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Alex Pike
@alexpike.bsky.social
assistant prof at Oberlin College 🧬 dna replication, biochemistry, telomeres, naps 👩‍🔬 she/her
https://sites.google.com/oberlin.edu/alexpike/research
my amazement with the technology surpasses my annoyance with my past self for not sequencing this plasmid sooner, since my original map has lots of issues
October 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by Alex Pike
The NIH has said it will implement a "new award stucture" by October.

But researchers say it is absolutely senseless and reckless to cut off funding without an alternative in place.

I spoke to nine affected researchers.

This is their story.
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Alex Pike
definitely worth checking surplus lab equipment vendors — some items are barely used or even brand new — as a way of getting around the tariffs
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM