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This is a great resource.
27 UNIHTED@27unihted.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe published an article written by a number of current and former peer review workers in their personal capacities outlining the changes to peer review at the NIH over the last 18 months. It’s a great resource, and we’re grateful to the authors who wrote it! open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
tRNA modification landscapes in streptococci: shared losses and clade-specific adaptations royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...
tRNA modification landscapes in streptococci: shared losses and clade-specific adaptations
Abstract. tRNA modifications are central to bacterial translational control. Here, we integrated genetics, mass spectrometry, epitranscriptomics and compar
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Read why NIH colleagues resigned. Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪 #science #standupforscience #integrity www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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No way will I attend the White House dinner with this President. I’m standing with @govwesmoore.bsky.social and @colorado.gov — and standing against Trump’s corruption and hatred. And I’m calling on my Republican colleagues to do the same.
Democratic governors to boycott White House dinner
More than a half dozen Democrats said Donald Trump disinviting two of their colleagues is the latest example of administration's 'chaos and division.'
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 8mo agoI missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read. Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin. He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S. Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed. Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10mo agoPope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉 tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation: How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles). Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob... #RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively studied in eukaryotes, a...
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A must read. It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany. 🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc... via @markhisted.org
Basic Science Is The Foundation Of Future Cures
Injecting partisan politics into American basic science would be terrible for the US: for the economy, and for development of future treatments for diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
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These are visas for skilled workers — doctors, scientists, and engineers. This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee For H-1B Visas In Latest Crackdown
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb ov...
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Yesterday RFK Jr said that he could name no "successes" for US health agencies. He should read this article. • improved survival or cure for many cancers • elimination of smallpox, polio, Hib • reduced child mortality • effective treatments for HIV, hepatitis C • increased life expectancy
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics@bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 11mo agoAmerican Health Care Gets a Lot Wrong. Here’s What It Gets Right. By Aaron E Carroll | New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
Again let's repeat: "it would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country" Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30 Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 11mo agoSome numbers: -Most Americans are women. -Via the Census, about 60 million Americans are in a household that includes a daughter. -Every American, or human being, should be appalled and disgusted by this. It would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country.
"We’re all in favor of a gold standard for science. But it’s misleading, & even a little insulting, to say that somehow NIH didn’t already support that. Everything that NIH stands for is rigor in sci...There’s some implication here that NIH has been systematically sloppy. I reject that conclusion."🛟
Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless”
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.
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What they are doing to NIH defies all logic and reason. This admin is needlessly, irreversibly destroying one of the greatest resources our country has ever built. A few quotes from yours' truly are in the video below. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for covering www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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“This and other executive orders eliminating federal funding and forcing faculty to end legally permissible work will deprive students of opportunities for educational advancement and economic flourishing.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇
AAUP, AFT Leaders Respond to Trump’s Higher Education Admissions Directive
WASHINGTON—American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and issued the following statements in respo...
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On Aug. 1, ASM & partner societies filed an expanded amicus brief with SCOTUS to defend scientific integrity & protect early-career researchers. The brief highlights the harm caused by NIH grant terminations, including canceling the MOSAIC program. asm.org/press-releas...
Scientific Societies File Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of NIH Grantees
ASM and fellow societies filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, calling for the swift restoration of NIH grant funding supporting early-career scientists, such as the MOSAIC program.
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Requiring grant review by political appointees will continue to delay and disrupt critical research and interferes with scientists’ ability to help protect the nation’s health and security. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Responds to Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
ASM calls on the Trump Administration to put science ahead of politics and immediately end its plan to force scientific grants to be reviewed by political appointees.
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For a very "direct" response to the new Executive Order, see open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse... 1/3
Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up
Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order
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The discovery of the missing Queuosine transporter is finally out. 15 years in the making with a combination of data mining and experimental validation performed by an international consortium funded by NIH and Irish agencies. news.ufl.edu/2025/06/micr...
UF, Trinity College team cracks micronutrient mystery that could be key to brain health, cancer defense
Unlocking how our bodies absorb a micronutrient that we rely on for everything from healthy brain function to cancer defense.
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For more details on the Trump/Republican ideological War on Cancer Research, @pkrugman.bsky.social has a great summary today. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...
Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition
But it’s here, and will destroy American science
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"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
Rachel Thomas, PhD - Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
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