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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS

@radcuellarphd.bsky.social
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medicinal chemist, regulatory affairs, professional worrier (research administration & mom), impatient fixer, coach, documenter *love science, thy neighbor, thy planet*

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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mr. Rogers said we should look for The Helpers like these -- a school cafeteria worker serving tomorrow's leaders & ICU nurse serving Veterans who fought for our freedom. You can support the rule of law AND accountability. The best time to say it's gone too far was earlier, the 2nd best time is now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Seeking driven undergrads to join us at the Univ. of MN next summer for an exciting career development internship w/ research in med chem, pharmacology, pharmaceutical sciences, & pharmacy! Please share with potential SCoPE scholars & encourage them to learn more & apply at z.umn.edu/SCoPEprogram
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excellent turn for keeping already awarded medical research funds in place!
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 04/04/2025
And history will repeat itself unless Republicans join us and stand up to these across the board tariffs.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you're looking for @hcrichardson.bsky.social and her amazing Letters on FB, you can still see them via Recent Post search function. At least engagement via reaction can still be kept up even though they're being shadow banned. And subscribe to her emails/Substack! She is a national treasure.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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Steve Chamraz @tmj4steve.com · 02/04/2025
:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels. MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots. If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2025
"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View
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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Good morning, US colleagues! In Switzerland, we'll speak up for you and #science everywhere! #Standupforscience walkout in #Geneva So many came even with little notice ☺️ We'll stay with you, and we'll only grow 🙏🏼 to the great leadership of #unige #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
Photo shows a Swiss scientist holding a flyer for Stand Up for Science.Photo shows Swiss scientists holding flyers for Stand Up for Science.Photo shows Swiss scientists holding flyers for Stand Up for Science.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Well said!
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not so fun facts about measles 🦠 one of, if not the most contagious viral infection 🦠one person can infect up to 18 others 🦠can be deadly 🦠can have late effect of a deadly & progressive brain disorder Funnest fact about measles 💉two doses of the vaccine is 97% protective against infection
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
More not so fun measles facts 🦠wipes out up to 73% of your antibodies to bacterial and viral infections (immune amnesia) 🦠prior to the vaccine, measles killed 2.6 million people a year 🦠can survive 2 hours in a room after an infected person leaves 🦠99% of unimmunized that are exposed are infected
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Sounds like a super great time for USAID to be under attack 🙄 Even if moral reasons don't compel them to help, do the Powers That (currently) Be not selfishly realize that instability anywhere in the world can quickly become instability on the home front? apnews.com/article/cong...
apnews.com
A mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people hours after they felt sick
Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I'm with Peggy!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Per @isabellacueto.bsky.social: “Deep cuts at Health and Human Services over the weekend = loss of workers who: - inspected pharma manufacturing plants - guarded infant formula supply - reviewed medical products - monitored wastewater for mpox - expanded maternal health access +++ more”
statnews.com
Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching
In interview after interview with STAT, those who were fired from federal health and science agencies, along with officials who remain, argued the cuts would be deeply felt.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Condemn
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/02/2025
CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.
democracydocket.com
CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave
Read more here.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
BREAKING: Donald trump is actually doing something GREAT, promising to crack down on overdraft fees and to BLOCK medical debt from being listed on credit reports! WOW!!! LOL, just kidding. Actually, President Biden did all that stuff to help Americans, and trump wants to reverse it. Fucking idiot.
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E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school. Time to stand up:
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
22 state Attorneys General filed suit to stop this catastrophic attack on biomedical research. Thank you @agellison.bsky.social for being one of them and standing up for Minnesotans and our vital research! www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...
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22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Just got off a webinar with a prominent national law firm on rules change on indirect rate. AAMC and other orgs on panel too. First, need to be convey that the rates are actual costs, not just overhead to pad the university coffers. Example- Institutional Review Board, space/utilities 1/4
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an illustration of a scientist wearing a mask looking through a microscope
ALT: an illustration of a scientist wearing a mask looking through a microscope
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Friday night Fright: an illegal notice came out in violation of negotiated F&A rates. Monday morning, Universities like UMN and academic hospitals like Mayo Clinic will literally lose hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to support life-saving research & clinical trials. CALL YOUR STATE AG!!
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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Project 2025, Musk, and Trump want us to conduct experiments without the lights on? Without running water? Without support staff? This will be DEVASTATING to academia, research hospitals, literally all of Healthcare in America is on the line. CALL CONGRESS.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Starting tomorrow, get vaccinated. Everything you can. The CDC took down their list. Use this. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
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Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org
Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Democrats in Congress: WHAT IS THE PLAN? Going on Sunday shows and spewing consultant speak isn't going to cut it. Twelve inspectors general fired and there's no sit-in? No filibuster? No direction to voters? And in fact, some of you are actually voting for Trump's agenda?
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
washingtonpost.com
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
⚠️ BREAKING: Minnesota Issues Urgent Health Advisory, Mandates H5N1 Testing for Hospitalized Respiratory Patients. Minnesota’s Department of Health urges hospitals to test respiratory patients for H5N1 bird flu, with mandatory subtyping within 24 hours of admission.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Virtually every👏 American 👏medicinal 👏 and scientific👏 advancement👏 comes from NIH funds. Basic science, drug design, clinical trials...bench to bedside and beyond. I implore you: contact your congressional representatives and beg them to let NIH function again!!! Lives are *literally* on the line.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Exciting paper in Science Signaling. Thanks to @mmolteni.bsky.social for a great article in @statnews.com. @jffoley.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/07/a...
statnews.com
Using lab-grown human mini-brains, scientists find links between head trauma, herpes, and Alzheimer’s
Research published Tuesday is the first to connect the dots between a common herpes virus, head injury, and Alzheimer's.
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Terrifying case report on the BC teen w/H5N1 (#BirdFlu). 4 days to go from pink eye+fever to life support in PICU. When it hits the fan, there won't be resources for weekslong ECMO or 3-pronged antivirals for everyone. The best time to take action was 1+ years ago; the next best time is today.
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This story out of Montana is horrifying, outrage-inducing, and a reminder that @propublica.org may be the most important journalism organization in the country right now. Incredible work by @davidmcswane.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
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Rebecca Cuellar, PhD, STS @radcuellarphd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Interested in med chem, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, or pharmacy? Join me next Tuesday for a virtual info session on how to apply to be a SCoPE scholar for Summer 2025! z.umn.edu/SCoPEinfo
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Image of translational research pipeline and human body figure pointing out various areas of therapeutic interest
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