Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. I celebrated by having a senior man attend a meeting with me to repeat everything I say and back me up on leadership decisions. 🫠

Rarely have I been less surprised than I am by the move of the American Chemical Society to delete its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. The organization that has never taken a stand on anything has continued that trend.

This is the text of the Montana bill banning mRNA vaccines. Scientifically inaccurate. Conceptually incoherent. Fearmongering nonsense. So it will likely pass. 🚨We MUST work together to do more to counter this bunk. Rise up for reason!🚨

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

HHMI just cancelled our grant. We were in the second year of developing programs to retain students from all backgrounds in STEM. All that work, all that energy…..I am profoundly disappointed. Well-funded HHMI labs, what do you think of dismantling funding for these training programs?

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last yr.

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

Oh great… the same new PIs who were hit by a global pandemic just as they started are now trying to renew their grants and get tenure when the funding agencies are actively being destroyed. But sure.... that COVID tenure clock extension reeaaallly made a difference....