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Elise Demeter

@elisedemeter.bsky.social
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Education researcher & cognitive neuroscientist using data for good at UNC Charlotte

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Illustration of the many stars we can't see with the naked eye. 🔭 🧪
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
1/7) Thoughtful article from @neuralreckoning.bsky.social here, very well worth a read! I am sympathetic to the argument, but not entirely in agreement (no surprise there, I suppose). Specifically, I take a different lesson from other large-scale science projects' successes and failures. 🧠📈 🧪
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Haunting. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thank you so much for doing that. I was thinking of dropping a note off to the person on my street, but I hadn’t gotten to it yet today! Good on you
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You can see in the map view there’s a few people in our precinct on this list
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Starting the morning strong at #SciTalk25 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My mom got the other Elise Demeter Christmas gifts off her Amazon wishlist 🫠.
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California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) @ccst.us · 25/03/2025
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My kiddo got that from Bluey too!
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Bluey Bingo GIF
ALT: Bluey Bingo GIF
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Heading back from #FASEBOnTheHill and want to share what I learned and why I think all scientists need to be setting up meetings w their reps to talk about the impacts on science of the current chaos. #AcademicSky #NeuroSky @faseborg.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social 🧪
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a man says call your senators with his hands folded
ALT: a man says call your senators with his hands folded
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have a book chapter in Meta’s AI model. I didn’t even get a copy of that book as an author 🫠
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Good mentoring is critical for early-career researchers. We can improve our mentoring skills through formal training & experience mentoring diverse individuals 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BKNP4...
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Developing faculty research mentors: Influence of experience with diverse mentees, gender, and mentorship training
Effective mentoring is crucial for early-career researchers, and formal mentor training programs have demonstrated benefits for participating faculty. To determine how mentor training generalizes t...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience Thread👇🧵
Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A needed boost for #scicomm
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A thread worth reading on NSF funding.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I still have 3 chapters left, but unless its in the final thoughts pages, we’ve got to make our own 1-2-3 step plan
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I’m almost done with this book. Useful context. Not sure what to *do* with that information though. Happy to chat if you have thoughts
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is the narrative 👇. We need to tell the stories again & again of how NIH & NSF funding benefits our neighbors. 🧪 #scicomm
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hit up the thread below folks 🧪 #scicomm
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🧪 #scicomm Way to go @flagel-lab.bsky.social!
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The moms feel this way too 😘
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🧪 #scicomm
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS from @jonathanwosen.bsky.social Cuts to indirect costs blocked by judge www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...
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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments
A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🧪 #scicomm
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Higher education is heading back to the Great Recession days. Now also featuring an enrollment cliff.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ChatGPT, please summarize the plot of Persuader.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Pup’s first snow ❄️ ❄️
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#scicomm resources from @500womensci.bsky.social
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#scicomm
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I was happy to speak as a parent at my Town Board meeting today in support of our local children’s science museum. They seek additional space to expand their exhibits & reach a broader age range. 🧪 #scicomm
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I have a neighbor, 40s, who did the voluntary early retirement route that was also pushed. His contractor job had always been remote.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Similar vibes from purple NC where we are gerrymandered red!
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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...
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Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science
The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Tillis (aka staff) wrote me back on Jan 31 to say HHS had paused external communication and that this common during presidential transitions. This reply didn’t hold up for a single day.
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Jeff Jackson @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Update: www.wcnc.com/article/news...
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North Carolina AG wins legal battle over Trump's birthright citizenship order
He joined more than 20 other attorneys general back in January to fight the ban in court.
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Marco A. Maximo Prado @maximoprado.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My group would take at least 2 people interested in neurodegeneration as post docs bsky.app/profile/maxi...
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
UNC Charlotte also became R1 today. Yay, and also, big sigh
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Candace Winstead @candacewinstead.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is outstanding!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025
I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The NSF Broadening Participation webpage has been quite gutted. There used to be articles on the left side, including indigenous initiatives... and now they are all gone. The paragraph is also smaller than it used to be.
NSF Broadening Participation in STEM webpage, there are no longer articles to the left side and the paragraph says: "A diverse and capable workforce is vital to maintaining the nation's standard of excellence in STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The U.S. National Science Foundation is committed to expanding opportunities in STEM.

We value diversity and inclusion, demonstrate integrity and excellence in our devotion to public service and prioritize innovation and collaboration in our support of the work of the scientific community and of each other.

While broadening participation in STEM is included in NSF's merit review criteria, some programs go beyond the standard review criteria. These investments — which make up NSF's Broadening Participation in STEM Portfolio — use different approaches to build STEM education and research capacity, catalyze new areas of STEM research, and develop strategic partnerships and alliances."
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social thank you for understanding the assignment. NC is a major recipient of federal research funding.
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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Today is our first day of class, would really appreciate if some of you amazing biologists would be willing to speak with my students! #iTeachBio #GeneChat #SciComm #cellbio 🧬 Here's the link to sign up again, and please check out the thread below for more details! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Interview a Biologist Project Sign-Up!
Hello cool scientist, and thanks for clicking the link to this Google Form! In my Cell Biology & Genetics introductory biology class, one of our projects is Interview a Biologist. For this project, s...
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Elise Demeter @elisedemeter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Thank you @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social for protecting North Carolinians.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
News that makes me smile: I just matched via @skypeascientist.bsky.social with a group of middle schoolers interested in psychology. I'm looking forward to our chat. If you too want to participate in this type of low-burden, uplifting! science advocacy, here's the link: www.skypeascientist.com
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SKYPE A SCIENTIST
Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Let's call this #praiseascientist. And how about the awesome work of @jopabinia.bsky.social‬ delving into the macroevolution of marine invertebrates. Her work offers profound insights into the evolutionary processes that have shaped biodiversity.
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Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments
Abstract. For much of terrestrial biodiversity, the evolutionary pathways of adaptation from marine ancestors are poorly understood and have usually been v
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Stellate Communications @stellatecomms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
PLEASE SHARE 💜 With uncertainty in federal research funding & hiring, we are offering *FREE* resume/CV reviews for early-career scientists in the US who have rescinded job offers or who risk layoffs. If you feel this support would benefit you, submit resume/CV here: forms.gle/CCbbu2X5GJwH...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread
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