There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career. 1/🧵

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RT @catgyoung: “A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the dismantling of the National….

RT @RARohde: The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:. Total, Climate Research: $0. https://t.c….

RT @NOAAClimate: Extreme heat is worsening around the world and the stakes for heat safety are higher now than ever. Heat-related incidents….

RT @adam_tooze: US science funding in 2025 is down by 50 percent.

RT @MishaTeplitskiy: Conventional wisdom says interdisciplinary research is valuable but harder to get through peer review (need to please….

RT @j_g_allen: And, just like that, the top journal in the field of Environmental Health, published by the National Institute of Environmen….

RT @j_g_allen: Fixed it:.--> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and co….

RT @weatherdak: The meteorology community does not really understand how bad things are going to get. And frankly, neither do I. https://….

RT @catgyoung: “The future of the U.S. scientific enterprise is at risk.”. More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, E….

RT @Nature: The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientist….

RT @benryanwriter: “It’s a bloodbath,” a source from the NIH told me today, regarding the sweeping cancellation of research grants.

RT @hausfath: Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actu….

“We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.”.

RT @catgyoung: Science cannot thrive without the next generation.

Thanks to the @bbcworldservice for having me on to talk about what’s happening at @Columbia, my affected research, and why we should care about what these funding cuts and disruptions are actually doing to the science that keeps all of us safe.

RT @j_g_allen: The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award is one of the most competitive, coveted and transformative early career scientif….

RT @Princeton: "The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities an….

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As a direct result of these targeted actions, my promised assistant professor job at @Columbia University, and entire academic career, are both now in limbo. 22/.