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Dr. Jaye Gardiner

@jayeperview.bsky.social
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Scientist| Illustrator| Co-founder @jkxcomics.bsky.social| Absurdity at its finest| The Gardiner of @thegardinerlab.bsky.social | she/her 👩🏾‍🔬 www.jayegardiner.com 🎨 www.jkxcomics.com 🧪 www.gardinerlab.science

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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An article was written up about me and my research for the Tufts newspaper! Check it out here: now.tufts.edu/2026/09/10/l...
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The lab was finally up and running this summer but I think what’s even more exciting was seeing my amazing undergrads Rori and Kira absolutely knock their first public presentations (to an overly packed room) out of the park!
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 25/08/2026
We are doing a super mega pin clearance sale to make room (and funds) to create new stuff for SfN! Help us out by snagging some pin blind boxes, basically 70% off full price! Twophotonart.com
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Two Photon Art
From fun science enamel pins and patches to colorful zines explaining scientific concepts, we like to explore a multitude of science communication avenues and make them worth coveting!
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's the flyer for the New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics & Healthcare event @redemmas.org!! So glad to have Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine featured among such a stellar lineup. If you're in Baltimore this Saturday 7/25, please join us!
New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics & Healthcare flyer. 
Come join a conversation with authors of recent books about comics and health!
Including:
MK Czerwiec's LB & Me
Maia Kebab & Swati "Lucky" Srikumar's Opting Out
Lisa Diedrich & Briana Martino's edited collection Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
Elly Teman & Zsuzsa Berend's A Tale of Two Surrogates
A. David Lewis's Body Soul Comics
Sydney Halpern & Trygve Faste's Infected by Science
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs & Lilly Williams's Pregnancy & Birth: A Graphic Guide
Grace Farris's See One, Do One, Teach One

Saturday, July 25, 2026
7:00-8:30 pm
Red Emma's Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Baltimore, MD

Under Pressure: Graphic Medicine 2026 Conference
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Whoo! Go @beatascienceart.bsky.social!
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Astrid Meyer-Knutsen @astridmeyerknutsen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Intriguing podcast with biologist @jayeperview.bsky.social on how viruses can create conditions for tumor growth and that we should broaden our view of common viruses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBo...
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How common viruses could quietly raise your cancer risk | Science Quickly Podcast
YouTube video by Scientific American
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Jeanna Bryner @jeanna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I had the honor of speaking with one of SciAm’s #SciAmYoungScientists, Jaye Gardiner @thegardinerlab.bsky.social. I was struck by Jaye’s enthusiasm for research and the genuine care she has for her students. Her love of science goes back to high school chemistry. @sciam.bsky.social
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Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The whole issue is amazing, and the folks I got to meet in Boston were so brilliant and passionate about what they do. Also: we inevitably ended up just trading stories about funding cuts. Everyone is hurting, but it did make me feel a little less alone. www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...
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Scientific American Volume 335, Issue 1
"America’s compact between science and politics is broken", "These young scientists are on our radar", "Craig Venter" and more
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Fun news! I was named one of the inaugural #SciAmYoungAmericanScientists! Thank you to whoever nominated me - I’m excited for the research ahead in @thegardinerlab.bsky.social and working with my stellar students!
Black square with Scientific American written across the top in white capital letters. Underneath in a robin’s egg blue reads “Young American Scientists”. A squiggly white arrow separates this text and 2026 written in the same blue color.Stylized illustrated photo (bust up) of Jaye Gardiner (me) - a Black woman with a silver lip ring wearing dark green glasses. The style of the illustration turned my curly hair into a cascade of triangles
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It's Leading Edge Fellow day!!! This day fills me with joy and inspiration. This cohort holds a special place in my heart because it is named for Zara Weinberg, a beloved Leading Edge Fellow who was a visionary scientist and fierce advocate for building a better scientific ecosystem
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If you’re looking for stellar candidates for your tenure-track faculty search or fantastic seminar speakers, check out the @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social fellows! 👇🏾
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I was delighted to join @scottmccloud.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social & @reimenayee.com yesterday for an absolutely invigorating conversation on comics & education! Appreciate the good folks @cartoonist.coop for hosting & making the recording available! Listen here! www.youtube.com/live/gymwh40...
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The Study of Comics in Academia (Understanding Comics)
YouTube video by Cartoonists United
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Eugene Manley, Jr., PhD @dreugenemanleyjr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Representation matters, but representation is not power. If your diversity efforts stop at panels and photos, you are performing diversity, not building it.
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The Gardiner Lab @thegardinerlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
And just like that, the first semester of the lab is complete! 🥳 Got to work with these two fabulous undergrads, Kira (left) and Rori (right) and am super pumped to physically do the science they wrote their papers on next semester! Happy holidays to all! - JCG
Photo of three people having lunch together. On the left is Kira Yoshida and right is Rori Childers, two stellar undergrads at Tufts. In the middle is Jaye Gardiner dressed festively wearing a reindeer antler headband and red blazer.
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My tenth ASCB/ Cell Bio meeting; my first meeting as a PI. I love the amazing community I have and am so excited for our new and future labs 🥰 Until next time! #CellBio2025
Group of people (all scientists, all faculty) smiling for a photo (left to right): Adelita Mendoza, Jaye Gardiner, Tigist Tamir, Mary Munson, Chantell Evans, Cornelius Taabazuing, Donita Brady, Christie Towers, and Krishna MudumbiPhoto of several Leading Edge fellows (all women scientists) smiling for a group photo (left to right): Dr. Jaye Gardiner, Dr. Joan Pulupa, Dr. Ally Nguyen, Dr. Melissa Pamula, Dr. Tina Termini, Dr. Ewa Bomba-Warzcak, and Dr. Tigist TamirGroup photo of MOSAIC K99 fellows, the MOSAIC program organizer, and the co-directors of the ASCB MOSAIC Program. List of people in the photo (attempted left to right but folks are bunched):

Front row: Tigist Tamir, Erica Rodriguez, Jaye Gardiner

Middle row: Ewa Bomba-Warzcak, Jennifer Landino, Adelita Mendoza, Durre Muhammad, Leah Gates, Joan Pulupa, Evan Ratzan, Laura Newman, Kalynda Gonzales Stokes

Back row: Mike Boyce, Karl-Frederic Vieux, Mary Munson, Chrystal StarbirdPhoto of Leading Edge fellows (all women scientists many leading their own labs) around a candlelit table for dinner (left to right): Dr. Meghna Gupta, Dr. Tina Termini, Dr. Rebecca Adikes, Dr. Melissa Pamula, Dr. Lexy von Diezman , Dr. Ally Nguyen, Dr. Jaye Gardiner, Dr. Amelie Raz, and Dr. Joan Pulupa
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Article out by @statnews.com profiling the terminated MOSAIC K99 program even though the goals fulfilled what the NIH says are their priorities: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
Screenshot of CellBio app. It reads:

Spotlight: What’s next: Cell Biology from ASCB MOSAIC Program Alumni

Location: 116
Date: Monday Dec 8 5:30PM
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

In this session, six alumni of the ASCB MOSAIC Program (AMP) will present their latest research on a range of cell biology topics. The goal of the NIH-funded MOSAIC program, now concluded, was to diversify the tenure track faculty at research-intensive universities nationwide. AMP alumni are leaders in both their subfields of cell biology and in advancing equity and inclusion in the academic biosciences. Learning objectives include gaining new knowledge of cutting-edge cell biology research and networking with rising-star speakers.
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Panel 1 at #CellBio2025 done! (And forgot to mention I was on a panel - whoops) Thanks Mike Boyce and Monica Quiones-Frias for the invite and the 100+ people in attendance asking questions about the transition to independence. Was very fun being on a panel with my friends in academia and industry!
Group of 7 people smiling for a photo. From left to right the people are: Dr. Michael Boyce, Dr. Porsha Howell, Dr. Jaye Gardiner, Dr. Jennifer Landino, Dr. Joan Pulupa, Dr. Christine Vazquez, and Dr. Monica Quiones-Frias
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Powerful words from Dr. Bryan Dewsbury (@dewsbury.bsky.social) from the #CellBio2025 Education keynote: “When I stand in front of a classroom, I tell students that I am interested in being more than their destination to a final grade”
Picture of a man (Dr. Bryan Dewsbury) standing in front standing in front of a projected PowerPoint slide with the title “Education and Democracy: Making civic behaviors explicit in STEM courses)
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
First science session of #CellBio2025! 🧫🧪 Co-organized by @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and @abbybuch.bsky.social on the importance of the physiological context on studying cell biology. As a big fan of the ECM, I couldn’t agree more!
Photo of a PowerPoint slide that reads: “what is ‘physiological cell biology’?”

Underneath is a depiction of (left to right) gears, gears in a cell, a highlighted green cell in a liver. The corresponding words above it say molecular function <-> cellular organization <-> organismal contextPhoto of a PowerPoint slide that reads “traders between simplicity and fidelity in cell biology”

Underneath is a graph with simplicity on the X-axis and fidelity on y-axis. 4 points are within this space: 2D cell culture is high simplicity low fidelity, unicellular eukaryotes are high simplicity high fidelity, mammals are low simplicity high fidelity, and 3D cell culture is mid simplicity mid fidelity
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Packed room for the opening mentoring keynote by Maggie Werner Washburne talking about the importance of imagination in science and persistence #CellBio2025
Photo of a full audience of 100+ people listening to Dr. Maggie Werner Washburne who’s at the lectern. A PowerPoint slide is projected with a photo of students and on it is written:

