Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
@julieblackwood.bsky.social
faculty @ Williams College, math, ecology, population dynamics, beagle lover, they/she, 🏳️🌈
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
So if Tylenol creates autism we’re cool then with vaccines right? RIGHT????
RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
So if Tylenol creates autism we’re cool then with vaccines right? RIGHT????
RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!
MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society
Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.
www.mathjobs.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
"Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research" | My interview earlier today on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports: www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research
A new executive order claims the Trump administration is restoring a “gold-standard” for science. However, thousands of scientists, academics and researchers have signed onto an open letter that says ...
www.msnbc.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research" | My interview earlier today on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports: www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
This is insane (though I find myself saying that way too often these days)
Homeland Security blocking Harvard’s ability to enroll international students
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is insane (though I find myself saying that way too often these days)
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!✨
Lots of lovely penguins on here today for #WorldPenguinDay!
Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/... #queer #birds #QueerInSTEM
Lots of lovely penguins on here today for #WorldPenguinDay!
Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/... #queer #birds #QueerInSTEM
Some penguins are gay. Get over it. | London Zoo
Zookeepers have made a special mini banner for the Penguin Beach home of the Zoo’s most famous gay residents, Humboldt penguins Ronnie and Reggie, paying homage to Stonewall’s groundbreaking ‘Get Over...
www.londonzoo.org
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!✨
Lots of lovely penguins on here today for #WorldPenguinDay!
Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/... #queer #birds #QueerInSTEM
Lots of lovely penguins on here today for #WorldPenguinDay!
Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/... #queer #birds #QueerInSTEM
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
April 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
It’s Transgender Awareness Week! Now more than ever, it’s important to support marginalized communities. Below are 2 links: one for information and the other an organization dedicated to supporting transgender youth that you may consider donating to
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
Transgender Awareness Week | GLAAD
Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members...
glaad.org
November 14, 2024 at 3:59 AM
It’s Transgender Awareness Week! Now more than ever, it’s important to support marginalized communities. Below are 2 links: one for information and the other an organization dedicated to supporting transgender youth that you may consider donating to
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
Williams College is hiring an applied mathematician to start Fall 2025. Come work with me 😁
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
July 23, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Williams College is hiring an applied mathematician to start Fall 2025. Come work with me 😁
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
Register now for the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling @ New Haven CT, June 10-13!
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
March 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Register now for the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling @ New Haven CT, June 10-13!
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
This is huge!! An attenuated vaccine for dengue that over 80% effective against symptomatic dengue fever 🧪
Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan–Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults | NEJM
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan–Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults
www.nejm.org
February 1, 2024 at 8:59 PM
This is huge!! An attenuated vaccine for dengue that over 80% effective against symptomatic dengue fever 🧪
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
It's not easy to be okay
February 4, 2024 at 10:59 AM
It's not easy to be okay
Reposted by Julie Blackwood 🏳️🌈
Fox News, which once gave a regular weekly commentary slot to the host of an NBC reality show called The Apprentice, would like entertainers to stay out of politics www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/b...
Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’
The prospect of the pop megastar endorsing President Biden in the 2024 election has irked conservative stars on the cable network.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Fox News, which once gave a regular weekly commentary slot to the host of an NBC reality show called The Apprentice, would like entertainers to stay out of politics www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/b...
Back from the JMM and first post on Bluesky!
January 11, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Back from the JMM and first post on Bluesky!