An NIH staff member texted me wondering if Indiana was looking for some affirmative action or diversity funding.
"We had to terminate all those awards that were specifically targeted to under-represented institutions."
This is so ravens core (derogatory)
PANDEMONIUM IN BALTIMORE
The Orioles were getting no-hit, down to their final out and down by three runs ... they won the ballgame 😤
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
🚨 SCOTUS just issued a decision in the NIH grant termination cases. And it's awful.
In plain English, the likely result of this is that SCOTUS just re-terminated ~900 NIH grants worth over $1.9 billion in unspent funds
This is an atrocious decision by Justice Barrett & the right wing of the Court.
Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!
Gunnar Henderson from the Orioles walks up to The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani and it hits every time, both in-person and on game broadcasts (that "woo-hoooo, yee-hooo" is transcendent)
Thanks for this article, Kristen -- as a current Baltimorean who grew up in Calvert County and attended public schools there from K-12, I appreciate the Banner covering this. The BOE's actions are shameful but sadly not surprising, but I'm glad to know how many folks were out there protesting.
I am SO EXCITED to share this one! The latest paper from the lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. We show microglia prune NAc astrocyte processes during abstinence from cocaine-self ad which drives later drug seeking behavior.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
awesome!!
A reminder about the importance of healthcare to every single state
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social !
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!
Powerful story from Kate Zernike from the NYT
Covers the diversity of young scientists targeted by the anti-DEI BS. Definitely worth a read and a share.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal.
This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.
A treemap of terminated research grants at Harvard
We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard.
“This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...
Mayor Brandon Scott appears to be doing something right, but somehow this remarkable, record setting decline in violence doesn't quite make national headlines the way the opposite does
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
For instance: If murders in Baltimore were UP 40%, then Mayor Brandon Scott would be a national figure. Instead it's gone down that amount so no one knows who he is.
entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
@pegmccarthy.bsky.social @um-mind.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
New paper from my PhD work out in Cell Reports today! We find that playfulness is associated with markedly distinct gene expression profiles in the medial amygdala of male vs. female rats and show that inhibitory neurons play a key role. Really proud of this one! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines.
Mortality rates:
Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000
Penicillin 2/100K
Viagra 4/100K
Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)
RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings.
“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Every single step of my career since I started grad school has involved a lot of “now do all this stuff you don’t know how to do, with minimal training.”
I tell my children that a PhD is really a degree in teaching yourself things.
