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Susan Perkins

@nycuratrix.bsky.social
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Provost of SUNY Potsdam, Parasitologist, Board gamer. Believer that the world works better when we invite different voices to the conversations that we need to have - and incorporate data to make empirical, just, and inclusive decisions.

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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We were afraid of peanut allergies…. So we accidentally jacked up peanut allergies. It’s straight up hygiene hypothesis proven right.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In my long career of catching anoles, it was not unusual to sometimes see lizards missing whole limbs. It was awesome to be part of this huge collaboration to study this phenomenon broadly!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I don’t run it any longer but it’s still a great resource! Let me know if you’d like any help, though!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
First session of “Hacking College” by Ned Laff and @carlsonics.bsky.social book group yesterday with new academic advisors at SUNY Potsdam. So much excitement about implementing ideas into our model of student support.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I always feel like if there’s a bodega cat there, it makes itself known!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Has a cat Sells weed pens Is playing a baseball game Is playing a cricket match Sells lottery tickets
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really wanted to send in a piece for your contest, @carlsonics.bsky.social but this month has been a whirlwind of real estate and moving. You will just have to take a vacation again next year! 😁
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social
reuters.com
Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Um…these numbers/proportions say quite a lot. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I obviously loved it. Bought 5 more copies for the advising team at Potsdam and excited to discuss. Hoping to do a pilot cohort this fall! Let’s keep in touch about this!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
She is so ridiculous.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As I remember the amazing and special @jillsobule.bsky.social , this one just went up several notches. It’s brilliant and fun - just like her. open.spotify.com/track/26Cm9S...
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Karen by Night
Jill Sobule · Jill Sobule · Song · 1995
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'
Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Hey everyone! Your friendly microbiologist here with a PSA. Measles can wipe out a lots of your B cells…the memory cells of your immune system. It’s called “immune amnesia” - so, you might survive the measles infection…but your immunity to every other infection could be lost/diminished for years.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Who is ready for #Caturday?! Reese is!!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
For decades, the US raced to be the best in STEM. Now, while we are in a race to literally sustain human life on this planet, the US has benched its starters and canceled all training camps. It won’t just end our country - it may cause the extinction of our species. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just read the phrase “rapidly evolving research landscape.” I would prefer “temporarily bass-ackwards.”
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Is it #Caturday yet?
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
(It is paywalled, but most colleges have a library subscription!)
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Such a good essay! “If the federal government holds an abiding distrust of universities, why would it leave the nation’s research infrastructure even more completely in their hands?” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
chronicle.com
Opinion | The Incoherent Policy Change Wreaking Havoc on University Research
The fight over NIH indirect costs has high stakes.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
For freaks sake, stop saying protestors are paid. It’s literally what the protests were about - I.e., paying to get what you want as opposed to democratic decisions.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Happy #Caturday
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It will be live.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Everyone download this now. open.spotify.com/track/7kjg2N...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron · Pieces of a Man · Song · 1971
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Rapa Nui is magical!!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Yes!! Just posted a one-sentence version of that on FB.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Or play Question of the Day on @wfuv.bsky.social and do this every day! It’s on their app and you can stream the station from anywhere!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Who wore it better?
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Everyone needs to see the new film “Counted Out: Math is Power” - it’s vital!!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
And there’s that. We are in such a weird place. Hoping we can get back…hoping for the core to survive.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
As I look through this feed, it is absolutely clear that we are in a dystopian nightmare…and we aren’t doing anything…and the reason we aren’t doing anything…. is that we have this internet structure to simultaneously expose us and also protect us.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
All over the place but Severance is a must, Årne murders is good, and for something that will start a bit slow and then you’ll fall in love with the characters, AP Bio
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Nights sneaking away to Ottawa flashbacks… !!!!
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Sort of a one-hit wonder… just an important one to our Gen of Canadian rockers
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Here’s my playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/49n...
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Canada Day
Playlist · Susan Perkins · 22 items
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Already listened to one…others are teed up
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
What can we do to help? 🦇
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I am torturing my husband in the best way. 80’s Canadian rock is still A+ music but cringe music video today…but in a good nostalgic way.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Been watching 80’s music videos from the Canadian greats tonight… so many emotions. 😂
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Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center @asrc-gc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Congrats! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social President @joshbrumberg.bsky.social, The City College of New York Dean of Science @nycuratrix.bsky.social, and @huntercollege.bsky.social Professor Mandë Holford elected fellows of @aaas.org. bit.ly/3XD8EYV
Headshot photos of the Graduate Center President Josh Brumberg, CCNY Dean Susan Perkins, and Hunter College Professor Mandë Holford.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What an unbelievable honor!! Thank you to everyone who supported me along this amazing journey! www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-sc...
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CCNY Science Dean Susan Perkins earns top AAAS honor
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The floof had a rough day. Lots of chaos as we try to get ready to move.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
An incredible peek behind the curtain at official NIH grant termination documentation by @maxkozlov.bsky.social. This is such an absurdly haphazard, ill-conceived, extraordinarily vague, slipshod, slapdash effort. Talk about arbitrary and capricious.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nice!!!!! With Codenames and Golden Girls!!
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“Vitamin A is not an effective way to prevent measles…two doses of the [MMR] vaccine are about 97 percent effective. …vitamin A can cause liver damage…doctors at West Texas hospitals have said they’ve seen patients with yellowed skin and high levels of liver enzymes…both signs of a damaged liver.”
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Elinor Karlsson @elinork.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(A) Allelic variation at Tabby controls color patterning—mackerel (Taᴹ) is dominant over blotched (Taᵇ). Diagrams show how the distribution of eumelanin (dark) and pheomelanin (light) within hairs contributes to coat patterns.
(B) Taqpep encodes a type II membrane aminopeptidase. The T139N variant, found in feral cats, is associated with swirled patterns (P = 0.0017) but shows incomplete penetrance.
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Susan Perkins @nycuratrix.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From the super-talented @nycmikewp.bsky.social angryblackliberal.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed! (All apologies to Gil Scott-Heron)
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