LisaLHunter
@brainear.bsky.social
Pediatric hearing scientist, audiologist, neurodevelopmental disabilities research. PI of CARLab, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Ohio, US. In free time, artist, cyclist, hiker. Views are my own, not my employer’s.
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LisaLHunter
@brainear.bsky.social
· Mar 2
Francis Collins retires from NIH leaving a vast legacy. He discovered the genetic origin of cystic fibrosis and led the human genome project. I was lucky to see his keynote address and heartfelt song - I’m not giving up - in 2019 at the CF conf. #NIH #FrancisCollins
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Impact of visual and auditory deprivation on speech perception: an EEG study academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Investigated the impact of auditory & visual deprivation on MMN, P3a, P2, N2b in congenitally blind individuals, cochlear implant (CI) users & normal-hearing controls.
Impact of visual and auditory deprivation on speech perception: an EEG study
Abstract. This study investigated the impact of auditory and visual deprivation on speech processing by analyzing auditory evoked potentials (MMN, P3a, P2,
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April 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Impact of visual and auditory deprivation on speech perception: an EEG study academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Investigated the impact of auditory & visual deprivation on MMN, P3a, P2, N2b in congenitally blind individuals, cochlear implant (CI) users & normal-hearing controls.
April 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Updated estimates now put turnout at 1.55 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us!
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Updated estimates now put turnout at 1.55 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us!
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"The consolidation/RIF plan pulls power away from scientists and puts it in the hands of political employees. It sets up Trump and Musk to kill NIH as an evidence-based science funder. We must stop this plan."
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
The NIH firing plan is really a radical institute merger and an authoritarian takeover
this is an Orbanization of US science: a move to exert political control over discovery, which will kill the US medical research industry and end cancer cures. The plan must be stopped. We can act.
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"The consolidation/RIF plan pulls power away from scientists and puts it in the hands of political employees. It sets up Trump and Musk to kill NIH as an evidence-based science funder. We must stop this plan."
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health
A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
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Demonizing the only people trying to help is a convenient way to assist your own enemy.
-Democrats wanted to protect us from this.
-The DNC had 200 speakers warning us of this.
-Kamala worked for 107 days straight to travel the country & fight for us.
Voters stayed home anyway. 🗳️ This is on YOU.
-Democrats wanted to protect us from this.
-The DNC had 200 speakers warning us of this.
-Kamala worked for 107 days straight to travel the country & fight for us.
Voters stayed home anyway. 🗳️ This is on YOU.
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Demonizing the only people trying to help is a convenient way to assist your own enemy.
-Democrats wanted to protect us from this.
-The DNC had 200 speakers warning us of this.
-Kamala worked for 107 days straight to travel the country & fight for us.
Voters stayed home anyway. 🗳️ This is on YOU.
-Democrats wanted to protect us from this.
-The DNC had 200 speakers warning us of this.
-Kamala worked for 107 days straight to travel the country & fight for us.
Voters stayed home anyway. 🗳️ This is on YOU.
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Joined @pien-huang.bsky.social and Rob Stein on Short Wave to talk through how the first 50 days of the Trump administration has harmed science. It's a firehose of an episode.
www.npr.org/2025/03/11/1...
www.npr.org/2025/03/11/1...
How the Trump administration is halting scientific research : Short Wave
In its first 50 days, the Trump administration made sweeping changes to scientific arms of the government like the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the National Institutes of He...
www.npr.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Joined @pien-huang.bsky.social and Rob Stein on Short Wave to talk through how the first 50 days of the Trump administration has harmed science. It's a firehose of an episode.
www.npr.org/2025/03/11/1...
www.npr.org/2025/03/11/1...
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Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
March 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
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🚨Reminder! 🚨Republicans are behind closed doors right now trying to figure out how to cut 880 billion from medicaid. Medicaid covers 41% of births in the US millions of children, and millions of people with disabilities. Keep up the pressure! Call your electeds!
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
🚨Reminder! 🚨Republicans are behind closed doors right now trying to figure out how to cut 880 billion from medicaid. Medicaid covers 41% of births in the US millions of children, and millions of people with disabilities. Keep up the pressure! Call your electeds!
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Excellent coverage from Nature about LGBT+, gender identity, and DEI grants termination.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Excellent coverage from Nature about LGBT+, gender identity, and DEI grants termination.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trade deficit is up.