“Imagination:

Principles:
* Know your heart
* Look for the positive or the blessing in everything
* Embrace who you are and bring it to the table
* Show gratitude/finish well”
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What’s up Philly?! It’s been 5 months but I’m back! Ready for @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025
A blurry, uncentered, and slightly askant photo of the Philadelphia skyline taken from a moving car
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
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Edna Cukierman - Tumor Microenvironment @tme-caf-ecm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is how to kick a talk out of the game park! A true #HomeRunTalk by @jayeperview.bsky.social at the selected talks from posters closing the #AACRPan25 @theaacr.bsky.social meeting First talk out of her own lab @thegardinerlab.bsky.social #Proudisima to have played a small role 😎💜
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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Amazing talk by Dr Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social new PI at Tufts University, on the biology of ECM/CAFs in pancreatic cancer. I’m so proud of you, Jaye!
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Injecting some joy in the skyline - today was my first day as an assistant professor! 😊
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Madeleine Oudin @madeleineoudin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
BME UNITE @bmeunite.bsky.social is launching Year 5 of our Future Faculty Program! BME Faculty candidates from marginalized groups on the job market - apply here by July 11th to present your work and receive mentorship to successfully navigate the academic job market: forms.gle/sVto2GRQauNA...
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Re-upping this one
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
this site used to be VERY FUNNY and I know we live in hell right now, but ALL Y’ALL NEED TO MAKE HELL FUNNIER OR WE WILL NOT MAKE IT AND I AM NOT KIDDING
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2025
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thank you thank you for the mini grant! I have a lot of ideas for some science comics and this will help me take steps forward! 🤩🥳
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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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Amanda @dramandar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Research America has created an action item link that sends 3 letters to support #NIH to your US Senators and Representative based on your zip code. It takes only a minute or two to fill out. You don’t need to be an academic to support #Science! advocacy.charityengine.net/Default.aspx....
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Research!America
The Research!America alliance advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. We urge Congress and the administration to increase funding for the National Institutes...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/02/2025
We want you to help us #standupforscience2025 📣 We’re currently recruiting local leads and volunteers across all state capitals and other major cities across the US! If you’re interested in helping us organize, please fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Choosing joy: got to go to the Eagle stadium last week and this week their Super Bowl champs! Book ending my time in Philly
Photo in the tunnel leading out to the Eagles stadium with the big words “Fly Eagles Fly” hung up abovePhoto of me and my partner at the press conference room in the Eagles stadium
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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sorry I didn’t finish inking/scanning my hourly comics yesterday. Or today. Unfortunately I keep on getting upset about the government. I will try again later.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Darby makes this point but I just want to reinforce it: These words are entirely legitimate to discuss science, accurately and correctly. This attack on "DEI" (🙄) is not only an attempt to resegregate science but also an attack on expertise, itself. Resisting it is a defense of science
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
we don't *want* them to be efficient at identifying those categories. it should be an enormous pain in the ass that they have to fight through for every single grant to determine if it's the DEIA use of the word or not. because they're hoping you'll ditch those of us in groups 1 and 2 if it's easy.
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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
hey, choose joy today. no matter how small.
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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I know the point is to overwhelm you with anger and make you feel hopeless and I know the answer is to not let it wear you down but at the same time
photo of a baby owl laying face down in the dirt
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tufts has a new exhibit about just this going on right now 🩵🐘 now.tufts.edu/2025/01/13/m...
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Meet Some of the First Black and Indigenous Students at Tufts
A new exhibit at Tisch Library highlights some of the first Black and Indigenous students at Tufts University
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This #BlackHistoryMonth, the new administration is attempting to bury this important month of reflection. People have been asking what they can do. Just like in 2020, educate yourself, this time centering Black voices (I better not see a book about Black exclusion written by a wyt person trending).
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My challenge to academics this #BlackHistoryMonth: find out what the relationship is between your campus and Black people. When was your campus started? When was the first Black student accepted? Are there programs that still haven't graduated Black students, and if so, why?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/01/2025
This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
All of this is reminding me of when I was on a panel at the 2023 San Diego Comic Con. The panel was titled “Dr. Evil: Scientists as Supervillains” and one of the questions we were asked was what would be our villain origin story. I didn’t really have an answer back then but I do now.
Photo of a room with people as more enter to fill it. In the foreground is a miniature replica of an orange 3D printed statue of myself and on the right side of the foreground is the back of a table tent sign displaying my name. Most of the font is too small for me to read but at the very bottom in bold it says “Jaye Gardiner” and at the bottom is the date, time, and title of the panel (Sunday 2:30PM to 3:30PM Dr. Evil: Scientists as Villains)
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key @lefttwix.com · 30/01/2025
i don’t need anger management, i need other ppl to not be dumb assholes
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Truly
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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I will succeed despite and in spite of this.
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