Jeremy Borniger
@jborniger.bsky.social
Associate Prof in cancer neuroscience at CSHL; amateur astrophotographer; views are mine alone https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/jeremy-c-borniger/ 🇵🇸
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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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 · 2mo agoWhite 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
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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 · 3mo 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.
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.
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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 · 4mo agoKennedy 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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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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Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?
The findings of a study in Nature Immunology shed vital insight into the role of CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis and support an important role of Epstein–Barr virus in MS immunopathology. #Immunosky #medsky 🧪
Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis - Nature Immunology
Sabatino and colleagues examine expanded CD8+ T cell clonotypes from a small cohort of multiple sclerosis patients. They identified several cognate peptide epitopes that derive from Epstein–Barr virus, suggesting EBV reactivation may drive pathogenesis in these patients.
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"Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?" @dianabuttu.bsky.social on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’ READ: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...
Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?
Diana Buttu on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’
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Special thanks to @jborniger.bsky.social cial / Kevin Tracey for the neuroscience guidance. Grateful for support from @lustgarten.org en.org & @pancan.bsky.social ! 🎗️💜 Full paper: doi.org/10.1158/2159...
Myofibroblasts induce neuroplasticity to promote pancreatic inflammation and cancer progression
Abstract. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) co-opts the peripheral nervous system through nerve hypertrophy, axonogenesis and perineural invasion, and these processes correlate with patient morb...
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Now online in Cancer Discovery AACR Journals: Myofibroblasts Induce Neuroplasticity to Promote Pancreatic Inflammation and Cancer Progression - by Jeremy Nigri, David Tuveson, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @cshlnews.bsky.social
Sympathetic chain ganglia (T12) labeled with pseudorabies virus, showing neurons directly innervating a mammary tumor in a mouse (yellow) and tyrosine hydroxylase (magenta). Credit: Nik Holland
Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.
Janelia Conferences@janeliaconf.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 Apply by May 14 to explore peripheral nervous system function across somatic + autonomic + enteric divisions, with a focus on new methods + emerging technologies. 🛏️ Meals & lodging covered; no registration fee Apply ➡️ janelia.news/PNS26 @ardemp.bskyverified.social @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social
