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Matt Sikora

@mjsikora.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof at CU Anschutz, Cancer biologist, focus on #lobular breast cancer and gyn cancers, estrogen receptor pharmacology, and basic mechs in cancer disparities. Posts are my own. He/Him. www.sikoralab.com

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 05/12/2025
Americans being concerned about paying their bills isn’t a ‘con job’. A con job is when you give your billionaire friends a massive tax cut off the backs of working people.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We've routinely asked our pediatrician "Do you have any MORE vaccines you can give them?" at every check up.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I know I’m not supposed to use ChatGPT but I asked it to find me a seminar speaker and it suggested: “David Sabatini (deceased, but important for legacy)” and I cannot stop laughing.
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
@biologyopen.bsky.social published by nonprofit @biologists.bsky.social lists editor & publishes the reviews of accepted papers & provides authors a decision with reviews in 7 working days of submission (by precontracting & paying reviewers)...if you support this, please help spread the word
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Jack Badelaire @jbadelaire.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
As someone who's spent a quarter century in Academia, I can't abide the "why bother with college when you have AI and YouTube" nonsense because THIS, this right here, is one of the most important reasons for going to college.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Braver than like 90% of reporters for no reason at all.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯 When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep) #sfn2025 #sfn25
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... This is going to be a fun next few grant cycles....
As of today, we can confirm that we will be rescheduling all October and November grant application submission deadlines (specific dates to be announced in a future Notice). By delaying due dates that occurred both during the lapse in funding and in the week following, applicants will have access to NIH staff and the help desks as they develop their applications.

Peer review meetings that were scheduled to take place between October 1 and November 14 have been cancelled and will be rescheduled, details to come. Additionally, council meetings that were scheduled to take place between October 1 and November 14 were cancelled and will be rescheduled, details to come.
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Stephanie Gupton @stephgupton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
After shutdown guidance: As of today, we can confirm that we will be rescheduling all October and November grant application submission deadlines (specific dates to be announced in a future Notice).
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This on top of having the October submissions to process, and recruit/assign reviewers. Hard to imagine how CSR just picks up where they left off with the depletions and chaos.
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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Save the date: our faculty job market series continues this Wed, Nov12 at 3pm ET / 12p PT! Topic: on-site interviews + seminars Come hear our junior faculty share our thoughts/advice! There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!
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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
N7 Day 2025 is today. #MassEffect
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Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Are you a #Colorado resident who buys health insurance on the state marketplace (Connect for Health Colorado) & have seen a spike in your premiums for next year? DM me if you're willing to talk about the bill. Thanks! #copolitics
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Jesse @itshoje.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
From the top rope
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
For Halloween, the Sikora Lab is excited to announce the release of the debut self-titled album from **MITOTIC CATASTROPHE** with chart topping hits: - Pour Some Agar on Me - You Give Science a Bad Name - Sweet Graph 'o Mine - We're Not Gonna Fake it - Welcome to the Data - Back in Lab Rock on!!!
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CU Anschutz Endocrinology @cuendocrinology.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Endocrine research conference: Dr Maggie Musick from the Sikora lab @mjsikora.bsky.social discussed mechanisms of tumorigenesis in lobular breast cancer. #cancer #CUPathology
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I know & trust that NIH staff will get this round of reviews done. Yet having done my own CSR reviews 'for nothing' & with my own R01 sitting unreviewed now, working on another NIH grant has never felt so painful and futile. A quiet impact on science, perhaps, robbing the joy from looking ahead.
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Mark Harden @markharden.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
. @cucancercenter.bsky.social member @mjsikora.bsky.social, PhD, is a leader in research into lobular breast cancer, an understudied cancer type that’s on the rise in American women and has sharply lower survival rates several years after diagnosis than more common breast cancers. #cucityofhealth
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An Understudied Type of Breast Cancer Poses a Lurking Threat
Matt Sikora, PhD, seeks better answers for lobular breast cancer, which can be harder to detect & has lower survival rates after several years than other types.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/10/2025
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS
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Rep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · 06/10/2025
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2025
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Pam Belluck @pambelluck.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
NEWS: The F.D.A. approved a new generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
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F.D.A. Approves Generic Abortion Pill as Opponents Push Trump for New Restrictions
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Rep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · 02/10/2025
Donald Trump is conditioning federal funding to universities on the signing of a loyalty pledge to his agenda. This reeks of authoritarianism, and the universities should reject this hostage-taking of their funding.
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.
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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is going to be the most unhinged well-being survey ever.
Email introduction reading: "At the University of Colorado School of Medicine, your well-being is a top priority. To better support you, we need your insight.

