Annika Barber
@annikabarber.bsky.social
Drosophila enthusiast. Assistant Professor of Mol Bio and Biochem at Rutgers U. Runner. Uses brain to think about brains. All around curious person.
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The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal!
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump administration cannot slash NIH research funding, court rules
District Judge Angel Kelley last year blocked the cuts, and on Monday the appeals court agreed.
www.reuters.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:09 AM
The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal!
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
2026 Day 2: Already climbed a mountain. Did go across from Mont High West to Victoria Peak and took the tram down. 😅
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 AM
2026 Day 2: Already climbed a mountain. Did go across from Mont High West to Victoria Peak and took the tram down. 😅
As a girl constantly gaming my hydration to avoid being caught without a bathroom, I’m ready to pick up and move to Hong Kong just for the public toilets. Free. Everywhere. Cleaned multiple times daily. Stocked with paper products and soap. I would vote for any politician promising this in my city.
December 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
As a girl constantly gaming my hydration to avoid being caught without a bathroom, I’m ready to pick up and move to Hong Kong just for the public toilets. Free. Everywhere. Cleaned multiple times daily. Stocked with paper products and soap. I would vote for any politician promising this in my city.
A sunrise run in a new place is always my favorite! And a good re-entrainment strategy for this very jet lagged chronobiologist. Scenes from the Bowen Road trail in Hong Kong.
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A sunrise run in a new place is always my favorite! And a good re-entrainment strategy for this very jet lagged chronobiologist. Scenes from the Bowen Road trail in Hong Kong.
Not gonna let the Hessians take the Dunkin! #battleoftrenton #patriotsweek
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not gonna let the Hessians take the Dunkin! #battleoftrenton #patriotsweek
Merry Christmas from Goose and the Chaos Crew at Chez Barbèr!
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Merry Christmas from Goose and the Chaos Crew at Chez Barbèr!
Everyone’s in their pajamas and waiting for Santa! 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Everyone’s in their pajamas and waiting for Santa! 🎄
Grannika’s little elves are here to help make Christmas cookies! 🍪 🧑🎄 🤶 🎄
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Grannika’s little elves are here to help make Christmas cookies! 🍪 🧑🎄 🤶 🎄
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TIL that Monet wrote in purple ink, because of course he did doyle.com/auction/lot/...
Lot 254 - Monet quarrels with Renoir
Lot 254 - Monet quarrels with Renoir - Estimate 1200-1800 USD
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December 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Husband: Goose’s sweater makes him look like a hamburger.
Me: It does not!
Husband: 🐶 🍔 📸
Me: It does not!
Husband: 🐶 🍔 📸
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Husband: Goose’s sweater makes him look like a hamburger.
Me: It does not!
Husband: 🐶 🍔 📸
Me: It does not!
Husband: 🐶 🍔 📸
We have a new initiative to make all material on the online learning platform accessible to low-vision students. Good plan, right? Except...there will be absolutely no admin support for this. Every individual professor needs to DIY, including alt text on any uploaded slideshows. #academicsky
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We have a new initiative to make all material on the online learning platform accessible to low-vision students. Good plan, right? Except...there will be absolutely no admin support for this. Every individual professor needs to DIY, including alt text on any uploaded slideshows. #academicsky
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This made me laugh because imagine science reporters breathlessly repeating everything from our grants
Idly thinking, a big mistake we made in tech/business coverage with the rise of start-up culture was writing about things that companies *said* they were going to do, or had funding to do, as if they were done, or were certain to happen. And political reporters have caught the same fever.
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This made me laugh because imagine science reporters breathlessly repeating everything from our grants
Providing a liberal arts education for the floor, where many scientists are multilingual! 🪰
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Providing a liberal arts education for the floor, where many scientists are multilingual! 🪰
It was a delight to return to Thomas Jefferson University, my grad school alma mater, for a seminar visit yesterday. I had too much fun to remember to take pictures, except a selfie with my old rig in my grad advisor’s lab (10/10 advisor, would choose again).
