Isabel Warner, PhD
@eeeeesobel.bsky.social
former E. coli wrangler and community organizer working in science policy at the state level | she/her | #bioinformatics #dataviz #microbiology #infectiousdisease #scipol #highered #labor #education #workforce | @ izzypie101 on the bird site
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HRT saves lives. The goal of taking it away is death.
May 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
HRT saves lives. The goal of taking it away is death.
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There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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I am an adjunct professor (for a living if you can call it that), and I am more working-class than a hundred fucking car dealership owners because I'll work until I drop dead, I'll probably never own a home, and spend like six of my ten-hour work day on my fucking feet talking to people nonstop.
"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?"
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
I'm a professor. We're not the 'elite' the powerful billionaires say we are.
Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?
www.houstonchronicle.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am an adjunct professor (for a living if you can call it that), and I am more working-class than a hundred fucking car dealership owners because I'll work until I drop dead, I'll probably never own a home, and spend like six of my ten-hour work day on my fucking feet talking to people nonstop.
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we're all going to fucking die
Sccoooop OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation
High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.
www.wired.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
we're all going to fucking die
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To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
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The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations.
There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.
There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.
May 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations.
There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.
There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.
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Every dollar of government spending is like $100 of economic activity. Every time they "save money" they contract the economy.
My dad was able to come to America, work his way up to the middle class, and retire with healthcare thanks to working on building public highways. Both my parents worked for the state department of transportation, and my mom was union for 25 years. Public infra builds abundance for entire families.
My dad made money to pay for college by bringing electricity to rural farms in Kansas under the REA. So it’s not just benefiting the people getting the service, it also provides jobs.
May 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Every dollar of government spending is like $100 of economic activity. Every time they "save money" they contract the economy.
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Upset about the President's budget request to eviscerate NIH, NSF, and all science in the US? Call your representatives! Push back - 77% of Americans recently polled do not want to cut research funding. The cures and economic benefits from research are popular - don't let your reps forget that. 🧪
Heading back from #FASEBOnTheHill and want to share what I learned and why I think all scientists need to be setting up meetings w their reps to talk about the impacts on science of the current chaos. #AcademicSky #NeuroSky @faseborg.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social 🧪
a man says call your senators with his hands folded
ALT: a man says call your senators with his hands folded
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May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Upset about the President's budget request to eviscerate NIH, NSF, and all science in the US? Call your representatives! Push back - 77% of Americans recently polled do not want to cut research funding. The cures and economic benefits from research are popular - don't let your reps forget that. 🧪
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Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear
May 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear
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There are only a few posts on here so far, but I also got the Millipore Sigma email about a surcharge because of the tariffs. Great. Pandemic era supply chain problems for no fucking reason. This will hurt commercial labs, but REALLY hurt small academic labs that are struggling with funding already.
May 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
There are only a few posts on here so far, but I also got the Millipore Sigma email about a surcharge because of the tariffs. Great. Pandemic era supply chain problems for no fucking reason. This will hurt commercial labs, but REALLY hurt small academic labs that are struggling with funding already.
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When the AI crime scanner false flags you on the way to your AI doctor who processes the wrong claim with its AI system while misdiagnosing you due to AI reasoning being made up just remember we did not in fact want this
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
When the AI crime scanner false flags you on the way to your AI doctor who processes the wrong claim with its AI system while misdiagnosing you due to AI reasoning being made up just remember we did not in fact want this
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Abstract submission is open for the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Summer Conference in Newcastle (23rd and 24th June). This is always a fantastic event, with a mix of talks, posters and professional development sessions. Abstract deadline 4th May.
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Early Career Summer Conference 2025
microbiologysociety.org
April 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Abstract submission is open for the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Summer Conference in Newcastle (23rd and 24th June). This is always a fantastic event, with a mix of talks, posters and professional development sessions. Abstract deadline 4th May.
