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Meghan Rosen @megrosen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Here at the Lincoln Memorial with @alexviveros.bsky.social for the #standupforscience2025 rally

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McKenzie Prillaman @meprillaman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Six fired federal employees told me and @alexviveros.bsky.social about their science-related jobs — and what the public could lose without them. We talked to people from NIH, FDA, FAA, NPS, the Forest Service, and Fish & Wildlife for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

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Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.

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McKenzie Prillaman @meprillaman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

These people's jobs are "indirect costs" on NIH grants. Here's what science and medicine could lose without them. @alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...

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Who are the indirect costs of NIH research? We talked to 3

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

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Alex Viveros @alexviveros.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Is your job, or the job of someone you know, mostly funded by indirect costs on NIH grants? If so, I’d love to chat with you for a story in @ScienceNews.bsky.social. You can DM me or email me at aviveros [at] sciencenews [dot] org. #MedSky #ChemSky

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Alex Viveros @alexviveros.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I wrote about Vertex’s suzetrigine, and the science behind developing nonopioid painkillers more generally, for my latest story @cenmag.bsky.social. This is also my final story as C&EN’s Editorial Fellow — more info about my next steps TK!

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Alex Viveros @alexviveros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Two stories in @cenmag.bsky.social this week. I spoke to James Paulson and Ian Wilson at Scripps Research about their new study in Science, which found that one mutation to the hemagglutinin protein of an H5N1 virus switched the protein’s binding specificity from avian- to human-type receptors.

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Single mutation to bird flu protein altered receptor specificity in lab

Study reports that wild-type H5N1 hemagglutinin preferentially binds avian-type receptors

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Alex Viveros @alexviveros.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’m the current Editorial Fellow at Chemical & Engineering News and a recent graduate of MIT’s science writing program. I mainly write about infectious diseases and the viruses, bacteria, and other little things that cause them. Feel free to DM me with any story ideas (or just to say hi).

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