Rachel C. Rice (she/they)
@rnachel.bsky.social
Noncoding RNA & alcohol epigenetics 🧬
Doctoral candidate & NIAAA Fellow at Pitt, Farris & Homanics labs 🐁
USAF BRAT 🎖✈️👨👩👧👧 , Tar Heel born & bred 👣🐏🩵
Zweisprachig 🇺🇲🇩🇪
Resident lab goth 🎃🦇
Views my own ✨️
Doctoral candidate & NIAAA Fellow at Pitt, Farris & Homanics labs 🐁
USAF BRAT 🎖✈️👨👩👧👧 , Tar Heel born & bred 👣🐏🩵
Zweisprachig 🇺🇲🇩🇪
Resident lab goth 🎃🦇
Views my own ✨️
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My NIH diversity supplement was reinstated! 🥳
This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽
This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽
July 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My NIH diversity supplement was reinstated! 🥳
This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽
This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽
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#GRCPsychedelics 🔥🔥🔥🔥poster session and our first ever Honorary Best PI poster award to @zenbrainest.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣
July 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#GRCPsychedelics 🔥🔥🔥🔥poster session and our first ever Honorary Best PI poster award to @zenbrainest.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣
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Touching words from Dr. Markus Heilig today at the @rsaofficial.bsky.social closing ceremony, reminding us, especially young researchers, to not lose hope.
Attending this conference and seeing my colleagues persist despite hardship has been a beacon of light in a dark year. #standupforscience
Attending this conference and seeing my colleagues persist despite hardship has been a beacon of light in a dark year. #standupforscience
June 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Touching words from Dr. Markus Heilig today at the @rsaofficial.bsky.social closing ceremony, reminding us, especially young researchers, to not lose hope.
Attending this conference and seeing my colleagues persist despite hardship has been a beacon of light in a dark year. #standupforscience
Attending this conference and seeing my colleagues persist despite hardship has been a beacon of light in a dark year. #standupforscience
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NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient.
Now a federal judge says: illegal.
Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T
zurl.co/0GTNE
Now a federal judge says: illegal.
Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T
zurl.co/0GTNE
Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years
A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.
apnews.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient.
Now a federal judge says: illegal.
Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T
zurl.co/0GTNE
Now a federal judge says: illegal.
Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T
zurl.co/0GTNE
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🧵 You might have seen a post urging you to donate to Harvard, a wealthy university that needs no financial reward for doing the bare minimum.
Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support
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Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support
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April 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🧵 You might have seen a post urging you to donate to Harvard, a wealthy university that needs no financial reward for doing the bare minimum.
Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support
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Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support
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Round 2, Pittsburgh-- let's make it a good one! ✊️
Thanks again to the wonderful organizers at @standupforscience.bsky.social and @50501movement.bsky.social for their hard work in making things happen. 💕
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#MutualAid
Thanks again to the wonderful organizers at @standupforscience.bsky.social and @50501movement.bsky.social for their hard work in making things happen. 💕
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#MutualAid
April 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Round 2, Pittsburgh-- let's make it a good one! ✊️
Thanks again to the wonderful organizers at @standupforscience.bsky.social and @50501movement.bsky.social for their hard work in making things happen. 💕
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#MutualAid
Thanks again to the wonderful organizers at @standupforscience.bsky.social and @50501movement.bsky.social for their hard work in making things happen. 💕
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#MutualAid
Yesterday, my first undergraduate mentee successfully defended her honors thesis. So incredibly proud of her hard work and growth over the last ~2 years in the @spfarris.bsky.social lab!
Look out, world, here comes Remy Frawley, B.S.!
Look out, world, here comes Remy Frawley, B.S.!
April 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Yesterday, my first undergraduate mentee successfully defended her honors thesis. So incredibly proud of her hard work and growth over the last ~2 years in the @spfarris.bsky.social lab!
Look out, world, here comes Remy Frawley, B.S.!
Look out, world, here comes Remy Frawley, B.S.!
Continued my annual service tradition of judging the Senior Biology Division of the Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair!
3 years and counting, and the high school students continue to blow me away with their work.
#thekidsarealright #sciencerules
3 years and counting, and the high school students continue to blow me away with their work.
#thekidsarealright #sciencerules
April 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Continued my annual service tradition of judging the Senior Biology Division of the Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair!
3 years and counting, and the high school students continue to blow me away with their work.
#thekidsarealright #sciencerules
3 years and counting, and the high school students continue to blow me away with their work.
#thekidsarealright #sciencerules
The thing that has been keeping me going through labwork today is listening to Senator Booker's speech. Almost 23 hours and counting.
History is being made right now, and for the first time in the past ~70 days, I finally feel an iota of hope saying that.
History is being made right now, and for the first time in the past ~70 days, I finally feel an iota of hope saying that.
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The thing that has been keeping me going through labwork today is listening to Senator Booker's speech. Almost 23 hours and counting.
