From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism - a perspective written by 11 scientists, six of whom are Nobel laureates
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
So excited to share our new work led by my awesome PhD student Hyland Gonzalez. She shows transcriptional effects of CYP2E1 deletion in alcohol naive mice and then goes on to show that mice lacking CYP2E1 drink more at baseline and escalate their drinking more after CIE compared to WT mice. 🍸🐁
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
"Our observations should prompt an essential re-evaluation of the literature concerning astrocyte-neuron mitochondrial transfer" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For #worm25, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the #Celegans community to easily follow:
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (50+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added!
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
#CeleganSky 🪱 🧪 1/n
Me too, man. Me too.
Jealous of all you lucky ducks at #worm25
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism.
1. It’s not a disease
2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Would not have thought that the first person in congress to strongly defend researh would be a republican but more powerful that it is. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Webinar: Responding to Federal Research Grant Terminations Join AAAS on Friday, March 28 at 12 PM ET The AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice and AAAS SEA Change will host a roundtable discussion on the laws and regulations that govern federal grant terminations, including procedures for appeals. Speakers will include a legal expert, former officials at scientific funding agencies, and a grant recipient who will share their personal experience. NIH and NSF will serve as case examples.
🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees!
AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations.
NIH and NSF will be case examples.
Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇!
Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination?
✅ Email PO + document questions
✅ Submit FOIA
✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation
✅ Consider outside litigation
✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
I still love teaching and think it matters, God help me
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
graph showing publication of NIH funded publications, relative to other funders. China is catching up.
NIH spending more than pays for itself. It generates about $2.5 for every $1 spent. In terms of research productivity, NIH funding dwarfs the rest of the world. The only long-term potential rival is China. Politicizing the NIH's scientific processes will hand China a huge strategic advantage.
I now have multiple sources that say at least one round of NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS will now be announced in the Federal Register.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
Meeting the person you suspect is reviewer #2 in a conference
Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
Terrific and sorrowful thread
It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
I NEED GOOD, THOUGHTFUL LEADERS TO GET WAY BETTER AT USING THE INTERNET LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO
Two happy women at SUFS rally in Trenton NJ
My fav #StandUpforScience2025 photo: me & my college teammate/BFF. Now she's dean, I'm distinguished prof. We were DEI hires. I was the first woman TT asst prof in my dept. She received funding for #womeninSTEM. Grateful to leaders who created opportunities, & will fight for you to have the same
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
