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Jeff Lewis

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Interested in understanding how organisms sense and respond to stressful environments, and why some individuals are more sensitive or more resilient. he/his

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 19d

Very excited to announce that our department is now accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Cell Biology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Come join our wonderful department!

Assistant Professor Cell Biology

Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 22h

Having grown up in SoCal, I was very disappointed when traveling as a kid to learn that these critters were limited to the west coast.

Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. And intentionally avoiding self citation then ends up being poor scholarship that obscures the actual history of the problem.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 2d

The #Yeast26 website is live—start planning your conference attendance now! 🧬

Browse abstract submission topics, key dates, speaker & venue info, details on travel funding, and more: buff.ly/HFIt31b

Bookmark the page to stay updated as new information becomes available!

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 2d

Be careful in how you beat those drums when those listening are not looking to reform but to dismantle.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

But. I really hope we all think super hard about our chosen anecdotes and how they may strike the ear of non-academics. And how the way we frame the operations of NIH-funded extramural science may set perceptions that are adverse to NIH’s interests and make it really hard to answer “why”.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 2d

I’m guessing the husband has a general problem with being considerate here, and is using a hassle he doesn’t even have to deal with as an excuse. Like doesn’t believe in nut allergies or something.

Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure what to think about this. Maybe I should ask an LLM 🤪

Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 6d

Sigh. The "do your own research crowd" has always personified confirmation bias, but I never expected their hero to lead HHS.

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 7d

It's become sadly clear that our liberal democracy relies on the Honor system.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 7d

💯 I also fear that the success in avoiding the worst-case scenarios will lead many in power at institutions to gaslight themselves (and us) into thinking there was not an impending crisis. The NIH version of the hole in the ozone layer.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 8d

"rather than articulating and defending these goals and processes, many parts of the scientific establishment seemed to be rushing to violate one of the first tenets of historian Timothy Snyder’s important book On Tyranny: Do not obey in advance." 🧪

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 11d

Vibes of

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

In which my supposed naivete and the sophistication of Very Savvy Insiders is discussed.

Feigned helplessness at the NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/f...

Feigned helplessness at the NIH

Lord, the gaslighting. There’s a live one commenting on the blog post about my disappointment with Mike Lauer’s accomplishments vis a vis the Ginther gap while he headed up the OER at N…

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 13d

"Why did I drink all that crab juice?"

Every single time that I have to pee at an inopportune moment.

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 13d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

applyingtoeeb.info

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 14d

If the MYF mandate is rescinded for FY26 (as per the Senate budget proposal), presumably more funds would be available for new awards than were available this year. Could any FY25 grants that were passed over get picked up? Or would this just result in a short-term bump in awards in FY26?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14d

Here is NIGMS.

This reflects Jon Lorsch's push away from R01s and toward MIRA awards (R35s). While there are some advantages to the R35 mechanism, there are downsides to "putting all of your eggs in one basket" as some discovered this year.

8/n

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14d

"For scientists, shutdowns can cause significant delays in research outcomes, can cause financial uncertainty for more than just those directly involved, and increase the loss of institutional knowledge from employees that leave...a huge impact on how competitive the U.S. R&D enterprise can be."

Research on R&D Funding: Impacts of Federal Shutdowns | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14d

A true hero... She changed how we think about so many things...

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING

Dr. Jane Goodall has died. She was 91.

It is impossible to sum up the impact she has had on our world and on science in a social media post.

She lived a long and incredible life but I am devastated.

Full Story: bit.ly/4pPcNFH

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14d

Due to the relative proportion of applications with Black and white PIs, fixing the Ginther gap would have a trivial effect on success rates for majoritarians. An early 'splainer on that is here

More thoughts on the dismal NIH response to Ginther drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/m...

More thoughts on the dismal NIH response to Ginther

Jeremy Berg made a comment If you look at the data in the Ginther report, the biggest difference for African-American applicants is the percentage of “not discussed” applications. For A…

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14d

I never imagined there would be such a purge of NIH-dom's web pages and blogs. I really should have been less slipshod about documenting. Still, for those wondering what I am ranting about...

Additional Analysis of Demographic-Specific NIH Funding Rates drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/a...

Additional Analysis of Demographic-Specific NIH Funding Rates

For some reason a twitter account of the NIH linked a March blog post by Mike Lauer and Marie Bernard over at Open Mike today. Lauer is the head of the NIH’s Office of Extramural Research and…

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 14d

I realize this is a side point, but it is rather pernicious that history is being erased. I have had some success with the wayback machine for finding old blog posts, but I have to remember what to look for. Another reminder that this isn’t the same NIH.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 15d

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Graph showing total R35+R01 awards issued by NIGMS from 2020 to 2025. R01 in black showing a steep decline. R35 showing an increase. Total awards in 2025 slightly up from 2024 but these years are lower than 2020-2023

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 14d

Yup. I originally thought NIGMS R01s had tanked due to MYF, but that’s not the case now that Sept awards are in. The barrier to breaking (back) into NIGMS is not good.