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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D.

@drsnowflack.bsky.social
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Sr. Director of Education @edvotek. she/her. Mom x2, spouse, educator, molecular biologist, tired. Proud @muhlenbergcollege @princeton alum. Posts are mine and probably random AF.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 8h
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 11h
It’s like this guy wished on a monkeys paw to be the exact opposite of JK Rowling
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems low.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Earlier this year the scientific community successfully fought back on dramatic changes in Federal funding proposed by the Trump Administration.Now another RFI is proposing substantial changes that would damage peer review. This letter from SDB President Helen McNeill lays out the issue clearly 1/n
Dear SDB Members,
 
I am writing you now to ask everyone to respond to a proposed change to the way that grant review information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is communicated to grant applicants, institutions, and NIH program staff. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on the process that selects our grants for funding.
 
The proposed change means that individuals, institutes and NIH staff will no longer receive the final overall impact score or percentile score that reflects the scientific opinion of a panel of experts. Currently, three reviewers provide their detailed opinion of a grant, and then the entire panel asks questions, can examine figures, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a grant, and then members all independently score. The final overall impact score reflects this discussion and careful consideration of the entire scientific panel.
 
The proposed change is to now simply divide the scored grants into three categories: Scored applications would be grouped into three broad categories - “Most Competitive (top 25%),” “Competitive (26%-50%),” and “Not Discussed”. The motivation for the change is that decisions would now focus on the comments of reviewers, not the score of the grant to determine which grants to support. However, the current mechanism allows for scores and comments to be considered. Thus, removing the score component from NIH staff makes selection of which grants to fund more burdensome for NIH staff.The loss of detailed scores will also make it more difficult for researchers to assess how competitive an application was and determine whether to revise and resubmit it. An application ranked top 2% and one ranked 24th% would receive the same label, even if the scientific panel viewed them quite differently. Meanwhile, applications ranked 25th%and 26th% would be placed in different categories because of a tiny difference that NIH itself says should not be treated as meaningful. The proposal would erase potentially important differences while creating arbitrary new dividing lines.
 
This is a dramatic loss of transparency in the scientific review process. Under the new plan, principal investigator(s), applicant institutions, NIH program staff, ICO leadership, and the relevant NIH Advisory Council will no longer have access to the final overall score.
 
NIH is explicitly asking for input on this particular question.
 
This is a Request for Information (RFI), not simply an announcement of a policy that has already been finalized. NIH says comments will be used to inform the final recommendation, including implementation and communication.
 
Please comment here: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6a2b1c22c3fcfda46e0badd2
 
