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Sarah Bay

@sarahbay.bsky.social
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genetics phd | writer/editor/emoji consultant | accidental marketer | deia advocate | she/her

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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If you’ve ever done the deep dive on the discovery of the structure of DNA (🙋🏻‍♀️), you’re probably as sick as I am of the popular narratives around Franklin as I am. Let Cobb and Comfort set you straight, please!!
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I've been doing all my hustling over on LinkedIn, but I figure I should do some here, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
✨Open to Work✨ Need an exceptional writer or editor? Need genetics expertise? What about experience with peer review, scholarly publishing, or associations/nonprofits? I'm your gal! I'm open to freelance, contract, and full-time work, and I appreciate any leads you have. www.sarahbay.me
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SARAH BAY, PHD
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n
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ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
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Nature @nature.com · 24/04/2025
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It Happened To Me: I Finally Decided to Learn R
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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
@kmsandlin.bsky.social Just followed you—send me a DM to talk about a potential lead.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There will undoubtedly be so much more to say in the coming weeks, but today was my last day of work at GSA—close to 10 years after starting my internship—and now I’m done, and it’s a wild feeling.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly. Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.
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Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
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Eve Vavagiakis @evevavagiakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In response to headline “Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database” I want to re-emphasize that all these grants were public record and written in response to public solicitations supporting DEI content. No “uncovering” or “releasing” was done here
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The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
DEIA and Doing the Right Thing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d...
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DEIA and Doing the Right Thing - The Scholarly Kitchen
Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.
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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/02/2025
“Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups […] The NSF spokesperson did not respond to a query about concerns that Trump’s executive orders are at odds with the agency’s responsibilities, as codified in law.”
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Different sort of news to share over here. I'm moving on from my role at GSA and will be seeking new opportunities. Not sure what's next for me, other than a bit of a break to start—need to take care of myself and my family to make sure I'm ready to fight for the next 4 years and beyond.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Rough end to a rough week of a rough month. 💔
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just fucking depressing to watch the NSF fall in line without hesitation. Have been so proud to be co-PI on a BIO-LEAPS grant. 🫠
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 30/01/2025
thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 23/01/2025
"It's Dr, Actually" - Now available as trans and non-binary pins! I think a lot of people need a reminder right now that experts know gender isn't binary, and a lot of us need a reminder we're not alone. So please share widely! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Two circular enamel pins with the text "It's Dr, actually" in black. The rest of the design is the transgender pride flag on one pin and the non-binary pride flag on the other.
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...
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Annie Waldman
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you are directly affected by a cancellation of a meeting you were scheduled to participate in or at which your grant may have been discussed, consider reaching out.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We made it over here!!
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas!
The back of a young boy who is seated on the floor in front of a very tall Christmas tree with lots of presents underneath.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It was part of my English major (I didn’t have room to take classes outside my 2 majors/minor/core courses) but this class for me was Two Weeks in the 60s: the art, music, film, and literature of the decade.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Went an another following spree! Back on the Other Site, my network was mostly scientists. On LinkedIn, my network is more scholarly publishing than science. Looks like I get to have both here!
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
ICYMI: My write-up of the webinar I moderated on psychological safety for @scholarlypub.bsky.social and @c4disc.bsky.social is up on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/16/m...
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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — An Introduction to Psychological Safety - The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we are scholarly publishers — or employees, or managers, or colleagues — we are humans. Fostering psychological safety in the workplace respects this basic truth and paves the way for business ...
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Today's coffee shop playlist has featured Matchbox Twenty and the Goo Goo Dolls, and I am Feeling It.
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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
To complement James' 'why we need peer review' post (link below), I've written some brief thoughts on 'what we need from peer review' over on @the-node.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...
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Peer review - why we need it and what we need - the Node
Hopefully some of you will have seen the recent editorial in Development on our approach to peer review. If you haven't read it yet, please do take a
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The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — An Introduction to Psychological Safety scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/16/m...
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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — An Introduction to Psychological Safety - The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we are scholarly publishers — or employees, or managers, or colleagues — we are humans. Fostering psychological safety in the workplace respects this basic truth and paves the way for business ...
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Peeref @peeref.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Psychological safety isn’t just a buzzword! Shoutout to @sarahbay.bsky.social for sharing insights on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about creating workspaces where everyone should feel safe to speak up and thrive. 🌱 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/16/m...
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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — An Introduction to Psychological Safety - The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we are scholarly publishers — or employees, or managers, or colleagues — we are humans. Fostering psychological safety in the workplace respects this basic truth and paves the way for business ...
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The specter of preemptive capitulation/compliance has been hanging over us since the SCOTUS AA decision and related anti-DEI backlash, and it's one of the things I'm most worried about in my professional capacity as we head into the next administration.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Before this month is over, Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social may need to rewrite this chapter to something more like, "Do Not Ignominiously Grovel in Advance"
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The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In case you missed it or joined recently, a Starter Pack of the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs is available for your schol comm follow needs go.bsky.app/6Q7pwT6
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Being on Bluesky and following scientists who work in areas that I worked on in grad school (and who were absolutely some of my scientific heroes) is making me miss being in research more than I have in a long time.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"we’ve come to believe that world-class performance comes after 10,000 hours of practice. But that’s wrong. It comes after 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, 12,500 hours of deliberate rest, and 30,000 hours of sleep" nautil.us/darwin-was-a...
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Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Editing a blog post on a paper centered around the use of variational autoencoders, and I think my brain is going to leak out of my ears trying to keep up.
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Dreaming of a brain that hasn’t experienced this much burnout. Must be nice!!
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Sarah Bay @sarahbay.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Every day, I discover new types and levels of “tired.”
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