Read the whole article - but also bring it to your departments, your unions, your senate committees.
Opinion | The Faculty Workload Myth
Politicians think faculty members don’t teach enough. Here’s what the data says.
chronicle.com
Metabo_Dave
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Mourning the days when all we talked about was font choice, reference styles and glam humping.
This is reducing administrative burden? What is this, the fourth version of the DMS?
I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · 6d agoGuidance on new DMS plans. Applications under review will need to submit new ones with JIT, new plans will be expected with RPPRs for active awards. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
"Unlike most presidential science advisers, Mr. Kratsios is not a scientist. He has a background in Silicon Valley, where he worked at an investment fund run by Peter Thiel.." I mean, what in the absolute fuck are we doing here?
Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her)@karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 2w agoYeah so this is not good. Thanks to @jeremymberg.bsky.social For speaking out…I would argue that great strides have been made in human health and this is a bad direction to go in…… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
"The researchers’ legal team is now asking the judge in the case to skip a trial and formally declare that the White House repeatedly violated the constitution, including the First Amendment. A court hearing on whether that’ll happen is scheduled for Oct. 20." Any openings before October 20th? 🙄
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w agoA reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
Wait, I thought Amgen scientists were the ones concerned about rigor of the academic literature? 🤔 Medical journal retracts paper on Amgen’s Tavneos drug trial after FDA findings | Reuters share.google/O119v7aPjBH5...
Medical journal retracts paper on Amgen’s Tavneos drug trial after FDA findings
The New England Journal of Medicine on Monday retracted an article on a pivotal clinical trial that supported approval of Amgen’s rare-disease drug, citing concerns that patient outcome data were al...
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Had all 4 PhD students graduate in the last year. Found a soft landing for a tech that’s been in the lab for 5 years. Down to one half time staff scientist and 2 undergrads. Will rehire if one of my pending grants hits, and will operate with a skeleton crew if not.
We are also fortunate to have an active R01, but natural movings-on (promotion, grad., end-of-window, etc.) will have us down 3/8 by end of summer. R01 with second-best R01 IS of my career sitting on the weak side of limbo. Right now we can't replace value/production on good projects. It sucks.
Just got an R01 and an R21, but I have several folk who already left and a couple others I managed to maintain for a bit on a combo of bridge and (very) limited endowment funds, so we'll likely be stable
We are facing the inevitable reduction in force in my lab in the new year. I'm lucky that I've managed to get a new R01, but getting historically fundable scores on other apps (but no funding given paylines) won't be enough. How is everyone else doing right now? How many people are we losing?
NIH seeks input on capping grant awards drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/n...
NIH seeks input on capping grant awards
The NIH has posted a request for input on a proposal to limit the number of grant awards a given PI may hold at any one time. NOT-OD-26-086 Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Si…
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RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-086: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity a...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator ...
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If Cell Signaling Technology doesn't have the antibody you want, proceed with caution.
The good thing about the Thermo Fisher scandal is that there is such a vibrant industry full of independent suppliers that are just primed and ready to do business with us.
Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
medpagetoday.com
I mean, nobody is surprised by this.....right????
Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
"Uncertain federal funding means that next year, MIT may have about 500 fewer graduate students helping us to push the scientific frontier and preparing to contribute to society as scientists, inventors, designers, and entrepreneurs."
MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart
“This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,” writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
statnews.com
I heard that the the NIA is only moving grants forward with scores of 2%ile or less. I hope that's not true.
HR departments at universities just confuse the hell out of me.
New deep dive from me into the anti-science movement, it's structure, tactics, and impact on science and society. Some data analysis, unique testimonies, new infographics and also a first attempt at outlining broadly-agreed upon actions how to fight back. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
We need to talk about the anti-science movement
6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back
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Project 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124…
How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
nytimes.com
Bhattacharya Appropriation Oversight Hearing drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/b...
Bhattacharya Appropriation Oversight Hearing
NIH testifying to Congress on 03/17/2026 [YouTube Link] 20:18 – lauding NIH funded research for the latest highly promising HIV medications which have the potential for an eradication success…
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"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.
The only thing we can control is submitting the best proposals we can and max out the 6 sub per year limit, and go in as Co-Investigator on as many other proposals as possible. Maximize the chances by maximizing submissions. Everything else is up to the fates and not worth spending mental energy on