RR
@researcherrosie.bsky.social
Researcher. Solo parent of kids & cats. Advocate for public health & vulnerable people.
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"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
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Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers
Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.
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March 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
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Here a sample of the science that didn’t get reviewed and thus can’t get funded by NIH yesterday.
Research to make breakthroughs in cancer metastasis, addiction, allergy, and mental health.
#fundingfreeze
Research to make breakthroughs in cancer metastasis, addiction, allergy, and mental health.
#fundingfreeze
February 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here a sample of the science that didn’t get reviewed and thus can’t get funded by NIH yesterday.
Research to make breakthroughs in cancer metastasis, addiction, allergy, and mental health.
#fundingfreeze
Research to make breakthroughs in cancer metastasis, addiction, allergy, and mental health.
#fundingfreeze
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The CDC study contains an example of bird flu transmission to a farm worker in a state where dairy herds have not yet tested positive, illustrating that the US needs to ramp up its surveillance.
February 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The CDC study contains an example of bird flu transmission to a farm worker in a state where dairy herds have not yet tested positive, illustrating that the US needs to ramp up its surveillance.
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Yesterday I realized that people do not understand that the “DEI” purge is a cover to get Black people fired and sidelined from government, university, and civic and corporate life in the US.
This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly
Happy #BHM! 🙃
This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly
Happy #BHM! 🙃
February 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Yesterday I realized that people do not understand that the “DEI” purge is a cover to get Black people fired and sidelined from government, university, and civic and corporate life in the US.
This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly
Happy #BHM! 🙃
This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly
Happy #BHM! 🙃
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What is an indirect? It’s a complicated name for funding for research infrastructure, which usually isn’t covered by grants. So no research infrastructure funding means research halts. Please share in laymen’s terms what your research does here so people can see what we would lose.
February 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What is an indirect? It’s a complicated name for funding for research infrastructure, which usually isn’t covered by grants. So no research infrastructure funding means research halts. Please share in laymen’s terms what your research does here so people can see what we would lose.
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The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution.
Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution.
Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
Hearing from more people at affected universities today. One at another major research institute said people there were “frozen with fear” at the potential of the rate cut and relative silence from leadership over the weekend, but heartened by the unified response of the quick lawsuit.
Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration #saveUSAID #saveforeignaid
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration #saveUSAID #saveforeignaid
February 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration #saveUSAID #saveforeignaid
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration #saveUSAID #saveforeignaid
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Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget and helps millions! Elon Musk is lying to you. Spread the word tonight as he buys $40M in ads at the Super Bowl to try to convince you otherwise. Stop Musk. Help millions.
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget and helps millions! Elon Musk is lying to you. Spread the word tonight as he buys $40M in ads at the Super Bowl to try to convince you otherwise. Stop Musk. Help millions.
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
Please share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...
Save Foreign Aid
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M: 🏈Purchased life-saving HIV treatment from American pharmaceutical companies to keep 1,060,000 million people alive for one year 🏈Bought 66,000 metric tons of crops from American farmers and shipped them overseas to feed 8 million people on the brink of famine 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50,000 people in Central America 🏈Protected 30,000,000 football fields of tropical forest in Africa, preventing China and Russia from exploiting timber and critical minerals that fuel our world 🏈Saved the lives of 25 million children suffering from severe malaria. We think this one has value on its own but maybe Musk would disagree This Super Bowl Sunday, tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID Produced by friends of USAD
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February 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Please share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...
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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
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Everyone should read this piece by @katherinestewart.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes?
There can be no appeasement. None.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Everyone should read this piece by @katherinestewart.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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48% of papers published since January 1, 2015 have been removed from PCD website.
Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).
Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).
February 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
48% of papers published since January 1, 2015 have been removed from PCD website.
Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).
Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).
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In Rhode Island -
NIH FUNDING:
$256M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
2212
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$502M
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH FUNDING:
$256M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
2212
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$502M
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In Rhode Island -
NIH FUNDING:
$256M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
2212
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$502M
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH FUNDING:
$256M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
2212
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$502M
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Feeling helpless? Look for the helpers and then join in!
Mask blocs, Mutual Aid, community fridges, auntie networks…. There are so many ways to help.
Whatever you can give, whether that be time, money or skill… find other people who can help you organize and resist.
Mask blocs, Mutual Aid, community fridges, auntie networks…. There are so many ways to help.
Whatever you can give, whether that be time, money or skill… find other people who can help you organize and resist.
The FDA might not take H5N1 seriously but every Mask Bloc is stocking up on N95s.
SNAP might get cut off but Food Not Bombs will still be handing out food each week.
FEMA might get gutted but Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will still be mucking & gutting houses.
SNAP might get cut off but Food Not Bombs will still be handing out food each week.
FEMA might get gutted but Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will still be mucking & gutting houses.
February 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Feeling helpless? Look for the helpers and then join in!
Mask blocs, Mutual Aid, community fridges, auntie networks…. There are so many ways to help.
Whatever you can give, whether that be time, money or skill… find other people who can help you organize and resist.
Mask blocs, Mutual Aid, community fridges, auntie networks…. There are so many ways to help.
Whatever you can give, whether that be time, money or skill… find other people who can help you organize and resist.
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Imagine being so afraid of science that you need to block it.
February 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Imagine being so afraid of science that you need to block it.
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because all disaster movies start with the scientists being ignored or silenced. then everyone dies. and you are now playing survivor for real thanks to the game show host who got ahold of the nuclear launch codes again
February 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
because all disaster movies start with the scientists being ignored or silenced. then everyone dies. and you are now playing survivor for real thanks to the game show host who got ahold of the nuclear launch codes again
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
This seems worth reposting this week.
“The Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” written in 1944 and declassified in 2008, resonates in modern times in so many ways. www.cia.gov/static/5c875...
January 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This seems worth reposting this week.
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Unedited posts about my immigrant experience, written almost 5 years ago:
Standing in line at the DMV with too much time on my hands. So here’s a thread about being an immigrant from an “axis of evil” country.
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Standing in line at the DMV with too much time on my hands. So here’s a thread about being an immigrant from an “axis of evil” country.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Unedited posts about my immigrant experience, written almost 5 years ago:
Standing in line at the DMV with too much time on my hands. So here’s a thread about being an immigrant from an “axis of evil” country.
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Standing in line at the DMV with too much time on my hands. So here’s a thread about being an immigrant from an “axis of evil” country.
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Even my 6yo put that two and two together about vaccines after a recent walk in our local old cemetery, a beautiful arboretum that has far too many children’s gravestones.
November 16, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Even my 6yo put that two and two together about vaccines after a recent walk in our local old cemetery, a beautiful arboretum that has far too many children’s gravestones.