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Liz Fisher, PhD

@gliaandcake.bsky.social
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She/her Postdoc-Temple Lab (@neuralstemcells.bsky.social) Interested in immune-vascular interactions in AD. Passionate about mentoring and glia. 💜 IPSCs/🧠/🧶/🎂/🐈

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Bhattacharya has been making the rounds following the #BethesdaDeclaration roundtable. It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see him spreading the same disinformative talking points colleagues corrected at the roundtable. federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
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NIH director talks grant terminations controversy, Bethesda Declaration, making America healthy
"We haven't yet achieved the mission of the NIH, which is research that improves the health and longevity of the American people," Jay Bhattacharya said.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2025
Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Has anyone shipped floating tissue sections before? Tips on how to do it and keep them intact? I would greatly appreciate any insights!
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Brian Calvi @briancalvi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...
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FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations
The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
So great that my Rep. Tonko stopped by to see the amazing work we do at the NSCI!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Contrary to Clear, Verifiable Facts, Secretary Kennedy Continues to Repeat Harmful Myths About Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research
The Alzheimer's Association calls on HHS Secretary Kennedy to stop dangerous fabrications about the state of Alzheimer’s and dementia research.
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Papouin Lab @ WashU @papouinlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We're new to Bsky and need your help recreating our social media network here! We are the Papouin lab @washu.bsky.social (sites.wustl.edu/papouinlab/o...). We study #astrocytes! Please repost!
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Lab Space
Our lab is located in the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building, one of the largest neuroscience buildings in the world bringing more than 1,000 researchers on 120 research teams together …
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If they proceed with this plan, it will effectively choke whatever life is left out of the health research academic community. To put it bluntly it will kill any possibility of a grant funded career doing health research in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
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NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests
NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by The Post. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’” wapo.st/44uaqzG
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DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.
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Dr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/03/2025
The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
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Nature @nature.com · 06/03/2025
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4bpG2It
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It looks like the bill posted this morning (Saturday)-to be voted on next week-will cut the BRAIN Iniitiative and All Of Us by proposing a 69% reduction in funding for the NIH Innovation Account (CURES Act) by reducing its allocation from $407 million to $127 million. rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
While my grant was not discussed, one of my reviewers commented on my demonstrated “grit and determination”, which is the best compliment I’ve received in a summary statement. Taking the small win when everything feels so crazy.
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We ❤️ stem cells!
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Black and white cat laying on its side, staring off into space. Next to the cat is part of a kicker toy, and its head is on top of a ziplock bag of catnip.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2025
"I'm really not sure what is so radically leftist about treating gonorrhea," Natalie DiCenzo, an obstetrician-gynecologist and member of Physicians for Reproductive Health, told AFP, on the removal of STI guidelines.
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Silencing science: How Trump is reshaping US public health
Medical researchers forced to compile national data by hand, silence on a major tuberculosis outbreak, and the erasure of gender references: the Trump administration has pushed the US public health sy...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 The Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025 is coming soon! 🌟 Interested in being a mentor or mentee? Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or reach out via email. Let’s build the future of #neuroscience together! 💜 #BlackInNeuroMentorship #Mentorship #PhDSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪
A dynamic flyer announcing the Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025, featuring a vibrant purple and white background. The Black in Neuro logo is positioned in the top left corner. The flyer displays "Coming Soon" with a pink microphone below it, followed by a purple box that reads "Black in Neuro Program 2025!" In the bottom left, there is text that reads "Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or contact us via email at MENTORSHIP@BLACKINNEURO.COM." To the right of the text is an arrow pointing to a QR code.
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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Resources: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo... Tell all your friends 😁
California: 255% ROITexas: 313% ROIFlorida: 304% ROIAlabama: 235% ROI
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
We have had clean drinking water too long I guess? Did people learn nothing from Oregon Trail?
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I was just talking to my family (non-scientists) about how AD is complex, and that ~maybe~ it’s more than just one disease. Cool, important work!
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neuralstemcells.bsky.social @neuralstemcells.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our hearts go out to the families, patients and caregivers affected by FTD and other neurodegenerative tauopathies. We are proud to collaborate with terrific scientists to improve understanding and advance therapies as part of the #TauConsortium. This is why we do what we do. NYT | zurl.co/hDdSP
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A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This has been such a great conference! Lots a great new ways to model human diseases and new things to think about!
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Oh hey, that’s me If you’re at the meeting, hope you get to see the cool work we’ve been doing!
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Giorgia Quadrato @giorgiaquadrato.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We're excited to share our comprehensive protocol for generating human cerebellar #organoids, addressing the many requests we've received from the scientific community! Congratulations to Alex Atamian, @marcellabirtele.bsky.social, and Negar Hosseini! rdcu.be/d13Zu @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells
Nature Protocols - Generation and long-term culture of a human pluripotent stem cell-derived human cerebellar organoid model, which successfully replicates the cellular diversity of the fetal...
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Liz Fisher, PhD @gliaandcake.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I finally made the switch! Hello 🦋! Sorry it took so long, I have a bad sense of direction…
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