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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since i'm a fundamentally boring person who doesn't do drugs or buy guns, i've never gotten to participate in a black market. so i am hopeful tariffs mean i can get a small thrill out of cryptically saying "Oh, I've got a guy for that" when i mean toothpaste and tide pods
April 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
since i'm a fundamentally boring person who doesn't do drugs or buy guns, i've never gotten to participate in a black market. so i am hopeful tariffs mean i can get a small thrill out of cryptically saying "Oh, I've got a guy for that" when i mean toothpaste and tide pods
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This is the first shot in the war to return to “pre-existing conditions”.
Now it's your fault if you get sick?
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
April 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This is the first shot in the war to return to “pre-existing conditions”.
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People talk about the "male loneliness epidemic", but all a man has to do is take a jumbo packet of hot dogs into the forest and he can easily make friends with dozens, if not hundreds, of raccoons.
April 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
People talk about the "male loneliness epidemic", but all a man has to do is take a jumbo packet of hot dogs into the forest and he can easily make friends with dozens, if not hundreds, of raccoons.
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I remember when #abolishICE was a rallying cry. In fact, that hashtag's barely older than my kid
but the Democrats are so bad at keeping their eye on the ball and the average USian voter is so irredeemably captured by passive, systemic racism that Jonathan has to spell it out like this
but the Democrats are so bad at keeping their eye on the ball and the average USian voter is so irredeemably captured by passive, systemic racism that Jonathan has to spell it out like this
I don’t understand how you can watch a video like the Tufts one and not view ICE as an irredeemable agency that is attractive for violent white supremacists to work at.
March 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I remember when #abolishICE was a rallying cry. In fact, that hashtag's barely older than my kid
but the Democrats are so bad at keeping their eye on the ball and the average USian voter is so irredeemably captured by passive, systemic racism that Jonathan has to spell it out like this
but the Democrats are so bad at keeping their eye on the ball and the average USian voter is so irredeemably captured by passive, systemic racism that Jonathan has to spell it out like this
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1867. Reconstruction.
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
March 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
1867. Reconstruction.
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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
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As someone who has spent more than 12 years on weather and climate services:
I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.
I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.
This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.
As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps
Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely
www.businesswire.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As someone who has spent more than 12 years on weather and climate services:
I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.
I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.
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83 House Democrats joined the GOP in voting for a bill that claims to be about combating pandemic unemployment fraud.....but defunds the tools the Department of Labor has to actually investigate large-scale fraud.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
March 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
83 House Democrats joined the GOP in voting for a bill that claims to be about combating pandemic unemployment fraud.....but defunds the tools the Department of Labor has to actually investigate large-scale fraud.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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If you're not familiar with the WRBU it was formed by the US Army back in the 1960s to catalog and study mosquitoes from around the world but focused on locations like SE Asia with active theaters. Since then they've published hundreds of papers and amassed a collection of over 1 million mosquitoes.
🧪🦟
I just heard this from the source today. This had been brewing since last year. It's amazingly short sighted and indicative of decisions made by people who don'tunderstand the value of this group. It will have long lasting negative repurcussions for mosquito borne disease.
I just heard this from the source today. This had been brewing since last year. It's amazingly short sighted and indicative of decisions made by people who don'tunderstand the value of this group. It will have long lasting negative repurcussions for mosquito borne disease.
FYI. Shuttered, yesterday. I’m ready to start eating the rich now.
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you're not familiar with the WRBU it was formed by the US Army back in the 1960s to catalog and study mosquitoes from around the world but focused on locations like SE Asia with active theaters. Since then they've published hundreds of papers and amassed a collection of over 1 million mosquitoes.
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There is no person out there who could reasonably compare the facts of measles infection vs. vaccination and willingly opt for infection instead. The risks are greater by many orders of magnitude and the benefits are nonexistent. How many more people need to die until we learn this lesson?
March 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
There is no person out there who could reasonably compare the facts of measles infection vs. vaccination and willingly opt for infection instead. The risks are greater by many orders of magnitude and the benefits are nonexistent. How many more people need to die until we learn this lesson?
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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
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March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.