In my last story on staff at the Times, my colleagues and I analyzed over a decade of federal science funding and interviewed many federal employees to identify all of the science that went unfunded this year. Here's a paywall-free link:
So if Tylenol creates autism we’re cool then with vaccines right? RIGHT????
RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
"Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research" | My interview earlier today on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports: www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
This is insane (though I find myself saying that way too often these days)
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!✨
Lots of lovely penguins on here today for #WorldPenguinDay!
Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/... #queer #birds #QueerInSTEM
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
It’s Transgender Awareness Week! Now more than ever, it’s important to support marginalized communities. Below are 2 links: one for information and the other an organization dedicated to supporting transgender youth that you may consider donating to
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
Williams College is hiring an applied mathematician to start Fall 2025. Come work with me 😁
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
Register now for the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling @ New Haven CT, June 10-13!
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
This is huge!! An attenuated vaccine for dengue that over 80% effective against symptomatic dengue fever 🧪
two panel cartoon 1. Axolotl kiki says, ‘Everything will be okay.’ Crabby crab says 'yes, as long as you don't put off doing what you need to do'. 2. An axolotl crying after piling up work
It's not easy to be okay
Fox News, which once gave a regular weekly commentary slot to the host of an NBC reality show called The Apprentice, would like entertainers to stay out of politics www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/b...
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