Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

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A nice letter to the editor about the importance of NIH research and the Bethesda Declaration community. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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This language will be crucial to protect NIH science from being politicized. Thanks to @murray.senate.gov and Sen Collins for leading this. Kennedy is opposed, so especially if you are in Louisiana, time to flood phone lines. rollcall.com/2026/10/01/l...

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I sat in on the interview of @deisseroth.bsky.social for an NIH Director's Pioneer Award (which he subsequently received). It is remarkable how much what he presented about his vision for optogenetics played out from work in his and other labs over the next decade. Bioengineering meets Psychiatry

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Latest Science Friday episode: Are natural history museums going extinct? #ScienceFriday www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are...

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