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Kristen Boyle
@kristenboyle.bsky.social
Associate professor at University of Colorado Anschutz, researching pregnancy and infant health.
Baker, sewer, all-around tinkerer.
Come join our group! Now accepting applications for our. NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Nutrition! 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 119 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Breaking: 25 year old US Citizen and Disabled Military Veteran Kidnapped by Trump Administration
Breaking: 25 year old US Citizen and Disabled Military Veteran Kidnapped by Trump Administration
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
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July 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Now’s a good time to mention this:

I am joining the multitudes of laid-off scientists on October 1 due to shifts in funding priorities! I am looking for government, nonprofit, and industrial policy positions. If you have any you think might be a good fit, please DM me.
July 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch).

When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building

nasawatch.com/congress/con...
Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants
The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.
nasawatch.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!

If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.

You can do it anonymously!
🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers -

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This morning, courageous NIH workers shared a document they are calling the “Bethesda Declaration” with Dr. Bhattacharya, urging him to reverse some of the actions that are badly misaligned with progress toward the NIH mission.

1/3
a woman in a black and white dress is making a funny face .
ALT: a woman in a black and white dress is making a funny face .
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June 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!

@standupforscience.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.

www.sfgate.com/california/a...
February 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Vaccines are amazing!!
Go science!
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.

Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Dear scientists at US universities: Trump/Musk continue to freeze your grants. NIH is not reviewing grants nor funding them in council. This is a backhanded, legal method to effectively stop NIH grants.

See thread and linked article.

Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?
This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪.
(We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.)

Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings.

Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.

Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.

All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#MutualAid for 🔭 affected by the illegal firings and attacks on 🧪 by the Trump-Musk administration! Thanks to all involved in organizing this ✊🏽

www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid
choir - mutual aid
In direct response to the federal funding freeze outlined by OMB Memorandum M-25-13 and any ensuing directives imposed by the current administration which may prove harmful to our space sciences commu...
www.choircollaboration.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yes! These cuts will undermine research and critical treatments.
Also remember: these programs MAKE money, driving economic growth in every state. An excellent return on investment.
The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on how the Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency. bit.ly/3X9VEKd
February 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Saw a second #WomenInSTEM looking specifically for a job overseas. In case people who aren't in STEM were wondering if we are being hyperbolic when we say the current administration's actions will result in a brain drain in research in the US, we aren't.
February 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)

If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.

There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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February 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I just posted my first Substack.

My journey to becoming a scientist 🧪

substack.com/@kristenboyl...
Kristen Boyle, PhD on Substack
Hello, I’m new here! I’m a scientist facing what feels like the final crossroads of my career. To be honest, I just don’t know what else to do, so I’m writing. Here is my first piece.
substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Seems kinda crazy to be working in this NIH grant application in the weekend ‘superpower’ time.

But I can’t let some ketamine-riddled billionaire tell me my life’s work is waste. I’m helping babies goddammit!! 🧪
February 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Timeline cleanse, desperately needed.
#Sewing
February 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Academic science relies on so much unpaid labor that I can’t understand how we were sold the message it was wasting money. 🧪
February 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Meet Pepper, my oldest’s creation. Pepper represents climate change.
#ClimateChange
#Art
January 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.
January 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Angels work at the State Dept 🏳️‍🌈
January 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM