Starting in Spring or Summer 2027 K99/R00 (under its new activity code KT1/R00) will only be available to US citizens, permanent residents, and non-citizen nationals. I am hearing this from many program officers, but NIH has yet to make an official statement to my knowledge.

How to find your polling place for Virginia's primary elections

How to find your polling place for Virginia’s primary elections

The Aug. 4 primary elections have arrived in Virginia, where voters are selecting their preferred nominees for local races and U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Here’s how you can fin…

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Abstract deadline for the @faseborg.bsky.social neuronal experience-regulated transcription meeting extended until Aug 17. Submit for your chance to be added to this 🔥 speaker line up. Hope to see you there! 🧪#neuroskyence

Ana Pombo@apombo1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for the inaugural FASEB Scientific Research Conference on Neuronal Experience-Regulated Transcription, Oct. 5-7, 2026. Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2026

“A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said institutions that do announce reforms could be more likely to be involved in discussions around reshaping the roughly $200 billion federal research funding apparatus that is vital to higher education.” It’s extortion

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More than 65,000 people have been displaced by the Spokane Complex Fires — and hundreds have lost their homes. If you have even $5 to go towards short and long term assistance, here's a trusted community source: innovia.org

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Learn how you can bring your whole community together through the power of a shared meal. APPLY FOR A GRANT Find an event What is your America at 250? Join the mosaic, host a meal, share a story, and ...

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"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

This short-term funding bill blocks a corrupt policy that would allow Trump to hold even more federal grants hostage—and it closes House Republicans' loophole to pull funding for other agencies to give to Border Patrol. My full statement.⬇️

Senator Murray on Release of CR Text | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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“Republicans rejected killing the proposed rule outright,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray The fight is not over.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Some good news! Not a done deal, but important step. If you wondered if submitting your comments on the OMB rules change mattered, the answer is a resounding YES

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3d ago

This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!

Keep speaking up. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Good photo and updates:

R.G. Schoenberg@rgschoenberg.bsky.social · 4d ago

Spokane 4:25 pm. Snorkel helicopters are loading up in the river directly east of the wildfire. The pilots are flying in hot and bombing fire along Indian Bluff road. Homes in the road are obscured by the drifting smoke. Fire Department truck was seen along the road.

Holy crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.

Alright, throwing this into the wind. Reposts appreciated (and I don't usually say that). I am open to work in Anchorage, AK. Ideally want to make no less than around $25/hr (because with how CoL is going even that would be tight), but will seriously consider anything.

“These findings support the implementation of environmental monitoring [e.g. sludge] as a practical & cost-effective alternative to sentinel-based surveillance, improving pathogen detection while reducing animal use in accordance w/ the 3Rs principles & Directive 2010/63/EU.” New from Checco et al.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 5d ago

Environmental monitoring for pathogen detection in zebrafish housing systems using molecular techniques: A 3Rs principles-based approach https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741654v1

We're closer than ever to reauthorizing ACT for ALS. But time is running out. ACT for ALS is set to expire in September—that's next month. Our advocacy got us this far. Let's keep the pressure on until this bill is signed into law. Ask your Senators to support ACT for ALS: bit.ly/fundALS

🧠 Compulsion has a wiring diagram Flip one circuit between cortex and hypothalamus in a mouse and it stops caring about anything but nice food. In people, that same connection tracks body weight and binge eating. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... 🧪 #Neuroscience #SciComm

A cortical-hypothalamic neural circuit for compulsive eating in mice

Leow et al. identify a prefrontal-hypothalamic circuit that drives compulsive eating despite negative consequences. In mice, binge eating reshapes prefrontal neural dynamics into persistent food-seeki...

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“I did interviews [previously] saying, you know, if you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend. And that got people’s attention. This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics...” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

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Henrietta Lacks was #BOTD in 1920, and died in 1951 of cervical cancer. The cell line from her cancer contains HPV 18 integrated into her genome. Today we have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer - #OncSky + #MedSky. nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine | National Museum of African American History and Culture

"Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31. During an examination, cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent by a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospit...

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Halotag--not just for subcellular imaging!! A PET reporter ligand for quantitative imaging of gene expression in the brain | Nature Biomedical Engineering share.google/36uixewsHrYW...

A PET reporter ligand for quantitative imaging of gene expression in the brain - Nature Biomedical Engineering

A small-molecule fluorine-18 HaloTag ligand optimized for entry into the brain and covalent retention at the reporter provides a tool for non-invasive positron emission tomography quantification of gene expression in mouse models.

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Wow. European countries are boycotting FIFA competitions including the World Cup due to corruption.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience

In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...

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Happy #BlackInNeuro Week!!! 🎉✨ I’m Dr. Angeline Dukes, an Assistant Professor at the Univ of Minnesota - I split my time teaching, program directing, & creating outreach opportunities 💞 I’m helping reimagine a future where everyone has equitable access to science & academia 🧬 #BINW26 #BINRollCall

You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.

Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office

In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average ...

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Today's breakthroughs rest on yesterday's curiosity-driven science. This is why these arguments matter. It has long been understood that every transformative technology ultimately traces back to fundamental discoveries made years or decades earlier through basic research. 2/3

They really don’t and you’ll be rehiring ppl soon.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed

"America deserves a better science policy framework; one that reckons with the real challenges faced by the public and scientists today while offering clear and actionable solutions." @colesci.bsky.social @standupforscience.net www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Stand Up for Science Statement on “Science: A New Golden Age” — Stand Up for Science Foundation

  Like many of the the Trump Administration’s previous science and technology policy papers, “Science, a New Golden Age”, is a confused document disconnected from the Administration’s actions ar...

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We have two new suspects in the record cyclosporiasis outbreak: parsley and cilantro. North Carolina health department investigators found that parsley, cilantro, and lettuce appeared frequently in analyses of food eaten by people who became sick. The findings are preliminary.

The complete list of terminations so far, as well as grants with slow-rolled renewals, and the halt of new funding at grant-witness.us/ahrq-data.html As always, we need your help to report this information! Submit info on NIH or AHRQ terminations at: grant-witness.us/submit-nih-a... 🧪 #AHRQ #NIH