Christina Bergey
@bergeycm.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Rutgers Genetics studying genomic evolution of humans, mosquitoes, monkeys...
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
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🤦🏽♀️ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now set its sights on cutting foreign subawards, with a new policy effective immediately.
🚨 NIH issued a major update yesterday.
🚦Foreign sub-awards can no longer be included under parent NIH awards starting September 30, 2025.
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🚨 NIH issued a major update yesterday.
🚦Foreign sub-awards can no longer be included under parent NIH awards starting September 30, 2025.
🧵
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🤦🏽♀️ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now set its sights on cutting foreign subawards, with a new policy effective immediately.
🚨 NIH issued a major update yesterday.
🚦Foreign sub-awards can no longer be included under parent NIH awards starting September 30, 2025.
🧵
🚨 NIH issued a major update yesterday.
🚦Foreign sub-awards can no longer be included under parent NIH awards starting September 30, 2025.
🧵
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💔💔💔 How do the people from this administration sleep at night?
“The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS.”
“The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS.”
"It's now been eight days since both Dorcas and her mom, Theresa, took the last of their HIV medications.
A single mom and an only child, they've always taken their medicine together at 8 p.m. each night. The change in routine has confused the little girl."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
A single mom and an only child, they've always taken their medicine together at 8 p.m. each night. The change in routine has confused the little girl."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
💔💔💔 How do the people from this administration sleep at night?
“The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS.”
“The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS.”
Hopefully this never passes, but here's the NIH-relevant section from Trump's leaked HHS restructuring budget proposal, showing which institutes end up where. Later they note a 15% cap on indirect costs. The full document is a depressing read.
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hopefully this never passes, but here's the NIH-relevant section from Trump's leaked HHS restructuring budget proposal, showing which institutes end up where. Later they note a 15% cap on indirect costs. The full document is a depressing read.
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Good to see Rutgers and Georgetown supporting this effort.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
April 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good to see Rutgers and Georgetown supporting this effort.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
Primatologist eyes only: Miss Waldron's red dire colobus
April 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Primatologist eyes only: Miss Waldron's red dire colobus
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
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Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇
- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.
- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.
- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.
- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.
- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants
docs.google.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇
- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.
- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.
- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.
- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.
- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
I went to a tuberculosis event in Philly since the NYC one was sold out and joked to my husband beforehand that the audience would probably do the E-A-G-L-E-S chant and THEY ACTUALLY DID. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I went to a tuberculosis event in Philly since the NYC one was sold out and joked to my husband beforehand that the audience would probably do the E-A-G-L-E-S chant and THEY ACTUALLY DID. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Our lab now has a newsletter! Subscribe to hear about the science we're doing amid the chaos, plus general evolutionary biology news. open.substack.com/pub/bergey/p...
News from the Lab - Spring 2025
What the Bergey Lab has been doing lately
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March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our lab now has a newsletter! Subscribe to hear about the science we're doing amid the chaos, plus general evolutionary biology news. open.substack.com/pub/bergey/p...
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
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Signs from #standupforscience in New Jersey (photos by K. Goodrich). Plus a bonus image of me being a loud little lady. 😝
March 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Signs from #standupforscience in New Jersey (photos by K. Goodrich). Plus a bonus image of me being a loud little lady. 😝
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On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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It’s happening, New Jersey! It’s time to rally for science!
February 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It’s happening, New Jersey! It’s time to rally for science!
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"...the goal is not to reform the NIH. It is not to make it better. It is not to make it more efficient at reaching its goals, per se. The goal is to get revenge on the NIH for the Covid response, to get revenge on liberal eggheads, to cast doubt upon facts and knowledge..."
Don't be a useful idiot puppet for the regime drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/d...
Don’t be a useful idiot puppet for the regime
I say this to myself regularly in the past weeks, mostly when it comes to sitting on my hands about my regular NIH-related and academic science career-related hobby horse issues as they arise. We h…
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February 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"...the goal is not to reform the NIH. It is not to make it better. It is not to make it more efficient at reaching its goals, per se. The goal is to get revenge on the NIH for the Covid response, to get revenge on liberal eggheads, to cast doubt upon facts and knowledge..."