Preston Stafford
@prestonstafford.bsky.social
PhD Student- Cell Biology, Stem Cells, and Developmental Biology (CSD)- University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.
The Vagnozzi Lab- Immuno-Fibrosis Signaling Mechanisms in Cardiac Pathophysiology
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The Vagnozzi Lab- Immuno-Fibrosis Signaling Mechanisms in Cardiac Pathophysiology
Views are my own.
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This is a great point about one of the reasons for targeting the NSF budget: it's a way to attack universities (not just research). The broader context is in the article here from @dangaristo.bsky.social:
June 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is a great point about one of the reasons for targeting the NSF budget: it's a way to attack universities (not just research). The broader context is in the article here from @dangaristo.bsky.social:
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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The assault on Harvard will not stop with Harvard. Academia needs to link arms, present a unified front, and say no to fascism. No to the wannabe emperor with no clothes trying to dictate what can be taught, who can be admitted, and crush dissent.
May 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The assault on Harvard will not stop with Harvard. Academia needs to link arms, present a unified front, and say no to fascism. No to the wannabe emperor with no clothes trying to dictate what can be taught, who can be admitted, and crush dissent.
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🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.”
The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
April 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.”
The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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These people are liars, and their goal with this “leak” bullshit is to discredit real science.
The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget.
We should reject it straight up.
Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/
The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget.
We should reject it straight up.
Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/
April 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
These people are liars, and their goal with this “leak” bullshit is to discredit real science.
The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget.
We should reject it straight up.
Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/
The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget.
We should reject it straight up.
Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/
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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
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This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
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Tracking the performance of the S&P 500 through 100 days of an administration because I don't want to grade.
March 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tracking the performance of the S&P 500 through 100 days of an administration because I don't want to grade.
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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Let me say @fahrenthold.bsky.social is a national treasure. Also he can do math. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Let me say @fahrenthold.bsky.social is a national treasure. Also he can do math. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Every American should feel shame and embarrassment over the way we are treating our allies. Trump is nothing more than a petulant child in Putin’s pocket; trying to extort an ally under an existential threat from the Kremlin is despicable and beneath the American people.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
Trump, Vance castigate Zelensky in tense Oval Office meeting | CNN Politics
A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office on Friday between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinarily fractious display that only under...
www.cnn.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Every American should feel shame and embarrassment over the way we are treating our allies. Trump is nothing more than a petulant child in Putin’s pocket; trying to extort an ally under an existential threat from the Kremlin is despicable and beneath the American people.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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An entirely routine and end of the line signature being withheld by NIH Grants Management officials because of personal fear of retaliation.
February 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
An entirely routine and end of the line signature being withheld by NIH Grants Management officials because of personal fear of retaliation.
This right here is why RFK Jr is such a threat to public health. He and his anti-vaccine grifters have successfully brought back childhood deaths from a disease we eliminated in the US back in the year 2000. This should be a wake up call.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Child dies in Texas measles outbreak
More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened by measles. The outbreak started in a county with a vaccination rate around 80%.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This right here is why RFK Jr is such a threat to public health. He and his anti-vaccine grifters have successfully brought back childhood deaths from a disease we eliminated in the US back in the year 2000. This should be a wake up call.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
February 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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Our third episode is now live! We talked with Dr. Curtis Henry about his scientific journey, his research on cells in the immune system (T-cells), and the importance of diversity! We hope you enjoy this episode!
February 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Our third episode is now live! We talked with Dr. Curtis Henry about his scientific journey, his research on cells in the immune system (T-cells), and the importance of diversity! We hope you enjoy this episode!
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The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report.
Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report | CNN
The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work – the president’s latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and resea...
www.cnn.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report.
Welp, I guess this is why I still haven’t gotten onto my T-32 grant. Who needs medical research on cardiovascular research anyways….
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Welp, I guess this is why I still haven’t gotten onto my T-32 grant. Who needs medical research on cardiovascular research anyways….
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
America will lose the 21st century because of these anti-science moves by the admin.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
America will lose the 21st century because of these anti-science moves by the admin.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
Trump is playing the same stunt with Ukraine as he did with the Taliban. Remember, the Doha agreement was our surrender to the Taliban without having the Afghani government at the table.
February 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Trump is playing the same stunt with Ukraine as he did with the Taliban. Remember, the Doha agreement was our surrender to the Taliban without having the Afghani government at the table.
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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
February 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