In 2023, scientists gave the Nobel Prize to those who developed mRNA vaccines. This is how much we trust and believe in them. To have vaccines *BANNED* less than 2 years later can't have other intentions than just causing more sickness and suffering. Anti-science will kill us.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4i2EaIb

Today #NIH is terminating more than $250 million in funding—including more than 400 grants—to Columbia University following directives from the Trump Administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The cancellations are due to Columbia University’s continued inaction

Termination of training mechanisms (T32s, F30s and F31s) and most of collaborative Center awards at Columbia harms and essentially shuts down training of our future scientists “not only every democracy, but every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction”

Let’s be very clear: NIH research funding isn’t just about science - it’s an economic powerhouse. The $36.94 billion in external grants last year not only supported groundbreaking medical and scientific discoveries but also sustained over 400,000 jobs, fueling nearly $95

JUST dropped! Neuron Review on the Evolving Neurobiology of Early-life stress with Matt Birnie . Where is our field? what are our challenges? Where and how are we going? 300 refs. cell.com/neuron/fulltex… UC Irvine UC Irvine School of Medicine

Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Some #LongCovid research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored! That's why making noise matters.

Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the Ryan Lab, out now in nature. Here, my brilliant co-author Andrea Muñoz Zamora and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism. A thread: 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Super excited to share my PhD work, out now in nature. Here, my fantastic coauthors and I delved into whether mice could form memories of temperature experiences. 🐭💭❄️ Check out our tweetorial 🧵below: Full paper at: nature.com/articles/s4158…

If anyone who had a grant terminated (at Harvard or elsewhere) wants to partner with my scicomm channel (LetTheDataSpeak across platforms), I want to work w you. I’ll ft. an elevator pitch of your exciting science, then end w “this project was terminated” & a call to action.

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service

At the bottom of this page, there is a space for the public to comment about this NIH direction. I would like the FDA and NIH to think about how multi-system and behavior questions are going to be answered without animal models fda.gov/news-events/fd…

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! I wrote an article outlining this in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News genengnews.com/topics/transla…

Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders | Molecular Psychiatry nature.com/articles/s4138…

ACNP brought Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS Devin Effinger, PhD & me together last year: After finding each other on X-as we are all public/open about our lived experience -we met and discussed the ideas for this Study Group! Looking forward to doing this work together@ #ACNP2026🧠❤️💥‼️

Taxpayers: you reap enormous rewards from your modest investment in scientific research. American science is in grave peril. nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opi…