Deadline for response receipt is October 13, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For years, 💀MorphoSource💀 has given researchers, educators, and students 🚨free access🚨 to 3D data on museum specimens from around the world. 🔆Now it is asking for some help to continue its work🔆 www.morphosource.org/donate/
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Why Give | Support MorphoSource
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is gutting. Sternberg is one of the most important paleontology museums in the country. MUSEUMS SHOULD BE LAST ON THE LIST TO CLOSE, NOT FIRST. What kind of world do we want to live in? Because running the country -- and universities -- like businesses and not a public good is what got us here.
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Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com · 05/10/2026
There’s an update at the link that if the museum can raise enough money, they can stay open for another year. Click the link in the OP to learn more or donate here: foundation.fhsu.edu/save-sternbe...
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Save Sternberg - Fort Hays State University Foundation
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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everyone should read this. substack.com/@designmom/n...
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From the Mother of a Cornell Student Who was Drugged
A long time reader reached out with this letter
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 05/10/2026
Employers don’t care about your PhD Dear Reader, Employers don't care about your PhD. Let's talk about that. Consider these two different (simplified) perspectives on hiring: Your perspective: "I spent years earning this degree. It represents expertise, effort, accomplishment, and a huge chunk of…
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Employers don’t care about your PhD
Dear Reader, Employers don't care about your PhD. Let's talk about that. Consider these two different (simplified) perspectives on hiring: Your perspective: "I spent years earning this degree. It represents expertise, effort, accomplishment, and a huge chunk of my professional life. I want that to matter." The employer's perspective: "I have a thing that needs doing. Who seems most likely to be able to do it?" Both parties are looking at the same hiring decision from completely different...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Dennis Hastert had still been alive
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the fifth day of the public losing access to The Academy of Natural Sciences. We can change that. save-the-academy.org youtu.be/v-R1t4YlYJ8?...
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I likely ate a few fruit flies over the years... though not on purpose!
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 NEW @jenashleywright.bsky.social BOOK AND IT’S CALLED ‘MONSTER FUCKERS’ THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026
Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth theonion.com/womans-career-dies-in-…
Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth
Mother’s Livelihood ‘Gone Before Its Time,’ Family Says
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fun story: the treasurer for Brenda Diaz’s campaign is one of the plaintiffs in Mahmoud v. Taylor. That’s right! Brenda hangs out with the people who sued MCPS over books with LGBTQ+ themes. And she wants to oversee our schools? Nope. Vote for Omar Lazo!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My kid got his knee stuck in a fence like this one time, we were able to spread the bars and lotion his leg well enough to squeeze it oout lolol
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The position isn’t live yet but we need a GMP director for personalized scale RNA therapeutics manufacturing. If you’re in NC and have relevant industry experience, let’s talk!
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(I do not.)
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Local Next door thinks she will win 😐
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Has your school connected with a scientist yet this year? Skype a Scientist offers free connections with scientists for virtual Q&As with classrooms, libraries, clubs, and more! Sign up for a match at www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 🖼️ by @hanfranstudio.bsky.social
A goofy school of fish in a science class swim while dropping green liquid that says let’s talk science in school
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OPERATION: ALBATROSS is off to a roaring start.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yay!
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Freda Kreier (she/her) @fredakreier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧪I know people with endo, and it *sucks.* In my latest for @nature.com, new research in mice suggests that a nanocarrier-version of tapeworm medication could help treat endo in the future. But there is a looooooong way to go before clinical tials #endomitriosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The ‘missed disease’ that affects 190 million: endometriosis drug shows early promise
Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Moth mural is happening now!! So excited to see this project come to life oh. my. GOD.
a cercropia moth has been painted in, the luna moth not yet, on a park building in a city park
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎯
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
is there a faculty member from University of Washington Chemistry here? if so, please DM
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way I absolutely *hate* that I have to tell students I am a mandatory reporter when this happens. I understand why I have to disclose this, but it breaks my heart.
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Lucky Earther @reedjam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking about how there was no women's distance running in the Olympics until 1984.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
The rumors continue that Hawkeye will be be in the Avengers: Doomsday movie.
Parody of Avengers Doomsday poster which now features Iowa Hawkeyes logo
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again, a college newspaper is leading the way for transparency and ethics. Give those Cornell student journalists a Pulitzer.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...
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Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 29/09/2026
DC folks, If you can spare something, or just share ⬇️
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back in NoMA & Union Station this weekend! Saw lots folks, passed out hygiene kits, Narcan, snacks, electrolyte packs, & water. DC is getting cold & we’ll start bringing cold weather gear soon. Help us keep rolling & stock up! CashApp: $RemoraHouseDC & more ways to donate linked in our bio!
A rolling cart with a hand painted sign hanging from it that says “remora house dc mutual aid” is filled with distro supplies and sits in front of a metal sculpture in a small park.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Best wishes for a safe and healthy child birth!
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My must haves were an extra long cell phone charger cord and chapstick.
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The NY Times Asked 30 Researchers (Two-Thirds Who Had Never Taught In A K-12 Classroom) How To Improve Schools. Here Are My 12 Different Low-Cost Suggestions larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/09/29/t...
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The NY Times Asked 30 Researchers (Two-Thirds Who Had Never Taught In A K-12 Classroom) How To Improve Schools. Here Are My 12 Different Low-Cost Suggestions
I’ve got nothing against most university professors, and count several as friends.  I have learned much from some of them, and continue to do so. However, my mind was a big boggled whe…
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We took the protest to an event where we knew the Drexel board would be tonight and I blasted a bullhorn directly into the door crack of the gathering, disrupting the event 💅 Drexel President Anthony Merlo was supposed to be there but a person slipped to us that he canceled 👀 gosh I wonder why.
Sarah is smug as fuck on public transportation
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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rarely is the question asked: can our Senators literally teach anyone how to BUDget? I'm not one to get fixated on the deficit, but c'mon.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it because they couldn't imagine a man at a women's college basketball game?
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