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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈

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UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow UCSD IRACDA Fellow Bioengineer interested in 🫀regen and cultivated 🍖

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Banning words in grant applications violates the First Amendment. "NIH is systematically trying to silence research-related speech, including biomedical results that it suspects will express views the administration does not like on everything from DEI to gender identity to climate change..." 🧪
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Researchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screening
Lawsuit argues that Trump policy of purging politically sensitive terms from research projects violates free speech
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Nature Reviews Bioengineering @natrevbioeng.nature.com · 07/09/2026
Building physiologically relevant multi-organ-on-chip systems
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Building physiologically relevant multi-organ-on-chip systems
Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44222-026-00496-6Multi-organ-on-chip systems have not yet delivered the integrated models for drug development and disease modelling the field had once anticipated. As organoid-on-chip technology matures, building multi-organ-on-chip systems from a single pluripotent stem cell source, rather than assembling them from separately cultured mature tissues, could make physiological integration possible.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s not funny. It’s not clever. It’s covering up a very sick-minded man who is running this country into the ground.
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Dr. Marcus Weinman @homozygoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You never have to hand it to MAHA. You can talk about environment/health overlap issues (as the article gets at) without legitimizing RFK and his crank allies. This is the public health version of appealing to never-Trump republicans. It doesn't work. You cant out-RFK the man himself.
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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Never let an institution define your self-worth.
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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈 @canderson0402.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So my AHA fellowship was rejected because one of my documents had 0.5" margins instead of 0.75"... Of all the things I applied for... especially since the grant caps support at only 75%...which is ridiculous..this wasn't the most consequential but funding is crazy right now.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pentagon pulls Pete Hegseth’s testosterone rules hours after publication ➡️ www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/04/pent… 📷 Getty
The image contains a headline stating, "Pentagon pulls Pete Hegseth’s testosterone rules less than a day after publishing them," with a logo for PinkNews in the top right corner.
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 25/02/2026
Sticky memories of an activated #macrophage. Luca Frosio and Renato Ostuni @ostunilab.bsky.social @unisr.bsky.social discuss new findings by Gorin et al. (rupress.org/jem/article/...) in Insights: rupress.org/jem/article/... #InnateImmunity #inflammation
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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈 @canderson0402.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Just saw my LRP application was moved to NIAD... which has nothing to do with what my proposal deals with. I study heart regeneration but use macrophages in my models. Outside the one cell type there's no overlap with that ICs mission. I'm wondering why I didn't get NHLBI as requested.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/01/2026
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ah, the joys of AI. This is why we can't have nice things.... blog.arxiv.org/2026/01/21/a...
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈 @canderson0402.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
'Heated Rivalry' actor Harrison Browne has called out USA hockey after it announced a new policy which essentially bans trans athletes from competing.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈 @canderson0402.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
At my first Gordon Research Conference! 🧠🍽️ Coming to cultivated meat from cardiac tissue engineering & mechanobiology—interested in how form–function relationships in living muscle translate when the endpoint is flavor, texture, and nutrition. #ScienceBluesky #CultivatedMeat #FutureFoods
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025
9. Lawsuits like this one change the legal calculus. They make clear that discrimination is not the risk-free option hospitals hoped it would be, and that transgender patients will not quietly disappear when care is taken from them.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025
1. Earlier this year, Yale and CCMC capitulated to the Trump administration and ended care for trans youth. Now, 10 families are suing them for violating state law. Hospitals cannot be made to believe throwing trans people under the bus is risk free. Our latest story.
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Families Bring Legal Challenge Against Yale, CCMC For Capitulating To Trump On Trans Youth Care
Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children's Medical Center abruptly ended care for transgender people earlier this year.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025
1. Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride railed agianst GOP attacks on transgender people and incoming bills today, joined by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson. "They are obsessed with transgender people." Read my latest, watch the video here, and subscribe to support our journalism.
