Sable Systems
@sablesys.bsky.social
Thoughts, visions & revisions from John Lighton PhD, president & chief innovation officer of Sable Systems International (=the world's most advanced metabolic measurement systems)
Gutting federal research funding from America’s universities would not only dismantle the primary engine of scientific discovery in the United States, it would fundamentally change American science for generations to come. Article: zurl.co/sCa8E
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Nothing to see here: Just 292,150+ people warning about Trump Admin’s new federal rule to strip grant funding power away from experts, scientists and unbiased arbiters Instead granting power over federal grants to Trump appointees Enormous issue Comment deadline is today
I encourage everyone who has submitted comments on the hot mess that is OMB-2026-0034 to also send a copy to your congress critters. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
theverge.com
Conservative ideology is rare at universities because it is an intellectual failure. It provides no useful insights and produces no technological advances. It failed. In the biggest free market for ideas ever created, the market chose the productive route of real scholarship and real research.
"Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China... In a recent interview with Scientific American, he said that the current state of US science is 'not so encouraging.'" #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.
nature.com
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday
We’re now at >100 registrants for the 2nd #AdiposeBiology Conference. #Earlybird deadline approaching fast: July 1, 2026. Join us in Montreal 🇨🇦 on Oct 7–9, 2026. 🔗 Register before the early bird deadline at: adiposebiology.com #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social @adiposebiology.bsky.social
I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on an Australian Research Council Laureate Project on climate change responses, applying a Julia implementation of the NicheMapR package. The work could go in control theory, DEB theory or population process directions unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
Research Fellow in Biophysical Ecology
Role type: Full Time (1.0 FTE); Fixed term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of BioSciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 p.a. plus 17% super ARC-funded climate ...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
so... yay? www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater
Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a cyborg insect swarm to explore disaster zones and perhaps even Mars
newscientist.com
The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o... Free 🎁 article.
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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We tackled ultra-processed foods and how they affect our health in a three-part series today. First: @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, former senior investigator at the NIH discusses his groundbreaking study on how human bodies respond to ultra-processed foods. Take a listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
What Are Ultra-Processed Foods and What Are They Doing to Us? | WNYC
Kevin Hall discusses his groundbreaking research tracking how bodies respond to ultra-processed foods.
wnyc.org
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
My comment on the USA Office of Management & Budget's proposal that unqualified political appointees be given life & death powers over scientific research grants that they do not & cannot understand:
Are you a build engineer? Want to get in on something fucking astounding? DM me. Last chance. I’m trying not to hire the usual suspects here. Be someone different and amazing. Hit me. Let’s go.
Approaching 100 registrants for the #AdiposeBiology Conference! Due to popular demand, the early-bird deadline has been extended to July 1, 2026. Join us in Montreal 🇨🇦 | Oct 7–9, 2026 🔗Register before the early bird deadline: www.adiposebiology.com/registration #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social
Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ 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...
science.org
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-... The Creep of Politicization A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern So how much worse can the new policy be? Scientists are using apocalyptic terms, like “the end of American science as we know it.”
The Creep of Politicization
A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
donmoynihan.substack.com
"Would someone from abroad want to come to the United States to start their career in science when the NAS Presidential address repeated the structural risks of America’s apparent ‘over-reliance on foreign researchers’?" What on earth is going on at the NASEM? @joshuasweitz.bsky.social reports.
A Response to The National Academies' Vision for Science: Averting a Path Towards Mediocrity
On the National Academy of Sciences Presidential address & panel on 'The State of Science' - both what was said and the many things that were left unsaid.
joshuasweitz.substack.com
Is it pronounced ORCID 🌸 like the flower or Orc ID 👹 like an identity card for a Middle Earth monster? Smart people disagree. Personally, I pronounce it Orc ID because I like the idea that I am a science goblin with a fixed numerical identifier. @orcid.org
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Stand Up for Science Director of Policy @colesci.bsky.social breaks down the steps needed to put American Science back on the world pedestal after the Trump Admin's demolition of the scientific field. Read the article here: zurl.co/1ZCvE #Science #Trump #SaveScience #StandUpForScience
Don’t miss the @adiposebiology.bsky.social Conference in Montreal 🇨🇦 | Oct 7–9, 2026! 🔗#Earlybird deadline approaching fast: June 1, 2026 adiposebiology.com Join leaders in adipose biology, #metabolism, #obesity, #diabetes, #thermogenesis, & #development #ABC2026 @sablesys.bsky.social
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
insidehighered.com
Our new paper is out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social - about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here - journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/.... Males and females respond differently to captivity!
This study was led by soon-to-graduate PhD student #ElinPersson @biologylu.bsky.social with important contributions by @mariaagc.bsky.social at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social. As always, @sablesys.bsky.social instruments made the work far easier.
