Nichole Broderick, PhD

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

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Talk slide title with images of testis defects

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

We are hiring!

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Rebecca is starting her lab as a UCSF Sandler fellow in August 2026; folks at #Dros26 interested in host-parasitoid interactions should try to catch her at the meeting to find out about available positions: www.tarnopollab.org/people

Folks interested to know more about this work, check out Lautaro's insights at @the-node.bsky.social

And he's soon starting his lab at @iubiology.bsky.social - so please reach out to him if you're interested!

#Dros26 #Drosophila #development

Reminder, we are not in a CR. There’s an appropriation for the FY. And NIH is working on the Cycle of grants that went to Council *before* the government shutdown last fall.

Multiyear funding

Of the new and competitive renewal awards made in fiscal year 2026, 25.2% have be multiyear funded.

This compares with 3.7% and 4.6% through the same date in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 respectively.

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Institutional training grants (T32)

In FY 2026, there have been 26 T32 awards (not including 2 supplements). All are competitive renewals

This compares with 66 incl 22 new or comp renewal awards through 2/27 in FY2025 and 86 incl 27 new or competitive renewal awards through 2/27 in FY2024.

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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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Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct ...

New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Hey #DROS26 attendees, want to connect while exploring Chicago? Meet in the lobby by check-in for a 30-minute walk from 7:45 a.m. on Thursday and Friday morning! If the weather holds up, we'll visit Millennium Park tomorrow, and the riverwalk Friday. If it rains, we'll hang out in the lobby!

Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

Poster 382 announcement, titled ‘Interactions between host genetics. Diet, and pathogen infection in drosophila’

Also check out a poster from visiting undergraduate researcher Anish on host genetics and diet impacts on infection. Also Sat- poster 382.

Reflection of a person in a train window overlooking a foggy city scene.

Foggy arrival in Chicago. On the blue line heading downtown for #Dros26. I’m co-chairing the Immuntiy & Microbiome session Sat AM. @taylarmouton.bsky.social from @broderickflylab.bsky.social will be speaking in the Repro&gametogenesis session at the same time. Looking forward to a great meeting!

NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.

IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT

NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!

Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

PhD and Postdoc Transition Program | Gilliam Fellows | HHMI The Gilliam Fellows Program supports PhD students and their faculty thesis advisors to advance cutting-edge research, facilitate the transition to postdoctoral scientist, and foster the development of...

2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-
science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1!
Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more.

Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!

btw, this project and projects like it are funded by t-shirts like this one (and you should buy one at SquidFacts.net, they're super cute)

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!

careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs.

6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills".

Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful.
www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb...

What good can you do today? What trouble can you cause? What suffering can you ease? What needs to exist, and can you help build it?

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

Interested in microbial predation? Join us in Ticino Switzerland on July 27-31, 2026!
More info at microbialpredation.ethz.ch

#predation #ecology #evolution #microbes

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.