Kaitlyn T
@cancerbiokait.bsky.social
cancer bio trainee // science communication, productivity, & organization 🦠🔬📚🏳️🌈
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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
Are they really trying to pay people to make this parade look popular? #NoKingsDay
Seat Fillers Needed - June 14th - Constitution Avenue - DC - talent gigs - craigslist
T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat.....
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June 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Are they really trying to pay people to make this parade look popular? #NoKingsDay
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory.
We got video.
www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...
We got video.
www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...
“I Believe It”: NIH Director Pushes Lab Leak Conspiracy At Contentious NIH Town Hall As Staffers Walk Out
Dozens of NIH staffers walked out when Jay Bhattacharya promoted the unproven COVID origins story; others protested research cuts.
www.importantcontext.news
May 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory.
We got video.
www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...
We got video.
www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...
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A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
hey that’s me!
Get LOCAL now! ...Stand up and fight back for science wherever you are in the USA. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience #sciencenotsilence #scienceforgood
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Stand Up For Science where you are!
Join or create Stand Up For Science local actions! The more people who get involved across the country, the more powerful our movement will be.
actionnetwork.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
hey that’s me!
I’m sorry, is RFK Jr. is suggesting that AI will replace animal studies??
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m sorry, is RFK Jr. is suggesting that AI will replace animal studies??
@aoc.bsky.social again giving a masterclass in impactful communication that actually counters GOP messaging rather than stubbornly sticking with a pre-approved speech that’s been repeated by every other Dem on the committee #saveMedicaid
May 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
@aoc.bsky.social again giving a masterclass in impactful communication that actually counters GOP messaging rather than stubbornly sticking with a pre-approved speech that’s been repeated by every other Dem on the committee #saveMedicaid
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In which the Senate-confirmed director of the National Institutes of Health
- talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
- says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants
- claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors
- talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
- says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants
- claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors
‘It’s been a tough period’: NIH’s new director speaks with Science
Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”
www.science.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In which the Senate-confirmed director of the National Institutes of Health
- talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
- says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants
- claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors
- talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
- says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants
- claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors
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Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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An important statement signed by 5 of the 8 University of Michigan regents.
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
In defense of our institutional independence
This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.
www.michigandaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An important statement signed by 5 of the 8 University of Michigan regents.
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
Can someone from BioRad please explain to me why you don’t sell TransBlot transfer stacks individually when that’s the only thing I need from the kit 😡
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Can someone from BioRad please explain to me why you don’t sell TransBlot transfer stacks individually when that’s the only thing I need from the kit 😡
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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
Proud to #standupforscience this weekend.
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Proud to #standupforscience this weekend.
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“Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts” by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com. Read more here:
apnews.com/article/scie...
apnews.com/article/scie...
Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts
Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters are venturing out of labs, hospitals and offices across the country to stand up to what they call an attack on life-saving science by the Trump admi...
apnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts” by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com. Read more here:
apnews.com/article/scie...
apnews.com/article/scie...
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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years
www.reddit.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Bhattacharya seems to think the NIH rejects “different ideas” rather than rejecting ideas without sound scientific basis & rigor.
March 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Bhattacharya seems to think the NIH rejects “different ideas” rather than rejecting ideas without sound scientific basis & rigor.
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Bureaucrats might be unelected but they are very accountable; Musk is neither. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
March 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Bureaucrats might be unelected but they are very accountable; Musk is neither. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Oh childhood cancer is a priority now? As someone actively working on that, I can tell you that the administration certainly isn’t acting like it.
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Oh childhood cancer is a priority now? As someone actively working on that, I can tell you that the administration certainly isn’t acting like it.