Isabel Erickson
isabelerickson.bsky.social
Isabel Erickson
@isabelerickson.bsky.social
Microbiology Graduate Student at WashU
Schwartz Lab - https://djschwartzlab.wustl.edu/
Opinions are my own
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Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
September 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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@emilymarino178.bsky.social officially received the Notice of Award for her F31!!! 🍾 Congratulations, Emily! Time to propose this project and do that thesis 😉

Emily would like to thank her current and previous mentors for their support <3
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📄 🧫 New review out today!

I hope that it is a helpful overview of the connections between the preterm gut microbiome and disease. It's the Schwartz lab's first review and summarizes our group's major focus

journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

#MicroSky #Microbiome
Consequences of host-microbiome interactions in preterm infants
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journals.asm.org
August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.

This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.

Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms:

asm.org/Articles/202...

web.archive.org/web/20250114...

#MicroSky
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's noteworthy that this response doesn't mention support for Black or LGBTQ+ scientists

asm.org/Press-Releas...
ASM Responds to Member Questions About Executive Orders
Our modified pages are back up or in the process of being restored. ASM has not retracted or altered any research articles, scientific papers or peer reviewed articles on our website.
asm.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Reminder that it’s the same program officers, same reviewers, same values, norms, and priorities. We still are our community no matter what they tell us who to exclude. We can still prioritize diversity, inclusion, equity, and access.
January 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.
www.bloomberg.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM