Kristen Kroll
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Kristen Kroll
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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
🧪 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
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
This
September 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
September 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
September 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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
September 15, 2025 at 12:00 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!
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🧪Harassing the neurodivergent is abusive behavior by our current US regime
August 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🧪yep
August 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Catherine Zapata and team understand the assignment
August 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Another one—they are trolling DT hard!
August 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Gov. Newsom imitates DT in a new SM post 😂
August 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Finding our deep reserves of decency, resistance, resiliency and community, to try to restore promise to our lives in America, and to our democracy in these times

open.substack.com/pub/kristenk...
July 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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.
May 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
February 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
February 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
So important to continue to follow what is happening and to engage
January 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
To be replaced by a few partisan lackeys with few/no qualifications other than being T***p loyalists, no doubt.

Here's the actual letter--I imagine the terms will not be honored even for those who take the buyout rather than waiting to be fired:
January 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Short video of human subject-derived neuronal network activity, from a control subject and individual with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD). IDD model's elevated network bursting and synchronization can be used to identify compounds to normalize network activity.
November 19, 2024 at 12:44 AM