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REMINDER - happening this week in person in MSRBIII Room 1125 or on Zoom!! Visit dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-ce… for more information & for the virtual link🧬🧠 We hope to see you there!

Please RT: We are hiring! Apply to join the exciting research going on Duke Department of Cell Biology! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662805/fac…

Congrats Xinjie! Exciting concept!

Shame on this white racist Rosalind Picard at MIT.

“Maybe” you are one of the white racists Rosalind Picard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

"Not sure how to process it." Mass. Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan was in tears talking about the plane crash that killed six members of the Skating Club of Boston. * * * #massachusetts #boston #skatingboston #figureskating #dccrash #planecrash

Help us support the loved ones affected by this unimaginable tragedy. Contribute today at usfigureskatingsupport.org

Honoring those we tragically lost. See below for tributes to our beloved club members. 🖤 ION FSC: bit.ly/IONFSCTribute The SC of Boston: bit.ly/SCOBTribute SC of Northern Virginia: bit.ly/SCNorthVATribu… University of Delaware FSC: bit.ly/UnivDelawareFS… Washington

NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country. Brief explainer for those not in this world: buff.ly/3EtML7D

Science is key to the US's success but this government's intention to dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree & expecting it to continue to flourish.

DOGE Elon Musk approach feels like a surgeon trying to remove a small tumor using a saw instead of a scalpel, without pre-op imaging or taking a patient history, and also removing organs that aren’t diseased but that they just don’t like. And with med students doing the procedure

Awkward

Anybody concerned about wasteful facilities spending at universities should come try the toilet paper they make us use at work.

Finally, someone is reporting on how funding of new NIH grants is effectively frozen due to an administrative block 👇 Grants already submitted cannot be reviewed, and grants already reviewed with excellent scores cannot be funded. This is the opposite of "efficiency".

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

Congrats Bing and NYGC! Look forward to see more exciting science and technologies from NYGC!

Interested in single cell genomics but need help getting started? Check out the full agenda for our Single Cell Genomics Day on Friday 4/25. All talks will be live-streamed (no registration required) at satijalab.org/scgd25

WE ARE HIRING (Postdoc Position)! Please share this with anyone who might be interested. Philly and UPENN are waiting for you!

“One of the biggest tragedies I've observed in my professional life.” David R. Liu, winner of the Breakthrough in Life Sciences and professor at the Broad Institute and Harvard University, describes the cost of government cuts to science research at universities. Walter Isaacson

A key reason the U.S. has led in science and tech for decades is its ability to attract STEM talent from all over the world—because it WAS the best place to do science. Shutting that door won’t make America great again.