It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universities to raise their indirect costs up to (typically) 40-60% was to force a huge amount of regulations on the universities while also minimizing the

This is a very odd tweet and super disappointing to see from the esteemed NIH The top 7 university recipients of nih funding do NOT include Harvard or Yale The top 7 are: Johns Hopkins UCSF U of Pennsylvania Duke Michigan Pittsburgh Washington U in St. Louis

They are planning to slash Medicaid - which covers costs of nursing home care for 1.4 million frail, elderly Americans - to finance a tax cut for billionaires. This will be, I suspect, not super popular.

Almost 50% less NIH grant funding than at this point last year... nytimes.com/2025/02/14/hea…

Someone might not be invited to this year’s WH Christmas party. nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opi… via New York Times Opinion

In response to headline "Elon Musk and His Grok 3 AI Model Is Apparently Advanced Beyond Measure", I used Grok 3 to ask "If you were president of the US would you massively cut NIH funding" and "what about cutting NIH indirect costs". Here's answer from their AI reasoning model.

I think it says something that so many scientists noticed Pubmed was down on a random Saturday afternoon in March Scientists noticed because: (1) we rely on Pubmed to look up info and (2) because scientists are working around the clock to solve health problems. Keep us working.

He’s going to spend 5x as much time talking about transgender kids as the price of groceries and gas. Guess why? Because prices are going way up and he’s not doing shit.

What it feels like revising a paper

Cool paper from the Konnikova group on what’s going on in baby’s blood cells. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great to have a friend, mentor and colleague, Wolfram Goessling at Yale leading the next version of Yale Medicine. m.yale.edu/c5z4

In utero human intestine contains maternally derived bacterial metabolites. Thrilled to share our latest work. Congrats Wenjia and Weihong and all@our amazing collaborators ⁦KorenLab⁩ ⁦Yale School of Medicine⁩ ⁦Yale Pediatrics⁩ microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Very cool video abstract of Konnikova lab latest paper in Microbiome. Do the bacterial metabolites in the fetal gut come over from the mother? researchsquare.com/article/rs-661…

Government scientists won’t be able to publish in NEJM, JAMA, Lancet because they’re “corrupt”?!? washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…