Brooke Bender
@brookebender17.bsky.social
SPIRE IRACDA Postdoctoral fellow
Besheer Lab, UNC Chapel Hill
SPIRE Part-time visiting professor of biology, NCAT
Besheer Lab, UNC Chapel Hill
SPIRE Part-time visiting professor of biology, NCAT
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Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.
May 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.
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All grants from the Training and Workforce Development Division of the NIGMS were terminated a few days ago nationwide. These funds go directly to supporting future scientists prepare for a career as Biomedical Researchers.
Bridges to Bac
MARC/URISE
IMSD/GRISE
PREP
Bridges to Doc
IRACDA.
1/x
Bridges to Bac
MARC/URISE
IMSD/GRISE
PREP
Bridges to Doc
IRACDA.
1/x
April 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
All grants from the Training and Workforce Development Division of the NIGMS were terminated a few days ago nationwide. These funds go directly to supporting future scientists prepare for a career as Biomedical Researchers.
Bridges to Bac
MARC/URISE
IMSD/GRISE
PREP
Bridges to Doc
IRACDA.
1/x
Bridges to Bac
MARC/URISE
IMSD/GRISE
PREP
Bridges to Doc
IRACDA.
1/x
Reposted by Brooke Bender
An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
Reposted by Brooke Bender
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
Reposted by Brooke Bender
Awesome thread about our recent preprint. So happy to be doing this important work with the amazing @nanopharmnc.bsky.social! Congrats to Brooke Bender, Joe Carew and @madiganbedard.bsky.social🎉. This is a huge team effort.
Super happy to share this amazing work spearheaded by @jbesheer.bsky.social and Brooke Bender, AKA some of the best collaborators to have! Here's a brief thread on the findings 1/n
Xylazine potentiates the interoceptive effects of fentanyl in male and female rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637099v1
February 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Awesome thread about our recent preprint. So happy to be doing this important work with the amazing @nanopharmnc.bsky.social! Congrats to Brooke Bender, Joe Carew and @madiganbedard.bsky.social🎉. This is a huge team effort.