This recent work, led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social and published in @ismepublications.bsky.social #ISMECommunications, set out to establish a framework for evaluating the accuracy of polymicrobial experimental models. doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧪🧫

My first PhD student, @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social graduated recently! Aanuoluwa is an excellent scientist and student, who has published some awesome work in @asm.org journals #msystems #iai doi.org/10.1128/msys... & doi.org/10.1128/iai..... I now want to highlight her most recent published work!

Microbiology professors/PIs, would you like to join the microPI slack? Microbiology is defined broadly. This is an open tent. Professor/PI is inclusive to teaching focused roles, or pure research PI roles like a National lab PI. Reply or DM me and I will send you a link.

"administration cannot rely on a ​White House budget ​office regulation to terminate billions ⁠of dollars in ​grants because they are ​inconsistent with his priorities" www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Trump administration cannot cancel grants for disfavored causes, US judge rules

A federal judge on Friday ​ruled that U.S. President ‌Donald Trump's administration cannot rely on a ​White House budget ​office regulation to terminate billions ⁠of dollars in ​grants because they ar...

reuters.com

Goooaaalllll!!! ⚽️

Here’s the report they handed out… diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

diabetesjournals.org

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

nytimes.com

The current President of the ADA is Harvard Medical School's Dr. Enrique Caballero. Perhaps he'd like to hear from you if you think the ADA's actions in ejecting Dr. Kahn and his colleagues from the national meeting were wrong enrique_caballero@hms.harvard.edu hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 2mo ago

Steven Kahn, director of the UW Diabetes Research Center, was removed by police from a national conference as he and others handed out copies of an editorial.

Going to be a good day at #ASMicrobe Check out two presentations from my lab: Alyssa Hamm is taking about bacterial scRNA-seq at 3:15 in 151AB Grace Heine is presenting poster MECH-SAT-496 on the role of strain- and species-level diversity in microbial interactions

Sweeping draft regulations released by OMB pose one of the most significant threats to federally funded research in decades. The proposal would affect nearly every aspect of the scientific process. Read more: https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/federal-research-regulations-threat-american-science/

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

This functionally ends science in the United States.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

This has been bubbling up for a while. If enacted, it will formalize the illegal termination of grants and undermine the federal government's role as a trusted partner in accelerating R&D. How do teams plan, hire, and build over the long-term if OMB builds in punishment as a precondition?

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For this, read the whole section "Section 200.340 —Termination and suspension" TL:DR - any grant can be terminated at any time for any reason.

The University of Washington Department of Microbiology seeks to hire an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track. apply.interfolio.com/185622 We're interested in mechanistic approaches to study physiology and/or pathogenesis of bacteria and viruses, as well as microbial community interactions.

This is a disaster. Science is an international endeavor. Major steps forward happen through serendipity and collaboration. Grants fund science, but people -- Americans and non-Americans, both in our country and overseas -- create science. That makes us healthier, richer, and safer.

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year

Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.

nature.com

Made it to #ksbeyondantibiotics26. Saw wildlife right away!

Major update from #SCIMaP, including * Impact analysis of White House's FY 2027 proposed cuts to NIH and NSF. * Fact sheets showing impacts in Congressional districts. * New analysis on how baseline science funding benefits the economy and jobs in local communities. More via scienceimpacts.org

Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP)@scienceimpacts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide. See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org #SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

#microsky

Carolyn Ibberson@cbibberson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to have our newest paper out in ISME Communications led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🧪🦠🧫 @ismepublications.bsky.social

Excited to have our newest paper out in ISME Communications led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🧪🦠🧫 @ismepublications.bsky.social

This is more than 10X the NIH budget. But “Efficiency” and “Getting rid of wasteful spending”

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SCOOP: Trump aides are struggling to spend an extra $500 billion on the military, delaying budget Trump agreed to Hegseth’s bid for *~50%~* military spending boost Vought & others objected internally It’s so much $ they can’t figure out how to spend it www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is more than 10.5 NIH budgets. Absolutely outrageous when they gutted NSF and destroyed USAID. For what?

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SCOOP: Trump aides are struggling to spend an extra $500 billion on the military, delaying budget Trump agreed to Hegseth’s bid for *~50%~* military spending boost Vought & others objected internally It’s so much $ they can’t figure out how to spend it www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“We cannot pursue our mission to improve the health and well-being of all Americans while DHS agents are murdering, assaulting, and terrorizing people who call this country home…We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Read the Save HHS open letter! www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...

Read the Save HHS open letter! www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...

Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.