VJ Rubenstein

@omarzaheerdvm Loved your episode recap last night, but missed opportunity to rebrand the Fishy as the Birdie :)

It’s crazy how Emily turned on every single person in this tribe and still manages to be the swing vote wanted by all #survivor50 icon

@maxdkozlov Are the effects on careers being quantitatively tracked somewhere? Numbers of layoffs, labs closing, promotion/tenure denials, etc? We are still at the early stages of the impacts on people's lives, livelihoods, and scientific output.

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇 For @Nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

@Rick_Devens I hope you brought your towel

Any "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fans out there? #Survivor50

@Eri_RS_Sakata Congratulations, Eri and team! Beautiful work!

I have stopped posting on social media, but this is a special occasion. I am glad to share that our work has been published in Science Advances! We made it work through great collaborations with outstanding colleagues. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…