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Scientist and science communicator Postdoc @ US EPA researching immunotoxicology Views are my own
Amidst all the drama at the EPA, we’re still trying to do science. Buying reagents has been prohibitively difficult, but on the bright side, we finally got some new supplies today! That we ordered on April 30…. Most of this is focusing fluid for our flow cytometer, nothing costly or unusual 🧪
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The Stanford Biology Preview Program
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Just a few more days until the deadline! If you're planning to apply to Bio-based PhD programs this year, considering joining us at the Biology Preview Program where we'll walk you through the PhD application process and help you polish you application materials! Apply here:
bit.ly/4n4Nxtu
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Not pictured: the small shout and large flinch when this spider—inevitably—jumped on me.
#jumpingspider
#macrophotography
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12 months ago
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Lauren Goode
about 1 year ago
Not an April Fool's joke: The CDC has been gutted. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a RIF.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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@leahfeiger.bsky.social
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The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/
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Whenever I move somewhere new, for some reason, people love to tell me about how bad their allergy season is. I do think North Carolina takes the cake though. Footprints and tire tracks in pollen is a whole new level.
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This weekend I went out in search of some fun things to look at on my microscope and found some flowers that I thought would be cute. And they are cute, but even better, they were COVERED in aphids. Probably not great for the plants, but a very fun surprise for me.
#microscopemondays
#microscopy
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about 1 year ago
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Think corn was the first crop to be domesticated in the US? Think again. 🌽 In my latest video for
@scishow.bsky.social
, I dive into the story of America’s lost crops—ancient plants that were farmed in what is now the US long before corn took over.
youtube.com/watch?v=VjFT...
#SciComm
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The Ancient Crops We've Forgotten How to Grow
YouTube video by SciShow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VjFT4PC8YIQ
about 1 year ago
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Eric Topol
about 1 year ago
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
for 356 new FDA drugs approved
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The wildflowers around my apartment are quickly becoming my favorite microscope muses 🧪
#microscopemondays
#microscopy
about 1 year ago
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Mark Cuban
about 1 year ago
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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One of my favorite tools for designing pretty graphics for my science is
coolors.co
which can help you build a color palette for your poster or figures. If you have some colors embedded in your work already (like these microscopy images I had) you can build a color scheme around them
#scicomm
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about 1 year ago
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This week I had been planning to attend the
@sotoxicology.bsky.social
annual meeting for the first time. However, DOGE had other plans. But the science-sharing must go on! So here is my poster plus a thread with some details of what I’ve been doing.
#2025SOT
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about 1 year ago
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The flowers have started blooming in North Carolina, including this teeny one I’ve seen popping up all over the place. 🧪
#microscopemondays
#microscopy
about 1 year ago
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Pine needles are much prettier than I realized
#MicroscopyMonday
#microscopemondays
#sciart
#microscopy
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about 1 year ago
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jp flores (he/him)
about 1 year ago
March 7
@standupforscience.bsky.social
happened. I now have a question. Reply to this thread w ur answers! What do we do with this momentum? Think innovative, creative, mundane, give us all your ideas. We have ideas, but this is for EVERYONE. I want everyone’s ideas.
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 1 year ago
NC friends of science. Join me tomorrow in Raleigh on Halifax Mall by the State Capitol for the Stand Up For Science Rally--talks begin at 12:30. Let's remind our neighbors and our politicians that science solves societal problems, develops disease treatments and creates jobs! 🧪 Please share
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 year ago
Science fuels economic opportunity—creating jobs, driving education, and supporting mobility. We're standing up for science to protect the critical infrastructure that makes this possible. Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th!
#scienceforall
#standupforscience2025
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Dandelions: basically tiny, fancy bouquets if you zoom in enough.
#MicroscopyMonday
#MicroscopeMondays
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about 1 year ago
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Made some signs tonight to get ready to
#standupforscience
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@standupforscience.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Cane toads are surprisingly good navigators and can travel home even when moved a kilometer away. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Take me home, country toads
Cane toads have remarkable navigation abilities, even when their sense of smell and magnetic-sensory systems are compromised.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00579-1
about 1 year ago
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🫠🫠 “Trump said the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, had said he might reduce headcount at that agency by 65%.” 🧪
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Musk to attend Trump cabinet meet as workers brace for more uncertainty
Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser tasked with radically downsizing the U.S. government, will attend President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting on Wednesday as turmoil continues to swirl around his plans to fire federal workers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-attend-trump-cabinet-meet-workers-brace-more-uncertainty-2025-02-26/
about 1 year ago
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 year ago
🚨⬇️🧵 What’s Going on With Medicaid? A Breakdown of Congress’s Budget Fight The House just passed a budget resolution that could lead to $880 billion in spending cuts—and Medicaid is on the chopping block. Here’s what you need to know:
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!
