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Katie Wilkinson

@drkwilkinson.bsky.social
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Neurophysiologist | wilkinsonneuro.com | Past Chair of the American Physiological Society's Science Policy Committee | she/hers

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 6h
The changes to peer review reporting proposed by the NIH could limit transparency and weaken scientific judgment in funding decisions. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in speaking up for science. Submit a public comment by October 13. 🔗 vist.ly/5kfud #neurosky #neuroskyence
Advocacy Action Alert, Make your voice heard.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If these stories feel incessant, and overwhelming… it is because they are. These stories are a drumbeat, telling you, telling America, telling the world that our government is being destroyed. This is indistinguishable from a foreign attack on our country. But the attack is coming from within.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LMAO gotta love peer review: ”But outside experts said that the Anthropic researchers have yet to do the research required to confirm that they’ve found something new.” 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery. (Gift Article)
Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@djphysicswebb.bsky.social, Mary Chessey and I have a newly accepted paper on uncollected test item responses on open-ended physics exam questions! Blank responses on exams are missing data, not measurements of physics knowledge or skills. Read on for details... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.05473
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Missing Data on Physics Exams: Demographic Patterns, Course-Level Predictions, and Implications for Equity
In a previous quantitative retrospective study we showed that different demographic groups of students leave different numbers of problems blank on physics exams, leading to inequities in course outco...
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Action Alert: Write to Your Lawmakers About the Proposed OMB Grants Rule www.congressweb.com/AIBS/9?frame...
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Action Alert: Write to Your Lawmakers About the Proposed OMB Grants Rule
The public comment period on the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-...
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Federal judge hits pause on Trump admin's plan to limit visa length for grad students & postdocs on the day before the policy was supposed to go into effect this quote, from the temporary ruling, is quite something (from a George W. Bush appointee, I will add)
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/09/2026
“Who owns academic materials used to develop AI systems? Can algorithmic analysis influence faculty evaluations? If AI makes academic work faster, who benefits from the time saved? If supervising AI creates new work, where does that labour appear in workload calculations?”
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have been showing this video in Intro Bio for the last 9 or 10 yrs to many gasps. Then follow it up with the Beatrice the Biologist cartoon.
Two-panel comic strip uses Halloween humor to explain antibiotic resistance, with warm orange-and-yellow backgrounds and speech bubbles. A child dressed as an unfinished course of antibiotics confronts a gray ghostlike figure, then threatens to lead it to antibiotic resistance; caption notes Beatrice never gets invited to Halloween parties.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love that a key insight here is that preserving some proprioception/sense of limb position w better amputation procedures is necessary for more natural movements. This also allows people to feel like the prosthetic limb is part of their body and decreases phantom limb pain.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12/09/2026
An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!
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Rebecca @rebeccakell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've been arguing that the left should pitch their morally superior policies as economically superior policies. They're almost always both. SNAP generates $1.54 in GDP per $. Head Start is $4. NIH is $2.5. Free Child Care $4.25.
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was in college in Pgh at the time and my roommate’s Arabic class had a police escort for the rest of the semester due to threats and pretty much every non-white friend was harassed on the street. Also greeted by armed police leaving my dorm and told to run down the street bc of an anthrax threat.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
THIS It's incredible and I do truly believe that given time and freedom to do so, trans medicine will lead to even bigger advances that will help trans AND cis people alike, and yet!
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
DoD has its own research agency DARPA, which receives -5 billion in funding. A ten year contract to shift NIH funds to DoD is simply a budget cut to NIH. It’s also another example of how this Admin does policymaking by other means.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2026
Not The Onion.
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We all know this inevitably ends with “agent just makes up data for months after instrument breaks and no-one notices”, right?
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When California faced reductions in herd immunity because of decreased vaccination rates, modifying state law to limit vaccine exemptions was the correct response. Want access to public services? People need to uphold and contribute to public health and safety
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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yesterday KDKA-TV reported on a study Penn State researchers are running with Aliquippa's HS football team, using high-tech mouthguards to track how often these kids take hits to the head. Pilot results last season: 160+ times.
