As Office of Management & Budget Director, Russell Vought continues to knowingly & willfully break the law. Yesterday, he again attempted a pocket rescission of almost $1B, alerting Congress of plan not to use appropriated funds with too little time for them to act. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

Trump Proposes $810 Million in Education and Health Cuts, Defying Congress

The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers.

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The eastern veil. 25h HaOiiiRGB app.astrobin.com/i/rwe4wn #astrophotography

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

Deeply saddened to learn of the death of my colleague Terri Grodzicker. She was an amazing molecular biologist who did fundamental work on adenovirus. Many will know her as the charismatic long-time editor of Genes & Development and organizer of CSHL meetings 1/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_G...

The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.

Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

apply.interfolio.com/192073 Hear Ye, Hear Ye! @cshlnews.bsky.social is looking to hire a new faculty member in multi-systems biology! cancer neuroscience, brain-body interactions, microbiome-host interactions, neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology, and related fields. Apply below!

The dark gecko LRGBHa 44h, app.astrobin.com/i/arya5p #astrophotography

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting. They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial. 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

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Iris nebula , 20 Hours LRGB #astrophotography

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 4mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

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

Wow. Thanks for alerting the community to this. This would be a total assassin peer review. There would be no transparency, so no accountability for funding decisions. Under these circumstances, we should all refuse to serve as reviewers.

New Comment by Awsan Bahattab & colleagues—Transforming the humanitarian system: our role to confront embedded inequities 🔗 spkl.io/63328AhtJo

The impact of this on academia will be devastating. We have so many international scholars getting green cards via their employment (myself included). Having to leave their jobs for weeks and months for a consular application is going to be so disruptive.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

A triplet in Leo. #astrophotography

It’s begins today! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... @cshlnews.bsky.social

Brain Body Physiology

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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www.nature.com/articles/s41... happy to be part of this awesome work from @helenxhou.bsky.social ‘s lab. Her group built a highly sensitive system to detect and quantify minute changes in mouse facial movements, providing insight on underlying brain states.

Cheese3D enables sensitive detection and analysis of whole-face movement in mice - Nature Neuroscience

The authors developed Cheese3D, a hardware–software framework for precise and sensitive measurement of whole-face movements in mice that enables quantitative inference of neural and physiological proc...

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The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls.

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

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Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

wapo.st

What are the current and emerging topics in Cancer Neuroscience, and what comes next for the field? In our new review, now online @cp-cell.bsky.social, we discuss previous and ongoing research from leading laboratories and propose future directions for research. 🧠🔬 Curious? See link below 😀👇

Cancer neuroscience: The past, the present, and the road ahead

Both the nervous system and cancer-intrinsic neural features can govern cancer initiation, growth, progression, metastasis, and treatment resistance, …

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i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 6mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

This isn’t a “could face” situation. It’s a “are facing” situation. And brain drain will continue to happen as long as we undermine science in the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

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www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... destruction of Pasteur institute is disgusting

How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines

The Pasteur Institute of Iran is one of several healthcare facilities in the country to be targeted.

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On the cover, our latest Editorial—'Childhood cancer: progress, but not enough' Read this & more in our latest issue ▶️ spkl.io/63328AF70M

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...

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Leaders in academic circles seem to want to downplay just how bad things are at NIH and for science in the US. Not sure if this is naivety... Bhattacharya is quite a good propagandist and sounds reassuring. But certainly folks in academia are paying close enough attention to see through his lies?

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers

Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

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Thanks to Francesco De Virgilis & Christoph Scheiermann for writing a great Preview on our recent paper www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 😀

Lost rhythms: Breast cancer hijacks neuronal circuits that blunt GC rhythms to promote tumor progression

In this issue of Neuron, Gomez et al. report that breast cancer disrupts diurnal glucocorticoid oscillations by disinhibiting hypothalamic CRH neurons. Time-specific neuromodulation restores rhythms a...

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