#EduSky
#STEMEd
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#MicroscopyMonday
🍄 🧪 The underside of this little fungus looks like a mini coral, which apparently means it’s toothed? Found growing on a log in North Carolina. I’m not sure what it is—any mycologists out there recognize it?
#Fungi
#Mycology
#Nature
#MicroWorld
#microscopemondays
over 1 year ago
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Stephanie Caty, PhD
500 Women Scientists
over 1 year ago
DOGE is slashing federal science jobs—harming public lands, research, & safety. See this thread for agency budgets & workforce details, then download state-specific info cards linked below. Call Congress & fight for science!
#FundScience
#SaveOurAgencies
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Beth Popp Berman
over 1 year ago
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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When you definitely should have thrown out the bouquet last week… but the fungi got a head start on decomposition. 🧪
#MicroscopeMondays
#MicroscopyMonday
over 1 year ago
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Want a break from the doom and gloom of the news? Please enjoy this video I wrote for
@scishow.bsky.social
about octopuses and their powers of persuasion
youtu.be/Ou-tbidf5GY?...
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The Octopuses Are Making Fish Armies
YouTube video by SciShow
https://youtu.be/Ou-tbidf5GY?si=sFDKPXYh8rMiUr49
over 1 year ago
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jp flores (he/him)
over 1 year ago
Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies
www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/r...
via
@statnews.com
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@samschuelstein.bsky.social
@emmalovesscience.bsky.social
@leslie-bern.bsky.social
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Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies
Stunned by attacks on the scientific research system, early career scientists plan a D.C. demonstration and a national ‘Stand Up for Science’ event.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/resistance-organizing-to-trump-executive-orders-on-science/
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During my PhD, I created Roots to STEM, a podcast about the many paths that lead to a career in science. Scientists come from all backgrounds, and meandering journeys are just as valid as direct ones. Sharing this as a resource for anyone who feels like they don’t belong in science.
over 1 year ago
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Matteo Farinella (he/him)
over 1 year ago
📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🔬 I made this short comic to explain what the
#NIH
cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of
#overheadcosts
are real people, doing important work!
#AcademicSky
#resist
#organize
#scicomm
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Some worm wiggles for your Monday morning 🧪
#microscopemondays
#microscopymonday
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over 1 year ago
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Cutting the indirect costs paid by the NIH will put an enormous cost burden on universities, cutting into resources available for doing the actual research. This move is a huge blow to scientific progress by American researchers. 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...
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Indirect research costs are complicated, wonky — and crucial to science
After two decades of work in biomedical research policy, there is no topic Carrie Wolinetz hates talking about more than indirect costs. She’s addressing them now because they are crucial.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/nih-indirect-cost-support-cut-facilities-administration-explanation/
over 1 year ago
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I’ll be live posting about this on Thursday from the
@sconc.bsky.social
account, but I recommend checking out the talk in person or virtually if you can make it! 🧪
#scicomm
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over 1 year ago
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A little ciliate from a stream near my house. If you look closely you can see the cilia beating along its body so that it can swim
#microscopemondays
#microscopymonday
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over 1 year ago
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In a time when America’s scientific institutions are being questioned, I want to highlight some of the important work the EPA does that often flies under the radar. Maybe this is common knowledge, but I had no idea the EPA did this kind of work until I saw my current position advertised.
#scicomm
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over 1 year ago
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The sphagnum moss from our Venus fly trap has some (very brief) Dune-style worm riding by a little mite
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over 1 year ago
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I asked for a microscope for Christmas so why not share some of what I’ve been looking at? 🧪 Suggestions for future things to image are very welcome
#microscopemondays
over 1 year ago
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Hello, little friend.
#invertebrates
#macrophotography
over 1 year ago
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Excited to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Current Biology - and it's an extra bonus to see it paired with a photo I took. These little frogs have been a central part of my life for the past six years, so it’s great to see them get some cover time. 🧪🐸🦠🧫
over 1 year ago
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Love this write up from
@jakebuehler.bsky.social
about my dissertation work.
www.sciencenews.org/article/bact...
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Toxin-gobbling bacteria may live on poison dart frog skin
Toxins on poison dart frog skin mold the skin's microbial community, boosting species variety and potentially even feeding some daredevil bacteria.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bacteria-eat-toxin-poison-frog-skin
over 1 year ago
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