Senta Georgia
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Beta Cell Biologist. Sprinkler of Black Girl Magic. Purveyor of Fine Spirits. Superwoman hiding plain sight.
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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
June 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
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Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
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BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for standing up for what is right!
Unlawful grant terminations are harming young scientists and threatening innovation. ASCB joins leaders calling for immediate funding restoration.
www.ascb.org/society-news...
www.ascb.org/society-news...
Leading Life Science Organizations: Unlawful Grant Terminations Pose Grave Threat to America’s Innovation Pipeline - ASCB
Amicus Brief Filed in Support of Suit Calling for Immediate Funding Restoration WASHINGTON, DC – Four leading life science organizations, including the ASCB, filed an amicus brief today asking the cou...
www.ascb.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for standing up for what is right!
So PROUD of the accomplishments of my COMPASS scholars! Our first cohort of students are graduating and presented their two years of work at our first COMPASS symposium. Thank you to @cirmnews.bsky.social for your support of our program!
@stemcell.keck.usc.edu
@stemcell.keck.usc.edu
Thirty undergraduates gathered to share their research at the first year-end symposium for USC CIRM COMPASS, a comprehensive two-year program designed to prepare juniors and seniors for careers in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/guided-by-co...
Guided by COMPASS, USC undergraduates navigate stem cell research at inaugural symposium
Thirty undergraduates gathered to share their research at the first year-end symposium for USC CIRM COMPASS, a comprehensive two-year program designed to prepare juniors and seniors for careers in ste...
stemcell.keck.usc.edu
May 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So PROUD of the accomplishments of my COMPASS scholars! Our first cohort of students are graduating and presented their two years of work at our first COMPASS symposium. Thank you to @cirmnews.bsky.social for your support of our program!
@stemcell.keck.usc.edu
@stemcell.keck.usc.edu
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⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️🌈
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
Harvard Medical researcher sues NIH for cutting grant to study LGBTQ mental health
"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every American," a Harvard Medical School associate professor studying the mental…
www.masslive.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️🌈
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
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This makes a lot of sense and I think the best explanation I’ve seen so far. Part of why the people who benefit the most from nepotism are so afraid of DEI 🙄
April 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This makes a lot of sense and I think the best explanation I’ve seen so far. Part of why the people who benefit the most from nepotism are so afraid of DEI 🙄
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Listening to these MOSAIC/PREP/IMSD, etc. scholars talk about how limited their options have become, I’m going to ask that more of you ‘put your money where your mouth is’
Losing them because of these grant cancellations IS an actual example of policy discrimination.
Losing them because of these grant cancellations IS an actual example of policy discrimination.
April 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Listening to these MOSAIC/PREP/IMSD, etc. scholars talk about how limited their options have become, I’m going to ask that more of you ‘put your money where your mouth is’
Losing them because of these grant cancellations IS an actual example of policy discrimination.
Losing them because of these grant cancellations IS an actual example of policy discrimination.
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"The lack of any justification or explanation...for these terminations is highly concerning. 1st - and most importantly - these terminations deprive the NIH (and the American people) of the expertise needed to perform a balanced and thorough review of the intramural biomedical research enterprise"
The report with the underlying data for the Washington Post story about firings of disproportionate numbers of women and underrepresented minorities from NIH Boards of Scientific Counselors.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter_to_CongressApril16_2025_updated
April 16, 2025 (updated 4/21/2025) Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions House Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subcommittee on Health Washington, DC 20510 Report: Scientists...
docs.google.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The lack of any justification or explanation...for these terminations is highly concerning. 1st - and most importantly - these terminations deprive the NIH (and the American people) of the expertise needed to perform a balanced and thorough review of the intramural biomedical research enterprise"
Good job LAUSD!
Federal officials said they were doing wellness checks on children who arrived unaccompanied at the border. School administrators turned them away.
(via @laist.com)
(via @laist.com)
Homeland Security agents attempted to enter 2 LAUSD schools. Here's what families should know
Federal agents were turned away from two South Los Angeles elementary schools this week, the district’s superintendent says.
laist.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Good job LAUSD!
