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Nicki Swann

@nickiswann.bsky.social
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Neurophysiology of motor system at University of Oregon | Mom of littles | nature lover | kindness is strength | opinions are my own she/her

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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Celebrating Groundhog Day with @iangreenhouse.bsky.social and @mmarneweck.bsky.social labs! Six more weeks of winter!
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Celebrating Halloween with lab pumpkin carving! (With @iangreenhouse.bsky.social and @mmarneweck.bsky.social labs!)
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The lab had a great time engaging with the Parkinson's disease community today at the Parkinson's Resources of Oregon Sole Support walk!
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Apoorva did a great job defending her thesis today! We are so proud of you! Congratulations!
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#cansky #oncosky
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
As a two time cancer survivor who has been a patient in an NIH-funded trial, this hits close to home. I am alive today b/c of NIH and (as a scientist) I know how long it will take to recover from these devastating terminations. We are losing cures for diseases. This will hurt us all.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/06/2025
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Congratulations to Kelsey for defending her PhD!
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Folks at Princeton have put together an aggregator to highlight example of how federally funded research has directly impacted people's lives. They are looking for more studies to highlight, so send along suggestions and help make the benefits of science more visible! publicusaresearchbenefits.com
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#CanSky #OncoSky #CancerBS As a scientist and two time cancer survivor I can say first hand that the devastation of biomedical research is going to cost lives.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... As a survivor of 2 separate cancers, reading this is so devastating. Nearly all drugs come from NIH-supported research. Anyone can get cancer, and when they do the cures that could exist won’t be waiting for them if these attacks on science don’t stop.
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Nature @nature.com · 03/04/2025
The White House sometimes directs the NIH to study certain broad topics, such as cancer or women’s health, but the latest directive’s specificity, inflammatory language and focus on a hyper-polarizing topic are unprecedented, NIH employees say. go.nature.com/43xPnfj
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Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I have been a patient in clinical trials like the ones being abruptly terminated. It was a risk but one I was willing to take to give me the best chance of survival. I can’t wrap my head around this senseless destruction. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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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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Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard
Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”
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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Come work with us in beautiful Oregon!
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Scott Budman @scottbudman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#New: Huge crowd gathers for #StandUpForScience2025 rally in San Francisco:
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#cansky #oncosky
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today I went to Salem to #StandUpForScience - I spoke about my experiences as a scientist leading an NIH-funded laboratory and as a two-time cancer survivor who owes my life to science and the NIH!
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Andrew T. Lovering, PhD @andrewtlovering.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#Standup4science @nickiswann.bsky.social @uoregon.bsky.social @hphyuo.bsky.social
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature. Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Only 1 week until the Stand Up For Science rally at the OR capitol! We'll be hearing from Rep. Andrea Salinas and at least 4 renowned scientists. Rally with me to defend science from censorship and cuts! Let's make this big! #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 26/02/2025
This is all you need to see to understand the disaster of a budget passed by the House GOP last night.
Screenshot of graph from CBPP. House Republican Plan Would Take Health Care and Food Assistance Away from People to Pay for Tax Cuts for Wealthy

Two bars - one labelled Cuts to SNAP $230 billion and Cuts to Medicaid $880 billion. An equal bar labeled Tax cuts for people with incomes in the top 1% - $1.1 trillion
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just talked to a friend who works for the DoE and had 2 papers censored for violating an EO. One because it uses “toxicity” (about chemical leakage into drinking wells) & the other for “diversity” (as in “microbial diversity”). We are at Soviet-level stupidity censorship.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I am glad the data is back, but the little note that was added is NOT science-based, hateful, and scary (not to mention petty) www.cdc.gov/hiv-data/ind...
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This week in my undergrad (pre-health, neuro) course we are meant to discuss healthcare disparities. Seems especially relevant given all the things. Making some updates to slides and wondering if anyone has any good resources? #AcademicSky
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Got good news on scans today - 3 years in remission! 🎉 #CanSky #OncoSky
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 30/01/2025
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...
form.jotform.com
Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Christine Rabinak, PhD, MBA @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Many patients with stage 4 cancers, like myself, rely on clinical trials as our last hope for survival when our first, second, and third line treatments fail--and these treatments will eventially fail--these clinical trials are what we have left to try to survive.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#OncoSky #CancerBS
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#CanSky - As a scientist I know how disruptive gaps of support can be for ongoing trials, including cancer trials and as a two-time cancer survivor myself I know how imperative continued progress in research is - our lives depend on it. If you are concerned please contact your representatives.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When my daughter came out to me, she asked if being gay was “natural.” A classmate suggested otherwise… As a professor of animal behavior, I shared 2k+ examples from the animal kingdom! Those became a book, & today it’s still #1 top release and #3 best seller. #LoveWins #WildPride ❤️🏳️‍🌈 a.co/d/947x66x
Colorful book cover of Wild Pride, by Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez, with label “Top New Release”Colorful book cover of Wild Pride, by Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez, showing the paperback version as #1 and kindle version as #2 in Top new releases.Colorful book cover of Wild Pride, by Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez, showing ranking as #3 best seller.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Really loved how the vivid examples brought this piece to life! And important discussion around practical challenges for elementary educators too. From @lrj417.bsky.social at @the74.bsky.social:
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Girls Face Stereotypes about STEM Abilities as Early as 6, Study Finds
Beliefs that boys are better at computer science and engineering could have ‘downstream effects’ on girls entering tech fields, one researcher says.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Swann Lab circa 2024! (PhD student Apoorva and several undergrads unfortunately not pictured due to travel) @uoregon.bsky.social
8 members of the Swann lab standing in front of beautiful Pacific Northwest trees making the "O" sign for University of Oregon8 members of the Swann lab standing in front of Gerlinger Hall on University of Oregon campus
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JoAnn Trejo @joann-trejo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
UC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hailed as a national model for faculty inclusivity - www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucs-pos...
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UC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hailed as a national model for faculty inclusivity
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has supported more than 365 faculty across the UC system and its success has inspired similar programs ac...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“The N.I.H. seemed to have escaped political gravity — they’ve been beloved by both political parties, almost uniquely...This is a huge tipping point.” 🧪
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Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target (Gift Article)
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
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Ian Greenhouse @iangreenhouse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Human Physiology Department at University of Oregon is searching for a Career Instructor: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28607 We value high-quality evidence-based teaching, have outstanding students, and enjoy working together.
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University of Oregon, Department of Human Physiology
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are hiring for a career instructor position! Come work a collaborative, exciting, and nice group in beautiful Oregon! Applications details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28607. Questions about the application process can be directed to Dr Ashley Walker (aewalker@uoregon.edu).
academicjobsonline.org
University of Oregon, Department of Human Physiology
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Cresent and Orbit - our #fosterfails
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
hiking with kiddos
picture of beautiful lake and little girl in the PNW
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Nicki Swann @nickiswann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I am an Assistant Professor at University of Oregon studying neuroscience of the motor system in humans using electrophysiology. Also mom of two adorable kiddos. #neuroscience #WomenInStem
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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 16/11/2024
This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of sensorimotor control - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/VSH9DwK
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