Tynan Gardner
@tynangardner.bsky.social
Embryo Enthusiast | Frog Fiend | Protein Person
🧬 PhD Candidate @ UT Austin
🐸💻 Wallingford and Marcotte Labs
🐅 Princeton University '20
🧬 PhD Candidate @ UT Austin
🐸💻 Wallingford and Marcotte Labs
🐅 Princeton University '20
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As we Stand Up for Science today, let's all stay focused on why we do what we do. My lab does #devbiol because birth defects are the single most lethal and most expensive diseases in American kids. 🧵👇
Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
March 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As we Stand Up for Science today, let's all stay focused on why we do what we do. My lab does #devbiol because birth defects are the single most lethal and most expensive diseases in American kids. 🧵👇
Reposted by Tynan Gardner
YES! Please memorize the Official Mission Statement of the NIH:
“Its mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability”
TO SEEK FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE!
“Its mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability”
TO SEEK FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE!
The substack states that NIH funds "clinical research." But it does not just fund clinical research. It also funds basic research which is foundational for clinical and applied research. Most breakthroughs in clinical research would not have happened without fundamental discovery driven science.
I wrote about the National Institutes of Health and the various serious and unserious proposals for NIH reform that have been floating around. It is important to understand how this agency actually functions and point criticism at the right problems. A short 🧵:
November 25, 2024 at 12:50 AM
YES! Please memorize the Official Mission Statement of the NIH:
“Its mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability”
TO SEEK FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE!
“Its mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability”
TO SEEK FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE!
Reposted by Tynan Gardner
As news are going around that Musk will lead a "Department of Government Efficiency", here is a breakdown of the federal budget. Most of the spending is social security, medicare, dept service, and defense. There's not much efficiency to be had.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
November 13, 2024 at 2:33 AM
As news are going around that Musk will lead a "Department of Government Efficiency", here is a breakdown of the federal budget. Most of the spending is social security, medicare, dept service, and defense. There's not much efficiency to be had.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Reposted by Tynan Gardner
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
November 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”