Kristen Kroll
@kkroll.bsky.social
I lead a Washington University lab focused on regulation of brain development and using stem cell, organoid and mouse models to study its disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders. Views are my own. https://sites.wustl.edu/krolllab
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Kristen Kroll
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· May 1
Honored to receive a 2025 Washington University Impact Award, focusing on how our researchers and doctors are working with partners around the country to improve access to medical screening and care and meaningful therapies in new areas of science and medicine.
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Boy, if I were Donald Trump, I’d be pissed that my supposedly loyal Vice President has gone completely and totally silent on social media since these Epstein emails dropped. Vance always does this when it gets really bad—just disappears. Like Homer in the hedges.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Boy, if I were Donald Trump, I’d be pissed that my supposedly loyal Vice President has gone completely and totally silent on social media since these Epstein emails dropped. Vance always does this when it gets really bad—just disappears. Like Homer in the hedges.
How did we get to the longest oligarchic retrenchment in America’s history (e.g. now)? How did ‘movement conservatism’s’ rhetoric, ideology, and misinformation campaigns of the past ~45 years bring us to this point? And where do we go from here? Dr. Richardson illuminates our history and future.
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth": Heather Cox Richardson explains America's tilts between democracy vs. oligarchy past & present
"There is nothing more American than standing against kings...what will make the difference...is remembering that we are we the people. This is our moment. Let’s get out there and do it." HCR-10/14/25
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November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How did we get to the longest oligarchic retrenchment in America’s history (e.g. now)? How did ‘movement conservatism’s’ rhetoric, ideology, and misinformation campaigns of the past ~45 years bring us to this point? And where do we go from here? Dr. Richardson illuminates our history and future.
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I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings 2 - National Protest (West County, STL)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings 2 - National Protest (West County, STL) · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings 2 - National Protest (West County, STL)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance?
Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map
We inhabit the twilight preceding the potential loss of democratic governance…
Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance?
Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map
We inhabit the twilight preceding the potential loss of democratic governance…
Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll)
Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance?
Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map
We inhabit the twilight ...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance?
Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map
We inhabit the twilight preceding the potential loss of democratic governance…
Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance?
Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map
We inhabit the twilight preceding the potential loss of democratic governance…
🧪 Many official government websites now have partisan propaganda about the government shutdown (as below for NIH/HHS)--this is an illegal violation of the Hatch Act. See the instructions below for registering your objection to this illegal use of government webpages for partisan propaganda.
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🧪 Many official government websites now have partisan propaganda about the government shutdown (as below for NIH/HHS)--this is an illegal violation of the Hatch Act. See the instructions below for registering your objection to this illegal use of government webpages for partisan propaganda.
For many years now—we must stand up for democracy, if we want to continue living in one.
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
For many years now—we must stand up for democracy, if we want to continue living in one.
🧪Guideline convergence across specialties and borders leads to the same recommendation: acetaminophen remains appropriate first-line therapy for fever and pain in pregnancy.
Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll)
What the best evidence actually shows:
Large, modern, better-controlled designs The 2024 Swedish population study (n≈2.5M) used sibling analyses to control for shared genetics and environment. Result...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
🧪Guideline convergence across specialties and borders leads to the same recommendation: acetaminophen remains appropriate first-line therapy for fever and pain in pregnancy.
Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
🧪on recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding autism and Tylenol: You may wish to pass this along to others who need to separate facts and data from the unsupported or falsifiable assertions made by those with much less knowledge leading our HHS.
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For those who have asked me about recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding Tylenol and autism, please see this article and the NYT deep dive penned by Sam Wang, who has also studied this topic in depth....
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September 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
🧪on recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding autism and Tylenol: You may wish to pass this along to others who need to separate facts and data from the unsupported or falsifiable assertions made by those with much less knowledge leading our HHS.
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So important
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Anyone who watched the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner got a glimpse of how much Trump hates being mocked. President Obama and Seth Meyers spent nearly five minutes roasting Trump over his pro...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
So important
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Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’:
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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll)
https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw
Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’—amazing!
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September 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’:
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Stephen’s conservative cousin returns to have “a word” with us 😂😂
Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good.
Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert!
fb.watch/CcSqeXuH_4/?...
Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good.
Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert!
fb.watch/CcSqeXuH_4/?...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Stephen’s conservative cousin returns to have “a word” with us 😂😂
Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good.
Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert!
fb.watch/CcSqeXuH_4/?...
Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good.
Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert!
fb.watch/CcSqeXuH_4/?...
Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich
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Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich
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September 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich
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Congratulations, Stephen! You saved our sanity for decades with incisive satire, brilliant commentary, kindness and humanity.
Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”.
Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives
Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”.
Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives
September 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations, Stephen! You saved our sanity for decades with incisive satire, brilliant commentary, kindness and humanity.
Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”.
Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives
Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”.
Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives
🧪AUTHORITARIANISM IN ACTION RFK Jr. has banned government scientists from publishing in the world’s top medical journals.
This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result.
Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!
This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result.
Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🧪AUTHORITARIANISM IN ACTION RFK Jr. has banned government scientists from publishing in the world’s top medical journals.
This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result.
Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!
This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result.
Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!
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RIP, Charlie Kirk.
Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong”
Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death.
And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong.
I’m sorry.
#DemVoice1
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks
Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong”
Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death.
And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong.
I’m sorry.
#DemVoice1
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong”
Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death.
And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong.
I’m sorry.
#DemVoice1
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks
Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong”
Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death.
And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong.
I’m sorry.
#DemVoice1
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks
Cut them loose so the rest of us can move into the 21st century, rather than back to the dark ages.
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Cut the Failed Red States Loose: Why America Can't Keep Carrying the Dead Weight
Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Cut them loose so the rest of us can move into the 21st century, rather than back to the dark ages.
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🧪Very cool work to unleash new repair capacity in a damaged brain after stroke
This is a lovely article that showcases some of the outstanding work that my UCLA colleagues Tom Carmichael and Alcino Silva and their trainees have done over the past few years seeking to leverage intrinsic repair pathways. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...
A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience
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September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🧪Very cool work to unleash new repair capacity in a damaged brain after stroke
🧪An excellent article about what we’re losing in science and education in America and why it is mission critical that we fight for it:
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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September 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🧪An excellent article about what we’re losing in science and education in America and why it is mission critical that we fight for it:
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election
by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…
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September 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
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Let’s begin with what transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from consent of the governed, expressed through free & fair elections where all citizens participate. This isn’t a progressive/conservative position. It’s the premise upon which the American experiment rests.
The Republican Party Chose Hungary's Playbook. Here's How That Movie Ends.
Let’s begin with a principle that transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections in which all citizens can part...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Let’s begin with what transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from consent of the governed, expressed through free & fair elections where all citizens participate. This isn’t a progressive/conservative position. It’s the premise upon which the American experiment rests.