Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪
What's the problem?
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
It’s mountain laurel season! Fun fact mountain laurel is the Pennsylvania state flower.
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
And because one can never get enough of mountain laurels some photos as well
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
It’s very easy to feel hopeless these days but every so often the good guys win. We have to keep pushing back…
I know about @standupforscience.net but that was a group formed to meet this moment, I'm wondering about the groups already in existence.
Annika Barber
Has any major scientific organization or company been doing meaningful work to try and rally the troops against the attacks on science in this country? I haven't seen it, but maybe I'm missing something...
I follow a lot of environmental/open space advocacy groups and they have been on it. Some outdoor retailers as well. But in my science sphere it seems to be much more individually powered...
Dearest shoalmates:
Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation.
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The Senate vote need to happen in the next week or the 60 days is up. I just called again today. My cats also let her thoughts on this atrocity be known in the background
