katie, phd! @sciencekatie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025chatgpt is what my parents and elementary school teachers *thought* wikipedia was 020
katie, phd! @sciencekatie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M WRITING MY PHD THESIS!!!!!!! IM DISSERTATING!!!!! AND I'M ALMOST DONE?????? 020
Reposted by katie, phd!Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025With 23andMe filing for bankruptcy -- reach out to your family members who might have ordered these kits to get them to request deletion of their data. And if you signed-up yourself, you should absolutely do the same! 18699266
Reposted by katie, phd!Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 12/03/2025In leu of NIH cuts at Columbia, many folks are asking why aren't universities using endowment funds to support the research mission of their faculty scientists? Inspired by @jeremymberg.bsky.social bluetorials here are a few of the reasons that is not a sustainable option 1/n 75820
Reposted by katie, phd!Jamie Mazer @tyto96.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I think it's really important to remember that not all schools where research is done have endowments. So even if the top-tier/wealthy schools could tap into their endowments, this is not an option for some public unis and they will have to drop research missions. 1132
Reposted by katie, phd!Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 07/03/2025...This piece is really important because we are not allowed to communicate this to grantees, but it could potentially help a lot of people about to submit stuff if they just knew to avoid certain words on their biosketch and other support." 14213
Reposted by katie, phd!Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025“You never heard of us because we are doing our jobs” UC Davis plant pathology PhD student 0448
Reposted by katie, phd!Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I am loving all the protest pictures but please be mindful of sharing photos with others’ faces, given known threats to international students who attend protests. 45613
Reposted by katie, phd!Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Close to 600 people for the Trenton Stand Up For Science rally. Great chants, NJ schools out in force, and scientists discovering their inner extrovert. Rush Holt led off, me at end. 219945
Reposted by katie, phd!Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies. 39439041631
Reposted by katie, phd!🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 07/03/2025“fluoride” “measles” “covid-19” “vaccines” Holy fuck this is uh quite an overt example of politics actively hamstringing science in ways that will make us all less safe. 79736
Reposted by katie, phd!Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Despite the weather the Chicago scientific community (including prospective young PhD students) gathered today to Stand UP for Science and show that science is for everyone and that NIH support is critical to keep labs running. 0174
Reposted by katie, phd!500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 18/02/2025For state-specific NIH info cards, find your state here: bit.ly/NIH_bystate 11910
Reposted by katie, phd!Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025make flyers of the first two paragraphs of this just filed lawsuit, and give them to your neighbors, leave them under t*sla wipers, in little free libraries, at the grocery store (thank you to the plaintiffs) 0166
Reposted by katie, phd!Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This thread really goes places. 0101
Reposted by katie, phd!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin. 9476363915067
katie, phd! @sciencekatie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025i'm nearing the end of my PhD, and will be graduating this summer. I'm starting to write the introduction of my thesis and I'm getting emotional over how much I've learned and grown intellectually over these last 6 years. This type of writing would've been impossible to first-year katie. I'm proud! 030
Reposted by katie, phd!Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The Pennsylvania Attorney General has not joined the lawsuit against the NIH indirect cap, which means Penn and all other universities are suffering a massive funding cut. You can contact our AG here and request he join the suit: www.attorneygeneral.gov/contact/attorneygeneral.govContact 0175
Reposted by katie, phd!Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed 11401108
Reposted by katie, phd!Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 11/02/2025The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure. Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCLbit.lyStatement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate 114971
Reposted by katie, phd!jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations? 467243366365
Reposted by katie, phd!Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office 419896
Reposted by katie, phd!Jesse O'Lantern, LGPC @jesseberney.com · 10/02/2025this agency is for protecting consumers from predatory financial companies you are a consumer financial companies prey on you they are shutting it down because they hate you 3348141
Reposted by katie, phd!Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Yea...this is one of those times when, if leaders are going to speak up, they need to differentiate their communication strategy by audience. Internally (students, faculty, staff, alumni), effects on the university matters. Externally, focus on the bigger picture. One message will not fit all. 523646
Reposted by katie, phd!Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/02/2025Read the 🧵 on the 2025 plan for the NIH: the proposal suggests dismantling the agency and redistributing its funding to the states. 12410
Reposted by katie, phd!Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.docs.google.comThe War on Science (Feb 2025 teach-in draft)The War on Science What’s happening? What can we do about it? An interactive teach-in for biomedical researchers Please share, modify, and repurpose this template presentation (with credit). Good luck... 17237135
Reposted by katie, phd!Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 09/02/2025This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share! 19236
Reposted by katie, phd!Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify 8210191
Reposted by katie, phd!Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025100%. You never know where the next great discovery that will change all of our lives will originate. This is why we trust scientists to carefully review each others work and ideas and give advice on how to make basic research investments. 0164
Reposted by katie, phd!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025More inside baseball about how overhead rates are determined from former NIGMS head Jeremy Berg. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/jere... 10918102
Reposted by katie, phd!gardenpeach.bsky.social @gardenpeach.bsky.social · 08/02/2025If the local large university goes down, that's a main provider of health care services. The community college health care education programs depend on the big U medical center. Nurses, x ray techs, so many health care workers get their start in these programs. 21169
katie, phd! @sciencekatie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025if we keep the lights turned off in the lab bay how much will we save in indirects /s 110
Reposted by katie, phd!The Allard lab @allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · 09/02/20251/3 Why does the US lead the world in the number of clinical trials? How come americans are given the unique chance to get the latest treatment and a fighting chance against often incurable diseases? That's all thanks to research and the support from the NIH! 13712
Reposted by katie, phd!PROFS @profsuwmadison.bsky.social · 09/02/2025UW-Madison on proposed NIH indirect cost cap: “This proposed change to NIH funding–UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support–will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more.” 1/xnews.wisc.eduUW–Madison responds to NIH announcement about indirect cost capThe following statement is in response to the federal directive issued on February 7, 2025 to change the Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate for all existing and ongoing new National Institutes o... 313372
Reposted by katie, phd!Londyn Robinson, MD @londyloo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u. 282814514
Reposted by katie, phd!Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them. 10582273
Reposted by katie, phd!Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025My 8th grade history teacher did this too. One of my classmates started crying. It has stuck with me my whole life 632488
Reposted by katie, phd!CupcakeKitty @cupcakekitty09.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Most people don’t know how fast this money channels through these research organizations. What comes in immediately pays for services to improve your/the world’s lives. This is not discretionary money.They’ll be in arrears within days. 0243
Reposted by katie, phd!Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Look I don’t know how it will shake out but there are major medical centers and research institutes across the country currently trying to figure out if they have enough money to keep operating after the NIH indirect costs directive. 451249295
Reposted by katie, phd!Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The White House sent out an email to all reporters on its press list, calling our story “fake news.” We stand by our story. 42682135
Reposted by katie, phd!BLDavid NYC @bldavid7.bsky.social · 09/02/2025AAMC, et al have provide the attached. 022
Reposted by katie, phd!sado @hoihoisado.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Great thread. NIH provides crucial funding to support education and health in every state. You can check your state’s 2023 numbers and see how many jobs may be at risk: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... 0167
Reposted by katie, phd!Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 08/02/2025Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comNIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediatelyThe move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. 571670525
Reposted by katie, phd!News Breaking LIVE @newsbreakinglive.bsky.social · 08/02/2025"The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. "This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments" - Dr. Lucky Tran 27955621880
Reposted by katie, phd!Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security. 613991
