Katie Sandlin
@kmsandlin.bsky.social
Manager of Education & Career Development Programs @AAI.org
DOGEd from NIH/NHGRI Education Outreach Specialist
Former Director of Curriculum at @genomicsed.bsky.social
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DOGEd from NIH/NHGRI Education Outreach Specialist
Former Director of Curriculum at @genomicsed.bsky.social
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Katie Sandlin
@kmsandlin.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭
It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.
It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.
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Level up your immunology research! The new AAI Computational Immunology Course covers machine learning, single-cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics and more. Get the computational edge and learn on-demand: https://ow.ly/6Cfr50VXLNp. #immunology #bioinformatics #datascience
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Level up your immunology research! The new AAI Computational Immunology Course covers machine learning, single-cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics and more. Get the computational edge and learn on-demand: https://ow.ly/6Cfr50VXLNp. #immunology #bioinformatics #datascience
I am proud of how far this event has come in the planning stage from just an idea to now a full fledged program day! Please help us spread the word far and wide!!
Introducing NextGen Immunologists Day at #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ — a dedicated experience designed just for undergraduate students. Spend the day presenting research, learning how to navigate a scientific meeting, connecting with mentors, and building your network in immunology. https://ow.ly/BmhO50XIvSC.
NextGen Immunologists Day - IMMUNOLOGY2026™
NextGen Immunologists Day welcomes undergraduate students into the immunology community through a full day of hands-on learning, scientific exploration, and meaningful connection.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am proud of how far this event has come in the planning stage from just an idea to now a full fledged program day! Please help us spread the word far and wide!!
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🔬 The second abstract period for #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ is now OPEN!
Submit your research December 2–16 and share your findings with the top minds in #immunology. Join us in Boston, MA, April 15–19, 2026.
🔗 immunology2026.aai.org/abstracts
#AAI2026
Submit your research December 2–16 and share your findings with the top minds in #immunology. Join us in Boston, MA, April 15–19, 2026.
🔗 immunology2026.aai.org/abstracts
#AAI2026
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🔬 The second abstract period for #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ is now OPEN!
Submit your research December 2–16 and share your findings with the top minds in #immunology. Join us in Boston, MA, April 15–19, 2026.
🔗 immunology2026.aai.org/abstracts
#AAI2026
Submit your research December 2–16 and share your findings with the top minds in #immunology. Join us in Boston, MA, April 15–19, 2026.
🔗 immunology2026.aai.org/abstracts
#AAI2026
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🚨 Applications for the AAI PPFP 2026-27 are officially OPEN! Ready to advocate for biomedical research? Apply now and make your voice heard on Capitol Hill: https://ow.ly/Jsui50XAJ8V. #AAIadvocacy #SciPol #AdvocateForScience
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 Applications for the AAI PPFP 2026-27 are officially OPEN! Ready to advocate for biomedical research? Apply now and make your voice heard on Capitol Hill: https://ow.ly/Jsui50XAJ8V. #AAIadvocacy #SciPol #AdvocateForScience
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Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
Please help us spread the word!
NextGen Immunologists Day: A New Opportunity for Undergrads at IMMUNOLOGY2026
Register for a FREE day-long program of poster showcases, guided poster walks, networking, graduate school panels, and demonstrations.
immunology2026.aai.org/nextgen-immu...
NextGen Immunologists Day: A New Opportunity for Undergrads at IMMUNOLOGY2026
Register for a FREE day-long program of poster showcases, guided poster walks, networking, graduate school panels, and demonstrations.
immunology2026.aai.org/nextgen-immu...
NextGen Immunologists Day - IMMUNOLOGY2026™
NextGen Immunologists Day welcomes undergraduate students into the immunology community through a full day of hands-on learning, scientific exploration, and meaningful connection.
immunology2026.aai.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Please help us spread the word!
NextGen Immunologists Day: A New Opportunity for Undergrads at IMMUNOLOGY2026
Register for a FREE day-long program of poster showcases, guided poster walks, networking, graduate school panels, and demonstrations.
immunology2026.aai.org/nextgen-immu...
NextGen Immunologists Day: A New Opportunity for Undergrads at IMMUNOLOGY2026
Register for a FREE day-long program of poster showcases, guided poster walks, networking, graduate school panels, and demonstrations.
immunology2026.aai.org/nextgen-immu...
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Some friendly advice to folks new to the conference submission game: everybody gets some submissions rejected. I did today. It’s normal and expected. Keep doing the best work you can, don’t get too high or too low, learn from every decision, and push on. #AERA2026
dory and clown fish from the movie finding nemo
ALT: dory and clown fish from the movie finding nemo
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Some friendly advice to folks new to the conference submission game: everybody gets some submissions rejected. I did today. It’s normal and expected. Keep doing the best work you can, don’t get too high or too low, learn from every decision, and push on. #AERA2026
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Teaching is an experiment — share what you’ve learned!