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How high-tech mouthguards at Aliquippa High School are gathering data about head impacts in football
At Aliquippa High School, a Penn State University researcher is studying head impacts to keep players safer.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Instead of spending money on the tech that steals our work, makes our students dumber and serves no purpose at all, they could instead use it to hire more actual instructors.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.
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Jamie @late2stuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is such a disturbing article but also a potent reminder that Gajdusek’s extractive and racist approach to advancing science, producing so much harm to the people and communities of Papua New Guinea and to the boys he brought to America and abused, were what DEI in science was meant to confront
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“the idea that any numeric score would be generated and then not shared with the people who would find it most useful (i.e. the people making the funding decisions and the people who wrote the application and need to decide whether to revise and resubmit it) is ludicrous.”
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit] Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black? Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%" Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Would Newton be able to submit his travel receipts for reimbursement through Concur?
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Another devastating blow to American science as an ecosystem drawing in brilliant people from everywhere in the world
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The President of the United States is going to kill people
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Neuronline (SfN) @neuronline.sfn.org · 06/08/2026
What new roles can sodium channels play in the peripheral nervous system? Catch up with Theanne Griffith, PhD, NSP Alum, as she shares her latest research in this webinar. ▶️ Watch now on Neuronline: vist.ly/5dush
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NSP Webinars 2025-2026
pThe Neuroscience Scholars Program is a two-year training program open to underrepresented graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Building on 40 years of historic engagement, the program supports annual travel awards, mentoring, and the professional development of NSP Fellows and Associates./ppAll materials available in this archive are provided open access to the field and are supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The contents of this series are solely the responsibility of the Society for Neuroscience and do not necessarily reflect the official views of NINDS./ppLearn more about the a href="~/link.aspx?_id=D1B6D6C814B3433EB713D996E2A30E90&_z=z"Neuroscience Scholars Program/a./ppstrongProgram Year 2025–2026/strong/p
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Worth a read. “Viruses can’t be punished; people can. Attributing the pandemic to fate or random chance isn’t all that satisfying; a lot of people need a villain, even if, in this case, the villain is one of the men who helped end the pandemic that was ravaging the world.” 🧪 archive.today/FcsNx
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Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci
In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A scientist who just lost her grant cuts straight to the heart of it: “Requiring that NIH only fund work leading directly to a drug or other biomedical intervention… would rule out much basic research funded by the agency.” It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Neutrality is impossible. Being neutral favors the existing power structure. Being neutral undermines the rights of those who are weaker. All science has applied effects that have political consequences. We have obligations to acknowledge and teach about those. Hope my Vandy friends are ok.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Sooner or later, elite schools are going to realize that an analog education carries more prestige than an AI-assisted one & will retool their curricula..to reflect that prejudice. This has .. already happened with screens in elementary and secondary education” hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
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Artificial Negligence
Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.
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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New CBO paper: every $1 of federal R&D returns ~$3–$4 of GDP in present value over 30 years www.nber.org/papers/w35472
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bingo card on fire. "Panda told him it would be career 'suicide' if lab members didn’t go along with his official story." "The lab 'really feels like a family,' she says." "$220 million grant from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, of which he is the director, "
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Senator Chris Coons @coons.senate.gov · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...
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What to know about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness hitting the U.S.
A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and fatigue has been detected in 34 states. Here's how what to do if you suspect you have it and how to avoid infection.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not just research and science. ALL federal grantmaking (think: education, transportation, parks, water infrastructure, healthcare, public health practice), which undergirds state & local economies and is factored into credit agencies' assessments of governments' creditworthiness.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12/07/2026
CA leads the nation in scientific advancements & cutting-edge research. White House Office of Management and Budget new proposed rule puts all this in jeopardy & makes way for politically motivated decisions that serve the President over science.   They must rescind this rule immediately.
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NEWS: As California Leads Nation in Scientific Advancements, Schiff, Lofgren, 42 Colleagues Urge OMB to Rescind Politicized Rule on Federal Grants
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18), and 42 members of the California congressional delegation are demanding the Office of Management...
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