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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD, FASN

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Pediatric Nephrologist Scientist | 2x Kidney Transplant | He, Him 🏳️‍🌈 | Opinions = Own, 🚫Medical Advice

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Shane Liesegang, SJ (シェーン|شَيْن|เชน) @sjml.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Had more than one person tell me they wanted to hear "a Catholic commentary track for WAKE UP DEAD MAN," and it was a fun excuse to rewatch the movie with my Jesuit friend JRod as we talked about how this thing feels from the perspective of young clerics currently immersed in theology studies.
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Jesuit Commentary Track - Wake Up Dead Man
Two Jesuits provide a commentary track sharing their perspectives on the Church and pastoral theology in relation to the film.
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National Kidney Foundation @kidney.org · 06/12/2025
When it comes to kidney health, taking care of your mind is just as important as taking care of your body. Tune in to explore how mental health support can improve your overall well-being and breaking the stigma around therapy and medications. bit.ly/3MiMdFH
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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Shina Menon @shinamenon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are you a peds resident who didn't match into fellowship yesterday, or someone wishes to do peds nephrology, we have a wonderful program waiting for you med.stanford.edu/pednephrolog... Come work & learn w/us in ☀️ Bay Area! Reach out to any of us @xgaeta.bsky.social @4kidney.bsky.social #NephSky
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Fellowship
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Bryan Carmody @jbcarmody.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s Fellowship Match Day!
Graphic demonstrating the percentage of positions filled by fellowship specialty in the 2025 NRMP Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match. Cardiology, Hematology-Oncology, Gastroenterology, and Rheumatology filled 99% or more of their available positions, while Geriatric Medicine, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and Pediatric Nephrology filled 41% or less.Graphic demonstrating the applicant match rate for specialty fellowships in the 2025 NRMP Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match. Match rates for Gastroenterology, Cardiology, and Hematology-Oncology were all <70%, while Pediatric Endocrinology, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Pediatric Rheumatology, and Child Abuse Pediatrics were all >98%.
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Shina Menon @shinamenon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Not for Ped Neph. We had a 27 applicants, <40% fill rate 😭 Based on a recent workforce survey there are > 90 faculty jobs nationally that need pediatric nephrologists! Our workforce future seems grim #nephSky
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Andrew Michael South, MD, MS @asouth-neph.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🤣 #PedNeph is now the worst!! Of ALL adult AND pediatric specialties 38% filled. Thirty. Eight. And this is a continued, sustained, worsening pattern No surprise because we are not making (forcing?) the systemic changes we need to make (and many of us want to make)
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Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity @stanfordsmadie.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Join us as we highlight SMADIE’s work in accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion. Your support helps us keep these conversations going all year long.
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GIVING TUESDAY
December 2, 2025
Giving Tuesday is a global movement that celebrates generosity, community, and shared responsibility. It began as one day, but today, it represents something bigger: A reminder that giving isn't just about money. And it isn't just about one day. It’s about choosing to support change every day, in many ways.

SMADIE works to make healthcare accessible, inclusive, and equitable for people with disabilities, not just in policy, but in training, design, and everyday care.

Your support helps us: Elevate disabled voices in medical education, Grow mentorship and advocacy opportunities, Create training on accessibility and inclusive care, Build a community that designs for every body and mind.

Giving Tuesday helps us fuel this work, not just for one day, but all year long.To support SMADIE’s mission, visit https://flowsto.com/r/UyUKRb2qV to donate or scan the QR code.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 05/09/2025
An insightful & moving talk from @stephharmanmd.bsky.social at the Big Ideas conference, culminating in her important point that palliative care physicians don’t have a monopoly on helping people decide what matters most to them. Here are some questions to consider for anyone facing serious illness.
Photo of Dr. Harman at the front of a conference room. She wears a red dress and a red blazer. The slide behind her says, “Having a conversation when it's someone you love...

