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Kristina Penniston

@krispenniston.bsky.social
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Concerned and compassionate citizen, scientist, kidney stone researcher, registered dietitian, CAIRIBU Interactions Core director, and proud UW-Madison Badger

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I am sending so much love to my colleagues at NIH today. They are incredible people and scientists and don’t serve any of this. 💔
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Every Democratic Senator should be doing what @booker.senate.gov is doing right now, back-to-back, nonstop.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/04/2025
"If the president's special envoy is okay with Russia serially eating neighboring countries, and continuing to roll through up to and through NATO bounds, then he is essentially saying he's okay with the potential of a World War III." Susan Rice joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
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Emmy Betz, MD, MPH @emmybetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Science makes us stronger, healthier, and more prosperous. My heart is hurting today for those NIH, CDC, FDA employees who dedicated their lives to supporting science and now have lost their jobs This Saturday - April 5 - noon to 4pm @ Colorado State Capitol in Denver (or find an event near you)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/04/2025
The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. scim.ag/42dCJjc
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NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
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Kristina Penniston @krispenniston.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yay Senator Cory Booker!!! Loved it when you read letters from wisconsin citizens and acknowledged their struggles. Thank you for standing up for us! @booker.senate.gov
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Apparently, immigrant labor is not wanted in Florida, but child labor is!! Are we great yet? www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...
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Florida child labor bill SB 918 would let minors as young as 14 work overnight
Ron DeSantis and other Florida lawmakers propose replacing undocumented workers with children.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 26/03/2025
DOGE is working to dismantle the CFPB despite the important work it has done to protect American consumers. It seems these efforts are just an attempt to help wealthy corporate interests line their pockets and escape government regulation.
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Attacks on the CFPB highlight DOGE’s pretense - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Shutting down that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would almost certainly reduce government efficiency, not increase it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/03/2025
Hear her! And you will feel the pain. 😭
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Folks are going to hell with this bullshit
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Last week’s Data Science Research Bazaar was a big success, and it would not have been possible without the support of our generous campus and industry sponsors. Thank you! datascience.wisc.edu/2025/03/25/t...
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CAIRIBU @cairibu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Are you a student researching diabetes, kidney, digestive, obesity, metabolic, liver, endocrine, urology, nutrition, or hematology diseases? The 2025 dkNET Summer of Data Student Program offers an opportunity to utilize dkNET tools and resources in your research project. dknet.org/about/Summer...
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Mike Neugent PhD @mikeneugent.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨 Preprint update Excited to share our updated preprint on the biochemical ecology of recurrent UTI. 🧬 #Metagenomics + #metabolomics 🧪 Lipid biomarkers for active UTI (AUC = 0.91) ⚠️ DCA as a predictor of recurrence 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024... #UTI #Microbiome #Metabolomics #PrecisionMedicine
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Urinary biochemical ecology reveals microbiome-metabolite interactions and metabolic markers of recurrent urinary tract infection
Recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs) are a major clinical challenge and their increasing prevalence underscores the need to define host-microbiome interactions underlying susceptibility. How the...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NIH employees should NOT be complying with these data calls. This data call raises serious first amendment concerns, and no NIH employee should obey it until a serious outside Constitutional attorney and/or court has weighed in. Don’t break the law, NIH workers! Even if the GC tells you to.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🧪 More research into women's health is badly needed, #NIH had been moving more in this direction, and the Trump/Musk cuts have harmed this effort.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Here's one group of institutes that give hope: bsky.app/profile/drse...
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 19/03/2025
This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪
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CAIRIBU @cairibu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Are you looking for a postdoc position (University of Washington, Seattle)? Apply now to work on a project involving optimizing a novel biomaterial to clear uropathogenic bacteria in a rodent model of UTIs. Applications are due April 1st! Info: cairibu.urology.wisc.edu/cairibu-kiosk/
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CAIRIBU @cairibu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Have You Read This? "Disrupting Biofilms on Human Kidney Stones-A Path Toward Reducing Infectious Complications During Stone Surgery" Read it: buff.ly/R9wjACl Read more like this: buff.ly/kBhrhC3
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Columbia’s leaders’ capitulation makes it harder for every other scientist in the country to fight grant terminations.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"2. Do town meetings and office hours—in R districts. 3. Add field hearings to the town halls. [Dems, do field hearings at or outside NIH!] 4. Use every tool in the rule box to delay, obstruct, and showcase the destructive Trump–Musk–congressional R policies. [Bring the Senate to a halt!]"
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” Hell yes, Art Caplan. More courageous defiance, less quiet cowardice. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'll keep reposting this one over and over
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Super-important point — HHS/NIH pay to train doctors. It’s not just research funding. The funding for residency programs is also being weaponized by Trump and Musk. Trump and Musk want your kid to not have a doctor.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/03/2025
Excellent example of a way to reach your local community! Highly suggest partnering with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for op-ed's such as these and Dr. Smider's is a great example of how to frame our issues for the general. public.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Norm Ornstein, one of the foremost experts on Congress, says that Democratic Senators should bring the Senate to a halt. Call your senators, especially in blue states, and tell them to object to unanimous consent. And then write a letter to the local paper saying the same, and post on Facebook.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"President Donald Trump has scrapped Biden-era executive orders that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Trump scraps key Biden-era policy that increased minimum wage for federal contractors
In 2021, Joe Biden used his power to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. Donald Trump is now turning back the clock.
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Jim Hokanson, PhD @jimhokanson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Just found out about the rat with "big balls." Happy Monday everyone: scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/t... 🧪
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The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis – how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images
A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the …
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We’ve covered so much ground, so fast! In just one month since launching, we’ve reached thousands of Americans. But there’s more to do. Join us at sciencehomecoming.com to see our map of published articles and learn how you can contribute. 🧪🏠
U.S. Map of published Science Homecoming articles showing articles in locations all over the country — from their website sciencehomecoming.com
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CAIRIBU @cairibu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
THIS WEEK Join this CAIRIBU K12 Scholar Seminar, sponsored by the UW-Madison U54 George M. O’Brien Urology Center, to hear a talk from Kathleen Kan (Stanford University KUReS) titled Development of Observation Tools for School Bathrooms. More info HERE: buff.ly/3EjpxB2
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/03/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..." apnews.com/article/fda-...
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FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs
Thousands of Food and Drug Administration employees are returning to the office to find overflowing parking lots, cramped workspaces and missing equipment.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...
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The Real Goal of Trump's War on Universities
It isn't about stopping antisemitism. It's about power.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Still wrapping my head around 57% cut to CDMRP (cdmrp.health.mil) funding in CR. CDMRP funds some of the most innovative high-risk/high-reward research in biomedical science, and in it all, includes patient advocates. BEFORE the cut, the breast cancer program funded 3-5% of proposals. What now?
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Kristina Penniston @krispenniston.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s that kind of a day
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In my 25 years since high school I’ve seen 1. HIV/AIDS go from death sentence to manageable with drugs 2. Cystic fibrosis go from pretty much an extended death sentence to manageable with drugs 3. Sickle cell go from a horrible disease to (almost maybe) cured by gene therapy Simply incredible
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
UW–Madison instructors, land care managers and students, along with the help of volunteers and farmers, are returning fire to landscapes on and off campus to restore the beauty of native tall grass prairies and oak savannas.
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Burning and Learning
UW–Madison instructors, land care managers and students, along with the help of volunteers and farmers, are returning fire to landscapes on and off campus to restore the beauty of native tall grass pr...
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