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OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

1% grant scores, not getting funded.

Thank you again @michaeldgreen.phd for speaking out.

I don't know what bothers me more:

Director Bhattacharya's callousness that damaging the careers of talented young scientists is "the cost of doing business" for his politics

or

His ignorance and lack of imagination about experimental design.

Please share widely--there are rallies planned across the nation--look for one near you

Happening Now: A snowball fight is taking place at Washington Square Park in New York City

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Open postdoc position in immunology focusing on ILC3s and gut immunity at UMass Chan!

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🚨 New Paper from UP NExT (Univ. Pitt NeuralEngineering Cross-Translation): We discovered that microglia the brain’s immune cells, aren't just a "cleanup crew". During brain stimulation, they act as hidden neural modulators, actively monitoring and contacting neurons to help manage circuit stability.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The sixth bioelectronic medicine summit: Neurotechnologies for individuals and communities - Bioelectronic Medicine Bioelectronic Medicine - The Sixth Bioelectronic Medicine Summit took place on March 4 and 5, 2025 at the Garden City Hotel in New York, and was co-hosted by the Feinstein Institutes for Medical...

Bioelectronic Medicine: Read a summary of the panels, speakers, topics, and awards from "The Sixth Bioelectronic Medicine Summit: Neurotechnologies for individuals and communities", held in Garden City, NY, March 4-5th, 2025. #BioelectronicMedicineSummit link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Barga, northern Tuscany region of Italy. #medievaltown #slowdown #breathe

hi Jeremy, were there any new R01s or R35s issued from NIGMS? Many thanks for doing this!

Every American needs to watch this:

If you were a journalist or creative that was laid off by the Washington Post and you want to work for an independent, pro democracy news outlet, Democracy Docket is hiring. bit.ly/45Qaw4K

Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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The bureaucracy of science has grown so much, the system is collapsing upon itself:

Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science.

Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists.

Administrators are eating the science budget.

Cheap Content and Costly Credibility: Information Economics When Production Costs Collapse We analyze information markets when AI reduces content production costs to near-zero. In classical signaling models, the cost of producing quality content serves as a credible signal of sender experti

If you want a glimpse of what's coming to research, just take a gander at clawxiv.org
For example: www.clawxiv.org/abs/clawxiv....
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Red Alfa Romeo hood with the stylized white snake-eating-a-dude logo.

1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design.

Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.

Here's a teaser.

Bhattacharya, a moment ago: "What you've been seeing in the press is that there have been funding cuts. There haven't been funding cuts. What there has been is a change in agency priorities."

Our year in numbers begs to differ
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

That is 240 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases and more.

Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA where thousands of students gathered to show their solidarity with Minneapolis and Minnesota.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Science and Industry Need to Push Back Hard - TimmermanReport.com The days of strongly worded letters, statements to the press, white papers, and op-eds are over. The people dismantling science are coming at all we care about with a pliers and a blowtorch. If I have...

Powerful call to action from @cdelawalla.bsky.social founder of @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign.

Gregory Bovino must also be fired.

No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Dear Ms. Fogel: I had applied for the position of Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) on November 21, 2025. I was subsequently informed that I had passed the first level of review (although I have no idea what that means). I am writing today to withdraw my application. As I mentioned in my materials, it would be hard for me to consider this position, even it were to be offered, given two-career issues with my family. I saw this video this morning, posted on the official NIH Director's X account (https://x.com/NIHDirector_Jay/status/2013752138493559265). This made me fully realize that I should not waste my time or yours with my application as I cannot imagine working for NIH leadership that has so little respect for facts, the NIH and its staff, and the American public (and, I might add, themselves). Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely yours, Jeremy M. Berg

I just withdrew my application for the NIGMS Director position....

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Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

1. Adjust expectations of productivity.

2. Fighting for science now = more science we can all do later. So, fight!

3. Build community—every scientist is a friend now. We are in this together.

4. Do the science you can do, w/ the time & resources you have.

5. The wonders remain! Soak them in.

kid's drawing of a truck

thank you for helping my friends come to school

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.

Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.

1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.