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Katie Billmyre

@katiebillmyre.bsky.social

Assistant PI Department of Genetics at University of Georgia Previous Hawley lab postdoc and Duke Cell Bio grad student. All my views are my own (she/her)

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Katie Billmyre @katiebillmyre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excited to be back at CSHL for Germ Cells (it’s been a bit)! Also LOVING this fall weather- great to be out of the GA heat.

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Katie Billmyre @katiebillmyre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Wanted to advertise the presentations from my lab occurring at #Dros26! It’s my first time getting to bring my trainees and can’t wait for them to share their work.

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Katie Billmyre @katiebillmyre.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Excited to have my whole lab at #Dros26! Starting with some deep dish pizza!

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students.

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Research is under attack. Help protect it! Paraphrased: Most US science is federally funded through NIH and NSF, both of which are being targeted by the new administration. What's happened? The executive branch halted communication, travel, and attempted to freeze grants. Longstanding programs and proposals suspected of promoting diversity and DEI are being eliminated. NSF has been instructed to shrink by 25-50%. Future threats: every NIH and NSF employee has been offered a buyout due to deep future cuts. Funding may be decentralized to block grants to states, giving states that are "loyal" more funding rather than merit based funding. Grant reviews may be done by government workers who don't have the expertise or time needed. Take action: contact your representatives and demand protection of NIH, NSF, and all government funded research. Call the capital switchboard at 202-224-3121. Submit a comment to the House subcommittee on science, space, and technology. Spread the word. Learn more by following trusted scientists on bluesky

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