Reposted by Peter Todderic lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2025alert to all H1B holders, please share: Trump just banned H-1B employees from reentering US unless employer pays $100,000 "fee". Proclamation applies to both new H-1B entrants and current H-1B employees who are abroad. set to take effect tmrw sun sept 21. please return if you can. i am so sorry. 😢 02118
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Not sure this is the right long term answer-although it is clearly coming. We will all run our papers through algorithms that spit out the same stuff. My AI vs your AI. There is signal in the noise humans make. 030
Reposted by Peter ToddDr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated. 63376223
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Remember when expertise was considered a good thing? If the president's pawns serve as the final arbiters of grant success, the whole system will quickly go from a meritocracy to an idiocratic system of patronage and payoffs. Trump's great legacy will be the destruction of American science. 040
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Ever wonder how intronic repeats in C9orf72 get translated into toxic proteins in ALS and FTD? We found that transcription initiates within the intron to generate a novel endogenous efficient mRNA template for RAN translation in patient neurons and mouse models 1/5| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgCryptic intronic transcriptional initiation generates efficient endogenous mRNA templates for C9orf72-associated RAN translation | PNASIntronic GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemp... 131
Reposted by Peter Toddboehninglab @boehninglab.com · 08/07/2025This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...drugdiscoverytrends.comNIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and DevelopmentDrug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation. 1216981
Reposted by Peter ToddDave Shechner @shechnerlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Hello! Ever wonder what's "talking to" your favorite transcript, but were too scared to ask? In our review in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, @mardakheh.bsky.social and I highlight new RNA-focused tools for discovering RNA interactions across organizational scales. Checkit! tinyurl.com/ydn6e3ac 311648
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025This is inspiring stuff, Jack. I stand with you in your pledge to our trainees. They need our support and they deserve our courage.trainees.to 131
Reposted by Peter ToddJason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Just got told by my NIA PO that I should probably resubmit my R01, even though it scored a 10% and is on Alzheimer’s disease. Last year’s NIA paylines were 13% for regular R01s and 16% for AD grants..so WTF?! 😭🫠 7243
Reposted by Peter ToddAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/06/2025San Diego SHOWED UP! I’ve been here for 30 years and have NEVER seen anything like this! #NOKINGS 208105211978
Reposted by Peter ToddIndivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible 299219015274
Reposted by Peter ToddJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHere Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye. 11302207
Reposted by Peter Todderic lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪 04035
Reposted by Peter ToddDmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...philanthropy.cam.ac.ukDrosophila Genetic DatabaseThe Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ... 4144147
Reposted by Peter ToddMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry. 4225253
Reposted by Peter ToddGc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out! 3422381315
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025If this comes to pass, it will cripple biomedical research and markedly reduce international student attendance at US Colleges- which will drive up education costs. 041
Reposted by Peter ToddJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025OPT provides short-term work visas for recent international graduate students in the US, allowing them to work after their student visa expires. It's a pipeline for jobs in medicine, biomedical research, education, technology, engineering, and other highly skilled work. This is very, very, bad. 6316186
Reposted by Peter ToddCathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025 181459598
Reposted by Peter ToddAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage 6547951843
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 15/05/20257 months from novel diagnosis to first dose. We are rapidly moving into a world where modular RNA based medicines, gene therapies and gene editing will be rapidly deployed, routine, and personalized to the recipient. Also- none of this happens without academic biomedical research and NIH $. 000
Reposted by Peter ToddJohn Doench @johndoench.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Amazing that this has happened. Maddening that we are actively destroying the capability to do it again. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...nytimes.comBaby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment 0338
Reposted by Peter ToddJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter. 16034041007
Reposted by Peter ToddJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...talkingpointsmemo.comOutgoing UMich Prez Santa Ono Pulls His Name from Academic Freedom LetterOver the weekend University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced that he... 134692235
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Santa Ono is willingly leaving Michigan to be a part of and party to all of this. Best of luck to him! 081
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Announcing a new CSHL Asia meeting that I am co-directing with Peng Jin from Emory on Repeat expansion diseases. I hope you can join us! Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting - Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Disease www.csh-asia.org?content/2754csh-asia.orgWELCOME-Meetings-Cold Spring Harbor Asia 000
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Sovereignty beating Journalism is a perfect summary of 2025 010
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Important to recognize these for what they are- cuts to science. Just like Tariffs are taxes on people that buy things, these cuts effectively lower how much science we do in the US - which in turn dictates our success in technology as a country. 000
Reposted by Peter ToddAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Cannot emphasize this too strongly. 212444
Reposted by Peter ToddCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/04/2025During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison. 61646343
Reposted by Peter ToddCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/04/2025Yeah, about that letter "signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised”? And then you told us to fuck ourselves? Yeah, that wasn't a real letter. We didn't mean it.nytimes.comTrump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. 2642383
Reposted by Peter ToddBen Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.” 11026605811334
Reposted by Peter ToddOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen 8869107428432
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Finally! Evidence that a scientist will be in the room when they are thinking about how to fund science. Big shoes to fill- Mike Lauer did a great job and provided clarity and transparency on NIH processes. Let's hope both Jon and his boss continue to do the same. 010
Reposted by Peter ToddJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Jon Lorsch, Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has apparently been named Acting Deputy Director for Extramural Research at NIH (Mike Lauer's position). Today was his first day...media.tenor.coma muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paperALT: a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper 49522
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The insanity of firing top scientists who have tenure and who have been employed for decades because of clerical errors in your chaotic process that you later justify as "expected" is incredible. They are not even pretending to care about impact and outcome. 010
Reposted by Peter ToddSTAT @statnews.com · 31/03/2025Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter. www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...statnews.comNearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on scienceNearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter. 923497
Reposted by Peter ToddJoachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 24/03/2025regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time: 7359185
Reposted by Peter ToddEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved 5940151641
Reposted by Peter ToddMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA 708319768473
Reposted by Peter ToddJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025“Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones….But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and choose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not.“theguardian.comAcademic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner MüllerTo begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true 216344
Reposted by Peter ToddBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This is a shameful moment in the history of the American university.wsj.comExclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal FundingColumbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities. 17462139
Reposted by Peter Todderic lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025excited to speak at my alma mater UCSD tomorrow, Mar 17, for Gene Yeo's Center of RNA Technologies & Therapeutics. Sanford Consortium 3 PM! www.sanfordconsortium.org/event-detail...sanfordconsortium.orgCenter for RNA Technologies & Therapeutics Seminar Series | Sanford ConsortiumJoin us for an exciting seminar hosted by the Center for RNA Technologies & Therapeutics featuring Eric Lai, Ph.D., as he discusses groundbreaking research in the world of RNA interference (RNAi) and ... 0211
Peter Todd @realtoddlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Congrats Sinem! Has been great having you in lab and excited to see where your career takes you! 011
Reposted by Peter ToddBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire. 452399697
Reposted by Peter ToddPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law. 590201022821