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It was a delight to return to Thomas Jefferson University, my grad school alma mater, for a seminar visit yesterday. I had too much fun to remember to take pictures, except a selfie with my old rig in my grad advisor’s lab (10/10 advisor, would choose again).
I don’t wanna influence people. I just wanna hang out with interesting people and see some science, and maybe some cute animals or interesting plants. I wanna celebrate my internet friends’ promotions and gardens and holidays. I do not have instagram or TikTok and it’s a nice life!
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I don’t wanna influence people. I just wanna hang out with interesting people and see some science, and maybe some cute animals or interesting plants. I wanna celebrate my internet friends’ promotions and gardens and holidays. I do not have instagram or TikTok and it’s a nice life!
Came to the snowy, cold, windy Washington’s crossing reenactment with a thermos of hot chocolate and flagons to drink it from! Alas, the river was again too low for actual crossing. 😭 🇺🇸 🥶
December 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Came to the snowy, cold, windy Washington’s crossing reenactment with a thermos of hot chocolate and flagons to drink it from! Alas, the river was again too low for actual crossing. 😭 🇺🇸 🥶
First snow! And it turns out Goosey loves it! ❄️ 🐶
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
First snow! And it turns out Goosey loves it! ❄️ 🐶
We didn’t win the institute snow globe contest, but we had fun doing arts and crafts! And paying tribute to the cobra chickens of campus.
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We didn’t win the institute snow globe contest, but we had fun doing arts and crafts! And paying tribute to the cobra chickens of campus.
Do yourself a favor and click through to read the comments. Gotta at least get the laughs we are entitled to on this timeline.
The NIH is seeking leadership via Facebook ad. The comments are spectacular.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Do yourself a favor and click through to read the comments. Gotta at least get the laughs we are entitled to on this timeline.
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
Take-my-nephew-to-lab day was highly successful. Nephew asked (loudly) as a colleague went by, “Is that the grumpy old scientist?” Goodnight Lab book really set that expectation. 😂 Shoutout to colleague for saying “publish or perish!” to him in a grumpy voice. It’s his new favorite phrase. 💀
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Take-my-nephew-to-lab day was highly successful. Nephew asked (loudly) as a colleague went by, “Is that the grumpy old scientist?” Goodnight Lab book really set that expectation. 😂 Shoutout to colleague for saying “publish or perish!” to him in a grumpy voice. It’s his new favorite phrase. 💀
Such a sweet Swedish Christmas program at the Philadelphia American-Swedish museum! And I ate my fill of Lucia bullar! Nephew loved that they sung the tomte songs he knows. 🎄 🕯️ 🇸🇪
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Such a sweet Swedish Christmas program at the Philadelphia American-Swedish museum! And I ate my fill of Lucia bullar! Nephew loved that they sung the tomte songs he knows. 🎄 🕯️ 🇸🇪
My nephew (age 3.5) is coming to visit my lab next week and his top priority is checking whether or not I have all the items in @csferrie.com's "Goodnight Lab." I made sure I know where the multimeter is and I found a spectrometer down the hall so he won't think I'm a fraud! 📘🧪😂
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My nephew (age 3.5) is coming to visit my lab next week and his top priority is checking whether or not I have all the items in @csferrie.com's "Goodnight Lab." I made sure I know where the multimeter is and I found a spectrometer down the hall so he won't think I'm a fraud! 📘🧪😂
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Gift link for NY Times article on cuts at NIH and NSF:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Gift link for NY Times article on cuts at NIH and NSF:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I went out running in the wintry mix and then drove to work this morning. Goose snuggled on a heat pad and blanket. Goes to show having a PhD is no indicator of good life choices! 😂 😭 🐶
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I went out running in the wintry mix and then drove to work this morning. Goose snuggled on a heat pad and blanket. Goes to show having a PhD is no indicator of good life choices! 😂 😭 🐶