Stock market is crashing.
Gas prices are rising.
Consumer confidence is down.
Grocery costs are soaring.
Trump is terrible at managing the economy.
Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.
Stock market is crashing.
Gas prices are rising.
Consumer confidence is down.
Grocery costs are soaring.
Trump is terrible at managing the economy.
Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.
March 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Trade deficit is up.
Stock market is crashing.
Gas prices are rising.
Consumer confidence is down.
Grocery costs are soaring.
Trump is terrible at managing the economy.
Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.
Stock market is crashing.
Gas prices are rising.
Consumer confidence is down.
Grocery costs are soaring.
Trump is terrible at managing the economy.
Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.
Francis Collins retires from NIH leaving a vast legacy. He discovered the genetic origin of cystic fibrosis and led the human genome project. I was lucky to see his keynote address and heartfelt song - I’m not giving up - in 2019 at the CF conf. #NIH #FrancisCollins
March 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Francis Collins retires from NIH leaving a vast legacy. He discovered the genetic origin of cystic fibrosis and led the human genome project. I was lucky to see his keynote address and heartfelt song - I’m not giving up - in 2019 at the CF conf. #NIH #FrancisCollins
We need to speak up clearly as Americans. This horrific display was setup by Trump and Putin to destroy any hope of peace and security for Ukraine. Trump is a traitor, an embarrassment to the US, our history, and our allies. Left to run amok, he will destroy the world to satisfy his greed and ego.
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We need to speak up clearly as Americans. This horrific display was setup by Trump and Putin to destroy any hope of peace and security for Ukraine. Trump is a traitor, an embarrassment to the US, our history, and our allies. Left to run amok, he will destroy the world to satisfy his greed and ego.
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Scientists, please just READ what Jay Bhattacharya has said in public. It is bad.
www.techdirt.com/202...
www.techdirt.com/202...
For Bhattacharya, Free Speech Means Freedom To Defund Dissenters
Over at MSNBC, I have a new piece debunking the false claims from many that Donald Trump’s pick to run the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, is somehow taking over the government age…
www.techdirt.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Scientists, please just READ what Jay Bhattacharya has said in public. It is bad.
www.techdirt.com/202...
www.techdirt.com/202...
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🧪The Atlantic: The continuation of the NIH freeze “is unambiguously unlawful,” David Super, an administrative law expert at Yale University and Georgetown University, told me...“If they’re holding (the money appropriated by Congress) back for policy reasons,” Super said, “they’re violating the law."
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🧪The Atlantic: The continuation of the NIH freeze “is unambiguously unlawful,” David Super, an administrative law expert at Yale University and Georgetown University, told me...“If they’re holding (the money appropriated by Congress) back for policy reasons,” Super said, “they’re violating the law."
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Coming soon, World Hearing Day is Monday, March 3! We are amplifying the message of safe listening and preventing hearing loss while also, more than ever, committed to funding hearing and balance scientists.💪 #hearing #health #science #research #worldhearingday @who.int #loveyourears #keeplistening
February 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Coming soon, World Hearing Day is Monday, March 3! We are amplifying the message of safe listening and preventing hearing loss while also, more than ever, committed to funding hearing and balance scientists.💪 #hearing #health #science #research #worldhearingday @who.int #loveyourears #keeplistening
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Call your reps NOW. Cutting Medicaid is a non-starter.
(202) 224-3121
(202) 224-3121
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Call your reps NOW. Cutting Medicaid is a non-starter.
(202) 224-3121
(202) 224-3121
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Public trust in government is critical.
Having unelected billionaires fire public servants to pad their own profits destroys that trust.
Having unelected billionaires fire public servants to pad their own profits destroys that trust.
What Elon Musk Isn't Telling You About DOGE
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Public trust in government is critical.
Having unelected billionaires fire public servants to pad their own profits destroys that trust.
Having unelected billionaires fire public servants to pad their own profits destroys that trust.
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TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎
A photo I took hiking to Delicate Arch, Arches NP Utah. Or, a giant representation of the stapes, disarticulated. #ArchesNP #ProtectOurNP #DelicateSrch
February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A photo I took hiking to Delicate Arch, Arches NP Utah. Or, a giant representation of the stapes, disarticulated. #ArchesNP #ProtectOurNP #DelicateSrch
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Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...
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Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...
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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
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February 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
IMPORTANT
Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...
Please share!
Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...
Please share!