Metabo_Dave
Mourning the days when all we talked about was font choice, reference styles and glam humping.
- Carnage
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- Put another way, only 56% disapprove of Trump's attacks on colleges and universities. Let that sink in.
- Where are the rest of them? I thought we had "bipartisan support for science"?
- Gilead is near
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveBREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.
- The courts are helping. It's important to acknowledge that. In fact, without their actions things would be immeasurably worse right now.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveJudge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight
- If you're impacted by science funding cuts (who isn't at this point?) contact Chris. He's one of the good guys.
- Reposted by Metabo_Dave🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveMy trainee just sent me this notification from the NIH about a pending F31 application. We knew it was likely to come, but it still hurt to read the words.
- The hypothesis that NIH is withholding FY25 funds to justify cutting the FY26 budgets is odd imo. There could be lots of other sinister reasons for them doing this, but the most likely explanation is newly acquired poor leadership and incompetence when it comes to getting new awards out the door
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveI have previously posted about the slow issuance of NIH award in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... These data were across all of the institutes and centers at NIH. The results can be examined for each institute and center. 1/n
- The Town Hall has been cancelled
- A full blown Pakistan vs India conflict is just what the world needs right now FFS. What the fuck is wrong with humans?
- I suspect Memoli is still running the show at the NIH. He's the Shadow Director that faithfully executes the WH/OPM/Miller policies. Jayanta obviously has no clue what's going on.
- Pure David Brent vibes "This is like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation to future captains of the sea"
- AI might be able to review your grant and come up with experiments, but pipetting robots are still absolute dog shit.
- I think DeepSeek needs to participate in the early career reviewer program at the NIH.
- Gives a whole new meaning to the "Visit Rwanda" sponsorship deal, right @arsenalfc.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
- It was an obvious strategy that started months ago. The NIH could pay out the entirety of a new award upfront to use the money, but I don't see any signs of this happening.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveBluetorial: Timing of getting grants out the door at NIH The pauses and low rate of releasing awards may be a problem in terms of getting the NIH appropriation spent by September 30, 2025
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveI just think it is very important for NIH watchers to be very, very clear about what the individual ICs are not permitted to do, versus what they are *choosing* to do in response to the chaos of FY2025 extramural grant awards.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveTime to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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- Memoli gets rewarded for his good service. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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- Exactly right. I wouldn't be surprised if certain animal research is "paused" next.
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- Dude is going right back in the slammer
- Follow this thread 👇
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- Seeing a lot of posts on LinkedIn about terminated diversity F31s. Another shit day.
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- From my extensive experience with university "international student offices" in red states, it comes as no surprise to me that they are now handing over students to ICE. These depts have been morphing into regional USCIS/ICE offices for years. They are not there to help international students.
- First, they took a student from the lab next door......
- From a quick scan, there are very few red state universities that have signed up.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveSpeaking to agency advisers, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya called Trump’s anti-DEI orders ‘misunderstood’ and downplayed the administration's leaked reorganization plans. My latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/n...
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveAn absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”
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- I don't want to tell people what to do, but if you're a scientist still posting on Twitter, you are not doing your part. Get. Off. That. Platform. I don't care how many "followers" you have.
- Another day.....
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- Sadly, I think this is just the beginning. Each day just gets worse and worse.
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- Reposted by Metabo_DaveToday's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected. Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people. Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveSteve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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- Reposted by Metabo_DaveAs someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.
- Columbia University did what it did, but there are plenty of public universities in red states that essentially killed DEI programs years ago. Don't let them off the hook.
- Reposted by Metabo_DaveMIT following Harvard's lead here
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- Reposted by Metabo_DaveWho else SUPPORTS Senator Van Hollen?! 🤚
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- This is actually incredible. Good on Harvard for doing this.
- Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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- My advice is to drop all foreign components from new apps entirely for now.
- Impressive from Pogacar, but he can't beat van de Poel from here #parisroubaix
- There is a relative calm before the storm in academia. But grant terminations, delays in NoAs and reductions in IDCs that many places are baking into their FY26 budgets ARE a perfect storm. It's hard to escape the feeling that massive RIFs are inevitable.
- We really are in a race to the bottom
- Everything is fine.
- Reposted by Metabo_Dave"Staff at the National Institutes of Health have separately been informed that DOGE will have new authorities to review and approve NOFOs [Notices Of Funding Opportunities] issued by the biomedical agency, according to an NIH employee and meeting records" wapo.st/42uavRC
- Literally nobody understands UMAP
