Postdocs with student loans: NIH has a loan repayment program you may be able to apply for (these really are getting funded!). Applications due Nov 19: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Sharing in hopes that anyone with connections in the Caribbean can spread the word to keep an eye out for my good friend Liz. Elizabeth Waddell has been missing in Grenada since Wednesday afternoon, July 22nd. (Note, Liz is actually around 5 feet tall and has short, bleach blonde hair.)

“They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.” This is about money, and power and revenge- and arguing otherwise is a waste of time. www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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@dereklowe.bsky.social on point with no sugar coating 👏 👏 👏 www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

The OMB Rule would facilitate this sort of politicization of scientific research. Pressure to find support for their political positions rather than discovering what is likely true and what is not.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

🧪If you’re feeling defeatist and tempted to brush this off because you think they’ll ignore it, know that it can still move the needle for legislators and serve as evidence in future legal challenges. It doesn’t have to be profound. I posted my call to reject these proposed changes, you should too.

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 3w ago

341,699 comments as of yesterday. Today is the deadline. Your voice impacts the future of US research & science. Please submit a comment if you haven't already.

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

nature.com

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

Every missing grant should have gone to someone. Last week @science.org reported that the NSF cut research by 20-30%. That's maybe why only ~12% of 2025's grant total had been awarded by June 15 2026 (~70% through the fiscal year). Funding can be restored. Lost scientists? Not so much. More 👇

Is the NSF slashing research to fund a tech initiative?

Also: SciAm sold, two Max Planck papers retracted, a big study links AI to skill atrophy in schoolkids, and more from last week

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Emily Bruce@brucelab.bsky.social · last mo.

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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ALASKAN SCIENTISTS: COME FORTH! YOU ARE NEEDED ON THE FRONT LINES!

Check out my minireview published as part of JVI’s New Voices in Virology collection on why translation shouldn’t stop at “bench to bedside.” Some of the most important insights on zoonotic spillover come from closing the loop between the laboratory and the field. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Going wild: prioritizing experimental models of rodent-borne viruses to decode zoonotic spillover and pandemic risk | Journal of Virology

Rodents have been a cornerstone of medical research since the 17th century, with their use formalized alongside the development of fancy mice into familiar inbred mouse strains in the early 1900s (1)....

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“Breakthroughs such as lenacapavir depend on years of publicly funded basic research, work that is essential… but too uncertain to attract sustained private investment… Sundquist's lab was funded by the NIH for 12 years, during which time his team made these significant discoveries”

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Great write up of our recent H3N2 story (led by @allysonturner.bsky.social and Sara Jaffrani) from @oliviagieger.bsky.social at @vtdigger.bsky.social vtdigger.org/2026/06/07/o.... Federal funding supports fundamental scientific research that employs & trains Vermonters and reveals new science!

One UVM lab’s surprise discovery led to flu science breakthrough - VTDigger

Proteins in the two most common types of flu virus enable them to take very different paths to entering human lungs, a finding that could lead to more directed antiviral treatments.

vtdigger.org

This work is now published at JVI (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...), with some new data (effect is mediated by HA, and is not a consequence of bulk down regulation of cell surface sialic acid levels) and an additional first author (Sara Jaffrani!)

Rab11B is required for binding and entry of recent H3N2, but not H1N1, influenza A isolates | Journal of Virology

Influenza A is a major human pathogen, which poses risks through both the continuous circulation of “seasonal” influenza viruses (H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes) as well as the emergence of novel pandemic str...

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Emily Bruce@brucelab.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very excited to share the latest work from my group, led by @ahturner934.bsky.social. We revisited one of my favorite proteins (Rab11) and its role in influenza infection& discovered surprising new things. Rab11B is required for entry of current H3N2 isolates! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This rule allows your taxpayer dollars to be spent in secret, by political appointees & disregards the independent scientific judgement of experts. It will will rob you and your loved ones of future cures and unimagined discoveries, and leave the country unprepared for the challenges we face.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A proposed Trump policy would put Russ Vought in charge of American science. Its an example of the slow creep of politicization into processes that both parties traditionally understood as needing nonpartisan and expert guidance. What can you do about it? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-...

Apply to be a NIH PO. Open application portal, closes June 5th. www.usajobs.gov/job/870714000

Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer)

Join one of the 24 Institutes and Centers within the NIH that awards extramural grants! Extramural grants account for approximately 80 percent of NIH's budget and are awarded to investigators at more ...

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One week left to apply for two 3-year postdocs in the lab on molecular mechanisms of Burkholderia pathogenesis. Posts associated with Magdalen College. Our lab is based in the Dunn School of Pathology with amazing collaborators at Oxford and MORU magdalencareers.pinpointhq.com/postings/c90...

Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Researchers- The deadly enigma of melioidosis: Decoding the pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei.

Job Opening: Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Researchers- The deadly enigma of melioidosis: Decoding the pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei. at Magdalen College in Central Oxford.

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Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Here a clear instructions on how to write a good comment about how you would be personally harmed by the new OMB rule that would drastically reshape American science. Comments from people at any career stage are valuable! Members of the public too!

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents. As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.

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

reeserichardson.blog

If you wish to submit a public comment on this, you can do so at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM.... Public comments regarding the legality of the rule, how arbitrary and capricious the changes are, negative impacts on cities and states, etc can be used as evidence in subsequent lawsuits.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Emergency Science Meeting by Stand Up for Science

[discussing OMB-2026-0034?]

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