History is being made right now, and for the first time in the past ~70 days, I finally feel an iota of hope saying that.
History is being made right now, and for the first time in the past ~70 days, I finally feel an iota of hope saying that.
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In a landmark commentary last year, 24 scientists from around the globe—all of whom either identify as trans or have trans family members—called for recognition and support from the research community. #TransDayOfVisibility scim.ag/4l8LK5O
‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community
“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary
scim.ag
March 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In a landmark commentary last year, 24 scientists from around the globe—all of whom either identify as trans or have trans family members—called for recognition and support from the research community. #TransDayOfVisibility scim.ag/4l8LK5O
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Jay Bhattacharya said in his confirmation hearing that he plans to restore NIH to its former glory & repair public distrust of science.
Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
March 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Jay Bhattacharya said in his confirmation hearing that he plans to restore NIH to its former glory & repair public distrust of science.
Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
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Dear scientists,
We've heard from many of you: "What can I do to act, to help stop the authoritarian takeover? I feel helpless."
One thing you can do is to get every scientist you know onto bluesky.
Get them off Twitter.
Talk to yr colleagues. Make it a point.
Send this:
bsky.app/starter-pac...
We've heard from many of you: "What can I do to act, to help stop the authoritarian takeover? I feel helpless."
One thing you can do is to get every scientist you know onto bluesky.
Get them off Twitter.
Talk to yr colleagues. Make it a point.
Send this:
bsky.app/starter-pac...
AltNIH4Science - Science Crisis News
Join the conversation
bsky.app
March 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dear scientists,
We've heard from many of you: "What can I do to act, to help stop the authoritarian takeover? I feel helpless."
One thing you can do is to get every scientist you know onto bluesky.
Get them off Twitter.
Talk to yr colleagues. Make it a point.
Send this:
bsky.app/starter-pac...
We've heard from many of you: "What can I do to act, to help stop the authoritarian takeover? I feel helpless."
One thing you can do is to get every scientist you know onto bluesky.
Get them off Twitter.
Talk to yr colleagues. Make it a point.
Send this:
bsky.app/starter-pac...
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This is an amazing effort and staggering map.
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is an amazing effort and staggering map.
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I just created a Sci-Commers Starter Pack! Science Communication is CRITICAL right now, and there is more than one way to do it! Get some inspiration (+ fun!) from a variety of different sci-commers from various backgrounds (although there may be a bit of a marine bias here 💙). go.bsky.app/NMCFMcj
Sci-Commers
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
March 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I just created a Sci-Commers Starter Pack! Science Communication is CRITICAL right now, and there is more than one way to do it! Get some inspiration (+ fun!) from a variety of different sci-commers from various backgrounds (although there may be a bit of a marine bias here 💙). go.bsky.app/NMCFMcj
Trusted my newer undergrad with cryosectioning some precious tissue from my AAV infusions today, and his slices came out absolutely beautifully. So proud of him! We love to see trainees gaining proficiency and the joy they show when they notice it 🙌🏻💕
March 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trusted my newer undergrad with cryosectioning some precious tissue from my AAV infusions today, and his slices came out absolutely beautifully. So proud of him! We love to see trainees gaining proficiency and the joy they show when they notice it 🙌🏻💕
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14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
March 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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I am very grateful to all the science and public health journalists who are continuing to tirelessly report on everything that's happening to science, research, domestic and global health right now.
Thanks for amplifying our voices, our stories and the far reaching impact on the public.
Thanks for amplifying our voices, our stories and the far reaching impact on the public.
March 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am very grateful to all the science and public health journalists who are continuing to tirelessly report on everything that's happening to science, research, domestic and global health right now.
Thanks for amplifying our voices, our stories and the far reaching impact on the public.
Thanks for amplifying our voices, our stories and the far reaching impact on the public.
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Still can’t believe we’re only 2 months into this hellscape. A new heartache, every day.
Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday.
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.
To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Still can’t believe we’re only 2 months into this hellscape. A new heartache, every day.
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With 23AndMe going belly up, anybody who used them may have their genetic data sold to the highest bidder, to do with as they please. There is a way out - the linked article shows how you can delete your data from their database. DO IT NOW! archive.is/iNFaf
archive.is
March 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
With 23AndMe going belly up, anybody who used them may have their genetic data sold to the highest bidder, to do with as they please. There is a way out - the linked article shows how you can delete your data from their database. DO IT NOW! archive.is/iNFaf
What an honor to see Nobel laureate Drew Weissman speak at my institution about his work on mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics, and yet what a heartbreak to hear at the beginning of his talk that just yesterday did he receive a grant termination notice due to studying vaccines.
March 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What an honor to see Nobel laureate Drew Weissman speak at my institution about his work on mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics, and yet what a heartbreak to hear at the beginning of his talk that just yesterday did he receive a grant termination notice due to studying vaccines.
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The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.
https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
go.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.
https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX