Daniel Gorelick
@danielgorelick.bsky.social
Science is real
gorelicklab.org
Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
gorelicklab.org
Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
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I stand in solidarity with my colleagues at NW because I know what it feels like to silence yourself out of the conviction that the work we do is more important than the small piece of soul we lose every time we stay put. 4/4
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I stand in solidarity with my colleagues at NW because I know what it feels like to silence yourself out of the conviction that the work we do is more important than the small piece of soul we lose every time we stay put. 4/4
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Here's a zero-cost proposal for ERC to lure US talent: condition participation in a Synergy grant to a relocation to the EU. Will help the incoming PI not only with money but also a supporting collaboration. Right now SyG is funding US labs while NIH has cut all funding to foreign collaborators.
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Here's a zero-cost proposal for ERC to lure US talent: condition participation in a Synergy grant to a relocation to the EU. Will help the incoming PI not only with money but also a supporting collaboration. Right now SyG is funding US labs while NIH has cut all funding to foreign collaborators.
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Extortion worked. Northwestern had not been able to draw down money on grants since April. Hemorrhaging money.
But the likely long-term consequences for NU and other schools is clear.
New mascot to replace the Wildcat: A tame cat with two broken kneecaps.
Mew…
But the likely long-term consequences for NU and other schools is clear.
New mascot to replace the Wildcat: A tame cat with two broken kneecaps.
Mew…
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Extortion worked. Northwestern had not been able to draw down money on grants since April. Hemorrhaging money.
But the likely long-term consequences for NU and other schools is clear.
New mascot to replace the Wildcat: A tame cat with two broken kneecaps.
Mew…
But the likely long-term consequences for NU and other schools is clear.
New mascot to replace the Wildcat: A tame cat with two broken kneecaps.
Mew…
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
Great time to remind folks that Biology Open pays humans to review manuscripts, decisions with reviews in 7 working days from submission, no AI slop journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great time to remind folks that Biology Open pays humans to review manuscripts, decisions with reviews in 7 working days from submission, no AI slop journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
I would say this about every person who voted to confirm RFK Jr - they all supported the antivax movement
Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I would say this about every person who voted to confirm RFK Jr - they all supported the antivax movement
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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In fairness, the NIH Director was describing his own research...
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In fairness, the NIH Director was describing his own research...
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Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
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If it’s illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater when there is no fire, it should also be illegal for the U.S. government to publish grossly false statements on their webpages.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If it’s illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater when there is no fire, it should also be illegal for the U.S. government to publish grossly false statements on their webpages.
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Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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I'm still waiting for someone to finally comment on the fact that if your profits are $15B, or 35% (ish), it still means that publishing costs at least $30B pa. All publishers could disappear overnight and the problem would still be at billion dollars scale. #ScientificPublishing
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I'm still waiting for someone to finally comment on the fact that if your profits are $15B, or 35% (ish), it still means that publishing costs at least $30B pa. All publishers could disappear overnight and the problem would still be at billion dollars scale. #ScientificPublishing
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108 years ago, the US military carried out the largest mass execution in American history. In December 1917, the military hanged 13 soldiers. Another 6 were hanged less than a year later.
Yes...they were all Black soldiers.
It's best known as the Houston Riot of 1917
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Yes...they were all Black soldiers.
It's best known as the Houston Riot of 1917
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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
108 years ago, the US military carried out the largest mass execution in American history. In December 1917, the military hanged 13 soldiers. Another 6 were hanged less than a year later.
Yes...they were all Black soldiers.
It's best known as the Houston Riot of 1917
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Yes...they were all Black soldiers.
It's best known as the Houston Riot of 1917
🧵
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH.
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Me: Why did we outsource campus decisions to a corporate consultant?
HR: We haven’t outsourced anything. We’ve merely engaged a strategic partner to collaborate within our priorities and provide insights for our long-term goal of eliminating inefficiencies and streamlining our effective operations.
HR: We haven’t outsourced anything. We’ve merely engaged a strategic partner to collaborate within our priorities and provide insights for our long-term goal of eliminating inefficiencies and streamlining our effective operations.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Me: Why did we outsource campus decisions to a corporate consultant?
HR: We haven’t outsourced anything. We’ve merely engaged a strategic partner to collaborate within our priorities and provide insights for our long-term goal of eliminating inefficiencies and streamlining our effective operations.
HR: We haven’t outsourced anything. We’ve merely engaged a strategic partner to collaborate within our priorities and provide insights for our long-term goal of eliminating inefficiencies and streamlining our effective operations.
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
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Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n
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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
Nov 2024 Univ of Texas announced plans to provide free tuition and fees to students from families earning <$100k. Republicans said makes "higher education in Texas more socialist than California." Let's see what they say when a conservative university does this www.chron.com/news/houston...
Why a conservative Texas university is going tuition-free
A $100 million gift will fund its pledge to "never charge tuition."
www.chron.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Nov 2024 Univ of Texas announced plans to provide free tuition and fees to students from families earning <$100k. Republicans said makes "higher education in Texas more socialist than California." Let's see what they say when a conservative university does this www.chron.com/news/houston...
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“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”
Good leaders are open about their errors and correct them. This post inspires hope for me & hopefully serves as a positive example for others. We need more of this from current NIH leadership.
A New Thread on NIH Forward Funding
I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25.
This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information
I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right.
1/25
I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25.
This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information
I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right.
1/25
a cartoon moose in a tuxedo is standing next to a squirrel and saying this time for sure .
ALT: a cartoon moose in a tuxedo is standing next to a squirrel and saying this time for sure .
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Good leaders are open about their errors and correct them. This post inspires hope for me & hopefully serves as a positive example for others. We need more of this from current NIH leadership.
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Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In preprints: multiomics of low temperature acclimation in the era of intensifying temperature fluctuations
In a warming world, all life forms – endotherms and ectotherms alike – are finding their homeostasis being challenged. The environmental change is challenging at all stages of life. How different orga...
journals.biologists.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...