 

We invite you to take 10–15 minutes to complete the Faculty Well-Being & Climate Survey. Your feedback will directly shape efforts to improve the work environment and professional well-being across the School of Medicine."
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025
“The Founders understood that without education, the ability to repeat tyranny was too great. They pushed—whether it was Franklin, Washington, Madison, or Jefferson—in their writings for education, for critical thinking, & for an understanding of its role.” — @rweingarten.bsky.social
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is right up there with interviewing Peter Navarro the other day - pandering to MAGA isn't going to get your funding back, NPR. There is no 'both sides' to acetaminophen and autism, it's a safe drug during pregnancy.
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I often get this question from non-scientists I meet when I travel, "why haven't we cured cancer yet?" and it does reveal a true disconnect between reality and public perception. You know who never asks me that question? Breast cancer patients and advocates I work with /1
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to 3,758 newly funded projects."
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Sigh. Our 8th percentile R21 officially misses the crazy 7%ile payline at NCI. At the same time, my R01 gets Y4-5 funded together, when instead of that multi-year funding, they could've funded new work on the R21!
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NPR @npr.org · 12/09/2025
While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., dismantles the federal institutions that set vaccine policy, states like Colorado are changing laws and regulations in an effort to preserve access to vaccines.
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Wary of RFK Jr., Colorado started revamping its vaccine policies last spring
While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., dismantles the federal institutions that set vaccine policy, states like Colorado are changing laws and regulations in an effort to preserve access to vaccines.
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NIH's NOSI on Women's Health Research was edited to expire as of yesterday, in case you were worried that the clowns in charge were finished axing research that they don't understand. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Expired NOT-OD-24-079: Notice of Special Interest: Womens Health Research
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Special Interest: Womens Health Research NOT-OD-24-079. ORWH
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is awesome. @ellecordova.bsky.social
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For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 08/09/2025
Can you get a COVID vaccine this year in Colorado? Here’s what to know.
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Can you get a COVID vaccine this year in Colorado? Here’s what to know.
Can you get a COVID vaccine in 2025? Here are answers to all your questions about how to get a COVID vaccine in Colorado and who is eligible.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
“Numbers always tend to benefit the left” is kinda a stunning admission. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My wife and I are both PhDs and both at U. Colorado - I'm faculty and she's in admin. Most of our work convos about each other's roles end something like "lolz no thanks, better you than me".
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
⛰️💪💉 www.cpr.org/2025/09/03/e...
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a woman in a red shirt says you get a shot you get a shot
Alt: a woman in a red shirt says you get a shot you get a shot
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I had the amazing opportunity to chat w @projbridgeco.bsky.social to talk about the lab, my career, studying #lobular breast cancer, and working w patient advocates. Loved talking re where I've been & talk about what's important to me as a PI and mentor! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0NBd...
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Ep #17: Dr. Matt Sikora on breast cancer research with patients at the center
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#worklifebalance
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Josh Snider @joshsnider.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
While other politicians talk, @philweiser.bsky.social delivers This group of state AGs has created something that should give us all hope; state leaders working together for the benefit of all of us
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A Ryan Warner interview with Mike Lamp, though sad for Mike's sign off, might be the greatest audio-based therapy ever conceived. @cprnews.bsky.social
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In today's soul-sucking waste of time tasks brought on by the current administration, I had to write a budget consolidation request and proposal to re-allocate funds intended for foreign collaborators on my R01, to comply with NOT-OD-25-104. We either end the foreign sub, or end the R01.
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a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room .
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It must be nice when you can just "find" whatever conclusions you want, rather than have to rely on rigorous study and data analysis.
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