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Attended a training on #Social Justice & #Disability today. The presenter shared this infographic and I think everyone in #academia needs to engage in self-reflection to explore their positions of power and priveleges.

Not for the first time, all Nobel Prizes in scientific disciplines this year have been awarded to men

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by Cait O'Ryan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

Study (N=200 courses) tested 3 interventions to reduce gender bias in student evals, but none were effective. "Women who were tough graders or taught large classes received more criticism than men with the same grading style or class size." kim elsesser, PhD forbes.com/sites/kimelses…

Honored to chair the #ISMBECCB 2025 proceedings w/ Tijana Milenkovic Dr. Tijana Milenkovic. The submission portal is now open and will accept submissions until Thursday, January 23, 2025. #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology ISCB News

The Women in Network Science Society is hosting a half-day satellite at NetSci 2025 (NetSci 2025) in Maastricht 🇳🇱! Submit your abstract here: forms.gle/nEY4qWTnMuwLBk… Deadline: February 17th Full event details: sites.google.com/view/womeninne… #NetSci2025 #WomenInNetworkScience

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

Imagine standing in front of experts, sharing your research, and making an impact. Make it a reality—submit your abstract for ISMB/ECCB 2025 by April 17!

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Funding from the NIH contributed to the development of 354 out of 356 (99.4%) of the new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019, and 🚨 100% 🚨 of FDA approved drugs btw 2010-2016. NIH funding is the backbone of American biomedical innovation. #protecttheNIH

In case you missed the feature in our February newsletter: ISCB is happy to share this year’s ISCB 2025 award recipients! Please join us in congratulating each of our 2025 awardees!

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects on gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, NIH staff tell me. nature.com/articles/d4158…

#ISMBECCB2025 Proceedings Track submission notifications have been sent out today! A HUGE thanks to all ~400 reviewers, 23 area chairs and to Co-Chair Tijana Milenkovic Dr. Tijana Milenkovic for this fantastic joint effort and team work! Looking forward to the conference! ISCB News

Just published Science Magazine On fixing the NIH 15% cap "The consequences of failing to do so—reduced research capacity, weakened scientific competitiveness, and increased financial strain on institutions—are simply too dire to ignore." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participants felt the discovery in the abstract was more important when the author was male & spent more time reading it (114s male; 98s female).forbes.com/sites/kimelses…

Exclusive: Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the National Science Foundation since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations. Learn more: scim.ag/4lKOref