KF McReynolds
@feministscientist.bsky.social
Feminist | Molecular Biologist | Industry researcher | Science communicator | Iowa native | 👩🔬🌱🧬💚🧪
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🧪We joined the party and provided a detailed response to RFK and Trump's latest statement on Tylenol use during pregnancy and Autism:
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Tylenol and Autism – Setting the Record Straight - Little, Big Science
Autism is an umbrella term for neurodevelopmental conditions that manifest, among other things, as difficulties in communication and social interaction. The diagnostic criteria for autism and other fo...
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September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧪We joined the party and provided a detailed response to RFK and Trump's latest statement on Tylenol use during pregnancy and Autism:
www.lbscience.org/en/2025/09/2...
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Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
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September 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...
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Handheld test for urinary tract infections takes 30 min
After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Handheld UTI test takes 30 min
After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance
cen.acs.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Handheld test for urinary tract infections takes 30 min
After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪
July 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪
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Barbie, in the eponymous 2023 hit movie, sings, What Was I Made For?
A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg
A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg
Meet the diabetes researcher behind Barbie’s new pink (insulin) pumps
New line of dolls aims to help children with type 1 diabetes feel more included
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July 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Barbie, in the eponymous 2023 hit movie, sings, What Was I Made For?
A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg
A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg
Congratulations to this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize winners. Launched in 2022, the prize aims to accelerate breakthrough solutions for planetary health. Prof Zahra Kalantari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Dr Arunima Malik, University of Sydney, are the first women to receive this honor. 🧪
For the first time, women scientists win $1 million climate research prize
Following criticism for all-male winners in the past, women earned two of the three Frontiers Planet Prizes this year
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June 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Congratulations to this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize winners. Launched in 2022, the prize aims to accelerate breakthrough solutions for planetary health. Prof Zahra Kalantari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Dr Arunima Malik, University of Sydney, are the first women to receive this honor. 🧪
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🧠 Parenthood in academia affects mental health – but not equally
Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪
Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪
The impact of parenthood on mental health within the academic community: highlighting vulnerabilities and identifying high-risk groups - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The impact of parenthood on mental health within the academic community: highlighting vulnerabilities and identifying high-risk groups
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June 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🧠 Parenthood in academia affects mental health – but not equally
Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪
Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪
Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪
Salk Institute scientist Deepshika Ramanan named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA—Salk Assistant Professor Deepshika Ramanan has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar, a distinction given to early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptio...
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June 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪
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🧪 For the first time, women have won the $1.1M Frontiers Planet Prize. The shift follows criticism of past all-male winners, but the award's solo-winner model is still debated for obscuring the work of large research teams.
For the first time, women scientists win $1 million climate research prize
Following criticism for all-male winners in the past, women earned two of the three Frontiers Planet Prizes this year
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🧪 For the first time, women have won the $1.1M Frontiers Planet Prize. The shift follows criticism of past all-male winners, but the award's solo-winner model is still debated for obscuring the work of large research teams.
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Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983.
She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Image: NASA
She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Image: NASA
June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983.
She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Image: NASA
She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Image: NASA
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🌾🔥 Climate shifts, failed crops – and women’s health suffers
In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis.
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#SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪
In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪
Effect of climate variability, crop production, and household food insecurity on malnutrition among women: A mediation analysis from a drought-prone area in Southern Ethiopia
Malnutrition is viewed as one of climate change’s five most considerable adverse health impacts. This study, from a drought-and famine-prone food insecure setting in the Rift Valley of southern Ethiop...
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June 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🌾🔥 Climate shifts, failed crops – and women’s health suffers
In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪
In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪
Congratulations to Dr. Tova Holmes and colleagues on receiving a grant from the Simon’s Foundation. Their proposal aims to advance the field of particle physics by working towards the creation of a muon collider. 🧪 @tovaholmes.bsky.social
Tova Holmes wins Simons Foundation support for muon collider groundwork
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Assistant Professor Tova Holmes is part of a scientific trio that won $1 million from the Simons Foundation to break new ground in particle physics an...
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June 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Tova Holmes and colleagues on receiving a grant from the Simon’s Foundation. Their proposal aims to advance the field of particle physics by working towards the creation of a muon collider. 🧪 @tovaholmes.bsky.social
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Adelaide Ames was born #OTD in 1900. She worked with H. Shapley at Harvard, publishing a catalog of galaxies that pointed to an heterogeneous distribution across the sky, eventually leading to the concept of superclusters.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Adelaide Ames was born #OTD in 1900. She worked with H. Shapley at Harvard, publishing a catalog of galaxies that pointed to an heterogeneous distribution across the sky, eventually leading to the concept of superclusters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...
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A quarter for your thoughts? 🪙
We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭
We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭
June 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A quarter for your thoughts? 🪙
We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭
We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭
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A fungal metabolite from the gut helps counter liver disease by reducing metabolic disorders. A surprising ally for liver health! PMID:40310928, Science 2025, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx1789 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx1789
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May 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A fungal metabolite from the gut helps counter liver disease by reducing metabolic disorders. A surprising ally for liver health! PMID:40310928, Science 2025, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx1789 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
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The authors of a Comment article in Nature “urge STEMM scientists in the United States to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead stand together and fight for both personal and academic freedom.” #Academicsky 🧪
US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding
Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The authors of a Comment article in Nature “urge STEMM scientists in the United States to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead stand together and fight for both personal and academic freedom.” #Academicsky 🧪
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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#DorothyHodgkin unveiled the structures of penicillin, B12 & insulin using X-ray crystallography—earning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science.
#WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize
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Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science.
#WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize
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May 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#DorothyHodgkin unveiled the structures of penicillin, B12 & insulin using X-ray crystallography—earning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science.
#WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize
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Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science.
#WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize
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Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)! 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci
Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵
Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)! 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci
Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵
Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵
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🧠🔬 Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s?
A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes.
Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes.
Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#SciComm 🧪
Transcriptional regulation by PHGDH drives amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
This study uncovers a previously unknown role for PHGDH in Alzheimer’s disease, showing
that its transcriptional regulatory activity—distinct from its known metabolic function—initiates
early disease ...
www.cell.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧠🔬 Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s?
A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes.
Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes.
Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#SciComm 🧪
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I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪
April 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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depth of her research career, whose work revolutionized medicine, biology, and agriculture.
The scope of his legacy is immense.
Read this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #WomenInScience
depth of her research career, whose work revolutionized medicine, biology, and agriculture.
The scope of his legacy is immense.
Read this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #WomenInScience
Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA
One hundred years after her birth, it’s time to reassess the legacy of a pioneering chemist and X-ray crystallographer.
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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depth of her research career, whose work revolutionized medicine, biology, and agriculture.
The scope of his legacy is immense.
Read this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #WomenInScience
depth of her research career, whose work revolutionized medicine, biology, and agriculture.
The scope of his legacy is immense.
Read this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #WomenInScience
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RFK Jr is criminally insane. He will be responsible for the deaths of more people than the rest of the regime combined when the next pandemic comes. 🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlook
Podcast Episode · The Rachel Maddow Show · 04/12/2025 · 43m
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April 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
RFK Jr is criminally insane. He will be responsible for the deaths of more people than the rest of the regime combined when the next pandemic comes. 🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...