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? 100
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...medpagetoday.comNIH Funds Still Not Getting to ResearchersCongress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging 47656
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices. 323083
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Does 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? 100
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerCaroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025HAPPY HALLO WNT From the spooky wingless flies 🪰 0171
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerNeedhi 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"nature.comScaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talentNature 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... 6271173
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerKevin Pruitt @dr-kevin-pruitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Gave 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! 41028
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Look. I’ll own it, ok? It’s been hot and I’ve been using the AC. I will do better. 011
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerPhilip Loring @philiploring.com · 14/09/2025This is a great idea! 🧪 laist.com/news/educati...laist.comUCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administrationOn Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants. 114259
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Giving me so much faith in the system of paying to publish. 010
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Me: 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: … 130
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/09/2025You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out. 2689261685968
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Editorial 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 010
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Maybe this means my ND proposals are gonna be funded! Lol 100
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged 619620
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerHector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 26/08/2025congratulations to taylor swift, travis kelce, and to the whoever is about to drop the world's most unnoticed news dump 333452
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerTS UPDATES @ts-updates.swifties.social · 26/08/2025🚨| Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement announcement just BROKE Instagram. 953275
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/08/2025Researchers 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. 12402171
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I 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...nytimes.comKennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts 1052459839
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025@aoc.bsky.social I hope we can count on you! 000
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 31/07/2025The 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. 825978
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerDon 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.” 34763411
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerF^ck Ice & Release the Trumpstein Files @darwinsrhapsody.bsky.social · 31/07/2025See how the NIH cuts are impacting your area. scienceimpacts.orgscienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchDeveloped by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide 37247
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerMelissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025As 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. 316444
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Good 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. 060
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The 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 812593945
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerSusanna Kearsley @susannakearsley.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I'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. 335995
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerMike 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. 15229148
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025It 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... 627497
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerTiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...nbcnewyork.comTravelers to the US must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' — What to knowThe fee will be at least $250, is on top of other visa fees, and may be reimbursable. 23916
Stephanie Grainger @sgraingerphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Cuban is inferior to pastrami on rye unless we’re going sauce free. You wouldn’t go sauce free would you?! 110
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/07/2025The 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/...fda.govFDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal TestingThe FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees. 35945
Reposted by Stephanie GraingerJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Birth 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/mr3he6bxtinyurl.comFDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal TestingThe FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees. 02515