After some really rough times, today there are glimmers of positivity...
1. My grad student’s F31 was FUNDED!
2. A new patient for our biorepository of rare mutations relevant to diabetes was consented and collected today.
Finally, it feels like I’M WINNING TODAY!
#keepthefaith #ibetonme
1. My grad student’s F31 was FUNDED!
2. A new patient for our biorepository of rare mutations relevant to diabetes was consented and collected today.
Finally, it feels like I’M WINNING TODAY!
#keepthefaith #ibetonme
April 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
After some really rough times, today there are glimmers of positivity...
1. My grad student’s F31 was FUNDED!
2. A new patient for our biorepository of rare mutations relevant to diabetes was consented and collected today.
Finally, it feels like I’M WINNING TODAY!
#keepthefaith #ibetonme
1. My grad student’s F31 was FUNDED!
2. A new patient for our biorepository of rare mutations relevant to diabetes was consented and collected today.
Finally, it feels like I’M WINNING TODAY!
#keepthefaith #ibetonme
This is why having real scientists in public debate is so important. The public deserves the truth, not the glossy 1-pager.
Thank you @newscientist.com
Thank you @newscientist.com
De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf – it hasn’t.
No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
www.newscientist.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is why having real scientists in public debate is so important. The public deserves the truth, not the glossy 1-pager.
Thank you @newscientist.com
Thank you @newscientist.com
Buying any capital equipment for your lab/institution will not just be cost prohibitive, but impossible, because tariffs push up the prices dramatically. If a grant can’t support a 25% increase in the price, where will it come from? Supplies? Salaries? Who will do the experiments? With what?
If you want an example, I now face a 6 figure tariff to import a new ARPES system I already ordered from Germany if Trump doesn't cancel the tariffs. That freezes all other spending as I build my lab, including on American-made products I need. Also jeopardizes my ability to pay my grad students. ⚛️🧪
I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively.
Lemme know how I did:
Lemme know how I did:
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Buying any capital equipment for your lab/institution will not just be cost prohibitive, but impossible, because tariffs push up the prices dramatically. If a grant can’t support a 25% increase in the price, where will it come from? Supplies? Salaries? Who will do the experiments? With what?
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The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.
ASCB Responds to the NIH’s Termination of the MOSAIC Program - ASCB
As one of the five scientific societies funded to provide professional development support through the NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program, th...
www.ascb.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.
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An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
This type of courage deserves support.
I have zero ties to Princeton, nobody in my immediate or extended family has ever been there in any capacity. But as I plan to spend precisely $0 giving to my Alma maters, I’ll buy some of these Princeton bonds when they come out, cuz courage should be rewarded
Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants.
"we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
"we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
April 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This type of courage deserves support.
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I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
Just completed day 2 of chairing a NIH study section. Brain is tired after intently listening and leading discussions of ~40 apps. So fulfilling to hear the passion people have for others' science, and heartwarming to see so many people who care about the training and environment of others 🫶 (299!)
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
YES YES YES!!!
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
YES YES YES!!!
This is who is leading us into a healthier future?
As the mass purges begin, the man carrying them out is still complaining of that he, the Main Character, was called “fringe” in a private email just because he wanted to mass infect unvaccinated people under age 60-70.
More…
More…
April 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is who is leading us into a healthier future?
Thank you Senator Booker.
Signed, A proud Jersey Girl living in CA.
Signed, A proud Jersey Girl living in CA.
Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering
April 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thank you Senator Booker.
Signed, A proud Jersey Girl living in CA.
Signed, A proud Jersey Girl living in CA.
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"Private investors in the life sciences tell C&EN that their coffers don't compare to a juggernaut like the NIH, with its nearly $48 billion budget. Even if they did, industry players say their role is to fund science with immediate applications"
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
As research funding dries up for US science, few alternatives appear
Private investors unlikely to support basic biomedical research
cen.acs.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"Private investors in the life sciences tell C&EN that their coffers don't compare to a juggernaut like the NIH, with its nearly $48 billion budget. Even if they did, industry players say their role is to fund science with immediate applications"
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
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The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!
March 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!