Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.

BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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I'm honored to receive the @ascbiology.bsky.social WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research! Thank you to my lab team, my @berkeleymcb.bsky.social mentors and nominators, and my family for their support.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to all the winners and particularly @wallaceucsf.bsky.social, @samlewis.bsky.social, @veronicasegarra.bsky.social, @mattwelchlab.bsky.social and @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social! 🥳🎉🎊

“Republicans rejected killing the proposed rule outright,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray The fight is not over.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

I just contacted my Uni's Provost office about this and they are now working on a clear policy, all they have is recommended language for Syllabi but it needs to be something more official to have legal weight!

yorick@helloyorick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mad all over again that in my capacity as a faculty committee chair, I contacted our campus lawyer to ask for help drafting a campus policy about illicit recording (we're a two-party state) and he totally fobbed me off with "lol not my job, good luck tho"

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Well, this explains A LOT www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Triplex DNA and inverted repeats cause long-read sequencing bias against simple satellite DNA

We recently showed that Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) have very strong sequencing bias against simple satellites, probably caused by single-stranded DNA folding i...

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why on Earth would we do this??? "de-prioritize 'life sciences,' which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

LOL, "historically accurate." This is a story set 3,000 years ago that features Greek gods, a cyclops, a multi-headed sea monster, and a witch who turns a crew of men into pigs.

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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America's R1 universities educate ~8–9 million students (undergraduate + graduate) -> more than 1/3 of U.S. college students (vs. the ~0.6% of Ivies). Undermining this system threatens the institutions that train our workforce and drive scientific innovation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An American research crisis with real human consequences

Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on aca...

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🧪https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz6477

An American research crisis with real human consequences

Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on aca...

science.org

In their Review, Alexandra Edwards and Elizabeth Finn discuss how genome organisation underlies evolution and development. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Congratulations to Mellone Lab graduate student Tyler McDermott on successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🔬🧬 His work reveals how a conserved retroelement targets centromeres in Drosophila, shedding light on a phenomenon that occurs across taxa. Preprint coming soon! #PhDdone #proudPI

This was me in 2023, quoted in Nature. Now see how things are going. When will the academic community wake up collectively & notice what is done to our scientific eco system. Resits. Organize. Refuse to play along. Fight slop. Take principled stands. 🖋️ openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3y ago

"LLMs are too ethically murky to include in scientific publishing. A main concern lies in the way LLMs work: by trawling Internet content without concern for bias, consent or copyright, says Iris van Rooij, a cognitive scientist at Radboud University …” www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/2

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

Manuscripts with women as corresponding authors are less frequently sent out for review at Science. The ones reviewed receive less favorable reviews by both male and female reviewers.

Javi Ibarrondo@jibarrondo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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📣 Abstract submission deadline for CSHL TEs extended to July 24! Two more weeks to submit your abstract for a short talk or poster — do it! It’s gonna be a fantastic meeting!! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Transposable Elements

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Cedric Feschotte@cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky Abstract deadline: July 10 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Last year, the Trump Administration terminated or froze nearly 4,000 research grants, totalling some $3 billion—only restoring about half after being sued by several institutions. A new proposal is poised to even further politicize research efforts. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/SrkuX-

An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.

newyorkermag.visitlink.me

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

An exciting day for TE research and open science. #tesky

RepeatMasker Project@repeatmasker.bsky.social · last mo.

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

Meiotic CENP-C supports #centromere assembly and #kinetochore recruitment in #spermatogenesis. New study form Rachel S. Keegan, Dina Malkeyeva, Meg B. Weever, and Elaine M. Dunleavy @uniofgalway.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellCycle #CellDivision #Development #Meiosis #Drosophila

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Having kids in grad school comes with more costs for women than men. "Citation scores for women who started to have children before the age of 30 were 14% lower than comparable men and 21% less than women who waited until their late 30s to start having children." www.science.org/content/arti...

Having a child during grad school is especially hard on women

New study highlights the need for more institutional support for parents

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Timeline cleanser ⚽️

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last mo.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/...