Caitlin Schartner
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Caitlin Schartner
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Scientist, artist, friend of bears. Always making something. 🧶🧸🌈
We had an amazing time chatting with Margaret Fabrizio.
The delightful Margaret Fabrizio tells us about her art. Shown here with @cmschartner.bsky.social and a lot of bears.

#photography #elders #art
May 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Met this angel at the theater. She is a legend in the world of quilting.

#photography
April 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The antidote for despair is action ❤️

* Dial (202) 224-3121
* Enter zip code
* Leave voicemail
* Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so)

“The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.”

Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.

Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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This seems like a time when a pressure campaign on Senators and Reps could be helpful: "Sen. Cornyn, I have cancer. What are you doing to restore the funding being used to help keep me [my child, my spouse] alive? When will we re-start the research? Give me a date." www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
January 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ever since learning that the national bird of 🍉, the p❤️lestine sunbird survived a name change attempt… & that occupiers drove a subspecies of crocodile endemic to the region to extinction… I couldn’t get this image out of my head. a ceasefire is the bare minimum. but let’s start there.
January 25, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Policy decisions about detention are inherently tied to levels of funding, which is why defund remains an essential demand. The Biden admin started to reduce detention funding for the first time in 40 years but it is now reversing course. We must remain steadfast in our demand to end detention.
September 27, 2023 at 4:11 PM