A line graph showing the number of NIH new and competitive renewal awards funded in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2020-2025. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies below the other curves and appears to be flattening out somewhat. A total of 840 awards have been made in fiscal year 2026.
New and competitive renewal awards
Fewer than 40 new awards were made in the past week, compared to over 100 the previous week.
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05.03.2026 16:38
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Oh no!
03.03.2026 04:17
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Me too! I always get Caroline.
21.01.2026 21:12
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Dealing with ScienCV formatting
Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage
Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points.
Hope it helps? 🧪
open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
17.01.2026 03:28
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Core Directors' Symposium - 2025 - David Fay
YouTube video by IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics
Another YouTube Tutorial – This one on Proximity Labeling and connected to our recent EMBO J. paper (PMID: 41381733). This is a recording of a talk at the IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics in Little Rock AR. One of the top facilities in the country!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9P...
04.01.2026 15:40
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David's AlphaFold WorkShop 2026
YouTube video by David Fay
Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
02.01.2026 23:03
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Decoding Argonaute Specificity: Insights from C. elegans and Beyond
A monthly journal publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research on all topics related to RNA and its metabolism in all organisms
New review out! 🧬🪱 How do Argonautes bind the right small RNAs?
We synthesize how small RNA features, Argonaute properties, chaperones, and subcellular organization shape small RNA binding specificity.
rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
17.12.2025 18:52
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Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
18.12.2025 19:52
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Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
20.10.2025 17:27
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Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
20.10.2025 17:51
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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP
www.science.org/content/arti...
26.09.2025 23:24
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A book cover with a strand of RNA on a pink background, with the title, authors name, and publisher.
I did a thing. I wrote a textbook about #RNA. I wrote it so that those without formal science training could understand what RNA is and how it is used in medicine. It releases in the US and Europe on September 8th. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
14.08.2025 16:55
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The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
03.08.2025 13:20
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Go worms! #worm25
30.06.2025 00:57
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Huge thanks to Cathy Savage-Dunn @cswormlab.bsky.social and Baris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social for an amazing #worm25 !!
I want to call out the OUTSTANDING meeting they created! Talks and posters were A+++. Most of all they brought us together in one of the most challenging times we've had.
02.07.2025 12:12
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c. elegans, ba-ba-bah #worm25
02.07.2025 13:03
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Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
CNN story updated with specifics:
"the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.
A White House official said Friday afternoon that no final decision had been made on the cuts."
06.06.2025 19:25
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Dear lord: "On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled."
The U of Cali system alone accounts for $4B+ per year in federal R&D. If true, let's hope for another all-or-nothing fight like Harvard's.
06.06.2025 16:45
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
Now there's a memorable stat!
"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."
wapo.st/3EvzMCI
15.04.2025 20:35
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in these bleak times for US science and society, it was so wonderful to connect and celebrate with Ruvkun lab members from the decades. i can't believe postdocs and students i met 33 yrs ago in college still remember me. thanks Gary for giving me a chance and showing me everything cool in science!
11.04.2025 15:09
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Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
10.04.2025 01:22
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DOGE Orders HHS to Cut 35% of Contract Spending
In one email obtained by NOTUS, NIH employees were told they could not “use mission criticality as a justification to not make cuts.”
Trump and Musk are demanding NIH cut 35% of contracts.
That will devastate NIH science and grant funding — many of the contracts support people doing extramural work, or extramural/grant databases.
Moreover, the number is bullshit. They just made it up. There is no need—and in fact, it's illegal.
03.04.2025 14:26
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STILL no New or Competing Renewal awards from NIGMS. Only NIGMS seems to not be making these awards.
31.03.2025 18:41
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Figure 3 B Representative confocal micrographs of pachytene nuclei expressing GFP::NDC1NPP-22 and PGL-1::tagRFP in germlines of the indicated genotypes.
FG repeats drive co-clustering of nuclear pores and P granules in the C. elegans germline
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Laura Thomas, Devavrat Bodas and Geraldine Seydoux:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
01.04.2025 08:51
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It's going to be a brutal day at the NIH.
Never forget what the Republicans have done to science. I never want to hear that there is "bipartisan support for research" ever again.
Congress could step in at any moment.
01.04.2025 12:00
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