Brenda Bass

Thanks for doing this Jeremy-no matter how upsetting the conclusions

Yay Kelly-they made the perfect choice!

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

"I hear from current NIH staff regularly. They describe a particular kind of exhaustion: not just from overwork, but from the cognitive load of performing normalcy while privately managing fear."

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

Yes—this is a very important point.

Thank you Aaron and the Hoskins Lab! Hope to see you in Montreal!

Thanks Karolin!

Thanks for the very kind words Kelly—hope to see you soon—it has been too long!

Thanks for the kind words Sandy! Looking forward to seeing you in Montreal.

People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

Thank you Tim!

Thanks Lara--so fun to hear from you. Hope all is well!

So, so, honored by this award—it is daunting to know that my heroes have won this award! Thanks to my heroes and mentors, and my trainees, who are everything!!!!

I would ask people to call or message their senators about this and specifically that Vinay Prasad needs to be out at FDA. Even the Wall Street Journal has said as much. There is push back. Companies won’t fund clinical trials if they can’t trust the FDA.

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Yay Joe!! I am so proud!! This is so deserved—the Bass lab depends on you for everything.

The RNA Society is welcoming submissions of original infographics about any and all things RNA! Scan the QR for details!

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

New #miRNA paper from Lai lab!! 🧬🔥

some think this field, despite recent Nobel to Ambros and Ruvkun, doesn't have much surprises left. but, do we EVEN KNOW WHAT a miRNA precursor LOOKS LIKE? we found some conserved miRNA hairpins up to 10x longer than suspected. this is mir-12, just bonkers! 1/n

🚨IT'S HAPPENING!🚨

Register now and join us in beautiful southern Chile in September for a new edition of the Molecular Biosystems Conference! @molbiosystems.bsky.social

SO wonderful to have you here Niladri!! We are so lucky!

Join — The Sinha Lab We welcome curiosity-driven individuals excited to make foundational discoveries aimed at understanding and combating defects in translational control and proteostasis in a dynamic, collaborative, and...

We are hiring at all levels, so please help spread the word! #RNAsky #ribosomes #signaling #translation sinha.biochem.utah.edu/join

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Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication.

"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.

Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT

I have been updating my dashboard (jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...) to add important material about the #BethesdaDeclaration

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"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.

I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."

Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

I don't see R35 MIRAs listed on the cited page of expired NOFOs. What am I missing?

This might be helpful:

www.regulations.gov/assets/files...

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.

Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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