jp flores (he/him)
🐏 phd candidate in bioinformatics & computational biology @ unc chapel hill | hhmi gilliam '24 | nsf grfp ‘22 | co-founder, @sciforgood.bsky.social & @scopecomms.bsky.social | 🐅 occidental college ‘21 |🎙host, from where does it stem?
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- In vivo gene editing 😲 #MedSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- Amazing story by @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social about remarkable work by my colleagues at @pennmedicine.bsky.social & @childrensphila.bsky.social. Brought to you by decades of investment in science. wapo.st/3GTNbFy
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- (1/n) Thread @matteomazzocca.bsky.social @domenicnarducci.bsky.social Simon Grosse-Holz @jessematthias.bsky.social preprint Q: how does chromatin move? Using MINFLUX, SPT & SRLCI, we track chromatin dynamics across 7 orders of magnitude in time to provide answers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Keynote talk from Steven McCarroll from last weeks Biology of Genomes conf. My favorite talk of the whole meeting! #bog25 youtu.be/BCRAlmFv7ag?...
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- Fog rolling in from Lake Michigan towards Wrigley tonight:
- Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...
- This isn't just about blatant disrespect: It forceably outs people and places them in extreme danger of targeted attacks The goal is to terrorize trans people into quitting their jobs, or worse, be eliminated through violence from the right wing mob that is the MAGA base
- Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...
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- GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
- For anyone still not taking this seriously, this is what defcon 1 looks like re: the end of America as a scientific superpower. Heartbroken for our Harvard colleagues and for the world to lose this science.
- This legislation does nothing to improve public health! A House reconciliation bill would end health coverage for millions, limit access to reproductive health care and roll back programs to reduce air pollution. APHA is urging legislators to REJECT this bill. Full statement: bit.ly/3S2cnfp
- #NIH is still termination grants, zeroing out budgets, and issuing stop-work orders. But they are hiding more and more of it from the public. More than ever we need people to report so researchers can advocate and organize. Please report at grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
- A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them
- Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
- "Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
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- To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below. We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations. NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... And please spread the word 🙏
- Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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- The Trump administration is dismantling American science on multiple fronts. One of those fronts I’m deeply concerned about is the attacks on the Federal science advice. But this is an area where the scientific community can do something about it. 🧵 secure.ucs.org/a/2025-05-22...
- Alondra Nelson has resigned from her positions on the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
- I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...
- “The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying” My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”. 🧪
- If you’re already being attacked. If everyone is losing funding anyways. If the threats to our students are this severe. Then we need to speak out — about our research and about the current threats and the consequences. The public generally trusts scientists. We need to talk with the people.
- I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...
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- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- Does anyone know if NSF has resumed funding actions since the April 30 freeze? Or know any more info about it than the Nature article provides?? Thanks :)
- Big news - Knight Program makes a great call for its new leader, picking the amazing @usha.bsky.social ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/05...
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- You count on the NPR Network. THANK YOU to our supporters who are showing we can count on you too. If you haven’t given yet, it’s time to join the movement to defend public media. Donate now: n.pr/3EYClNR
- 🚨 A proposed policy would reclassify career civil servants as political appointees, fundamentally altering how the government, and science, works. TAKE ACTION! You can submit a public comment to stop this by May 23rd ⬇️ www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... What you can do & why it matters: 🧵
- I know NIH is ~5x bigger than NSF but I think the gutting of NSF is getting a lot less than 1/5 the attention— in the news media and in higher ed— compared with what's happened to NIH.
- Moms only want one thing for Mother’s Day, and it’s safe bike infrastructure.
- On the NSF 75th anniversary, useful tools to support a critical agency for this country’s future. @holdenthorp.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @needhibhalla.bsky.social @kvasquez.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social #SaveNSF #research #science
- The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary this week. Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it. www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
