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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

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Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Registration is live for the 1st ever Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD dual meeting, hosted jointly by VAI + U of M in Ann Arbor, MI November 10-11, 2025! We have some exciting speakers but most will come from abstracts so submit your best #mitochondria & #metabolism research! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

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2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond

Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m curious if there are any scientific journals that are running special issues or pieces from scientists who are losing their funding or being fired. It needs to go down on the permanent record for the people who come after us.

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Marcelo Bonini, Ph.D. @mbonini.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The story of ozempic - besides saving millions of lives and saving billions for the healthcare system - ozempic is a scientific breakthrough everybody should know about - it was discovered because someone studied the spit of a lizard that only eats 6 times a year the Gila monster - so first 🧵

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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Penn announces hiring freeze. Pitt has done the same thing. Harvard also announced one today. This will devastate departments and future missions www.inquirer.com/education/up...

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Penn, bracing for federal funding cuts, orders a hiring freeze and other changes

In an email to Penn staff, officials said the full impact of federal funding cuts and policy changes will not be known for several months.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/03/2025

Imagine this: The same young scientists now trying to get into PhD programs, facing reduced admissions and uncertainty over whether labs can take them on due to NIH funding cuts, also survived high school during peak COVID and navigated college through a pandemic. 😥😒 #standupforscience

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Let me tell you as a German - if your reputation is ruined it takes a long, long time to gain trust as a nation again. Germans were for the longest time considered Nazis a priori. Americans are on the best way to get that experience.

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Matt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · 26/02/2025

So excited to see how quickly #StandUpForScience has grown from a single rally to rallies in 32 cities in 27 states and counting! Let's go! Thank you for your leadership @standupforscience.bsky.social! They also opened up a donation page 🧪 standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

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Local Event Information

Below are the state capitals and major cities (alphabetized by state) hosting official Stand Up for Science events. If your city is listed, a confirmed site leader—backed by our core team—is active…

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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2025

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

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The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. 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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Kalev Freeman @uvmtraumalab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Attention scientists! Wondering what else can you can do to advocate for research funding? Let's all submit Programmatic Requests to Members of Congress next month, and flood the zone in a show of public support for #NIH and #NSF! ! #SciComm #Science #Medicine #MedSky 🧬🔬🧪 Details below⤵️ 🧵 1/n

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

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America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI

Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are hearing that there is a meeting of all NIH IC directors happening now. We are also hearing, from several sources, rumors about director and assistant director level removals coming soon. The impact of this wld be enormous. IC directors have all grantmaking authority for each institute. 🧪

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Nadine Hempel @nadinehempel.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Are you applying to #graduateschool? The Oncology Graduate Program at the University of Pittsburgh Hillman Cancer Center offers comprehensive training in #CancerResearch and a $40K yearly stipend, which are just some of the perks. Applications due Dec 15. bit.ly/45GusF9

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Nadine Hempel @nadinehempel.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

To all interested in mitochondrial research, the VMI at the University of Pittsburgh is hosting the TRiMAD-X meeting on Nov 6-7. Great forum for scientific interactions for trainees and PIs. Registration now open: vmi.pitt.edu/trimad/

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Nadine Hempel @nadinehempel.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social could you please add me to the What’s Science feed?

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Nadine Hempel @nadinehempel.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Hi Bluesky! Looking for fellow scientists. Hoping this forum will help to restore the part about social media that was actually enjoyable, finding out about cool new papers and celebrating science!

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