Great coverage on a really well done report on how the Trump administration has weakened addiction science, putting people at risk. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"the greatest danger that faces higher education... is this transactional tendency ... an exchange that ultimately is economic and not what education should be, which is transformational." Excellent interview with Ken Burns, Hampshire College alum. #AcademicSky www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

Read. Sign. 👇

Thank you @scifri.bsky.social and @kemidoll.bsky.social! Was listening to this in the car today with my 12 yo son. He asked so many questions we kept pausing to talk about it. Such a great discussion on racism, racism in healthcare, and believing women. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/gyn...

Has anyone read these books by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social? I’m about to finish the 1st for the third time. I’ve started the 2nd once but had to go back to the first again. Just so much depth here. I want to be sure I get I all. At this rate I’ll never get to the 3rd. Am I the only one? #BookSky

The #science on vaccines and even food safety felt like settled fact. Certainties For centuries we debated the ideas underlying these ‘truths.’ Science helped us to understand the invisible. But ‘settled’ may be more fragile than we knew. 🧪 #AcademicSky kristenboylephd.com/all-that-we-...

We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! New editorial in Diabetes Care is on point. We must stand up for science. 🧪 #Diabetes diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

I'll be attending #Nutrition2026! Join me July 25-28 in Washington, DC. My postdoc will be presenting his research developing a hepatic stellate cell model from infant umbilical cord #StemCells! Key registration dates below. 🧪 #NutritionResearch #AcademicSky

Hi everyone! I am a PhD student in virology and I built a completely free iOS app in my free time. Please try it, any feedback is welcome! A repost would help more scientists see it. 📱 apps.apple.com/us/app/cell-... #Biology #PhD #AcademicSky #scicomm #virology #LabLife

News this week highlighted a drastic slowdown in #NIH funding of new grants. I’ve been working on this piece to capture what this instability looks like, from my perspective as an NIH‑funded scientist trying to keep our lab, and people, going. 🧪 #AcademicSky kristenboylephd.com/when-excelle...

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It's a good day! 🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #NIH

I’ve started a newsletter as a place to gather my science essays: Quiet Science. Once a month, with links and reflection. No noise, just science. 🧪 #AcademicSky #Science Quiet Science, Vol. 1: A Place to Pause kristens-newsletter-7bce6f.beehiiv.com/p/quiet-scie...

Excited we got to see #Messi play today! Did not disappoint.

So excited! We received a pilot grant to study umbilical cord #stemcells from infants with sex chromosome aneuploidy. After 9 months of IRB, developing instructions for parent-led collection, consenting, and waiting for birth… we received our first cord in the mail today. Let’s culture! 🧪

Early last year, we had a 6th %ile NIH grant go unfunded. With that and everything else, I had to take a long break. I submitted little things: revisions and local stuff. But I definitely took a big break. Today, I’m finally working big on a new submission. Here we go! #AcademicSky

I want to respond thoughtfully to this. These essays come out of the urgency of the time to write honestly about how science actually works: acknowledging the humanity and the uncertainty. I’m grateful they resonated. #AcademicSky

1/n Good news everyone! I'm excited to announce the lab's first manuscript is accepted and (preliminarily) published at @plos.org Computational Biology! This is an absolutely surreal moment as a #NewPI 😀 #neuroskyence #compneuro #AcademicSky 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Health is often framed as fully in our control: eat better, sleep more, exercise harder, and better health will follow. 🧪My new post summarizes my early research that shaped my understanding of biology as the most powerful driver of health. #AcademicSky #Obesity kristenboylephd.com/what-our-mus...

Proud of this kiddo! 🏳️‍🌈 #DayOfSilence

Many talk about #obesity as if it is something we can fully control, but this ignores our underlying biology. 🧪 Two papers came out this week highlighting this point: First, genetics impact GLP1 receptor agonist efficacy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our team is hiring a research technician! Our lab investigates how early‑life biology shapes long‑term metabolic health, using primary human mesenchymal stem cells, multi-omic assays, and functional cell culture models. Come join us! 🧪 cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Progenitor cells at the intersection of aging and adipose. Researchers examined cells cultured from bone, muscle, and adipose to understand how these tissue-resident progenitors may contribute to fat deposition changes with induced senescence. 🧪 #CellBiology #StemCell doi.org/10.1002/oby....

Long awaited vacation this week. It’s been three years since we’ve visited family here in Puerto Vallarta.

I want folks to understand that Trump's argument in the birthright citizenship case is that he has the power to reimpose a pre-Civil War legal order, recreating an inheritable racialized underclass and denying citizenship to newborns with disfavored ancestry ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

🧪 We’re flooded with health advice: supplements, wearables, quick fixes. But lasting health isn’t built by hacks alone. Beneath the noise is a quieter story of our health, one that begins at the smallest scale, before we even enter the world, in our stem cells. Continued ⬇️ #SciComm #CellBiology

A family affair today, separated by 2000 miles: my dad in Connecticut and me here in Denver. #NoKings

🧪 I've posted a new essay on progenitor cells and the long history behind them. From the under-appreciated Robert Remak and early stem cell lineage questions to modern insights into how our earliest cellular signals shape lifelong health. Read here: kristenboylephd.com/small-cells-...

🧪 A wise colleague once told me our science isn’t complete until we explain it to non‑scientists. That stuck with me for some time, but I'm finally ready. First up: to the way-back machine for my very first study on muscle metabolism. Link: kristenboylephd.com/what-five-da...

New expert guidance on the pharmacological management of obesity from The Obesity Society, Obesity Medicine Association, and the Obesity Action Coalition. Created alongside patient advocates to strengthen evidence-based, person-centered treatment. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This week I published the second essay in my new series on understanding science on real terms. In this piece: we hear endless claims about “one thing” that will fix our health, but biology isn’t that simple, and one study is never enough. 🧪 kristenboylephd.com/less-noise-m...

Happy pi day to all who celebrate!

My new science essay is out: Less Noise, More Signal A reflection on the parts of science we rarely talk about: the uncertainty, the variability, and why the answers are rarely simple. kristenboylephd.com/less-noise-m... 🧪 #ScienceWriting #UnderstandingRisk

I’ve been far too quiet. I'm finally ready to share something I’ve been working toward for some time. This first essay discusses science, democracy, and what it means to humanize the work we do. 🧪 #ScienceWriting #Democracy kristenboylephd.com/quiet-writin...

Happy Black History Month!

Excellent critique! 🧪 Key Takeaway: "Rather than focusing on whether one diet is universally better than another, the key message is that nutrition should be tailored to your stage of life." I would also argue that nutrition should be tailored for YOU. There is no one-size-fits-all for nutrition.

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Come join our group! Now accepting applications for our. NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Nutrition! 🧪

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 119 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Breaking: 25 year old US Citizen and Disabled Military Veteran Kidnapped by Trump Administration

Now’s a good time to mention this: I am joining the multitudes of laid-off scientists on October 1 due to shifts in funding priorities! I am looking for government, nonprofit, and industrial policy positions. If you have any you think might be a good fit, please DM me.

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Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000! If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign. You can do it anonymously!