Amanda
@fat-thumbs.bsky.social
Queer leftist dog mom & foster in PA.
Scientific editor for public health manuscripts and grant proposals.
Black lives matter. No human is illegal. Eff the patriarchy.
Posts are mine & do not represent the views of my employer.
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Scientific editor for public health manuscripts and grant proposals.
Black lives matter. No human is illegal. Eff the patriarchy.
Posts are mine & do not represent the views of my employer.
🏳🌈🔵🐕🌻🔏
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I'm a @motherjones.com reporter looking to speak with federal workers (past and present) at SAMHSA, particularly those whose portfolios included substance use disorder/fentanyl/opioids. My signal is abbyvesoulis.09. As always, you can remain anonymous. 🙏
July 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm a @motherjones.com reporter looking to speak with federal workers (past and present) at SAMHSA, particularly those whose portfolios included substance use disorder/fentanyl/opioids. My signal is abbyvesoulis.09. As always, you can remain anonymous. 🙏
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ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F
1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...
1/n
1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...
1/n
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F
1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...
1/n
1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...
1/n
T32 folks, who else is up in the middle of the night web-stalking former trainees and trying to figure out whether a person you didn't interview in 2021 was a US citizen or not?
Just me?
You all were responsible and did this a long time ago?
That's what I figured, just checking! 🤭
Just me?
You all were responsible and did this a long time ago?
That's what I figured, just checking! 🤭
May 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
T32 folks, who else is up in the middle of the night web-stalking former trainees and trying to figure out whether a person you didn't interview in 2021 was a US citizen or not?
Just me?
You all were responsible and did this a long time ago?
That's what I figured, just checking! 🤭
Just me?
You all were responsible and did this a long time ago?
That's what I figured, just checking! 🤭
T32 folks: Heard a rumor that T32s are not being competitively renewed if the mentors/program faculty have grants outside of the agency you're applying to. Anyone else heard this? Is it agency-specific or all NIH? Can a mentor have grants at target inst + others? or no others at all?
May 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
T32 folks: Heard a rumor that T32s are not being competitively renewed if the mentors/program faculty have grants outside of the agency you're applying to. Anyone else heard this? Is it agency-specific or all NIH? Can a mentor have grants at target inst + others? or no others at all?
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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
I keep seeing this statistic that *peaceful protests succeed more than spicier actions.*
I have questions.
Can anyone who knows more than I do about these things explain it to me like I'm five?
1/4
I have questions.
Can anyone who knows more than I do about these things explain it to me like I'm five?
1/4
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I keep seeing this statistic that *peaceful protests succeed more than spicier actions.*
I have questions.
Can anyone who knows more than I do about these things explain it to me like I'm five?
1/4
I have questions.
Can anyone who knows more than I do about these things explain it to me like I'm five?
1/4
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Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
April 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
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This keeps getting worse and worse.
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This keeps getting worse and worse.
NIH folks: They're flagging grant proposals for having "forbidden words" in biosketches.
Q1: How likely do we think it is that they'll pull things out of PubMed/NCBI?
Q2: If they do , we'd be expecting both journals with [words] in their titles and individual article titles with [words], right?
Q1: How likely do we think it is that they'll pull things out of PubMed/NCBI?
Q2: If they do , we'd be expecting both journals with [words] in their titles and individual article titles with [words], right?
March 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
NIH folks: They're flagging grant proposals for having "forbidden words" in biosketches.
Q1: How likely do we think it is that they'll pull things out of PubMed/NCBI?
Q2: If they do , we'd be expecting both journals with [words] in their titles and individual article titles with [words], right?
Q1: How likely do we think it is that they'll pull things out of PubMed/NCBI?
Q2: If they do , we'd be expecting both journals with [words] in their titles and individual article titles with [words], right?
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Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
March 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
Bluesky needs to get us a reaction other than "like." Maybe something like "sense of doom increasing" or "I'd be shocked if I were still capable of experiencing shock."
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Bluesky needs to get us a reaction other than "like." Maybe something like "sense of doom increasing" or "I'd be shocked if I were still capable of experiencing shock."
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Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members!
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March 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members!
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Re-reading Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom for a book club. She's been right about everything forever. Follow her. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Re-reading Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom for a book club. She's been right about everything forever. Follow her. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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One way to understand what’s happening is that Republicans want to do to academia - colleges, universities, science, medical research - what they did to labor.
March 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One way to understand what’s happening is that Republicans want to do to academia - colleges, universities, science, medical research - what they did to labor.
If you see stories about Teslas on fire, be sure not to commit the sin of empathy.
March 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you see stories about Teslas on fire, be sure not to commit the sin of empathy.
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Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
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Dear Dems,
Here’s the new assignment…👇
Get busy!
Signed, Blue America 🇺🇸
You. Better. Get. Crackin’. 😎✨
Here’s the new assignment…👇
Get busy!
Signed, Blue America 🇺🇸
You. Better. Get. Crackin’. 😎✨
March 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Dear Dems,
Here’s the new assignment…👇
Get busy!
Signed, Blue America 🇺🇸
You. Better. Get. Crackin’. 😎✨
Here’s the new assignment…👇
Get busy!
Signed, Blue America 🇺🇸
You. Better. Get. Crackin’. 😎✨
OK but can we just give Canada a free trial of our annexation plan for one election cycle, then they can opt back out and keep the senate seats as a free gift?
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March 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
OK but can we just give Canada a free trial of our annexation plan for one election cycle, then they can opt back out and keep the senate seats as a free gift?
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And now back to our regularly scheduled "Data and Concern" segment...
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March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
And now back to our regularly scheduled "Data and Concern" segment...
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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week?
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
February 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week?
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
If a woman's in government showed up for a tv appearance holding her young child there would be an uproar. Elon can do it, and women can't. This is why we need DEI.
February 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
If a woman's in government showed up for a tv appearance holding her young child there would be an uproar. Elon can do it, and women can't. This is why we need DEI.
Our senators have been holding the floor all night to hold off the vought confirmation vote. If I remember correctly they can't sit, can't drink, and can't stop talking.
Chris Murphy is on now. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
They're trying. 💪
Chris Murphy is on now. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
They're trying. 💪
U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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February 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Our senators have been holding the floor all night to hold off the vought confirmation vote. If I remember correctly they can't sit, can't drink, and can't stop talking.
Chris Murphy is on now. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
They're trying. 💪
Chris Murphy is on now. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
They're trying. 💪
So I think we might be at the "stock the pantry with canned goods and withdraw cash from the bank" stage of capitalism...
February 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
So I think we might be at the "stock the pantry with canned goods and withdraw cash from the bank" stage of capitalism...
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Dude. I'm Pissed.
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What The F***?!
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January 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Dude. I'm Pissed.
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youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...
November 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM