iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 08/10/2026

Changes in NIH funding are creating challenges for the Buck and the important research happening here. Our Stand With Buck Science campaign is helping fill the funding gap so our scientists can keep doing what they do best. We need your help! Please consider donating today. Buckinstitute.org/donate

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can actually feel the diseases being cured and the outbreaks being prevented through such visionary strategic investments...

An NIH Communication email to all staff about converting the use of "AI" to "SI" in all communications due to a recent Executive Order.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the stage of grant writing where autoclaving one’s laptop seems like a reasonable solution to one’s problems

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Biology is computer science right up until it’s animal husbandry (I am waiting patiently for my mice to kiss)

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was a good idea because everyone knows having heart palpitations improves grantsmanship

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Back on my bullshit (bought two cold brews this morning)

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Laura R Cortes @prefrontalcortes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Recently unearthed photo of my dad in the Bronx in the 70s, @dieworkwear.bsky.social care to comment on the absolutely spectacular drip

Faded photo of a sharply dressed man in jeans and a blazer

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bhattacharya getting any kind of grace from academics after promoting conspiracy theories, misinformation, and mass COVID infection in the service of the right’s political agenda—and then allying with and working for RFK Jr., overseeing the political degradation of the NIH—is, frankly, unbelievable.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HEY. LISTEN TO ME. WE ARE ✨NOT✨MAKING JAY BHATTACHARYA INTO A HERO FOR (allegedly) REFUSING TO CUT HARVARD’S NIH FUNDING BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT TOLD HIM TO. The BARE MINIMUM of being a political appointee in the US is that you abide by the Constitution. He is NOT a hero. He did his job for once.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not only is it corrupt, but it’s going to interfere with life-saving scientific research—delaying possible cures for diseases that affect millions of Americans every single year.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All students to be referred to by their FULL Linnaean name henceforth

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wonder if Jay realizes the goal is the complete destruction of the NIH

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found at ucsf

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t understand this fundamental drive to remove critical thinking from the scientific or literary process.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is striking how much literary analysis prepares one for scientific research. Thinking about what an author wants you to understand from a paragraph or a figure is the same whether the text is is a novel or a nature paper.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A paper is already interactive if you know how to read.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Insurance literally said yes we have first prior authorization but what about second prior authorization I am going to join the circus

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every interaction i have with @evernorth.bsky.social reminds me that these blood sucking businesses have zero place in healthcare

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can someone explain how the @wmata.com renovations at medical center somehow made the wind tunnel worse? I’m battling gale force winds trying to get to lab

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Word is trying to autocorrect “flox” to “folx” in my grant and it’s like buddy, not under this administration

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

All her books are amazing but I feel like her short story “emergency skin” is the most slept on work of hers

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lab influencers are very much a thing in the life sciences and I would be lying if I said I hadn’t considered it…

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Crazy to see academia lifestyle content, including quit lit, pivot to video. I think that influencer ship has sailed but I suppose there's only three or four of us photogenic enough to pull it off so maybe there's room in the market.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Full-stack bioinformatician (I know how to handle both kinds of mice)

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Chris @cperez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This man would be better served by some psychedelic- assisted therapy to confront his own mortality

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Helping organize the grad union at my institution a decade ago, I saw up close just how hard it can be to persuade many tenured faculty to publicly commit to something vaguely political. Even getting them to sign a letter for legally protected action was tough. These signatures mean something.

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You cannot do “facts and reason” against fundamentally unreasonable people- the racists, the anti-vaxxers, the flat earthers. The academic rules do not work on these people because they are not playing the academic game. Pretending otherwise just gives them the attention they crave

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/08/2026

How many signers protested as loudly when the Trump NIH, based on academic expression, canceled funding (causing job losses) and fired ppl from NIH boards? This is the way to see who doesn’t care about academic freedom and free speech—but wants to weaponize it to protect speech they like. 1/

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not theft from scientists or universities, but theft from the public to fund whatever political bullshit the white house wants

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"spreadsheet people"—please. they're called cellcels. put some respect on their name

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have no interest in hearing from someone, 'oh this can be ok cause I proposed this reform to NIH in 2003 to improve support for...' No. <spray bottle> This is a corrupt leadership not acting in good faith. You under no circumstances have to give benefit of doubt.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

sorry, you want me to *revise* and then *resubmit* this shit? dog, i sent it to you because i never wanted to see it again

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax!

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Roadmap @natrevneurol.nature.com Menopause and neurological disorders: a roadmap for research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some really important questions from @deevybee.bsky.social on Jay Bhattacharya’s edge science paper. Bishop’s reanalysis suggests Bhattacharya inexplicably excluded some papers and made choices around the novelty definition to make the results appear more robust. pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science (2020)

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

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Lost critical expertise is hindering the NIH mission

Concern 5 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a full play-by-play of her talk, check out this thread by @27unihted.bsky.social with comments from @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @nihvigils.bsky.social (representing some experts from the NIH community). bsky.app/profile/27un...

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