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“They Are Obsessed With Trans People:” Rep. Sarah McBride Rails Against GOP’s Upcoming Anti-Trans Votes
Rep. McBride joined Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Johnson in a speech against a felony national trans youth healthcare ban expected to be heard in Congress today.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
the irony of going after higher ed for "ideological litmus tests" (aka diversity statements) with their own ideological compact the hypocrisy is truly the point
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18/10/2025
AOC reassures trans kids, “You are fine just the way you are!” - buff.ly/iWGskqa
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Americans and allies abroad: there are many international protests organized. Check out the website and RSVP! I’ll be at the Bastille (*chef’s kiss* for the location) on Saturday! Want to join me for this No Kings event? mobilize.us/s/ESsRoo
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NO KINGS PARIS · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** On October 18, join Indivisible Paris and other participating American groups as we say once again NO KINGS, at Place de la Bastille from 3-5PM CE...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“we talk so much about what...white people are losing when they enter in those coalitions. And we don't have a clear sense of what they gain, which I have just always argued is, well, you get more humanity." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on Nostalgia, Belonging, and Why Calling Trump an “Idiot” Misses the Point
Podcast Episode · The Hometown Holler · 10/06/2025 · 1h 9m
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/10/2025
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mother Linda Robinson, who lost her son to gay conversion therapy, has given a heartbreaking warning against reversing a ban preventing the widely criticised and discredited practice. Read more: bit.ly/48mVipT
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Nature Reviews Bioengineering @natrevbioeng.nature.com · 13/10/2025
Synthetic mechanotransduction
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Synthetic mechanotransduction
Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s44222-025-00366-7Cells convert mechanical forces into biochemical signals through mechanotransduction, a process which can now be synthetically engineered. In this Review, we examine engineered artificial mechanotransduction mechanisms, from gene circuits responsive to mechanical cues to synthetic force-generating systems that reshape tissue behaviour and cellular function.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Trans swimmer is latest public figure to be targeted with false anti-LGBTQ+ quotes on social media
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Trans swimmer is latest public figure to be targeted with fake anti-LGBTQ+ quotes
Swimming Australia has shut down fake anti-LGBTQ+ quotes attributed to Mollie O’Callaghan about trans athlete Lia Thomas.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New anti-DEI Meta AI advisor Robby Starbuck accused of ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
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New anti-DEI Meta AI advisor accused of ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
Right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck, who serves as Meta’s AI advisor, has been accused of “peddling lies and pushing extremism.”
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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/09/2025
A novel immunotherapy strategy using in vivo generation of engineered CAR T cells can reduce fibrosis and restore cardiac function in a mouse model of heart failure, a 2022 Science study reports. Learn more on #WorldHeartDay: scim.ag/3IiFJ8h
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T cells to fix a broken heart
In vivo engineered T cells provide a promising approach to treat cardiac diseases
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“It has also caused concern in the LGBTQ+ community, particularly among trans people who have questioned whether the IDs will contain information outing them.” Digital ID will be challenging to implement, is unnecessary and may endanger minorities. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/26/d...
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UK government's new digital IDs scheme causes concern among trans community
The UK government's new digital IDs scheme has caused concern among trans people over the impact it could have on their privacy.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2025
In the 1950s, Alabama went after Civil rights lawyers in the NAACP for challenging segregation. Now they're going after trans lawyers for challenging anti trans laws. Nothing ever changes.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Also, I know it is a small point in the overall march towards fascism, but the idea that gender is performative and a spectrum is backed by science. The *actual* “gender ideology” is being imposed by the folks who insist, against fact and reason, on a strict binary.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Seen on a map board around Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.
A sign pinned to a board that says: Please Jesus, Protect me from your followers.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A genocide prevention organisation is calling on the UN to revoke the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) top-grade status because of what they see as an attempt to ‘erase’ trans people.
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UN urged to downgrade EHRC over trans policies
An international genocide prevention group has urged the UN to consider downgrading the EHRC over claims it has violated the Paris Principles.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sabrina Carpenter has continued her campaign of pop perfection with a performance of ‘Tears’ at the 2025 VMA Awards that featured RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni and placards fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Sabrina Carpenter stages trans rights protest in VMA performance
Sabrina Carpenter's performance of 'Tears' at the 2025 VMA Awards featured RuPaul's Drag Race alumni and placards fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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QKI ensures splicing fidelity during cardiogenesis by engaging the U6 tri-snRNP to activate splicing at weak 5ʹ splice sites
During organogenesis, precise pre-mRNA splicing is essential to assemble tissue architecture. Many developmentally essential exons bear weak 5'splice sites (5'SS) yet are spliced with high precision, ...
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Chris Anderson, PhD. 🏳️‍🌈 @canderson0402.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
So I just found out BMES this year is literally in front of my old apartment this year. Too late to try and present... So that sucks.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
If you’re all in on Newsom, you haven’t been paying attention to what he’s actually done in California. Do better!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
I need the 2020s US Democrats to stop reminding me all the time of the 1933 German Social Democrats
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
Imagine getting elected to office to represent your constituents and then signing over your personal rights to fascists who will jail you if you do your job representing the interests of your constituents
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
Annnd it needs to be said out loud that the fact that she’s the only one means that besides the Latina legislator who has refused to come back to TX, all their colleagues signed little fascist forms agreeing to be escorted by police who are basically their Texas house arrest prison guards
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2025
If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
So fucking pissed that she pulled back on this “I want to be clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told JNS. www.jns.org/no-2-house-d...
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No. 2 House Democrat clarifies comment about Gaza ‘genocide’
“I want to be clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told JNS.
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Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.
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