Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I’ve been having some really fun experiences with LLMs over the past year learning how to do things in software that I never thought I’d be able to learn. It’s not perfect, but I have been able to meaningfully create a workflow for my data (from acquistion to archiving) that I’ve always dreamed of 020
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Is the answer to everything not to only buy as much SLC flash as possible forever? 000
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026We are losing scientists from the government at an unprecedented rate - some were fired, but many more were forced out through trauma and fear. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 45434
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Important website nowadays downloadmoreram.com/download.htmldownloadmoreram.comDownload More RAM!Rem is best girl 000
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyKeri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Excited to share our newest project using spatial transcriptomics with novel image analysis approaches to investigate the impact of biological risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) - APOE haplotype, sex, and genomic ancestry - on molecular states in the locus coeruleus (LC 🔵) of the human 🧠. 23713
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social. By Natalia Mesa www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...thetransmitter.orgNIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past yearsBut the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow. 03923
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Brain as a computer arguments in shambles. Brain as toilet arguments reign. 1302
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyAnn Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 18122
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/08/2025Here's what this means: it's probably unlawful forPOTUS to stop NIH funds from going to medical research, but POTUS can stop that medical research for a lengthy period of time while the Court of Federal Claims hears lawsuits This, essentially, destroys the capacity for medical research in the US 4329138
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2025The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.npr.orgSupreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for nowBut the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies. 50972412
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 25/07/2025VAST is pretty neat, I’m excited to see what you accomplish with them! 010
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyCarsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Yes! Sharing neural recordings improves reproducibility and transparency, and reduces the need for new experiments - we should value it. And reuse is really happening: @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social's datasets (highlighted) have over 80k downloads! 🔥 figshare.com/authors/Nick...figshare.comNick Steinmetz 0243
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Reminder that we still have time to fight this! This bill is being crafted & debated in the coming days and weeks. Organize NOW to do outreach and get people in your neighborhood contacting their reps. @standupforscience.bsky.social has resources. Instructions for Postcards-for-Science are here:docs.google.comPostcards for Science InstructionsPostcard Drive Instructions The main goals for this outreach are: A.) Get individuals to contact their Senators to support funding for NIH, NSF, NOAA, and NASA. B.) Get the public to (continue to) ... 11511
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Moving my awesome @pugetsystems.com machine with the help of the legendary @aoracingusa.bsky.social Rexy. Gonna be the fastest (and safest) move ever 140
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.whitehouse.govRestoring Gold Standard ScienceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United 10024491047
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/20251. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.whitehouse.govRestoring Gold Standard ScienceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United 31632228
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 22/05/2025🧪 Federal science funding cuts directly threaten public services. Reduced operations at NOAA, CDC, and EPA mean compromised weather forecasts, disease surveillance, and environmental safeguards.economist.comHow cuts to science funding will hurt ordinary AmericansFederal agencies are struggling to predict the weather and monitor disease 0147
Reposted by Jeremy Delahantyanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 19/05/2025HHMI has paused consideration for a new round of its Hanna Gray postdoc fellowship Applicants feel it's the latest step in the academic pipeline contracting 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/h...statnews.comPrivate funder HHMI pauses postdoc fellowshipAs HHMI pauses Hanna Gray fellowship applications, opportunities for young scientists shrink further, making them look overseas. 1318
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyNoam Ross @noamross.net · 20/05/2025🚨 Over 700 previously undisclosed #NIH grant terminations were released this week, totaling $1.7B and nearly doubling our count of terminations to >1500. Diversity supplements for research awards are a huge fraction, as well as service awards and training programs. grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne... 12722
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025It is pretty cool. The more I use some of this stuff the more I think it’s a miracle anything works at all. 000
Jeremy Delahanty @scienceishard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I have learned that graphics programming is literally a miracle and I don’t understand how the hell people do this for a living. Just getting displays to refresh at appropriate time points if they aren’t at the same frame rate was so hard man. 110
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyAnnie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵propublica.orgTrump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records ShowA lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv... 3520931007
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The bill, which was approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, includes 20 percent less BRAIN Initiative funding than last year. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...thetransmitter.orgU.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this yearA government spending bill, approved today by the House of Representatives, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year. 01713
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt... 15549268
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects, from breast-feeding support efforts in Baltimore to mosquito-net programs in Mozambique."wsj.comJohns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant CutsLocal and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts. 15211119
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 08/03/2025Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels is preparing the Baltimore campus for the possibility of major cuts to programs and staff after seismic changes to federal funding at universities announced last month.buff.lyJohns Hopkins University president: We have little choice but to reduce some of our workIn a letter to campus, Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels appears to brace the campus for cuts. 53612
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025List includes Harvard University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern California.nytimes.comTrump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism. 17196105
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Terrific how-to on communicating the value of basic research to the public in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @tonyzador.bsky.social. You may be curious. But when you are communicating the value of what you do, it’s not about you. Point to discoveries. www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...thetransmitter.orgHow to communicate the value of curiosity-driven researchThe burden of proof is on us, as researchers, to explain why what we do is valuable to society. 05521
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyAnn Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Hi New Yorkers! Consider reaching out to Congresswoman Malliotakis, who is introducing legislation to end federal funding of animal research: malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-...malliotakis.house.govMalliotakis Introduces Legislation to End Federal Animal Testing(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and Rep. 254
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyRine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 25/02/2025While there's a lot on this that is to be seen—impacts of the chaotic smashing of govt are coming to light in bits and pieces—from my own corner, I would suggest academic associations holding conferences in the US consult with lawyers NOW and offer support/guidance for trans members. 1/2 12611
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking. 58325
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyArdem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 22/02/2025Check out the scientific journey behind the newest FDA-approved pain medication! 💊 Learn how NIH-funded research played a crucial role—both directly and indirectly—in bringing this breakthrough to life. 🧪 07124
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyNate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This is absolutely correct. Convo I had last week that is part of why I resigned: Much more senior leader: no, we still can't post FRNs. Me: Doesn't that mean we can't proceed? MMSL: correct Me: doesn't that mean we're not in compliance with the TROs? MMSL: ...um...yea, in a way... 16131
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyJanelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025🤖A novel system developed by Postdoc Dhruv Zocchi, Sr. Group Leader @mishaahrens.bsky.social & collaborators that chases larval zebrafish around an arena with predator robots is enabling scientists to understand how these days-old fish quickly learn in the real world. 🐟 🔗 hhmi.news/4bcKcDu 0239
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 19/02/2025My research group is well funded, and I'm terrified. All scientific labs run on slim margins, typically 12-24 months from running out of $. NIH is not reviewing proposals right now- the wave of labs shutting down is looming closer. All scientists are anticipating a major precipice. Options? 1/5 19451
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...npr.orgNational Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforceNSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research. 1318879
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyRick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...time.comExperts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for ScienceThe reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs. 452062904
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d... 421141554622
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyHerman Wong @hermanywong.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...thebaltimorebanner.comJohns Hopkins sues federal government over NIH fundsJohns Hopkins University joined several universities in a lawsuit on Monday evening suing the federal government over NIH funding. 251371622
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Ok this is extremely bad, like universities will have to close bad 0348
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyIshmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025WTF! So starting Monday NIH indirects to all universities moved to 15%. This would cripple schools. This is madness. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 45213
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20256. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds. 261899472
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyRick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This is the end of science as we know it if it stands—15% IDCs for all NIH Grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 69562
Reposted by Jeremy DelahantyMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Important thread. Read to the end. “The goal is to destroy US universities. ⬇️ 37116