Please join us in congratulating Shreya Bavdekar and the 2025 URMC PREP cohort on their outstanding presentations at the PREP Symposium! Next up for Shreya: @colorado.edu! 🎓👏 #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @jackofrogy.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social 🧵1/3

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 The "Microplastics and Me" brochure created by our Lake Ontario MicroPlastics Center (LOMP) is a featured resource for the NIH Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Resource Center. @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @ritcpe.bsky.social #SciComm

Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b... via @statnews.com

IHHE faculty member Dr. Jacques Robert will be on WXXI Environmental Connections - Friday 2/28 from 1-2pm. He will discuss his research on the effect of environmental stressors on amphibian health, and what frogs can teach us about human health. 🐸 #URochesterResearch www.wxxinews.org/environmenta...

Me & some of my favorite posters from the #standupforscience rally in Chicago today. The snow did not stop us ❄️🧬🧪🥼

IHHE faculty member Dr. Alison Elder is quoted in this microplastics article. “The inhalation route is a major concern because if inhaled plastics can get into the deep lung and cause an inflammatory reaction, they don’t need to go anywhere to cause health outcomes.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a remarkable statement from the president of the American Bar Association which is nonpartisan and avoids politics … www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

IHHE and @ritcpe.bsky.social faculty members of our Lake Ontario MicroPlastics Center are in sunny San Diego for a meeting with other Centers for Oceans and Human Health. @urochester.bsky.social @rittigers.bsky.social #microplastics #URochesterResearch

Hey if you're HHS or elsewhere and have heard more, OR if you are an NIH or NSF grantee who has seen your funding actually move forward (or not!), I'd love to hear from you. Signal in bio.

Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from @kutnews.bsky.social about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n www.kut.org/education/20...

Dems. This is simple messaging. Musk demanded FAA head be fired; Trump did what Musk wanted. Now there's a deadly crash killing Americans because Trump is running America for the benefit of billionaires. Repeat: Elon Musk demanded FAA head be fired and Trump did his bidding to benefit Musk not us.

The dangers of pausing NIH grants could be far-reaching. Thank you @choo.bsky.social for your excellent @msnbc.com piece! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

NIH withdrew several funding opportunities related to diversity. They’re not going to review the ones already in, and apparently they’re not going to pay the ones that have just been awarded.

Great decision

A special present from my lab during our jumping frog lab holiday party.

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