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This is just fucking cruel. There’s no other way about it

We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists. NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen an 80% reduction in funding, including support for trainees, so far this year. “You can’t have science without scientists”

Boston’s high concentration of top universities, world-class hospitals, and venture capital firms makes it a perfect ecosystem for biotech innovation, but it's also left us vulnerable to the impact of political decisions. Read more from The Economist. economist.com/united-states/…

🚨🚨 *US HALTS HARVARD’S ABILITY TO ENROLL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS This is so monumentally stupid. The smartest humans from all around the world come to our elite institutions. And then the majority of them stay here, create businesses, and help our economy thrive instead of

entire graduate programs at harvard will cease to function with new trump ban. fantastic news for china. they couldn’t create these opportunities to outcompete the americans in scientific education if they devoted massive resources to it.

Two-dozen billion-dollar U.S. startups were founded by foreign students who studied at Harvard --Axios. Making America Poor Again Making America Dumb Again

Revoking J1 visas is not only cruel, it undermines trust in American science. As we wrote with Jan Vilcek, an immigrant whose work led to one of medicine’s biggest breakthroughs, J1 students fuel discovery, innovation & US economic growth. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

“America First” Will Destroy U.S. Science: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Weakening Harvard is not in the national interests of the United States of America. If we are going to compete with China in the 21st century, we have to strengthen our best universities, not destroy them.

Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance.

RFK Jr and MAHA promised a return to “gold standard science.” Their report (likely AI generated) cites studies that don’t exist, and misrepresents existing ones. “Gold standard”? I’d fail an undergrad kid for this.

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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/31/wor…

The Trump administration is killing almost all NIH-funded HIV vaccine research: cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm… "This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research." Many will needlessly get sick & die because of profound cruelty & vindictiveness. by me & Alexander Tin

Research Saves Lives At Johns Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

1/6 🧬📊 Curious about the buzz around NLP in biology? Feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments? We've got you covered! Our review on NLP applications in genomics, by the wonderful Ella Rannon, is now out as a pre-print! #NLP #Bioinformatics arxiv.org/abs/2506.02212

Top 5 advances in medicine this week (🧵) 1. A drug that beats chemotherapy in a subset of lung cancers Small cell lung cancer is usually treated with chemotherapy, but resistance is common, and side-effects can be severe Tarlatamab is a bispecific antibody: it recruits T

Powerful piece on the dominance of NIH-funded science and its role in drug discovery. Cutting the NIH budget puts all the U.S. has built at risk. We urge Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Commentary only & Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD to champion U.S. science and defend NIH funding statnews.com/2025/06/06/us-… via STAT

My lab at Weizmann Institute was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is