Shaurita D. Hutchins
@shaurita.bsky.social
Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics PhD candidate at UAB GBS 🧬 | Researcher in @lizworthey.bsky.social's lab 🔬 | Proud #WomenInSTEM 💪🏾 & #HBCUGrad 🎓 | Passionate about #PhDLife 📚, #DataScience 💻, #SciComm, #RareDisease, and #KnowledgeGraphs
Today is the 3rd anniversary of my mother's passing, and I'm still wrestling with grief. I have more good days than bad ones, but I'm still in disbelief that I lost the person who loved me the most in this world.
www.shauritahutchins.com/3-years-after/
www.shauritahutchins.com/3-years-after/
3 Years After
A reflection on loss, resilience, and rediscovering self-confidence.
www.shauritahutchins.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Today is the 3rd anniversary of my mother's passing, and I'm still wrestling with grief. I have more good days than bad ones, but I'm still in disbelief that I lost the person who loved me the most in this world.
www.shauritahutchins.com/3-years-after/
www.shauritahutchins.com/3-years-after/
Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science
dx.plos.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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The Birmingham (Alabama) R Users Group is live!
Join our community on Meetup: www.meetup.com/bham-r-users...
Come learn, share, and connect with fellow R users in Birmingham + UAB. #RUsersGroup #RStats
Join our community on Meetup: www.meetup.com/bham-r-users...
Come learn, share, and connect with fellow R users in Birmingham + UAB. #RUsersGroup #RStats
Sorry, the group you're looking for doesn't exist
www.meetup.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Birmingham (Alabama) R Users Group is live!
Join our community on Meetup: www.meetup.com/bham-r-users...
Come learn, share, and connect with fellow R users in Birmingham + UAB. #RUsersGroup #RStats
Join our community on Meetup: www.meetup.com/bham-r-users...
Come learn, share, and connect with fellow R users in Birmingham + UAB. #RUsersGroup #RStats
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Happy Disability Pride Month! What does Disability Pride mean to you? #spoonie #disability #chronicallyill #neurodivergent #spooniesky
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Disability Pride Month! What does Disability Pride mean to you? #spoonie #disability #chronicallyill #neurodivergent #spooniesky
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On June 16, make an impact by writing an op-ed for your hometown paper sharing your personal scientific journey, and the meaning of your work. Reaching a diverse readerhsip is how we gain support! #SciComm
@sciforgood.bsky.social @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
Sign up: tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...
@sciforgood.bsky.social @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
Sign up: tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...
April 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
On June 16, make an impact by writing an op-ed for your hometown paper sharing your personal scientific journey, and the meaning of your work. Reaching a diverse readerhsip is how we gain support! #SciComm
@sciforgood.bsky.social @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
Sign up: tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...
@sciforgood.bsky.social @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
Sign up: tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...
I'm starting a 30-day public speaking challenge to improve my presentation skills!
Any tips? #AcademicTwitter
Any tips? #AcademicTwitter
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I'm starting a 30-day public speaking challenge to improve my presentation skills!
Any tips? #AcademicTwitter
Any tips? #AcademicTwitter
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together.
ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience
Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together.
ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience
Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science.
ropensci.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together.
ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience
Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together.
ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience
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✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience
AI for Open Science - Request for Proposals
os.nav.fund
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience
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Most centrally, the WHI generated irreplaceable knowledge on effects of hormone replacement on heart disease, cancers, bone health, etc.
But it also provided a resource for some of the most important methods development in modern biostatistics & epidemiology. E.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18854702/
But it also provided a resource for some of the most important methods development in modern biostatistics & epidemiology. E.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18854702/
April 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Most centrally, the WHI generated irreplaceable knowledge on effects of hormone replacement on heart disease, cancers, bone health, etc.
But it also provided a resource for some of the most important methods development in modern biostatistics & epidemiology. E.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18854702/
But it also provided a resource for some of the most important methods development in modern biostatistics & epidemiology. E.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18854702/
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
🌴 New blog post: I wrote about what it’s like to be a PhD trainee - feeling disconnected, sometimes alone, navigating shifting friendships, and learning how to stay open through it all.
👉 www.shauritahutchins.com/loneliness-p...
#PhDlife #GradSchool #AcademicChatter
👉 www.shauritahutchins.com/loneliness-p...
#PhDlife #GradSchool #AcademicChatter
The PhD Island
A reflection on grief, isolation, and the quiet work of rebuilding connection during a PhD.
www.shauritahutchins.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🌴 New blog post: I wrote about what it’s like to be a PhD trainee - feeling disconnected, sometimes alone, navigating shifting friendships, and learning how to stay open through it all.
👉 www.shauritahutchins.com/loneliness-p...
#PhDlife #GradSchool #AcademicChatter
👉 www.shauritahutchins.com/loneliness-p...
#PhDlife #GradSchool #AcademicChatter
StandUpforScienceAlabama - Twitch
Watch the Stand Up for Science Alabama Rally.
twitch.tv
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Quick shoutout to the labs, departments, and scientists cancelling / rescheduling lab meetings, seminars and more to give students and others the chance to defend science for @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Quick shoutout to the labs, departments, and scientists cancelling / rescheduling lab meetings, seminars and more to give students and others the chance to defend science for @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Another great addition to our program @standupforscience.bsky.social !!!
March 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Another great addition to our program @standupforscience.bsky.social !!!
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️
Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
March 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️
Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Dr. Francis Collins will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
I tweeted that DOGE was unethical for canceling grants and spreading misinformation (which they are)...and I got censored lol
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I tweeted that DOGE was unethical for canceling grants and spreading misinformation (which they are)...and I got censored lol
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Again: This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. Scientific grants that already underwent a thorough peer review process and were among the top few selected for funding are being revoked for political reasons.
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Again: This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. Scientific grants that already underwent a thorough peer review process and were among the top few selected for funding are being revoked for political reasons.
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⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️
Improved and simplified explainer.
As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky
Improved and simplified explainer.
As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky
February 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️
Improved and simplified explainer.
As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky
Improved and simplified explainer.
As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky
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Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...
www.aclu.org
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
If promoting #ScienceForAll is controversial, then something is wrong with our society, right?
Am I missing something? Shouldn't we be pursuing knowledge about how diseases work and impact people? Or is that idea controversial? There's nothing partisan about that.
#StandUpForScience2025
Am I missing something? Shouldn't we be pursuing knowledge about how diseases work and impact people? Or is that idea controversial? There's nothing partisan about that.
#StandUpForScience2025
March 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If promoting #ScienceForAll is controversial, then something is wrong with our society, right?
Am I missing something? Shouldn't we be pursuing knowledge about how diseases work and impact people? Or is that idea controversial? There's nothing partisan about that.
#StandUpForScience2025
Am I missing something? Shouldn't we be pursuing knowledge about how diseases work and impact people? Or is that idea controversial? There's nothing partisan about that.
#StandUpForScience2025
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Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
March 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
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It is official! Stand Up For Science 2025 is in Alabama!
February 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It is official! Stand Up For Science 2025 is in Alabama!