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I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

Congratulations to Animesh Kar in the lab for his single-handedly written commentary on a nice paper showing the role of PAPOLA in AML!!! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social @natcancer.nature.com rdcu.be/ftTmT

A polyadenylation enzyme rewires metabolism to fuel AML

Nature Cancer - mRNA polyadenylation is a tightly controlled process, but its role in cancer remains poorly understood. A study now shows that the RNA-modifying enzyme poly(A) polymerase α...

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Who would have guessed!? 🙄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another red alert for American science

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

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Trump Slashed Funding for Science. Now the U.S. Faces a Costly Brain Drain. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Trump Slashed Funding for Science. Now the U.S. Faces a Costly Brain Drain.

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That’s one hell of a cover…..

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Proud of Chris being the first PhD minted from the Lab jointly with @hkhiabanian.bsky.social! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social

SO much on point, thanks for pushing back Zoltan! www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

New approach methodologies: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

The NIH has recently called for expanding use of new approach methodologies (NAMs) to reduce use of animals in research. Arany discusses the need not to forget the irreplaceable aspects of animal rese...

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This week's cover @thelancet.com

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

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NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

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Is your funding for hematology research "Between a rock and a hard place" #fightforhematology funds from ASH members and fans now provide a new program: A R C H hematology.org/awards/caree... NOTE: Are you doing well? .....your donations go 100% to lab support in the ARCH program.

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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No more calling them ICE. Time to call them Trump’s Death Squads.

I just withdrew my application for the NIGMS Director position....

From A1 percentile 10th to A0 ND…🤯

Here is the curve for new and competitive renewal (Type 1 and Type 2) awards. This reveals that only very few (42) new and competitive renewal awards have been made thus far in fiscal year 2026. This compares with more than 1200 through the same date in previous fiscal years. 3/6

How am I supposed to live in the same country with people who believe or say such things, or with people who choose such representatives? Fundamentally incompatible. This faction of US politics has to be defeated and has to face justice for its actions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Rep. Randy Fine: "If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved."

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer - Nature

How the complex interplay between multiple nutrients within the microenvironment dictates potential sites of metastatic cancer growth is explored.

nature.com

When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!

Dr Kathleen Millen@neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

New @science.org today Discovery of a genomic variant that protects against blood cancer by reducing risk of CHIP (blood stem cell mutation clones, common with aging) @bloodgenes.bsky.social @kharaslab.bsky.social science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Inherited resilience to clonal hematopoiesis by modifying stem cell RNA regulation

Somatic mutations that increase the fitness of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) drive their expansion in clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and predispose individuals to blood cancers. Population variation in t...

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Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.