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Tigist Tamir @phosphotig.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We are hiring! Join our two awesome labs!

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🚨 New preprint from the Feigin Lab! 🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Opioids have profound effects on the pancreatic cancer microenvironment! An FDA-approved opioid antagonist that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier decreases tumor aggressiveness in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer!

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

As a child, @phosphotig.bsky.social dreamed of being an astronaut, but her curiosity led her to scientific research. Now, she leads her own lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, & studies oxidative stress to find better therapies for triple-negative breast cancer. #WomensHistoryMonth www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

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Learning, leading and lifting others

Tigist Tamir’s journey from aspiring astronaut in Ethiopia to cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina highlights the power of mentorship, persistence and curiosity in shaping a scientifi...

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Tara TeSlaa @tarateslaa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

📣 First preprint from the TeSlaa lab 📣 We investigated how methyl-rich nutrient, choline, is used in the body and how systemic one-carbon metabolism responds to dietary methyl-donor deficiency. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“This is a deliberate act of erasure . . . The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth." gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍎

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Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument

The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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Nicole Edwards @nicoleedwds.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m happy to announce that I joined @umich.edu Department of Cell & Developmental Biology as an Assistant Professor and I will open my lab this month! My lab will investigate the genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying digestive and respiratory organs with a focus on the trachea and esophagus 1/2

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Developing Future Biologists @dfb-um.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Applications are now open for the 2026 Developing Future Biologists Short Course at the University of Michigan! Visit our website or email contactdfb@umich.edu to learn more and apply. #GoBlue

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

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A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism | NEJM

It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

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Dan Wahl @danwahlmd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

New discovery from our team defining how human brain cancers rewire the metabolism of the normal brain published this week @nature.com and led by stellar postdoc Drew Scott (comentored by @lyssiotislab.bsky.social and currently on job market with a K99/R00). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth - Nature

The cortex fuels essential physiological processes with glucose-derived carbon, while gliomas fuel their aggressiveness by rerouting glucose carbon pathways and scavenging alternative carbon sources s...

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Jennifer Landino @jenelandino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I previously reported that DOGE has been intimately involved in grant cut decisions at NIH. Indeed: Brad Smith, a leading DOGE figure, sent acting director Memoli a list of 18 notices of funding opportunities to take down. 25 minutes later, Memoli recommended all 18 be taken down.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just in: NIH staff have been instructed to REINSTATE these ~900 grants to comply with the court order, per sources. This comes after staff were also directed to cease any further terminations. You can see the lists grants to be reinstated in my post below.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/06/2025

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

The cover of The Lancet with this quote from our commentary: "If we in academic medicine give in to the campaigns against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the consequences will include resegregation and fewer opportunities for marginalised groups."

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Here is the official posting for a faculty job in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center! Feel free to DM or email with questions. roswellpark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext-RP...

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Assistant Member, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Title: Assistant Member, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Job Type: Regular Company: Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Department: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Time Type: Full time Weekly Hou...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/06/2025

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/06/2025

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social

A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.

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Tigist Tamir @phosphotig.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!Our study from the White Lab is online today! Thank you to all that made the story & my postdoc time phenomenal Forest White Roger Davis Jess Spinelli @mvhlab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says extra extra read all about it

Alt: a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says extra extra read all about it

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Erica Rodriguez, PhD @ericarodriguez.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I & other MOSAIC scholars spoke on the impact of the termination of our awards with the cancellation of the MOSAIC program. I also want to emphasize that our awards were based on our scientific merit, in addition to our past & future service to broaden participation in research.🧪🧠👩‍🔬 shorturl.at/R8UYV

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As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers

The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Honored to be in the club with researchers whose work is deemed “not in alignment” w/ this administration’s “new priorities.” I know these grant losses hurt - esp to junior scholars and the staff employed them - and, I genuinely believe, we can be proud we were doing something they are scared of.

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Caleb Cheng @djcalebc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Beyond grateful to share that my main PhD thesis project, Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer (@lyssiotislab.bsky.social + Arul Chinnaiyan lab), has just been published in @nature.com!

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 24/04/2025

It was even more recently than you think—just in December the National Academies published a report chastising the NIH for not giving enough attention to women’s health. They called for the creation of an institute and an additional $16B in funding. Instead, we’re losing almost everything.

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I’m hearing that some MOSAIC fellows are not only losing their grants (and for some in the postdoc phase their livelihoods), but also that their LRPs are now being cancelled. To have this population of scientists be targeted in such a manner should be unacceptable to everyone 😤

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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 16/04/2025

Haven’t heard of the Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists? Check it out here! (And keep an eye for two new Atlases we’re creating 👀👀👀) www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...

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Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists

The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists is a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 10/04/2025

I got a chemo drug today, taxol, named after its plant Taxus brevifolia, or the pacific yew tree. It was used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes. western scientists in the 20th century isolated its chemical compound and in 1990 it was approved as a cancer drug in 1993 1/

A Pacific yew tree. It has needles for leaves and very red berries pictured here in the tree

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Erica Rodriguez, PhD @ericarodriguez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Finally an article focused on these grant losses that scientists from underrepresented backgrounds EARNED, including my own grant (MOSAIC K99/R00). Generations of scientists from these groups will disappear. Will those with less to lose and from more privileged backgrounds advocate for us?

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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NIH MOSAIC program’s termination is a massive loss for the next generation of scientists, threatening the research workforce’s future and human health. We remain committed to supporting MOSAIC Scholars with critical resources for the remainder of the award and beyond. Full statement: buff.ly/TSMrvXq

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Kristen Uroda @kristenuroda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s #KidLitArtPostcard day! 🙌 Today I thought it would be fun to share my latest picturebook, “Miss Betti, What is This?” about a changemaker who transformed the Detroit Public School lunch program. It’s near and dear to my heart and available for preorder! See more of my work at kristenuroda.com

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Brinda Adhikari @brindabee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is Dr Mati from the St Louis DOH. She told me cuts have eliminated a nutrition program for lower-income kids in St. Louis. She is pleading with @SecKennedy to reverse course. She believes in MAHA and says this is the opposite of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwD...

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St. Louis Health Director to Sec. Kennedy: "This Won't Make America Healthy Again"

YouTube video by Why Should I Trust You?

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Tina Termini @cterminiphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We as a scientific community need to be more intentional than ever in supporting, mentoring, and being available to help scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds. I urge everyone to think deeply about what they can do. For example…

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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Substitute PREP for MOSAIC and you’ve got the exact same email we received today. Below is what was shared by one of our PREP directors with past and present PREP mentors. Provides just a tiny peek into the impact that this, and programs like it, have had on the best and brightest.

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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trump promised to “get the cure for cancer" among other things. But in the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, there's “No money for kidney cancer. No money for pancreatic cancer. No money for lung cancer." Must-read from @angusrohan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t...

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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump

Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

$17 billion: that's how much in grants about vaccines, diversity, COVID, gender and other topics that the NIH has purged to date — unlawfully so, argues a new lawsuit filed today. “This is an attack on scientific progress itself,” says @britshmit.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NIH sued over ‘ideological purge’ of DEI, Covid and vaccine research

Agency canceled about $17bn in grants in move that went beyond Trump’s orders targeting diversity, suit alleges

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Finally 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.

Letter from the NIH indicating that my grant has been terminated (though it seems we can keep the remaining funds for this year?)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2025

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️

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