Stephanie Grainger
@sgraingerphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Van Andel Institute
Wnt | stem cells | zebrafish
Wnt | stem cells | zebrafish
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HAPPY HALLO WNT
From the spooky wingless flies 🪰
From the spooky wingless flies 🪰
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
HAPPY HALLO WNT
From the spooky wingless flies 🪰
From the spooky wingless flies 🪰
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@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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Gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute and greatly enjoyed meeting with pioneers in the field of Wnt signaling @sgraingerphd.bsky.social and @bartwilliams.bsky.social. Also reunited with amazing colleagues in the fields of epigenetics and RAS biology. What a vibrant research community @vai.org!
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute and greatly enjoyed meeting with pioneers in the field of Wnt signaling @sgraingerphd.bsky.social and @bartwilliams.bsky.social. Also reunited with amazing colleagues in the fields of epigenetics and RAS biology. What a vibrant research community @vai.org!
Look. I’ll own it, ok? It’s been hot and I’ve been using the AC. I will do better.
In all the discussion of salary equity in academia I never hear the people of Grand Rapids own up to their responsibility to use renewable energy.
Air quality in Grand Rapids, Michigan correlates with Associate Professor salaries in the US (r=0.843)
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Look. I’ll own it, ok? It’s been hot and I’ve been using the AC. I will do better.
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Me: could we please have a phone call to go over issues 2 and 3? These really look resolved on my end and I need some help understanding where the disconnect is so that I can fix it.
EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper.
Me: …
EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper.
Me: …
Editorial office: please fix issue 1, 2, and 3
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
September 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Me: could we please have a phone call to go over issues 2 and 3? These really look resolved on my end and I need some help understanding where the disconnect is so that I can fix it.
EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper.
Me: …
EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper.
Me: …
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You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
September 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
Editorial office: please fix issue 1, 2, and 3
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
September 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Editorial office: please fix issue 1, 2, and 3
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify?
EO: crickets
Me: hello?
EO: all is well please submit
Me: uploading like a MOFO
EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3
Me: has existential breakdown
Well that seems very bad
Saying the quiet part out loud:
NIH’s “Amanda Fine said..funding would become less dependent on reviewers rankings of grant proposals. This will ensure consistent, transparent & strategic funding decisions that align with the agency’s mission.. DT’s EO said peer reviews would be ‘advisory’ only.”
NIH’s “Amanda Fine said..funding would become less dependent on reviewers rankings of grant proposals. This will ensure consistent, transparent & strategic funding decisions that align with the agency’s mission.. DT’s EO said peer reviews would be ‘advisory’ only.”
Recent efforts to undermine peer review and put decisions in the hands of political appointees rather than scientists have many of us concerned.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Well that seems very bad
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged
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congratulations to taylor swift, travis kelce, and to the whoever is about to drop the world's most unnoticed news dump
August 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
congratulations to taylor swift, travis kelce, and to the whoever is about to drop the world's most unnoticed news dump
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🚨| Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement announcement just BROKE Instagram.
August 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨| Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement announcement just BROKE Instagram.
Well that’s enough news for today
Further consolidating control over federal research funding under Russell Vought and a cadre of apparatchiks.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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August 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Well that’s enough news for today
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Researchers have registered more than 120 clinical trials to date evaluating the potential of mRNA-based approaches for treating many types of cancer, including lung, breast, and prostate, pancreatic, and brain tumors.
August 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Researchers have registered more than 120 clinical trials to date evaluating the potential of mRNA-based approaches for treating many types of cancer, including lung, breast, and prostate, pancreatic, and brain tumors.
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I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.
Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.
Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
@aoc.bsky.social I hope we can count on you!
It might clear the full Senate intact. Under House reconciliation though? Let’s hope…
With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@aoc.bsky.social I hope we can count on you!
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The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
July 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
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"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
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See how the NIH cuts are impacting your area. scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
July 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
See how the NIH cuts are impacting your area. scienceimpacts.org
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As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.
Good morning to all the reviewer 3s out there who believe in bioRxiv papers and the pandemic having disproportionate impacts on the junior faculty who started then.
July 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Good morning to all the reviewer 3s out there who believe in bioRxiv papers and the pandemic having disproportionate impacts on the junior faculty who started then.
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
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I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
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It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.