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Stephanie Grainger

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Assistant Professor at Van Andel Institute Wnt | stem cells | zebrafish

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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@10xgenomics.bsky.social I’m trying to design a custom Xenium panel and it’s telling me to contact my sales rep, but he’s disappeared. Can you send me someone who wants the sale?
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers
Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Does anyone’s institution have guidance on addressing tenure and promotion in the great (it’s great again now right?) year of 2026? Are we still relying on NIH funding as a stamp of approval?
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
HAPPY HALLO WNT From the spooky wingless flies 🪰
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
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Kevin Pruitt @dr-kevin-pruitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute and greatly enjoyed meeting with pioneers in the field of Wnt signaling @sgraingerphd.bsky.social and @bartwilliams.bsky.social. Also reunited with amazing colleagues in the fields of epigenetics and RAS biology. What a vibrant research community @vai.org!
Photo of @dr-kevin-pruitt.bsky.social standing in front of slides from the podium where he gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Look. I’ll own it, ok? It’s been hot and I’ve been using the AC. I will do better.
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 14/09/2025
This is a great idea! 🧪 laist.com/news/educati...
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UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration
On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Me: could we please have a phone call to go over issues 2 and 3? These really look resolved on my end and I need some help understanding where the disconnect is so that I can fix it. EO: no. Also make your graphical abstract about this thing you didn’t show in the paper. Me: …
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Editorial office: please fix issue 1, 2, and 3 Me: I’m sorry I think we submitted without issue 2 and 3. Could you please clarify? EO: crickets Me: hello? EO: all is well please submit Me: uploading like a MOFO EO: please fix issue 1, 2 and 3 Me: has existential breakdown
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Well that seems very bad
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
@gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 26/08/2025
congratulations to taylor swift, travis kelce, and to the whoever is about to drop the world's most unnoticed news dump
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TS UPDATES @ts-updates.swifties.social · 26/08/2025
🚨| Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement announcement just BROKE Instagram.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Well that’s enough news for today
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/08/2025
Researchers have registered more than 120 clinical trials to date evaluating the potential of mRNA-based approaches for treating many types of cancer, including lung, breast, and prostate, pancreatic, and brain tumors.
Table 1. Clinical trials of mRNA cancer therapeutics initiated in the years from 2019 to August 2024
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@aoc.bsky.social I hope we can count on you!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray. "Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
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F^ck Ice & Release the Trumpstein Files @darwinsrhapsody.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
See how the NIH cuts are impacting your area. scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Good morning to all the reviewer 3s out there who believe in bioRxiv papers and the pandemic having disproportionate impacts on the junior faculty who started then.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
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Susanna Kearsley @susannakearsley.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It is not just that SCOTUS is weakening Congress by giving its powers to Trump; it is also weakening other parts of the judiciary. It is overturning decisions in a fashion it did not do under Biden (hat tip to @adambonica.bsky.social for the graph). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-youre...
graph showing lower courts are ruling against court, but SCOTUS is largely ruling with him
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...
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Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' — What to know
The fee will be at least $250, is on top of other visa fees, and may be reimbursable.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments! www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment. tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shock. Awe. More shock.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi
Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Very VERY excited to see this addition to the SCIMaP project. @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social BOTTOM LINE: Proposed NIH cuts are estimated to result in ~50b in economic losses and over 200k job losses. But hey! How are those egg prices?? scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Blah air travel.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Heading to #ICDB #sdb in Puerto Rico for a few days! I only packed one bottle of sunscreen and that may have been an error…
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 17/06/2025
"The National Institutes of Health limps along on invisible crutches, its significance on life support, its staff feeling diminished, dazed and confused. When this madness will end is anyone’s guess" federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...
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ProudSocialist⚛️💙🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @proudsocialistd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Seriously fuck the 77 million people who voted for this including my own family who decided that this is okay 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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mikenietzel.bsky.social @mikenietzel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Losses from cuts to NIH research and training grants now total $3.8 billion. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grant Cuts Already Costing Institutions $3.8 Billion, Study Finds
As of June 4, termination of NIH grants has already cost institutions almost $3.8 billion, according to a new analysis by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Thomas Scheidel, APR @tomstravels.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The first of two #NoKings protests in Grand Rapids. Thousands of people on the lawn in front of the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This week, more than 300 scientists from the NIH released the Bethesda Declaration, which speaks against the cuts and disruption to scientific funding. Want to support their efforts? Sign this letter in solidarity: actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Health Secretary Kennedy abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel Expert: “We have just demonstrated that politics will overrun science in this administration. It scares me to think of what’s ahead.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
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Health Secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Some good news.
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Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So much this
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
And if you haven't read this shattering ProPublica piece about the effects of Covid on pregnancies, you should take a deep breath and do so:
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“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
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Travis M Andrews @travismandrews.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” turns 50 so I decided to write about it, an exercise as misguided as Arthur’s search for the grail itself. And I still don’t know the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Analysis | ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ turns 50 but still hasn’t grown up
The movie changed comedy forever. More importantly, it made us ask: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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