.
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China’s Biotech Advances Threaten U.S. Dominance, Warns Congressional Report
Congress should invest at least $15 billion to support biotech research over the next five years and take other steps to bolster manufacturing in the U.S., the report said.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Columbia Penn Harvard Princeton Brown and now Cornell and Northwestern 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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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump team removes senior NIH chiefs in shock move
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 April 2025
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Roland Lescure @rolandlescure.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
26% des chercheurs français aux Etats-Unis remettent en cause leur expatriation. Mon passage sur @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#StandUpForScience Article in French. A French scientist going to a meeting in Houston was denied entry and kicked back to France because *on his phone*, he had exchanged messages with colleagues criticizing the actions of the Trump administration on Research: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...
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NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 19/03/2025
This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪
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Patrick MacDonald🇨🇦 @bcellorg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Shipments out. Supporting 20 research projects across Canada, North America, Europe and Asia. We have room for more. Give us a shout if you need islets, pancreas, intestine, adipose…. for research. www.bcell.org/faqs.html
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Image of Francis Collins, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“We’re actually going to kill people is what it amounts to” new piece in AP on NIH funding cuts and grant review delays…lil’ quote from yours truly in there too 😊 apnews.com/article/trum...
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Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts
Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Does anyone know if in the few study sections that managed to meet in early-mid Feb, were reviewers instructed to consider or ignore SABV as a score-driving criterion?
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Nature @nature.com · 04/03/2025
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists go.nature.com/4koFGpq
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US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Read Tom Maniatis’s commentary on the dire consequences of slashing indirect costs to 15% and sign the petition. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... chng.it/Yzkjx5gFbd
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This campaign needs you now
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#DefendResearch www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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#DefendResearch www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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PF Anderson @pfanderson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I've been feeling a bit like Cassandra lately. Evidently, I'm not the only worrier. Will They Come for PubMed Next? — Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource by Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH, MS February 26, 2025 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #medlibs
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Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next?
Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The NIH intramural program is a unparalleled in both its ability to do bleeding edge science and train the next generation of scientists. Not renewing Title 42 employees is hellacious. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. 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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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If the admin wanted more US-born scientists, telling them at the last minute that they can't come to graduate school is probably not the best way to do it. www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...
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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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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 19/02/2025
“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#DefendResearch
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Randy J Seeley @seeleyrj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A little informal conversation from me about GLP-1-based therapies. medschool.umich.edu/department-n...
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Randy Seeley gets a lot of questions about GLP-1s. Here’s why.
Learn more about Randy Seeley, PhD, and why his research has so many people turning to him for answers about weight-loss drugs.
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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This story has everything: a mom who found an NIH-funded team at @uofmichigan.bsky.social's children's hospital whose work helped her entire family, an emeritus prof explaining in plain language how NIH funding works & @sbagen.bsky.social explaining #healthpolicy: www.freep.com/story/news/h...
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Federal research cuts would rock Michigan economy, halt clinical trials, those affected say
A Trump administration plan to cap reimbursement of federal research overhead costs could lead to job losses, stifle medical innovation in Michigan.
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Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New paper alert!! Thread from recent PhD graduate Jamie Chu
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