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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD
@cbv.bsky.social
NIH-funded LGBTQIA+ health researcher. Asst Prof
@ISGMH @MSSatNU @NorthwesternU. Pronounced "Veld-hice." Views my own. http://soqir.org 🌈
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A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards

Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024)

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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My lab hosted a Halloween crafting party for our research institute @impactinstitute.bsky.social yesterday. So much fun. Grateful to my team for making this happen and for everyone who showed up!!
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@impactinstitute.bsky.social is taking up to 4 postdoctoral fellows next year! Please see the flyer in the link below. If my own funding holds, I will be hiring one of the four postdocs, so if you have interests in women's health and need a postdoc, apply!

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October 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Writing grants is so exhausting.
August 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just got an email that the NIH Early Independence award is "not going forward." This was an award that catapulted promising PhD students into faculty positions and is part of the High-Risk High-Reward grant program in the NIH Office of the Director. Deadline was 9.6.25!
August 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.
July 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
When chatGPT just gets you:

Me: What is a better word to use in this sentence than normalize? I dislike that word for various and likely obvious reasons.

ChatGPT: Totally fair to dislike "normalize"—it can feel clinical, loaded, or imply that things were previously “abnormal.”
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July 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣 Big Announcement! 📣
🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop!

Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform how you design charts, posters, and presentations.
🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025
📍 Virtual

REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH
AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR
July 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I bought the cabinet that came in this box on December 30, 2024. So much has happened since then. Should I contact them and see if they can fix ALL THE THINGS???
June 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Happy pride month, all.
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🎨 Calling all health researchers!
Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉

💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇

🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on email list.
June 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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New opportunity to help sustain global health research

re-fund-global-health.vercel.app
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The label on my Noosa yogurt this morning promises "a delightful escape." Not sure how that is possible given [gestures to everything everywhere all at once], but am willing to try and will report back. Stay tuned.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We continue to look for an #ImpSci Postdoc to work with us - if you consider applying and want to have a chat first, let me know. New deadline end of May: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
May 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Today has been a long week.
April 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Our analysis shows that, looking at just the projects terminated so far, a whopping 29% are related to HIV/AIDS and 24% to trans health. 17% are related to COVID-19.
April 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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NIH-funded LGBT+ health work has been obliterated.

This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”
April 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM