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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Beautiful sunrise in Havre de Grace

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Sara Carioscia @saracarioscia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm defending my PhD next Friday, May 23!(!!!!). I'll be highlighting our work looking at aneuploidy in early human development. If you're interested I'd love to have you join via Zoom (DM me for info) or on the Homewood campus!

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is so depressing. As a former F31 recipient, these grants are so important for training scientists. And behind that flat line are thousands of grad students who worked tirelessly to put together a competitive submission that now isn’t being reviewed or awarded for reasons beyond their control

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Very excited to share (most of) my PhD work, in which we use human retinal organoids to understand how thyroid hormone signaling is regulated in the developing retina to promote robust and accurate photoreceptor subtype specification. Turns out, it's a lot more complicated than we expected. 1/n

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos

Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Just a normal Wednesday at Johns Hopkins, where it's 56 degrees with a chilly breeze.....inside. 🙃

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Current Baltimore vibes ☺️ the wind knocked out my power. Maybe a good excuse to disconnect for an evening instead of doom scrolling. Thankful for my backlit kindle 😅

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Glad I spent the last ~6.5 years earning my PhD in biology to enter this shit show. If I’d have known we were killing science I’d have gone into a safer field like coal mining

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.

Scientific research is a driving force behind human progress. It fuels medical breakthroughs, spurs technological innovations and drives economic growth. Federal funding of research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is absolutely critical for ensuring that the U.S. maintains its global leadership in science and technology.
The unprecedented freeze on the review and issuance of federal research grants is already negatively impacting research and could have significant ripple effects. Ongoing studies may lose momentum if grant renewals or supplement requests are delayed, slowing scientific progress on research the NIH has already invested in. Researchers affiliated with the Society for Developmental Biology carry out critical research on birth defects, which kill twice as many children as cancer does. Slowed progress will delay the development of new therapies and diagnostics, and thus have real public health implications. In 2019, the total estimated cost of birth defect–associated hospitalizations was $22.2 billion.
Scientific research is also critical to the U.S. economy more broadly. In 2023 alone NIH funded research not only directly supported 412 thousand jobs, but its overall economic impact rippled out to all sectors of the economy driving more than $92.89 billion in economic activity across all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. It is estimated that every dollar of NIH funding generates $2.46 dollars of economic activity.
Finally, federal research funding not only drives impactful research discoveries but also supports the training of the scientists, engineers, and innovators of the future. University laboratories, funded by federal grants, serve as essential training grounds for the next generation of researchers even as they push the boundaries of knowledge. This training prepares young scientists for leadership roles in both academia and industry, helping to ensure that the scientific workforce r…

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Can anyone help me identify this savory snack (Indian)? I need to buy about 10lbs of it ASAP and Google isn’t helping

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Christina McNerney @christ3na.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

WFH is great until you lose track of your coffee intake and find yourself 6 espressos deep at 2pm with a resting heart rate over 100

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Retinal ganglion cell-derived semaphorin 6A segregates starburst amacrine cell dendritic scaffolds to organize the mouse inner retina Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Rebecca James, Alex Kolodkin (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) and colleagues: buff.ly/3Zk5Uj1

Figure 2 (A) Model of predicted isoneuronal ON-SAC Sema6A–PlexA2 signaling and observed SAC morphological phenotypes. (B) tdTomato-labeled SACs. Control, Sema6a+/+.

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