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Katharine Toll
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PhD candidate in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Minnesota👩🏼‍🔬
Passionate runner and East Coast transplant to the midwest
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scott-delaney.bsky.social
My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 14
NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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scattercushion.bsky.social
🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends!

(Also seeking international sources.)
May 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.

In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."

But this is unequivocal fact.
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
kbt56.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social in St. Paul!
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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kvasquez.bsky.social
A deeper look at NSF's recent layoffs and what that could mean for US science: cen.acs.org/careers/Impa...

According to sources, this is one of several workforce reductions NSF plans to do.
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
kbt56.bsky.social
An interesting update to the topic of one of my middle school science fair projects
February 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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dereklowe.bsky.social
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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caraocobock.bsky.social
All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice.
January 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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liebschutz.bsky.social
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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annalandre.com
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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unstableisotope.bsky.social
Two giants of chemistry gone this week. Condolences to the loved ones of Sir Fraser Stoddart and Martin Karplus. #chemsky
December 31, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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nchemgav.bsky.social
Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness
Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:13 PM
kbt56.bsky.social
Found this note hidden in all the formal paperwork for samples from our collaborators this morning #ChemSky
Handwritten note saying “good results!”
December 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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laurahowes.bsky.social
I have made a ChemSky starter pack and am posting here to help boost visibility. This list is not exhaustive, but should hopefully help newcomers or rejoiners find some accounts and feeds to follow
go.bsky.app/C9BtrLj
August 15, 2024 at 6:44 PM
kbt56.bsky.social
Thank you @ewapastorczak.bsky.social for putting this starter pack together! #ChemSky

go.bsky.app/LjumNEg
November 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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compoundchem.com
There are already some brilliant chemistry and #scicomm starter packs out there (which I’ll link below) but I haven’t seen one for chemistry content creators, authors and communicators yet, so I’ve made a start on one: go.bsky.app/4Fcuzus

Happy for suggestions of other accounts to add! #ChemSky
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 AM