My little outlook on how our lungs 🫁 are like the sea 🌊 is finally out in Central Science. Thanks to the support from incredible mentors @rommieamaro.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social !!

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 8mo ago

A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Fascinating outlook on similarities in aerosolization of microbes from the ocean surface and respiratory tract fluid by Dommer @rommieamaro.bsky.social @kprather.bsky.social

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 8mo ago

A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Happy to share the latest from the lab, led by Daniel Alvarez, in collaboration with @lizconibear.bsky.social‬. In this AA-MD tour-de-force, we delve deep into the mechanism and energetics of lipid uptake by bridge-like lipid transfer proteins, and we learn a few interesting things along the way...

bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · last yr.

The molecular mechanism of lipid uptake by membrane-anchored bridge-like lipid transfer proteins. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668188v1

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding

The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

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Given that OMB is part of the Executive Office of the President, this should read "after intervention by OTHER top White House Officials."

Liz Essley Whyte@lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · last yr.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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WSJ story about OMB blocking NIH spending and grant making www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1/n

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

wsj.com

Did you know about the BPS Bridging Funds Program? If you're a biophysicist navigating a difficult time, this program is for you to defray costs for attending the BPS Annual Meeting! I am grateful to the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for supporting our members! www.biophysics.org/2026meeting/...

“Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

politico.com

NEW from me at STAT: We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c... 🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML

AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short

Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.

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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...

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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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ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle

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🚨. I've been mostly off social media for a bit (mental health) but this is very important!!!!! Please comment and circulate to everyone you know for comments!!!

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

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

Reminiscing about our Airborne Institute event last week. Having @carlzimmer.com attend & sign his book Air-borne made the day beyond extra special at UC San Diego. We are ready to take on airborne disease and push beyond the place the world has been stuck for 200+ years! @rommieamaro.bsky.social

Trump administration freezes $1B for Cornell, $790M for Northwestern.

Trump administration freezes $1B for Cornell, $790M for Northwestern

Cornell is the sixth Ivy League institution to face a federal funding freeze.

politico.com

It's #NationalBeerDay 🍻 Enjoy some of the chemistry behind the brewing while you watch the markets slide 📉 www.compoundchem.com/2014/07/10/b... #ChemSky 🧪

More updates on what’s happening to federally funded US science. Roughly the same magic touch Trump has brought to world trade, actually. Today’s examples are on drug-resistant gonorrhea and vaccine approvals, both of which are going to hell.

The Continuing Crisis, Part XI: Feral Children, Breaking Things

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Just as our new Public Health Lab - which was built on key lessons learned during COVID - was set to open, the necessary funding for its operation was just pulled by DOGE/HHS. That operation, critical to safety and public health in San Diego. Gone. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/04/s...

San Diego to take a $40 million hit in federal funding for public health

Ninety-one grant-funded positions could be affected by cancellation of grants.

sandiegouniontribune.com

We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇. That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.

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Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · last yr.

Just as our new Public Health Lab - which was built on key lessons learned during COVID - was set to open, the necessary funding for its operation was just pulled by DOGE/HHS. That operation, critical to safety and public health in San Diego. Gone. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/04/s...

Powerful new Washington Post story up... wapo.st/426d9fT (Gift link) 1/n

Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.

NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.

wapo.st

This is particularly awful The F awards are US biomedical workforce training awards Their agenda to destroy the future of biomedical science on full display here

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

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals) Oof! 3/n

Run BioEmu in Colab - just click "Runtime → Run all"! Our notebook uses ColabFold to generate MSAs, BioEmu to predict trajectories, and Foldseek to cluster conformations. Thanks @jjimenezluna.bsky.social for the help! 🌐 colab.research.google.com/github/sokry... 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Google Colab

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Wow. California State University, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego and U of SF are ALL urging foreign-born students, faculty and staff to reconsider international travel because there's no telling whether the Trump administration will allow them to re-enter. www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

Trump travel ban: California colleges urge international students to rethink travel plans

At least one university said it doesn't recommend international travel as a possible travel ban that could impact more than 40 countries looms.

desertsun.com

Turns out a colander works pretty well for eclipse spotting. #SolarEclipse

Peak occlusion at about 11:05 GMT. Light cloud, which gives a halo effect.

Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)

🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

UPDATE: RECOVER Long COVID pathobiology grants restored - The Sick Times

Long COVID research grants from the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER program will be restored following news stories about their abrupt cancellations and advocacy to restore the funding, accord...

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