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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh man 😂

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 3h

You aren't wrong. One of my grants had critiques about my neural crest cell aim. (I dont work on neural crest cells). I think we are all burnt out on reviewing. And they fired so many at NIH there is little bandwidth for oversight and correction.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"If the Queen had balls, she'd be the King." - Lori Gottlieb

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

EVERY.COMMENT.COUNTS This is a simple way to make a strong impact on how science is being conducted. A society submitting a comment counts as 1. We need everyone to comment. /2x

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The deadline is approaching! NIH is proposing changes to how peer review is used in funding decisions and how outcomes are reported and they want to hear from you. Comments are due by October 13! Comment here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you are as outraged as the rest of us at an AI hallucination winning a Nikon imaging award, please co-sign the letter.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Make sure you read this in addition to the Nobel Prize announcement. I honestly can't believe it is this difficult to figure out an recognize the pioneers that did the work.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Princeton, Plainsboro, South Brunswick peeps - Register your complaints. See here for more of the concerns: princetonnj.gov/m/newsflash/...

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My impression of the entire Jack Smith hearing today

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just copied a number of Nikon handles on Linked-In. If we make enough noise, they will eventually have to take notice.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@healthcare.nikon.com out of respect for the individuals dealing with PCD if nothing else, you need to retract this award. There is no way that is a AI enhanced representation of actual data. It's an AI created image that bears no reality to what biologist see when they look at multiciliated cells.

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What happens when more NIH funding is committed to existing grants? Read CLS’s full letter to Congress about the growing use of multiyear, or “forward,” funding at NIHas the FY2027 budget process moves forward here: c4ls.net/news?tab=cls

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Following because I want to do the same.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm getting strong uncanny valley feelings watching that video. @healthcare.nikon.com you need to look into this.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just screaming into the void here - but damn I miss my girl. It's incredible to me that I still get up and do all the things each day - and she isn't part of it. 💔

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Thanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pat Dubois remains the greatest political analysis of our age.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Its incredible how long emotional events resonate in our lives like this isnt it?

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My prayer for this anniversary (and all those to come) is that we all learn to push hate and anger away. That we work to remain open and not reflexively decide certain people are the enemy as opposed to fighting the type of hate that propels so much suffering and death. /5x

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Strangers smiled at each other. People let me pet their dogs when they were out walking. It was like there was no more room for hate or anger. Sadly, that wasn't the case everywhere at the time. Fear gave rise to misplaced anger and aggression towards others. /4

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My strongest memories of the next few weeks after 9-11 were the posters of the missing that were everywhere, and how nice and polite everyone was in the city. It was like an unspoken pact to try and connect and see one another on the street or in the train station. /3

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And I was at NYU med school in midtown, so nowhere close to the towers. It was that terrifying. Thinking about all those who lost loved ones that day, those who sacrificed so much, often including their health or lives, in rescue and cleanup, and those who were so much closer to the events. /2

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will likely always spend this anniversary thinking about how much being in NYC on 9-11 traumatized me. I *still* stop dead in my tracks when I hear a low flying plane and wait for the sound of a crash. We have a local airport and are on a path for EWR so it isn't uncommon. /1

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/09/2026

"Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake" has sat with me through every subsequent global crisis

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My quote of the day The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And clearly I can go on and on too, but I should be writing grants so....

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But it all comes back to money. When you have to work from day 1 to raise enough to get reelected, it is no wonder big money and corporations can direct these fights. I want someone with brave convictions to go into office with the goal of reforming this and repealing Citizen's United. /3

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But I would think when so much is on the line, and our citizens need what our country could easily provide (its criminal that anyone goes hungry in this country), that politicians would be fighting loud and proud for what needs to be done. /2

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The piece resonated with me. I'm furious that we don't see the Dems fighting for anything, it feels like. I get that many things are done behind closed doors and that some R colleagues are saying one thing to Trump in public and working with others to find sanity somewhere. /1

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I see your point. I'm sure all kinds of deals are made that we will never know about. And I felt a lot better about that when I felt like adults were in charge. When some of them come to light, like Iran/Contra, it's difficult not to wonder about what else happened.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That's rich coming from him. I love how people in power seem oblivious to their own hypocrisy.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sure. But it wasn't/isn't logical. It was my first foray into "not sure I'm with my family on this one" by the end of his term. I was trying to point out that everyone has a narrative they are comforted by. Doesn't mean its true.

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mainewomenforward.bsky.social @mainewomenforward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This cartoon was created by Pulitzer Prize winning artist Adam Zyglis for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. It hits even harder now.

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one was thinking - "look how the Iranian regime swayed the election" because it wasn't logical. People were voting their pocketbooks as they usually do. I remember sitting in the car for an hour in gasoline lines./2x

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