📢 Prospective PiN applicants. Announcing our fall virtual open house series! We join Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) on Tue, Oct 3 & Nov 1 for sessions on SoP, LoR, interviews & take a deeper dive into all aspects of PiN on Tue, Oct 17. See you there! Deets/registration: pinphd.hms.harvard.edu/apply

A full size Illumina NovaSeq 6000 in LEGO seem at #ESMO2024 ESMO - Eur. Oncology It even has Lego flowcells.

I'm so excited to announce that the Song lab will be opening in July 2025 Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology! We will investigate the genetic basis of how the human brain evolved. 🧬🧠 janetsonglab.com 1/4

“Every cell is a special snowflake” retweet if you agree! #teamsnowflake nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨ This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee. #NobelPrize

Congratulations! Exciting and important work.

Laughing out loud! Now I have to explain to my kids why the Impossible MoCA is so funny.

Looking forward to some great science at ASHG ASHG this week, seeing old friends, and making new ones!

Please check out great posters at ASHG ASHG from Bowen Jin Bowen Jin and Katherine Brown from our lab!

Twitter/X has lost some of its fun vibe, but I've joined Bluesky and am working to reconstitute some the wonderful community of Science twitter! I'm at bsky.app/profile/miller….

I'm traveling to Mayo-Jacksonville today to share our research and meet with colleagues Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬, Dennis W Dickson, and more! Looking forward to great discussions on tau, neurodegeneration, and more!

Is this for real? All NIH indirect costs cut to 15%. This would threaten most medical schools and academic hospitals across the US. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

Trump's proposal is ILLEGAL & amounts to an indiscriminate funding cut for research centers of all sizes, NOT just Ivies. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, & derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

NIH is legally prohibited by the Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2024 from changing indirect-cost rates across the board without the approval of Congress. This will be immediately challenged in court.

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

Valuable perspective on the NIH indirect cost question: nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/…

Beautifully put, Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬

Useful infographic on where indirects (Facilities & Administration costs) go: cogr.edu/sites/default/… I've seen claims on here that '60% is taken out of the grant'. Not true - indirects are on top, 60% rate =~37% overhead. These costs are essential to biomed research.

Good to see a rapid (temporary) legal ruling on the NIH indirect issue: thehill.com/policy/healthc…