Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

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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It's been a year in the making but I am happy to announce our UNC Neurophysiology core facility is online. What do we do? Patch clamp (from almost anything), calcium imaging, ABR, EEG, and more! Ready to help labs, research institutes, and companies anywhere! Details: www.med.unc.edu/neurophyscore/

Hey you! 🧠🧪 Are you an early career neuroscientist? Do you want to learn more about publishing, share your perspectives, and strengthen the global neuroscience community? Come join the JNeuro ECR Board! Applications due July 17: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

Any old school molbio people have a copy of the 1987 paper from BMBiochemica on using Bailey’s as a blocking agent for colony hybridization?

It's already been 2 years since I defended my dissertation How the time flies!

Weather forecast in Paris has me missing USA air conditioning

Thank you everyone who reached out about Lucy. She is seriously missed, except by Roxy who never liked her anyway

Can't sleep. I miss my Lucy cat. She loved a good bedtime cuddle

Some of you have been with me since the Twitter days My sweet cat Lucy passed away today. She was young and it was unexpected Please hug your pets extra for me

MAHA: Vitamins and supplements are the key to health and longevity. Also MAHA: No, no, not the evidence based prevent your infant from bleeding in their brain one.

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Jackson: "The Court begins with NSF’s failure to articulate any rationale for divesting UCAR of stewardship over the NWSC and transferring its operations and maintenance responsibilities to another entity. This failure is dispositive."

No one who understands the value of expertise should ever have imposter syndrome again

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

One federal grant was just terminated ($1.3 million from DHS) and one was awarded but not funded ($46,748 from NOAA) due to the new federal administration priorities and executive orders. PIs, how are you addressing these situations on your CVs? 💸

Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.

13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found

New records show some Indiana data centers have reported hundreds of millions in state sales and use tax exemptions.

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BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

“agencies may consider an applicant’s history of questionable practices based on publicly available and verifiable information.” Potential perma bans for any University which ever supported any type of DEI activity.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

It's very warm in Paris ... but there are worse places to experience heat!

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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

Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say

Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled

theguardian.com

the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

@sholtodavid.bsky.social Have you seen this WB from ThermoFisher? Still anti-p53 antibody, but another clone (MA-12648 instead MA5-12557). It also looks like that the band in lane 3 was rotated and reused in lane 4. Moreover, it seems that same band was used for the 2 different clones.

Apply for our Paris Miniscope Workshop this summer: July 1-3, 2026. Come learn to record and analyze calcium imaging data with open source Miniscopes! Applications due this Friday May 22. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop Application

We're excited to invite applications for the 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop, hosted at ESPCI Paris and organized by Daniel Aharoni (UCLA), Denise Cai and Tristan Shuman (Icahn School of Medicine Mount ...

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terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF) it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support #nzpol

I am VERY disappointed to learn that the Gordon Research Conferences have capitulated to the fascists and ended their long standing "Power Hour" programs where we could speak together as a community about challenges and approaches to address the experiences of all