I am hiring RAs! This position will be ideal for ppl looking for a post-bacc position to gain extensive research experience in neuroscience before to a PhD, MD, or MD/PhD program. If you are interested in, please email your CV through my website (eugene-lee-lab.com).

I am very happy to share that I am joining the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Jan 2027! (eugene-lee-lab.com)

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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We are officially an NIH-funded lab!! Super grateful for my NIA K22 Career Transition Award 🥳 It will support setting up the initial research program in our new lab at Rutgers, investigating the fascinating biology of big tau. As always, big thanks to my mentors/collaborators 🙏

But for now, I want to thank every collaborators, lab members and my mentor. This was a great teamwork with all the experts.

Eugene Lee@eugenelee1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As we all know, endolysosmal pH is essential for cellular homeostasis and disruption of this system may lead to many diseases including neurodegeneration. How do they mechanistically link to diseases? Are there more pH sensors spatiotemporally regulated? Many questions remained.

As we all know, endolysosmal pH is essential for cellular homeostasis and disruption of this system may lead to many diseases including neurodegeneration. How do they mechanistically link to diseases? Are there more pH sensors spatiotemporally regulated? Many questions remained.

Eugene Lee@eugenelee1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share my work published! We show proton efflux from endosomes is NOT just a consequence of endosomal maturation, but acts more as a signaling molecule that regulates endosomal trafficking through pH-sensitive Rab7 GAP, TBC1D5. @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share my work published! We show proton efflux from endosomes is NOT just a consequence of endosomal maturation, but acts more as a signaling molecule that regulates endosomal trafficking through pH-sensitive Rab7 GAP, TBC1D5. @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ll be recruiting motivated and passionate people at all levels. If our lab’s research mission interests you, come build something new with us! Feel free to contact me at dc.chung(at)rutgers(dot)edu 📨

I’m excited to share that I'll be joining the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University-New Brunswick as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in January 2026! Thrilled to launch my independent lab and be part of this vibrant research community 💖 #newPI

Hi All. First, thank you SO much for your support. Words cannot express our gratitude. Sadly, I had to delete my Venmo post bc of attempts to steal my account. But we’ve received a lot of help and in time will be ok. Please consider donating to TMA below. They’ve helped us and other families.

Will Booker@wbooker.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey Luanne! Yes, here's a venmo/cash app info for TMA. Thanks so much!

Today CLS objected to the proposed politicization of staff positions at US Science Agencies, particularly program managers whose expertise is critical to a strong and vibrant innovation ecosystem. #ScheduleF

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

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“Harvard is prohibited from having any aliens on F- or J-nonimmigrant status” To be clear, this includes international postdocs as well as international students. (I was at Harvard on a J-1 visa for two years.) Thinking of all my fabulous colleagues over in Cambridge, Mass.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

REMINDER.....REMINDER......REMINDER 3 DAYS LEFT TO COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1/n

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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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This is a pitch-perfect version of the argument we all need to be making. Thank you so much, Stirling and Jack.

Stirling Churchman@stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · last yr.

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

The Senate Committee on Appropriations is holding a hearing on Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation on April 30 at 10:30am ET, chaired by Senator Susan Collins 🧪 www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

The Smallest State also #standupforscience in this cold gusty day. Science has been always supported from both parties until now, bc it is for all of us.

Good discussion by @oiyanpoon.bsky.social & @janellewong.bsky.social about the racist ploy to use Asian American students & families to threaten colleges over admissions, diversity, & who is framed as ‘deserving’ of attending highly rejective institutions. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

On affirmative action, Asian Americans got played (opinion)

Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong write.

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Your Action Is Needed! Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy www.ascb.org/science-poli...

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...