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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No question things are bad. But - a ray of hope - I got a notice of funding for an FY24 DOD grant. The CDRMP program sites were all down until this week.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Heartbroken. This is a government website. Why does my child's authentic self and what he does with his body anger so many people? womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Off duty. news.va.gov/press-room/v...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Loved this post from a postdoc who lived through the Bolsonaro years in Brazil: "The best 'fuck you' to fascists? Thriving. Publish that paper. Build that collaboration. Laugh with labmates. Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight." www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Text from the post, "To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years"

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Well let's see.. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Indirects fund 412,000 staff at universities - all the "unnecessary funding" pays all the hardworking people who take a low salary (comparatively) because they believe in academic research. The cuts will decimate two-thirds of those jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say

Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Good explanatory thread of why every scientist and all medical schools, graduate schools, and universities in the US are freaking out.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Harvard’s explainer is good. “F&A Cost Rates: After World War II when the federal government initiated a close partnership with universities in pursuit of the research enterprise, recognition was given to the infrastructure costs needed to support this expensive endeavor…”

F&A Cost Rates
After World War II when the federal government initiated a close partnership with universities in pursuit of the research enterprise, recognition was given to the infrastructure costs needed to support this expensive endeavor. These infrastructure costs became known as Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs and were expressed in terms of a rate; that is the indirect costs of research divided by the direct costs of research. This F&A rate is applied to eligible direct costs and is the accepted sponsor method to reimburse universities for the indirect costs incurred with the research project. Below is a

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is devastating. Universities need the indirects to keep the lights on in research labs. The directs barely pay the people and science.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

R01 #2 made it in with 7 minutes to spare. After scrubbing it for all indication of diversity or how I use genetics to improve disparities....😔

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My last R01 submitted Oct 5th has a study section date! However, having nightmares about some AI bot finding the statement in my Innovation secion that the goal of this project is to "advance health equity and reduce disparities in prostate cancer" and tossing it to "ND".

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

R01 #1 for the Feb 2025 cycle submitted to NIH. #2 is going to go right up to the deadline but I've got to do it. Let's hope this news of study sections restarting is real!!!!

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Anyone else Google CDMRP prostate cancer research program or any of the others? You get a hit but then you click on it... It's gone. Ebrap just there to taunt. If anyone thought cancer research wouldn't take a hit, think again....

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

On caring for a liver transplant patient: “worst day of my medical career,” because he knew a $50 vaccine could have prevented her fate. “Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,” Mr. Cassidy said.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My career is based on government research funding yet I've never watched the HHS secretary confirmation hearings so closely. Yes that problem is due to the President. But we as scientists need to examine why we can't convince half the country that their health is better due to government funding.

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Nobel laureates urge US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination Seventy-seven Nobel Prize winners sign letter stating Trump’s DHHS pick will put US public health ‘in jeopardy.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Nobel laureates urge US Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination

Seventy-seven prize winners sign letter arguing Trump’s DHHS pick will put US public health ‘in jeopardy’

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

1 / 2 Since I am not currently on duty at the VA, I can say with no commentary the fact that I am no longer allowed to speak about my VA research publicly or travel on VA time.

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Physician Women For Democratic Principles #PWDP @pwdp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is a free, searchable database of all kinds of doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers who are knowledgeable and sensitive to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ people in the USA and Canada. lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org/about-us

lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org

About Us - LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

The LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory is a free, searchable database helping LGBTQ+ people to find friendly and affirming doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My sincere hope for Super Bowl LIX is that Kevin Hart gets s#$&-faced and moons T Swift after the Eagles wipe the floor with the Chiefs.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today, study sections to review NIH grants are being cancelled as the NIH is not allowed to communicate - ie review research grants (and therefore anyone to get grants), post new grants, and all the researchers there cannot publish or present, they can't even travel.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Federal hiring freeze led to multiple new offers of research appointments (including unpaid positions for students) on my and every VA researchers' teams to be rescinded. If continues I will be unable to pay academic staff on VA research grants conpletely disabling my research program.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Email from VA Secretary tonight - all DEI must stop - part of the email "These [DEI] programs divided America by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination." Just devastated.

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Kara Maxwell MD PhD @karanoelle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There are so many fears and terrifying things happening that are affecting so many. Some real stuff that is happening now - every single academic biomedical research career is in serious threat due to unilateral sweeping decisions by Trump. Science | AAAS search.app/Kt4fJJZ1JJj6...

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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