Liz Leadbetter
@eleadbetter.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @UTHealth in San Antonio. Cellular Immunologist. B cells, iNKT cells, chronic inflammation and obesity. Mom. Too Persistent. Views are my own.
Anyone have a recommendation for a financial management software for a scientific research lab? Bonus if it has a user-friendly interface designed for non-accountants.
July 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Anyone have a recommendation for a financial management software for a scientific research lab? Bonus if it has a user-friendly interface designed for non-accountants.
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Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?
July 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?
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Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Compelling for sure
I missed this earlier.
Very compelling letter of resignation from former head of the Executive Secretariat (which handles high-level communications for NIH Director and others) at NIH.
This is one righteously angry ex-Marine.
wapo.st/3FvhW3k (Gift link)
Very compelling letter of resignation from former head of the Executive Secretariat (which handles high-level communications for NIH Director and others) at NIH.
This is one righteously angry ex-Marine.
wapo.st/3FvhW3k (Gift link)
Read the resignation letter by former NIH official Nate Brought
Brought is the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Executive Secretariat.
wapo.st
May 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Compelling for sure
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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In grad seminar yesterday, we were talking about legacy being planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
Then this story wrecked me...
Then this story wrecked me...
May 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In grad seminar yesterday, we were talking about legacy being planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
Then this story wrecked me...
Then this story wrecked me...
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Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
April 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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This is a great website that allows you to view the ROI on your tax dollars invested in NIH funded research. You can type in a disease condition and immediately see the impact of research funding on it. Also links to easy ways to contact law makers to protect science.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is a great website that allows you to view the ROI on your tax dollars invested in NIH funded research. You can type in a disease condition and immediately see the impact of research funding on it. Also links to easy ways to contact law makers to protect science.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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April 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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Just a few weeks ago, researchers and educators connected to immunology lost a wonderful friend and colleague: Michael Cancro, professor of pathology and lab medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just a few weeks ago, researchers and educators connected to immunology lost a wonderful friend and colleague: Michael Cancro, professor of pathology and lab medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
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Study section tracking sheet update of the day answers your burning question: Is my study section rescheduled? I've rearranged to put sections that didn't meet on the left and added a column noting if it's been rescheduled. Subject to change as FRNs go out! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025 Study section tracking
docs.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Study section tracking sheet update of the day answers your burning question: Is my study section rescheduled? I've rearranged to put sections that didn't meet on the left and added a column noting if it's been rescheduled. Subject to change as FRNs go out! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
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99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
jamanetwork.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7
Frenchman Sears Trumps "Court Of Nero" In Scathing, Must-Read Speech
Every now and again a piece of rhetoric perfectly encapsulates the time. The Gettysburg address was one such work. Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln hastily scribbed out the framework of the speech o...
shorturl.at
March 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7
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I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
March 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
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Absolutely 💯 🇺🇦 💙
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Absolutely 💯 🇺🇦 💙
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Maddow played a long clip of his speech yesterday and it was fantastic
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Maddow played a long clip of his speech yesterday and it was fantastic
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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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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No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
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Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
December 16, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
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#POTUS noted that Trump is inheriting a strong economy. 🇺🇸
Biden shifted the U.S. economy from 40 years of supply-side economics that had transferred about $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% and hollowed out the #middleclass.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Biden shifted the U.S. economy from 40 years of supply-side economics that had transferred about $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% and hollowed out the #middleclass.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 11, 2024
Yesterday, President Joe Biden spoke at the Brookings Institution, where he gave a major speech on the American economy.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:58 PM
#POTUS noted that Trump is inheriting a strong economy. 🇺🇸
Biden shifted the U.S. economy from 40 years of supply-side economics that had transferred about $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% and hollowed out the #middleclass.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Biden shifted the U.S. economy from 40 years of supply-side economics that had transferred about $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% and hollowed out the #middleclass.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Let me be clear. This claim from RFK Jr. is flat-out false. Scotland just reported finding no cervical cancer cases in vaccinated women -- zero, zilch, zip. This man's advice has been hurting people for years, but this lie will especially harm women. publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...
November 10, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Let me be clear. This claim from RFK Jr. is flat-out false. Scotland just reported finding no cervical cancer cases in vaccinated women -- zero, zilch, zip. This man's advice has been hurting people for years, but this lie will especially harm women. publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...