www.isscr2026.org Excited about #ISSCR2026! submit an abstract by 25 February 2026

The ISSCR offers Child & Dependent Care Grants for members attending ISSCR 2026 to help cover additional care costs while at the meeting. Grants are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. Apply before 4 March 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/4qZ0Spq

Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...

Dealing with ScienCV formatting

Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage

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ISSCR & Stem Cell Network are seeking nominations to form a working group of early career scientists & senior trainees in stem cell & regenerative medicine research who will provide perspectives on global workforce development. Nominations are due 5 December. Learn more 👉https://ow.ly/j8uY50Xnlzc

The ISSCR and Stem Cell Network Launch Global Regenerative Medicine Workforce Development Initiative — International Society for Stem Cell Research

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and the Stem Cell Network (SCN) are pleased to partner to lead a joint initiative and a global conversation on workforce development in regenerative medicine. Through this collaboration, the organizations will examine current challenges and op

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looking forward to #BARC2025 #RNA meeting!

rdcu.be/eMhkj excited for new paper rounding out complementary sensors for cellular iron (FEOX), and IRP activity (FIRE). let's go! sangokoyalab.org

The genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolution

Scientific Reports - The genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolution

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David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I care for children in the hospital on inpatient & consult services. Most weeks there are at least a few kids admitted with vaccine preventable diseases. Often in children who can’t get vaccinated themselves. 15 years in pediatrics and I’ve never seen a single one admitted with vaccine injury.

nice to be spotlighted by @isscr.org this month! The ISSCR is a great community for scientists, clinicians, patients, and the public -- check out www.isscr.org to learn more about stem cell initiatives +learning, public syllabi and the new Stem Cell Medicine CME course. www.isscr.org/isscr-news/m...

International Society for Stem Cell Research

The ISSCR is the largest, most respected society of stem cell researchers in the world. The non-profit organization represents 5,000 scientists, educators, ethicists, and business leaders across 80 c...

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one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Atul Butte, a visionary scientist, educator and leader whose work reshaped biomedical research and health care. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Dr. Butte’s family, colleagues, trainees and collaborators. ucsfh.org/4n25xVH

I’m proud to have presented and contributed to the curriculum in the open-access ISSCR course, Stem Cell Medicine: From Research to Patient Care, jointly provided with Harvard Medical School! This resource is a major milestone for the field at such a pivotal time. Learn more: invt.io/1bxb3fzpy35

I am a presenter in the ISSCR Continuing Education Course.

Learn more.

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To all of the young scientists feeling scared and unsure, stand strong and know many of us will keep fighting for science and your contributions. Don't give up. We got this.

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

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I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:

TV watching recommendations The lead story on 60 Minutes tonight is about NIH and concerns about damage done and continuing during the current administration. 1/2

congrats @christinahomer.bsky.social all of that BSL-3 time paying off! Dr. Homer is a great example of leadership and excellence training as a physician-scientist (soon) translating to **superstar** faculty! 🎉🎉🎉

MDPhDEquity@mdphdequity.bsky.social · last yr.

congratulations Christina Homer on your publication! another one from this outstanding @hhmi.org Hanna Gray Fellow and physician-scientist at UCSF!! @christinahomer.bsky.social

congratulations Christina Homer on your publication! another one from this outstanding @hhmi.org Hanna Gray Fellow and physician-scientist at UCSF!! @christinahomer.bsky.social

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last yr.

Coccidioides is a fungal #pathogen that forms a unique structure, the spherule. This transcriptomic study of #Coccidioides development reveals spherule-specific gene regulation, Ryp1-dependent virulence factors, and potential #antifungal therapeutic targets @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cINMpl

A tragic turn of events for understanding the health of 50.5% of our population. This has been a landmark study and such a waste to end it early and disassemble the massive infrastructure built to yield new insights into women's health.

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Virus expert Melanie Ott talks about the ongoing measles outbreak, explains how vaccination can lower the risk of Alzheimer’s, and shares other positive “side effects” of vaccines. Read more: gladstone.org/news/virolog...

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

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🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

The post- World War II US investment in R&D is one of the greatest economic and national security engines in history. As I said to @revkin.bsky.social a decade ago, “the budget is policy”. We should expand R&D, not shrink it. Broaden participation not restrict it. archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blo...

This reminded me of an experience I had when I was EiC at Science. Through a friend, I was introduced to members of the CO2 Coalition. This is a group that promotes the idea that CO2 is good for plants and, therefore, good for the planet and that demonization of CO2 was inappropriate. 1/n

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

ATTENTION Today's moment of WTF (Sorry, one of today's moments of WTF...) The EiC of CHEST received a letter from the Acting US Attorney in DC asking about misinformation, etc. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF OTHER EiCs HAVE RECEIVED SIMILAR LETTERS? DM me or on Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU