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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is devastating for science and individual scientists. The k99/R00 has been such an important mechanism for diversifying our pipeline.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Application deadline is Monday, April 27 at 5pm! Apply now!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Come work with us!!! careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My lab hosted a Halloween crafting party for our research institute @impactinstitute.bsky.social yesterday. So much fun. Grateful to my team for making this happen and for everyone who showed up!!

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@impactinstitute.bsky.social is taking up to 4 postdoctoral fellows next year! Please see the flyer in the link below. If my own funding holds, I will be hiring one of the four postdocs, so if you have interests in women's health and need a postdoc, apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Writing grants is so exhausting.

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Just got an email that the NIH Early Independence award is "not going forward." This was an award that catapulted promising PhD students into faculty positions and is part of the High-Risk High-Reward grant program in the NIH Office of the Director. Deadline was 9.6.25!

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Save Health Research @savehealthresearch.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Deadline extended www.instagram.com/p/DNd-PdvyU3F/

Has your NIH grant been withdrawn, left without review, pending, or delayed?
Consider joining thousands of scientists represented in the
NIH VS. APHA case.
Deadline Monday, August 25st, 5pm EST.
@SaveHealthResearch

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

(suggests affirm, legitimize, etc.) Me: thank you - this was very helpful. ChatGPT: You’re so welcome! I’m glad it helped. If you ever need to detox other overused or loaded words (looking at you, “resilience” and “empower”), I’m always ready with a thesaurus and a mild attitude problem.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

When chatGPT just gets you: Me: What is a better word to use in this sentence than normalize? I dislike that word for various and likely obvious reasons. ChatGPT: Totally fair to dislike "normalize"—it can feel clinical, loaded, or imply that things were previously “abnormal.”

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Share the Love 😍 Have a colleague whose graphs need… help? Someone who says “I’m not a visual person”? Send them our way. Good design is teachable—and this workshop proves it. 💡 REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Why Register Now? Spots are limited—and they're going fast. If you're a public health researcher, grad student, or science communicator who wants to elevate your visuals, this is for you. REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR 🖼️📊📈

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

What’s on the agenda? ✔️ Chart design that actually communicates ✔️ Posters that get people to stop & read ✔️ Slides that make your talk shine—not sink Plus plenty of examples, tools, and time to practice. REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📣 Big Announcement! 📣 🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop! Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform how you design charts, posters, and presentations. 🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025 📍 Virtual REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR

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Annie💙&Joe💛 @annieandjoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I bought the cabinet that came in this box on December 30, 2024. So much has happened since then. Should I contact them and see if they can fix ALL THE THINGS???

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Know a public health researcher with great data and chaotic slides? Be a friend. Send them our way. 🫶📊 Please share this workshop with your networks—good design is a public health intervention. To download the pdf version of the flyer, go here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🗓️ Save the Dates: Sept 8 & 22; Oct 8 & 15 📍 Virtual!!! 📌 Registration info coming soon. 🎯 Designed for researchers, faculty, grad students, and health communicators. 🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on the email list. Elevate your visuals. Strengthen your science. Amplify your impact.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎤 Ideal for researchers, faculty, graduate students, and health communicators working across disciplines. 🧑‍🎨 No design background required — just a commitment to making your work more accessible and policy-relevant.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Whether you're prepping for a conference, grant pitch, or policy briefing — this hands-on workshop is for you. 💻No special programs needed, we will use powerpoint and excel primarily.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Taught by me(!): Assistant professor in Medical Social Sciences @nufeinbergmss.bsky.social. I'm an NIH-funded health researcher (with 5 years of graphic design experience). I teach scholars to design visuals that clarify complexity and make audiences feel (and even sometimes cry).

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This workshop will cover: 📊 Best practices for visualizing quantitative & qualitative data 🖼️ Designing academic posters for maximum engagement 🗣️ Creating presentations that enhance your message All grounded in the interaction between design principles and health equity.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎨 Calling all health researchers! Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉 💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇 🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on email list.

four half day workshop on design for academics and researchers. Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on the list to be alerted when registration starts.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New opportunity to help sustain global health research re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Sad to report, I was not transported to a "delightful escape." I am still at my desk trying to get the non-science parts of R01 #2 done. It is also very grey outside. Oh wait - I can no longer see the hotel that bears the current president's name due to FOG. Well, thank you Noosa yogurt!

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The label on my Noosa yogurt this morning promises "a delightful escape." Not sure how that is possible given [gestures to everything everywhere all at once], but am willing to try and will report back. Stay tuned.

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Bianca Albers, PhD @balbers.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We continue to look for an #ImpSci Postdoc to work with us - if you consider applying and want to have a chat first, let me know. New deadline end of May: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It is so great and unfortunately, it is only for grants that have been frozen or delayed. It isn't for those of us who have had grants terminated.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our analysis shows that, looking at just the projects terminated so far, a whopping 29% are related to HIV/AIDS and 24% to trans health. 17% are related to COVID-19.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

NIH-funded LGBT+ health work has been obliterated. This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

No wonder we get along so well!!

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tagline Options: • “First they peer-reviewed. Then they premeditated.” • “You defunded the wrong professors.” • “They’re not unstable. Just underpaid.” • “Ethics were optional.” • “They studied the human mind. Then they lost theirs.” • "If you take away their grants… they’ll take your lives."

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

• Weaponizing intelligence (and bad coping mechanisms) for chaotic good. • What we’re willing to risk to make the world better

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Themes: • The absurdity of bureaucracy and academia • The ethical gray areas of resistance and rebellion • The emotional toll of underfunded mental health care. • Queer resilience and the power (and peril) chosen family.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A story about resilience, rage, revenge—and whether a bunch of socially anxious professors can (or should) change the course of history with a silencer and a grad student budget.

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