In thinking about the future, what's most important to you?
What is keeping you up at night?
What gives you strength in tough times?
What else would you want me to know?”
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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD, FASN @4kidney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hey it’s me!
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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD, FASN @4kidney.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Come join our awesome team! Stanford Division of Pediatric Nephrology is hiring! Find out more about our job: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job... #Careers #Hiring #PediatricNephrology #Dialysis #KidneyTransplant
Members of the Stanford kidney transplant team pose with their heads sticking out around large block letters spelling “WTC 2025”Stanford pediatric nephrology faculty members dressed up in warm clothes posing on the beach in front of large rocks
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This EO criminalizing homelessness & mental illness ignores decades of research & lived experience. This EO has many devastating aspects, especially its targeting of Housing First policies. Housing First reduces homelessness, emergency room visits, and contact with the criminal punishment system.
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NAMI Statement on Executive Order Targeting Homelessness and Criminalizing Mental Illness
NAMI urges investment in proven mental health solutions over involuntary treatment in response to a new federal Executive Order.
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San Francisco AIDS Foundation @sfaidsfound.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
More bad news (sorry). ⁠ ⁠ Many folks may have never heard of the USPSTF before, but it's an important group of experts that reviews research and gives guidance to healthcare providers. Playing politics with this panel will have implications for healthcare delivery in the U.S.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify. The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.
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Carl Streed Jr. MD MPH FACP FAHA (he/him) @cjstreed.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’m not sitting back while this administrations destroys my career and the careers of my colleagues and mentees. #LGBTQI+
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 21/05/2025
It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too. Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD, FASN @4kidney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Just over a week until I’ll be biking 545+ miles from SF to LA! Got to check out our team’s support vehicle for AIDS/Lifecycle and meet some more of our team members I hadn’t met yet! I guess I’m the de facto team physician? There’s still time to donate: bit.ly/ALC-Ken
Ken stands in front of an RV with Stanford Medicine logo and AIDS lifecycle Stanford team logo. Members of the Stanford team pose together Team members hold up a Rainbow Stanford medicine flagA collection of stickers: “I bike California” with trans pride flag colors, “Stanford medicine, Ken Sutha” with a rainbow across the top, and “aids/lifecycle the final 545”
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pedsnephrodoc.bsky.social @pedsnephrodoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Outstanding mentoring session by former ASN president Dr. @drdeidracrews.bsky.social at the ASN AKI B2B conference. @4kidney.bsky.social
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 13/04/2025
🧒🌍 Ending AIDS for Africa's children? PEPFAR has already saved 26 million lives – and could end childhood AIDS by 2030. But without continued support, 1M children may be infected by HIV in the next 5 years. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #SciComm #HIV 🧪 #PEPFAR
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Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes
PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have also had life-saving impacts for c...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
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Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In what's being described as a “bloodbath,” DHHS has dramatically reduced personnel at CDC, NIH, FDA & other health agencies. The cuts are expected to affect 10,000 people; some learned of them only when their badges no longer allowed access to their offices. www.ebar.com/story/153865/
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Federal health department slashes CDC, NIH staff
In what is being described as a “bloodbath,” the Department of Health and Human Services has dramatically reduced personnel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health a...
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts" But you are literally the reason he was confirmed...what changed? www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts
The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will on April 10 hold a hearing on the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, its chairman Senator Bill Cassidy said in a statement.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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Michelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Your gift to the ASPN Foundation helps to support travel grants for trainees to help recruit and retain pediatric nephrologists! Your gift will be matched by ASPN Foundation Board Member Sharon Lagas up to a total of $2500 during National Kidney Month. aspneph.app.neoncrm.com/forms/alport...
Graphic of clock old fashioned alarm clock with text: Still waiting for your pediatric nephrology appointment? There is a shortage of pediatric nephrologists in the US. Your donation to the ASPN Foundation helps to support the recruitment and training of pediatric nephrologists.
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Ryan Town @kidneywiki.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This ain't it
American Association of Kidney Patients post on X, the everything app: WATCH! HHS Sec. RFK Jr announces a long-overdue restructure of HHS operations to consolidate agency internal functions & to better align HHS capacities to the needs of both patients & taxpayers in the fight against chronic diseases, including CKD and ESRD: https://bit.ly/4j5YyYK
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
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Ken Sutha, MD, PhD, FASN @4kidney.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I’ve long supported the great advocacy and education work by AAKP, but RJK Jr. and his leadership of HHS will absolutely have serious negative consequences for kidney and transplant patients.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 28/03/2025
As a longtime fan of AAKP, I can't help but feel disappointed that they’re putting a positive spin on what is an unmitigated disaster for transplant recipients.
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RajuBrainLab @rajubrainlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is a really disappointing decision by the NIH to cancel the longstanding Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP-K12) grant that has funded the early career development of numerous pediatric physician-scientists who have become the pediatric leaders in the US and the world.
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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders
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Rick Berke @rickberke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n... via @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social
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NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults
NIH terminated grants for a program studying how to diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV and AIDS in adolescents and young adults.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I know there's a lot happening but this week several grenades were thrown to decimate domestic HIV treatment and prevention research. I know more colleagues with canceled grants than not. Our patients will die or get worse care as a direct result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’
The Trump administration isn’t just dismantling protections against illnesses. It’s inviting them right in.
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of 1️⃣ my career (as I know it) 2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social 3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈 You with us?
Mother and daughter smiling while holding a book titled "Sam is my Sister"
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Diane Chen, PhD @drdianechen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
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Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...
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“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard
Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”
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Souplady @souplady.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
These are the items they want to withdraw. 😥
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 19/03/2025
incidentally, yesterday was the 4th anniversary of me receiving the best bad news: they found testicular cancer in my chest I’ve been stable since I started treatment, I use a walker and take immunosuppressants read all about it: ja.ma/seth
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
RIP academic conferences in America
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is a fantastic conference on everything to do with disabilities in medicine. I learn so much every year. It’s virtual, so hopefully that decreases barriers to participation. While you’re at it, give @stanfordsmadie.bsky.social a follow!
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights."
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Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity @stanfordsmadie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Register today! lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/pyhcp... #docswithdisabilities
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Join us for the Stanford 2025 Disability Conference, hosted by the Stanford Medicine Alliance For Disability Inclusion And Equity (SMADIE) and Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSD...
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Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity @stanfordsmadie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Meeks from the University of Illinois Chicago, as the speaker for the second session of our conference on April 26th, 2025! Register at radiologyweb.a2hosted.com/SMADIE-conf #DisabilityAdvocacy #InclusiveSpaces #CreatingChange #DocsWithDisabilities
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 19/03/2025
They pulled almost $200M in DoD and HHS funding from Penn for the “offense” of allowing a trans woman athlete to compete. This administration is willing to sacrifice innovation and research to serve their obsession with people’s genitalia. Not a single Democrat should be indulging this bigotry.
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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Erasing science doesn’t make ‘undesirable’ problems go away—it makes them worse. The #NIH is terminating grants. LGBTQ+ health research is a clear target. LGBTQ+ people face stigma & violence. This research saves lives. Let’s not stay silent. Terminated grants 👇🏻 taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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