Science Gorilla
@sciencegorilla.bsky.social
Loves science. Willing to stand up and speak out for it. Really just wants to be in lab but here to scream into the void.
COLUMBUS!!! Mike Carey hasn't held a town hall in years (if ever), so we're doing it for him!! Join us, Tuesday, Sept. 1st at 6:30pm in Columbus, Ohio at the Plaza Columbus at Capitol Square, 75 East State St, Columbus, OH 43215. Visit the link to sign up and for more info: zurl.co/X0OE8
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NIH must "open scientific careers to skilled craftspeople and practitioners" drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/n...
NIH must “open scientific careers to skilled craftspeople and practitioners”
The regime has published a “Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery” and the website lists four bullet points they call “key pillars” …
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“The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign...
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3mo agoUsing an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.
🚨OMB Director Russell Vought is about to testify before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services & General Government! 🚨 We'll be live skeeting the hearing - follow along below!! 🧵:
15,583 comments so far - have you added yours yet?
Coleen Murphy@ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 4mo agoUp to 6771 now - let's get to 10k!
Important detail: "100 of the same comment count as one comment. Please note, the comment should be PERSONALIZED by you in order to be counted."
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4mo agoImagine that the only labs that remain open and receive (ample) funding are those: - With only American citizens in their labs; - With no international collaborators; - Who have never participated in a protest or donated to a Democratic campaign; - Whose research aligns with Trump’s priorities.
Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
NSF imposes stricter conflict-of-interest rules for grant-review panels
Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency
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This just out in Diabetes Care. The need to highlight the destructive plans of the administration continues. Everyone needs to post comments to the OMB website. Relevant links in the article. Don’t delay!! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Please Tell Me It Is Only a Nightmare—The Proposed Dismantling of the United States Federal Research Infrastructure
Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, John B. Buse, Elizabeth Selvin, Vanita R. Aroda, Seth A. Berkowitz, Matthew J. Crowley, Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, Meg
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Today marks one year since the Bethesda Declaration, a letter of dissent issued by employees at NIH to protest severe budget cuts of medical research and the implementation unqualified leadership. Unfortunately, little has changed since then; 27 UNIHTED has an excellent piece on this: zurl.co/A2PjF
Bethesda Declaration One Year Later — 27 UNIHTED
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Looking for a good way to piss off ol' yam tits? Attend a No Kings concert on his birthday! 🥳 June 14: Rise Up, Sing Out 🚫 👑 www.nokings.org/
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.
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From @medpagetoday.com, further repercussions from the silencing of scientists. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
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50,000 page views/PDF downloads and counting Full blown Streisand effect in play diabetesjournals.org/care/article... #ADAGate continues #ADA2026
The milquetoast statement from ADA about their actions on Friday: diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...
The American Diabetes Association’s Statement Regarding Nonpartisanship | American Diabetes Association
As many of you are now aware, an incident took place at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Scientific Sessions.
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By "innovate or die" she means that researchers who are not current ideological targets should capitulate to authoritarians in exchange for funding and look the other way while they purge your colleagues, destroy the US research enterprise, and reroute the money to politically favored corporations.
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe past year has been “filled with turmoil” for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address
Taking a different tact to reaching Director Bhattacharya. Just wrote to the Deputy Director for Public Affairs, Office of Communications and Public Liaison Chief (Acting), Strategic Communications and Media Relations Branch (and cc'ed the NIH Director). 1/2
IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING: WALK OUT. Do NOT allow your home society to be a tool of fascism. Stand up. Walk out. #Standupforscience @standupforscience.net
Are you a scientist attending this meeting? Walk out. Are you a physician attending this meeting? Walk out. If you're silent, you're complicit. Use your voice.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4mo agoMembers 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...
Stopping Vought’s proposed rule will be critical to save science and future cures. @standupforscience.net created an action center to help you comment and contact Congress. Time to get loud! fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...
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I've been using the No AI version of DuckDuckGo and am impressed with the results. It seems to favor reliable sites and has a clean interface: noai.duckduckgo.com
I really don’t know why anyone would bring up AI at a commencement address. They’re supposed to be honoring the students who worked for years to get to graduation. What place does a computer program have there? “I want to talk today about Microsoft Excel…”
In today's 3-hour pod, Gruberman Lab makes our first foray into the peptide revolution. We delve into the science of BPC-157 and thymosin, where to inject them, how to maximize your gym gains, and how to manage uncontrollable diarrhea with max doses. #menshealth
Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"
Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...
NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts
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wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 5mo agoI find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
Reviewing Course Evaluations: The Drinking Game
“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...
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