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One piece of advice that I would give to first year and incoming PhDs is to not pick a pathway project 🙃
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As of this morning, Baltimore continues to see sustained reductions in homicides and nonfatal shootings.
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HHS just canceled FDA's annual flu meeting to determine which flu strain to produce for seasonal vaccines
Although Trump said WHO is useless, the US attended the recent GISRS meeting
At stake is public protection against influenza
RFK Jr poses a grave risk to vaccinations
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"More than 99% of new drug approvals (2010-2019) were funded by NIH. Why dismantle the engine that made the U.S. a world leader in innovation and drug development ? #DoNotDefundScience jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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A bill to dissolve NIAID has been introduced in Congress. Start contacting your US legislators now!
congress.gov/bill/119th-cong…
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Pauses in PhD admissions at Pitt, Vanderbilt, and USC.
The US will never be able to compete with authoritarian countries on a lot of dimensions. But our two biggest strengths over them were always immigration & our universities. And now we’re eroding both before our eyes.
Pitt pauses Ph.D. admissions amid uncertain research funding wesa.fm/health-science-tech/…
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USDA suspends 1890 Scholarship Program aimed to train new Black farmers. Meet 12 Alcorn University students in Mississippi the scholarships help. clarionledger.com/story/news…
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Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨
z.umn.edu/minds
✅ two-years full-time research 🧠
✅ $41,000 annual salary + benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more✨
ALT A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This group of scientists are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.
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Labs "in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of #BirdFlu were notified Friday that 25% of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired in the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees."
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lol at the pure stupidity and ignorance in the replies to this. Someone straight up said that NIH has solved anything in 40 years.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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Someone has to pay for the cost of buildings and facilities - and it’s indirect costs that pay for that. Scientific buildings are insanely expensive (often over 2000 per sqft) and the same with equipments. A cryoEM microscope costs $5 million, while the bays to keep them costs a million each due to vibration requirements. Right now that’s all paid for through indirect costs.
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Elon Musk’s gutting of USAID rips through Baltimore humanitarian groups buff.ly/3WMWAns
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Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants
The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. This unprecedented freeze will impact students and trainees who rely on grants, funded investigators, and patients waiting for critical discoveries and treatments, in addition to having an economic impact for employees and employers at universities and organizations that are economic drivers in the U.S.
Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I
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In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research
go.nature.com/4gclXG0
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Maryland joins lawsuit against Trump executive order ending birthright citizenship buff.ly/4g8XkdF
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Now live! We’re recruiting multiple scientific review officers with varied expertise spanning the @NIH research portfolio thru Wed, Jan. 22, 2025.
For more info & direct links to apply: go.nih.gov/SROrecruit
For questions: go.nih.gov/hay5WyN
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