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Students, faculty mystified as NSF turns back applications for prestigious fellowship program Applicants to a prestigious National Science Foundation fellowship program say many submissions have been mysteriously “returned without review.”

Students and faculty have been baffled (and frustrated) as NSF turns back applications for its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Those affected seem to mainly be in the life sciences. My latest for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Shit

The cover of Heartbeat Magazine which features a boombox sitting in a field of grass and flowers with a hand reaching from out of frame to press a button. The title Heartbeat is written in all caps at the top, and at the bottom are hand drawn music notes. Framing the cover is a purple background with digital renderings of plants and nature.

guess who wrote something and got it published!!!

hell yeah broccoli publishing for bringing back print media
buy the magazine to read my words :) broccolimag.com/products/hea...

archival cover with background by @dianalynnvdm.bsky.social

GOOD!

MIT officially rejects the compact/loyalty oath for higher ed. That’s 1 of 9. I hope we see many more announcements today.

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This is the best summary I can personally come up with from ACIP’s meeting on COVID19 vaccines:

1. I think the situation is the same as it was *before* the meeting.

2. They voted that prescriptions are not required, but if you live somewhere that currently requires them, they still may be.

Text of New York's COVID vaccine executive order is out.

- It allows physicians and nurses to prescribe vaccines to anyone 3 & over
- It expands pharmacists’ authority to administer vaccines to children under 18
- For the first time, pharmacists can prescribe vaccines off-label to anyone 3 & over

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

You can very easily make a case for yourself as being someone who qualifies for Covid vax on this list.

Physical inactivity, former/current smoker, depression, ETC - these are extremely broad and wide ranging categories.

*You can also just lie* and say you’re depressed. Do what you need to do!!!

Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants Researchers worried by plan giving political appointees more control over where funding goes

Research advocates are expressing alarm over a White House directive on federal grantmaking released yesterday that they say threatens to enhance President Donald Trump’s control over science agency decisions on what to fund. scim.ag/45q6P4J

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

Learn about Directed Evolution Through Play, Center for Genetically Encoded Materials C-GEM transformed the Nobel Prize-winning technique of directed evolution into an educational board game! Directed Evolution: The Game tasks players with...

Have you ever wondered how scientists use evolution to engineer proteins? Find out with C-GEM’s new board game—Directed Evolution: The Game!

Download to play it at home: gem-net.net/learn-about-...

RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines Panelists pulled back some endorsements for certain vaccines containing a preservative that critics have falsely linked to autism.

“As a physician and scientist who has devoted my entire career to vaccines and preventing and treating infections, this meeting has been devastating to watch.” ACIP votes to stop recommending some vaccines, even though they're safe and effective. nyti.ms/3ZT1pxg

How Kennedy’s Purge of Advisers Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...
Free article from @nytimes.com by the amazing @apoorvanyt.bsky.social. Not only were the ACIP experts fired, but Kennedy "reassigned" the scientists who oversaw and vetted the ACIP members.
The intent is clear - as is the danger.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social

A header in gold and silver text that reads "NSF 75 years of discovery & innovation" Below that is an open envelope with a piece of paper sticking out. On the paper in a handwritten font reads, "Thank you, NSF!" and below the text are the logos of the following NSF centers: C-CAS, CSN, CSOE, MONET, CSP, CMCC, and C-GEM.

🎉 To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NSF, the Centers for Chemical Innovation collected thank-you notes from our members that highlight the positive impact of NSF support.

🎈 Read the thank-you notes here: www.nsfcci.org/nsf75

#NSFfunded

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

STEM Day Join The Lawrence for one of our signature Five Dollar Days as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the National…

🎂 We’re celebrating the NSF’s 75th birthday on Saturday, May 10 with our friends at the Lawerence Hall of Science 🎈

Join us at STEM Day and learn about C-GEM's next generation biopolymers!

A shuttle will be available from Downtown Berkeley BART.

lawrencehallofscience.org/events/stem-...

a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

1/n

Mask up y’all

White House trumpets Covid lab leak theory on web page that was devoted to health information Covid.com used to give information about managing the disease. The White House is using it to trumpet the much-disputed Covid lab leak theory.

A government website long used to provide the latest guidelines on managing Covid-19, has now been replaced with a page proclaiming the virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China and that Anthony Fauci, the Biden Administration and others worked to cover it up.

Jennifer Doudna speaking at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley

crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley

crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley

crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley

Thanks to out @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social community for joining us at Stand Up For Science! @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social spoke about how NIH funding supported her PhD & NSF funding supported her development of #CRISPR genome editing. Federal funding is needed for life-saving science!

Join us tomorrow (Friday) at UC Berkeley's #StandupForScience from 12-1pm in upper Sproul. Defend science from federal funding cuts & politicization, and keep science as a tool for social & economic progress! #SUFSatCal #ScienceForAll #InclusiveSTEM

Learn more: www.standup4scienceberkeley.com

A sequence-independent way to edit protein backbones Unexpected dehydrolactone rearrangement installs a new C-C bond

cen.acs.org/synthesis/se...

Peptide Backbone Editing via Post-Translational O to C Acyl Shift Despite tremendous efforts to engineer translational machinery, replacing the encoded peptide backbone with new-to-nature structures remains a significant challenge. C, H, O, and N are the elements of...

Hello Bluesky! Excited to join and share my postdoc work with Alanna Schepartz, Matt Francis and @cgemcci.bsky.social now out in JACS: Peptide Backbone Editing via Post-Translational O to C Acyl Shift. Proud of our team of undergrad & early grad students—Check it out!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Rip

哎呀，我需要補習中文

我的中文對小紅書太差了。 這些白人怎麼用？

Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

The experiment of unchecked bird flu circulation in livestock in US is tough to watch. The thing about virus threats is that they carry on whether you acknowledge them or not. Action is about saving us, cos the virus gdaf and is gonna do its thing regardless.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...