Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Worth noting: Many of the projects being canceled are based at Columbia's medical school, 50 blocks away from the main campus where the protests happened last year. Many are training grants that support graduate students or postdocs.

My F31 is gone. It’s a small loss in the scheme of things but I was really proud of it.

No words.

Hail the miler 〽️ Trent McFarland of @UMichTrack takes the men’s mile at the #B1GTF Indoor Championships in 4:03.56! 📸: Bobby Goddin

Thanks to William Sheeran and Zoe Donaldson for their insightful perspective piece highlighting our work.

We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/Jzwna46rFy

Updated preprint on the representation of sex-specific social memory in the ventral hippocampus, now with a revised title, additional experiments, further analyses, and a refined structure!🤞🤞🤞 https://t.co/YYARGdUmH9

My Michigan teammate, Nate Brannen set the NCAA record with his 3:55 back in 2004. He was a two-time NCAA champion, 3 time Olympian and Olympic Finalist. His mark wouldn't even qualify in this modern era. Crazy

12:44.09!!! INDOOR 5000M WORLD RECORD BY GRANT FISHER!! WOW!!! Previous indoor 5000m record was 12:49.60 by Kenenisa Bekele in 2004. That's two world records in the past week for him. HE DID THAT.

1/12 How do animals build an internal map of the world? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of neurons in mouse CA1 over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. @nspruston @HHMIJanelia, w/ co-1st author @JohanWinn Video summary: https://t.co/7iU0R4OVbf Paper:

1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromano. @SinaiBrain Read it here:

I don't think the richest person in the world should be holding back funding for cancer research in violation of both the law and court orders

Collegiate track and field athletes are putting up outstanding performances every week. Our NCAA collegiate championships will be incredible. Why are we not discussing the demise of our collegiate sports on our national TV platforms? We must call this out before it is too late.

🗣️ “It’s hard. The news — everyday it’s something else. A lot of minority groups, and the trans community specifically, are under attack and it sucks. There’s no other word for it.” Nikki Hiltz speak out against Trump’s executive order on trans athletes after running 4:23 in the

NIH grants drive more than $92.89 billion in economic activity across all 50 U.S. states and DC. It is estimated that every dollar of NIH funding generates $2.46 dollars of economic activity. So what you are bragging about is a more than $22 B hit to local economies across the US

🚨WORLD RECORD🚨 Yared Nuguse takes the win in the GREATEST INDOOR MILE RACE EVER!!! Nuguse and Hobbs Kessler become the first men to break 3:47 indoors, running 3:46.63 and 3:46.90 respectively. Cam Myers becomes the first U20 athlete to break 3:48 indoors or out and Virginia's

@JasonSynaptic If you’re funding research, it has to be done in a building that needs to be maintained, heated; with IT that has databases and software, in an entity that can process that grants, manage the legals, finance and recruitment of staff… all before a pipette is even lifted.

Sure, the very rich universities could be using endowments. But people concentrate on the richest ones and forget these are the exception. States have pulled back funding for higher education. Tuition doesn’t cover these costs either. So yeah…

There’s a lot of glee in the comments to this post. The thing is, universities use this money to pay facilities, upkeep and admin to manage the grants. Cutting it to just 15% will decimate universities, especially medical schools. One can argue on where that $$ should come from..