Liz Fisher, PhD
@gliaandcake.bsky.social
She/her
Postdoc-Temple Lab (@neuralstemcells.bsky.social)
Interested in immune-vascular interactions in AD. Passionate about mentoring and glia.
💜
IPSCs/🧠/🧶/🎂/🐈
Postdoc-Temple Lab (@neuralstemcells.bsky.social)
Interested in immune-vascular interactions in AD. Passionate about mentoring and glia.
💜
IPSCs/🧠/🧶/🎂/🐈
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The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
sites.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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Bhattacharya has been making the rounds following the #BethesdaDeclaration roundtable.
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see him spreading the same disinformative talking points colleagues corrected at the roundtable.
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see him spreading the same disinformative talking points colleagues corrected at the roundtable.
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
NIH director talks grant terminations controversy, Bethesda Declaration, making America healthy
"We haven't yet achieved the mission of the NIH, which is research that improves the health and longevity of the American people," Jay Bhattacharya said.
federalnewsnetwork.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Bhattacharya has been making the rounds following the #BethesdaDeclaration roundtable.
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see him spreading the same disinformative talking points colleagues corrected at the roundtable.
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see him spreading the same disinformative talking points colleagues corrected at the roundtable.
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
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NIH wants to hear from you. No really.
Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
grants.nih.gov
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
NIH wants to hear from you. No really.
Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt.
As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt.
As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
Has anyone shipped floating tissue sections before? Tips on how to do it and keep them intact? I would greatly appreciate any insights!
July 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Has anyone shipped floating tissue sections before? Tips on how to do it and keep them intact? I would greatly appreciate any insights!
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For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...
FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations
The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...
So great that my Rep. Tonko stopped by to see the amazing work we do at the NSCI!
Today, I stopped by @neuralstemcells.bsky.social new facility in Albany to learn more about how NIH grants are helping this small, nonprofit institution perform groundbreaking research and develop new therapies for neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.
May 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
So great that my Rep. Tonko stopped by to see the amazing work we do at the NSCI!
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Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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We're new to Bsky and need your help recreating our social media network here! We are the Papouin lab @washu.bsky.social (sites.wustl.edu/papouinlab/o...). We study #astrocytes! Please repost!
Lab Space
Our lab is located in the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building, one of the largest neuroscience buildings in the world bringing more than 1,000 researchers on 120 research teams together …
sites.wustl.edu
May 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We're new to Bsky and need your help recreating our social media network here! We are the Papouin lab @washu.bsky.social (sites.wustl.edu/papouinlab/o...). We study #astrocytes! Please repost!
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If they proceed with this plan, it will effectively choke whatever life is left out of the health research academic community. To put it bluntly it will kill any possibility of a grant funded career doing health research in the U.S.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests
NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
www.statnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If they proceed with this plan, it will effectively choke whatever life is left out of the health research academic community. To put it bluntly it will kill any possibility of a grant funded career doing health research in the U.S.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
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“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by The Post. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’”
wapo.st/44uaqzG
wapo.st/44uaqzG
DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
wapo.st
April 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by The Post. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’”
wapo.st/44uaqzG
wapo.st/44uaqzG
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I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
Just completed day 2 of chairing a NIH study section. Brain is tired after intently listening and leading discussions of ~40 apps. So fulfilling to hear the passion people have for others' science, and heartwarming to see so many people who care about the training and environment of others 🫶 (299!)
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
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14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
March 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday.
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
March 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday.
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
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The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.
March 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
scim.ag
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
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In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
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.
go.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
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It looks like the bill posted this morning (Saturday)-to be voted on next week-will cut the BRAIN Iniitiative and All Of Us by proposing a 69% reduction in funding for the NIH Innovation Account (CURES Act) by reducing its allocation from $407 million to $127 million.
rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It looks like the bill posted this morning (Saturday)-to be voted on next week-will cut the BRAIN Iniitiative and All Of Us by proposing a 69% reduction in funding for the NIH Innovation Account (CURES Act) by reducing its allocation from $407 million to $127 million.
rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
While my grant was not discussed, one of my reviewers commented on my demonstrated “grit and determination”, which is the best compliment I’ve received in a summary statement. Taking the small win when everything feels so crazy.
March 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
While my grant was not discussed, one of my reviewers commented on my demonstrated “grit and determination”, which is the best compliment I’ve received in a summary statement. Taking the small win when everything feels so crazy.
We ❤️ stem cells!
We ❤️ directed differentiations! This year, we're looking forward to a cross-institute collaborative effort to build better neurovascular models to study Alzheimer's Disease.
#stemcell
#Alzheimers
#neurodegeneration
#stemcell
#Alzheimers
#neurodegeneration
February 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We ❤️ stem cells!
