Sam Rund

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VEuPathDB is hosting a community meeting for @VectorBase users to discuss plans for the future and answer your questions. 🦟See what all the buzz is about. 🕷️Mon, Nov 4, 10 AM EST/ 3 PM UTC. Register here today! upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Excellent. Spent an hour today doing something that would have taken 10 minutes on @veupathdb . Let’s hope a model for sustainable, long-term support of this amazing resource can be established.

Essential vector-disease resource faces shutdown without funding nature.com/articles/d4158…

My @bugbittentweets blog this week about the tenuous future of @veupathdb @VectorBase and the potential impact on science: blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2024…

@jermdemo @leslievosshall @mttcrown @NIH @NIHDirector its terabytes of data and team of curators (myself previously included) that cleaned / structured it all. . .

@leslievosshall @mttcrown @NIH @NIHDirector Ok eupathdb is probably a few gigs of tables. Is this really a distribution problem or a hostage situation?

Imagine if you woke up this morning and found that the NIH-funded database that holds all of the data that you and thousands of other scientists around the world consult every day was turned off. Gone. Despite many efforts by a community of scientists to lobby @NIH @NIHDirector this has happened #RIP @VectorBase @veupathdb

@BWFPATH @VectorBase @veupathdb VEuPathDB sites will be down for at least a few weeks while it transitions to a leaner post -NIH environment

VEuPathDB data will remain available beyond the day NIAID meant it to go dark, but no new data will be brought in. Get involved with @VEuPathDB in the conversation about the future of shared data.

Critical loss: the effects of @veupathdb defunding on global health - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… @VectorBase

@Michel_Lab @VectorBase @NIAIDFunding @ACME_ASTMH science.org/content/articl…

Only 5 more days! Every morning I am reminded that ⁦@VectorBase⁩ is going away! ⁦@NIAIDFunding⁩ what were you thinking?!? ⁦This resource is critical to so many research labs. MUVE_ESA⁩ ⁦@ACME_ASTMH⁩

⁦@veupathdb⁩ and ⁦@VectorBase⁩ go dark over the weekend after more than 20 years of continuous service to their scientific communities. science.org/content/articl…

Dear @Zoom - if you already know I am the host of prescheduled Zoom call, and there is a required security patch before I can join the call, why can't you tell me before hand ?!

It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. @BSPparasitology @AS_Para @ASTMH @TrendsParasitol @AmSocParasit @parasitesrule @PiParasitology

First talk of last session of Arthropod Genomics Symposium on genomic insecticide resistance. Dr Kamau opens the session. Session chaired by @pamcafrica / @KEMRI_Kenya with @VectorBase running the laptop.

Special thanks to @biocentis for sponsoring this first session on vector genomics

Last day of Arthropod Genomics Symposium - the wonderful Joachim Nwezeobi is starting us off with insecticide resistance genomics but also sharing his journey from there to cancer research bioinformatics.

local wildlife is curious and wants to get in on the science

So much great science and networking happening at the @vectorbase @ndeckinstitute et al sponsored Arthropod Genomics Symposium (both inside and outside) in beautiful Kenya. Even the

First talk of second day of Arthropod Genomics Symposium 🧬. Thanks @biocentis for kicking things off. Super excited for the program today.

Beautiful day in Nairobi, Kenya for the VectorBase bioinformatics workshop. Thanks to @ndeckinstitute and @NotreDameGlobal their support. Such amazing students in attendance learning research skills to help fight for global health.