ASBMB Today invites essays on evolving teaching practices:
• Redesigning grading systems
• Bringing cultural context into your curriculum
• Shifting from traditional lectures to flipped or active-learning models
🗓 Jan. 15 | 📧 mlocke@asbmb.org
ASBMB Today invites essays on evolving teaching practices:
• Redesigning grading systems
• Bringing cultural context into your curriculum
• Shifting from traditional lectures to flipped or active-learning models
🗓 Jan. 15 | 📧 mlocke@asbmb.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Teaching is an experiment — share what you’ve learned!
ASBMB Today invites essays on evolving teaching practices:
• Redesigning grading systems
• Bringing cultural context into your curriculum
• Shifting from traditional lectures to flipped or active-learning models
🗓 Jan. 15 | 📧 mlocke@asbmb.org
ASBMB Today invites essays on evolving teaching practices:
• Redesigning grading systems
• Bringing cultural context into your curriculum
• Shifting from traditional lectures to flipped or active-learning models
🗓 Jan. 15 | 📧 mlocke@asbmb.org
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Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience!
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!
🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!
🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience!
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!
🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!
🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
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And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!
Glad the government finally admitted it lied in my termination email.
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Glad the government finally admitted it lied in my termination email.
Dr. McNutt offered a sobering yet inspiring perspective on the current landscape of science in America. While she did not shy away from the challenges we face, she also provided several thoughtful and actionable steps we can take to strengthen our nation’s scientific enterprise and global standing.
AAI presents a free webinar: "State of Science in the US: 2025," with Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences, tomorrow, October 8, from 1-2 PM EST. Secure your spot now: https://ow.ly/wIML50WZv7C.
#STEM #ScienceEducation #Biotechnology
#STEM #ScienceEducation #Biotechnology
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Dr. McNutt offered a sobering yet inspiring perspective on the current landscape of science in America. While she did not shy away from the challenges we face, she also provided several thoughtful and actionable steps we can take to strengthen our nation’s scientific enterprise and global standing.
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Congratulations to new Nobel Laureate and AAI Distinguished Fellow Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell! Honored for his foundational discovery of regulatory T cells (Tregs). www.nobelprize.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Congratulations to new Nobel Laureate and AAI Distinguished Fellow Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell! Honored for his foundational discovery of regulatory T cells (Tregs). www.nobelprize.org
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"Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, who earned scientific stature and global celebrity by chronicling the distinctive behavior of wild chimpanzees in East Africa...died on Wednesday in Los Angeles." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, who earned scientific stature and global celebrity by chronicling the distinctive behavior of wild chimpanzees in East Africa...died on Wednesday in Los Angeles." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day?
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day?
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
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On the jump forward of CRISPR genome editing beta islet cells, preempting the need for immunosuppression, for a one-shot treatment of autoimmune (Type 1) diabetes
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On the jump forward of CRISPR genome editing beta islet cells, preempting the need for immunosuppression, for a one-shot treatment of autoimmune (Type 1) diabetes
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I am proud to be an AAI employee!
We have joined @idsainfo.bsky.social, @asm.org, and 19 other medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, in calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure the health of the American people.
Read the statement in full: news.aai.org/2025/09/04/j...
Read the statement in full: news.aai.org/2025/09/04/j...
September 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I am proud to be an AAI employee!
Nominate a wonderful colleague or mentor!!
Recognize outstanding achievements in #immunology! AAI is seeking nominations for our 2026 Career Awards. Know a great mentor or a brilliant researcher? Nominate them by September 10! Learn more and submit a nomination: www.aai.org/Awards/Career.
#AAICareerAwards
#AAICareerAwards
Pamela Rosato, Ph.D., on receiving a 2025 ASPIRE Award
YouTube video by The American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
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September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Nominate a wonderful colleague or mentor!!
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🗓️ #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ abstract submissions open on September 3! Get ready to share your latest research with the global immunology community. ow.ly/XQ6O50WBK9r
#immunology #scicomm
#immunology #scicomm
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🗓️ #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ abstract submissions open on September 3! Get ready to share your latest research with the global immunology community. ow.ly/XQ6O50WBK9r
#immunology #scicomm
#immunology #scicomm
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This is really reporting 'inside' the response to the devastating Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.
Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
August 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is really reporting 'inside' the response to the devastating Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.
Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
Reposted by Katie Sandlin
Looking for trusted info on vaccines? AAI has you covered this #NationalImmunizationAwarenessMonth. Download our handout to learn about vaccines and the immune system: ow.ly/7w9e50WBGuR.
#NIAM #VaccinesWork #Immunology #AAIResources
#NIAM #VaccinesWork #Immunology #AAIResources
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Looking for trusted info on vaccines? AAI has you covered this #NationalImmunizationAwarenessMonth. Download our handout to learn about vaccines and the immune system: ow.ly/7w9e50WBGuR.
#NIAM #VaccinesWork #Immunology #AAIResources
#NIAM #VaccinesWork #Immunology #AAIResources
Claiming to have “listened to the experts” rings hollow when the leading voices behind mRNA research were dismissed, discredited, or outright ignored. That’s not science-based leadership — that’s selective hearing.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
August 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Claiming to have “listened to the experts” rings hollow when the leading voices behind mRNA research were dismissed, discredited, or outright ignored. That’s not science-based leadership — that’s selective hearing.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...