Elisabeth Vichaya
@egvichaya.bsky.social
Assistant Professor studying the immunometabolic basis of depression and fatigue @ Baylor University. Views are my own. She/her.
https://sites.baylor.edu/psychoneuroimmunologylab
https://sites.baylor.edu/psychoneuroimmunologylab
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New to neuroimmune research? Joined a new lab recently? Want to expand your network? Hunting for a new postdoc? Submit to the PNIRS #TellUsAboutYourResearch series to have your research featured and be connected with an amazing network of psychoneuroimmunologists!
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October 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New to neuroimmune research? Joined a new lab recently? Want to expand your network? Hunting for a new postdoc? Submit to the PNIRS #TellUsAboutYourResearch series to have your research featured and be connected with an amazing network of psychoneuroimmunologists!
t.co/25hh5XUCKw
t.co/25hh5XUCKw
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Amazing final words of #PNIRS2025 from Robert Dantzer, who has shaped the field of PNI and inspired so many of us @pnirs.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Amazing final words of #PNIRS2025 from Robert Dantzer, who has shaped the field of PNI and inspired so many of us @pnirs.bsky.social
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“It is catastrophic.”
Staff at NIH are speaking out about mass firings, research rollbacks, and a director they say is “full of shit.” Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership is pushing U.S. science into “continuous free fall.” Report from @walkerbragman.bsky.social
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
Staff at NIH are speaking out about mass firings, research rollbacks, and a director they say is “full of shit.” Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership is pushing U.S. science into “continuous free fall.” Report from @walkerbragman.bsky.social
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
www.importantcontext.news
June 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“It is catastrophic.”
Staff at NIH are speaking out about mass firings, research rollbacks, and a director they say is “full of shit.” Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership is pushing U.S. science into “continuous free fall.” Report from @walkerbragman.bsky.social
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
Staff at NIH are speaking out about mass firings, research rollbacks, and a director they say is “full of shit.” Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership is pushing U.S. science into “continuous free fall.” Report from @walkerbragman.bsky.social
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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April 4th is the deadline for early registration!! Become and member and/or register today!! 👇👇🤩🤩
Opportunities for everyone doing research in psych- neuro- and immunology and a huge emphasis on trainees!! #PNIRS2025
Opportunities for everyone doing research in psych- neuro- and immunology and a huge emphasis on trainees!! #PNIRS2025
📢📢 Registration is now live for #PNIRS2025 in Bordeaux!! Join
@PNIRS
for member-discounted registration! Abstract submission deadline is April 4th 2025!!
@PNIRS
for member-discounted registration! Abstract submission deadline is April 4th 2025!!
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
April 4th is the deadline for early registration!! Become and member and/or register today!! 👇👇🤩🤩
Opportunities for everyone doing research in psych- neuro- and immunology and a huge emphasis on trainees!! #PNIRS2025
Opportunities for everyone doing research in psych- neuro- and immunology and a huge emphasis on trainees!! #PNIRS2025
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More here, for those asking
Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance
A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...
theins.press
March 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More here, for those asking
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BREAKING—Trump HHS has abruptly canceled $12 billion in grants to states used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment—discontinued grants include $11.4 billion from CDC, as well as around $1 billion from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare…
March 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BREAKING—Trump HHS has abruptly canceled $12 billion in grants to states used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment—discontinued grants include $11.4 billion from CDC, as well as around $1 billion from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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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...
www.pressherald.com
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.
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I’m Jewish and the son of Jewish refugees who immigrated to America, so some might accuse me of seeing antisemitism where it doesn’t exist. So it’s sadly reassuring to see that the great historian Timothy Snyder saw the Oval Office debacle the way I did:
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I’m Jewish and the son of Jewish refugees who immigrated to America, so some might accuse me of seeing antisemitism where it doesn’t exist. So it’s sadly reassuring to see that the great historian Timothy Snyder saw the Oval Office debacle the way I did:
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
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It was never about “free speech.”
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It was never about “free speech.”
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To be against ____, is to be for ____.
Diversity, uniformity
Equity, partiality
Inclusion, exclusion
Justice, corruption
Belonging, alienation
Thus, the American right want an explicitly & purposefully corrupt system that is partial to their uniform ingroup, that excludes & alienates all others.
Diversity, uniformity
Equity, partiality
Inclusion, exclusion
Justice, corruption
Belonging, alienation
Thus, the American right want an explicitly & purposefully corrupt system that is partial to their uniform ingroup, that excludes & alienates all others.
February 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
To be against ____, is to be for ____.
Diversity, uniformity
Equity, partiality
Inclusion, exclusion
Justice, corruption
Belonging, alienation
Thus, the American right want an explicitly & purposefully corrupt system that is partial to their uniform ingroup, that excludes & alienates all others.
Diversity, uniformity
Equity, partiality
Inclusion, exclusion
Justice, corruption
Belonging, alienation
Thus, the American right want an explicitly & purposefully corrupt system that is partial to their uniform ingroup, that excludes & alienates all others.
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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfu0 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfu0 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfu0 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfu0 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
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“It will be much easier to destroy the world’s greatest scientific ecosystem than it will be to try to rebuild it”
Scientists are worried about the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s actions
https://go.nature.com/3PUKeGc
Scientists are worried about the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s actions
https://go.nature.com/3PUKeGc
Chaos erupts in US science as Trump’s team declares freeze on federal grants
The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.
go.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“It will be much easier to destroy the world’s greatest scientific ecosystem than it will be to try to rebuild it”
Scientists are worried about the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s actions
https://go.nature.com/3PUKeGc
Scientists are worried about the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s actions
https://go.nature.com/3PUKeGc
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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
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For those of you who were able to send a letter to your Senators opposing the nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: thank you! 1/
actionnetwork.org/letters/7f9f...
actionnetwork.org/letters/7f9f...
Public Health Says: Stop the RFK Jr. Nomination
Please use this form to send a letter to your Senators opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. Once you fill our your information, t...
actionnetwork.org
January 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For those of you who were able to send a letter to your Senators opposing the nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: thank you! 1/
actionnetwork.org/letters/7f9f...
actionnetwork.org/letters/7f9f...
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As a scientist who has been researching the effects of menopause on cardiovascular health for >25 yrs and stayed the course through the turbulence that the early clinical trials created, it is great to see a renewed interest the past couple of years on menopause
Few medical options are typically presented to people going through menopause, but t outlook for managing it is now starting to change. A feature in Nature outlines the emerging therapies, which includes a relook at hormone replacement therapy. #Medsky 🧪
The new science of menopause: these emerging therapies could change women’s health
Researchers are exploring how to prolong ovarian life and revisiting hormone replacement therapy — a once routine treatment that has fallen out of favour.
go.nature.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
As a scientist who has been researching the effects of menopause on cardiovascular health for >25 yrs and stayed the course through the turbulence that the early clinical trials created, it is great to see a renewed interest the past couple of years on menopause
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Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...