Associate Prof in cancer neuroscience at CSHL; amateur astrophotographer; views are mine alone
https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/jeremy-c-borniger/ 🇵🇸
Jeremy Borniger
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We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting.
They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial.
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Iris nebula , 20 Hours LRGB #astrophotography
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
BREAKING:
New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion".
#standupforscience
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
Wow. Thanks for alerting the community to this. This would be a total assassin peer review. There would be no transparency, so no accountability for funding decisions.
Under these circumstances, we should all refuse to serve as reviewers.
New Comment by Awsan Bahattab & colleagues—Transforming the humanitarian system: our role to confront embedded inequities
🔗 spkl.io/63328AhtJo
The impact of this on academia will be devastating. We have so many international scholars getting green cards via their employment (myself included). Having to leave their jobs for weeks and months for a consular application is going to be so disruptive.
