This plan will make peer review less transparent and more confusing to applicants and program staff. Y'all killed it on the OMB proposal, you know what to do here. Comment deadline is October 13.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Of course this RFI drops late on Friday. NIH proposes to stop providing specific scores and instead bin grants into 3 broad categories: most competitive, competitive, not discussed. A score would be calculated but not provided to the PI (or PO). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

My view is that this proposal coming out now cannot be considered in a vacuum. It should be considered a tool to subvert peer review of NIH proposals. The statements in the RFI about impact scores are actually correct- they are imperfect measures. But reporting them maintains transparency.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3d ago

‼️NIH is proposing to change NIH Peer Review outcomes. Instead of impact scores they propose 3 categories: "Most competitive" "Competitive", or "Not discussed" This RFI link will accept your comments/feedback on this proposal until 10/13/26. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

#ScienceJobs 🧪

Rutgers Brain Health Institute@rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rutgers Brain Health Institute is hiring a Director of Development. Join BHI at an important stage of growth and help connect pioneering brain research with the philanthropic support that can move discovery forward. Learn more and apply: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/join-bhi/dir...

Excited to kick off our general election canvassing this Saturday! Join us to get out the vote for Democrats up and down the ticket!

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Fantastic meeting Jeremy! Thanks to @cilialab.bsky.social @nachury.bsky.social and @sarahgoetz.bsky.social for the superb experience. And excited for Tiffany Terry receiving The Eyelash Award!

Jeremy Reiter@reitergroup.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow! The @faseborg.bsky.social Cilia and Centrosome conference has come to a close. It’s been a wonderful week, replete with trafficking, signaling, structure, membrane biology, metabolism, human genetics, model organisms and even therapeutics. Thank you, happy cilia and centrosome swashbucklers!

Interested in SHH & Smoothened signaling or #GPCR allostery? If so, ✅ out this sneak peek of our article in press - "Receptor allostery promotes context-specific Sonic Hedgehog signaling during embryonic development" 🧪 🫀 🫁 #DevBio 👩‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sen. Ossoff: If the President calls Georgia's senators illegitimate, he is calling Georgia's voters illegitimate. Donald Trump tried to commit voter fraud in Georgia when he badgered Brad Raffensperger to "find" him the exact number of votes he needed to win in a state he had lost.

Really excited about our new paper. The 2nd author Carlos Nava Cruz started as an UG, was supported by an diversity NIH supplement, & is completing his masters. C. elegans model for functional analysis of conserved ADPKD variants in cilia, EVs, & signaling academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

A C. elegans model for functional analysis of conserved ADPKD variants in cilia, extracellular vesicles, and sensory signaling

Abstract. Interpreting the pathogenic significance of missense variants in human disease gene candidates remains a major challenge in precision medicine. A

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Step 2: Now email the comment you submitted in opposition to the OMB rule to your Senators and Congressional Representative. Tell them why you submitted and urge them to fight Vought!

🧵1/4. 278.884 comments so far and 2 days left to post yours against the proposed OMB Rule to destroy federal grants, scientific research, and beneficial programs. www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2... You don't have to write great literature and you may submit anonymously. There are several guides.

Haven’t yet submitted your comments on the proposed OMB rules and Monday’s deadline is nearing? No worries, there’s an app for that! ombcomment.netlify.app

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · last mo.

I built a tool to help people write their comments easily. bsky.app/profile/drru...

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Has left people with a sense of learned helplessness...with many willing to wait to let the courts sort things out or...hoping that the damage done before the midterms won’t be that bad. None of that is the case here. There is reason to act, and the time is now. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science

Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.

arstechnica.com

Come teach Neurobio with me!! Our Biology Department is hiring a new Assistant Professor who will teach in both Biology and Neuroscience. provost.lafayette.edu/2027-28-biol.... Reposts appreciated.

So many cool projects! And I am so excited to see @rogerslabucd.bsky.social longtime member and supporter of @socdevbio.bsky.social and editor of @diffjournal.bsky.social be honored here! Congrats Crystal!

Hypothesis Fund@hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔬 Announcing our newest awardees! 🌟 These brilliant minds are pushing boundaries across microbiology, immunology, infectious disease, earth systems, and neuroscience. Celebrate with us as we highlight their projects today👇 in our 🧵: 1/ bit.ly/HFAwardees

So, when submitting your work you should state that “This manuscript is the result of funding in whole or in part by the NIH. Through acceptance of this federal funding, NIH has been given a right to make this manuscript publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication.”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journals/

PMC Journal List

Use the PMC Journal List to browse a list of journals that archive some or all of their articles in PubMed Central.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Many scientists I've been talking to are freaking out about NIH "immediate deposit" mandate and the publishers, like journals in the Nature family, telling them they have to pay ~13k to satisfy the mandate. People have been paying it - but they don't need to.

Does anyone know of a list of journals for which uploading author-accepted version of manuscript to PMC does not violate journal copyright permitting compliance with NIH policy? Many some Institution’s library has done this?

Eulogizing one’s own mentor is so hard. Thanks to @marklewandoski.bsky.social and Francesca Mariani for sharing and capturing so much of Gail in this piece.

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In this Obituary, Francesca Mariani & Mark Lewandoski write about Gail R. Martin, one of developmental biology's most influential conceptual architects, a scientist who reshaped how we think about signalling, pattern formation & genetic analysis in the mouse. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The University of Washington Department of Microbiology seeks to hire an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track. apply.interfolio.com/185622 We're interested in mechanistic approaches to study physiology and/or pathogenesis of bacteria and viruses, as well as microbial community interactions.

“The drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment. Taxpayers funded the research and the clinical trials. This country made a long bet on science, and I’m alive because it paid off.” www.ms.now/opinion/canc...

Opinion | The U.S. is dangerously close to defunding miracles like the one that saved my life

Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.

ms.now

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

The future is bright! #NIGMS funded training grant recipients from @emory-GMB.bsky.social, including poster and talk award recipients, Mackenzie Roberson and Shaelin Rose at #SESDB @socdevbio.bsky.social

Very proud of my former postdoc Teresa Lee, for serving as organizing chair of the Northeast @socdevbio.bsky.social Meeting (see ⬇️) and for my former postdoc Brandon Carpenter, for serving as organizing chair of the Southeast @socdevbio.bsky.social Meeting. Building the scientific community!

Teresa Lee@snickclunk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One last farewell from your #NESDB2026 organizers - Mansi, John, and me (all Berkeley MCB alums!). But the countdown starts NOW.... only 50 weeks til #NESDB2027! We're *delighted* to introduce next year's team: Becca @radikes.bsky.social, Juanma, & Jess. See y'all next time!

thinking about the gould quote again

I joined first responders in prayer this afternoon as they work to battle the wildfires that are active in Brantley County and southern Georgia. These crews are doing heroic work to protect lives and property. Check in on your neighbors and stay safe, Georgia.

Christina Koch, mission specialist on NASA’s Artemis II, became the first woman to leave Earth orbit and head toward the Moon’s far side. She also spent 328 days on the ISS in 2019-20 and helped complete the first all-female spacewalk in human history.