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Tina Termini
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Assistant Professor at Fred Hutch | She/her/hers | Founder of organizo | Angsty hematologist & scientific socialite | I work on/am stress & blood🩸 🦴 🐁 ☢
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Excited to visit Penn later this week and share my career journey with graduate students. Penn took a chance on me 15+ years ago, and I’ll always be grateful for how it helped shape such a rewarding path.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science."

STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Werner-Washburne principles… preach!!
Main principles she taught students:

* Know your heart
* Look for the positive or the blessing in everything
* Embrace who you are and bring it to the table
* Show gratitude/finish well

#CellBio2025
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Day 1 of #CellBio25 - don’t miss the Mentoring Keynote by Maggie Werner-Washburne in Room 126A at 8:45!!!! @ascbiology.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Grateful to Isabella Alves & @cterminiphd.bsky.social for writing this fantastic N&V in @natcellbio.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nicely covers our 📰 led by della Volpe & co: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Say cheeeeese! Me and the current, future, and past Presidents of ASCB. Seeing is believing ♥️ 🧬 💗 📸 #CellBio2025 @marymunson4.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Truly enjoyed writing this piece about recent discoveries by @bloodgenes.bsky.social and colleagues about how we can improve HSC expansion & gene editing by blocking ferroptosis!

Our @natcellbio.nature.com N&V: rdcu.be/eR25t
Associated article: tinyurl.com/msf9x8fn
Blocking ferroptosis to expand human HSCs
Nature Cell Biology - Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are used in a variety of cellular therapies, but our ability to support these cells ex vivo remains technically challenging. A new study...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Who’s going to ASCB this week? Let’s connect ♥️ 🧫
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This faculty journey would be so much harder without a best friend to go through it with. We share all the drama, all the wins, and all the in between. I hope every PI finds a person who gets them like we get each other - thank for @myron_evansPhD this and every season ♥️ 🍁
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Recent office addition: peel and stick wallpaper to add some more brightness to accompany my endowed purple chair. It’s a dark time right now, so every bit helps keep me inspired and focused to take on the challenges that each day brings ♥️ 🌺 🩸 🦙
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Applications are open for the 2026 Zara Weinberg cohort of Leading Edge, named in honor of the incredible, brilliant, fearless @weinberz.witchlab.org.

The LE community has been truly transformative for my scientific journey and my happiness. Please apply!! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
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Apply. The 2026 Leading Edge cohort application is now open! This cohort is named the Zara Weinberg Cohort, in honor of 2021 Leading Edge Fellow, Zara Weinberg. Applications are due February 2, 2026.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Thank you for your bravery as an advocate for honest and accurate science, for your passion to pursue the mission of human health, for your service to the nation, and for being a role model to us all. May HHS and NIH leadership see the light and course correct for the benefit of all Americans 🙏
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
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November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Not every mentor is for every person. I always tell grad students to listen to what folks in the lab say about a mentor, but it’s okay to also see it for yourself in a rotation. It’s about the match - finding the person who can meet your needs (which are unique!).
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🚨 Calling all postdocs 🚨

We are soliciting applications to our 8th cohort of Fred Hutch Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholars! Awardees will be invited to present at a symposium celebrating their achievements 🧵

Apply here 👇 👇 👇
apply.interfolio.com/176955
📆 Applications due 2/1/2026
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November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We are all better because of the energy, inspiration, brilliance, and tenacity that Zara was. A bright light, role model, advocate & snarky tweeter... everything I needed in a person when I was navigating dark times when we met in 2021. You will be missed deeply, Zara, but never forgotten ❤️
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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100% all of this 👇. So grateful to have had you in my life, Zara, and I will miss you so much.
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing.

She was truly one of the best.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Grateful to the incredible team we put together for this project: @cterminiphd.bsky.social, @biophysgal.bsky.social, @jpflores.rbind.io, Joselyn Landazuri, Esteban, and Karen❤️. You all inspire me! Also, huge thanks to friends helping to share and amplify this: @sciforgood.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Be the scientist who provides thoughtful and critical feedback to strengthen an idea without changing the idea completely. We need creative minds, not clones of thought. Mentors who foster creativity can have an enormous impact on the scientific enterprise: self-awareness is key ♥️ 🔑
May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
✅ I had my first screening mammogram performed today: with a familial history of breast cancer spanning generations and most of my maternal aunts, it was time to check in. Happy to report that it was easy to schedule after getting a referral from my PCP, painless, and fast.
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Early morning flash talk ready at @thevfoundation.bsky.social

Thank you for inviting me to sharing our work on the sparkle code in leukemia ♥️ 🩸
May 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM