Hannah
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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
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September 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Way too many emails today from second year PhD students who have to withdraw from our GRFP prep program, due to the eligibility change released today. All without any explanation, and weeks from the original deadline. Frustrated and heartbroken for these students.
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Way too many emails today from second year PhD students who have to withdraw from our GRFP prep program, due to the eligibility change released today. All without any explanation, and weeks from the original deadline. Frustrated and heartbroken for these students.
Damn it’s hard to top the feeling of teaching a super engaged class 🥰
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Damn it’s hard to top the feeling of teaching a super engaged class 🥰
I don’t know if I will ever get over how much I miss teaching. The start of the new school year always makes me an emotional mess.
August 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don’t know if I will ever get over how much I miss teaching. The start of the new school year always makes me an emotional mess.
A summary of my day:
• New carpet installation was canceled because apparently we have asbestos tiles in the basement 💸
• Found out our second embryo transfer was unsuccessful
• Tested positive for COVID!
Super awesome 🫠
• New carpet installation was canceled because apparently we have asbestos tiles in the basement 💸
• Found out our second embryo transfer was unsuccessful
• Tested positive for COVID!
Super awesome 🫠
a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by the words cool
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by the words cool
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July 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A summary of my day:
• New carpet installation was canceled because apparently we have asbestos tiles in the basement 💸
• Found out our second embryo transfer was unsuccessful
• Tested positive for COVID!
Super awesome 🫠
• New carpet installation was canceled because apparently we have asbestos tiles in the basement 💸
• Found out our second embryo transfer was unsuccessful
• Tested positive for COVID!
Super awesome 🫠
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It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.
Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters
Paying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system
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May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.
I felt the pop.
Felt the pain.
Have limited range of motion.
Went to the doctor and got diagnosed…
And still I keep wondering if I am “faking” my partial Achilles tear.
Oh silly little brain 🤦🏻♀️
Felt the pain.
Have limited range of motion.
Went to the doctor and got diagnosed…
And still I keep wondering if I am “faking” my partial Achilles tear.
Oh silly little brain 🤦🏻♀️
May 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I felt the pop.
Felt the pain.
Have limited range of motion.
Went to the doctor and got diagnosed…
And still I keep wondering if I am “faking” my partial Achilles tear.
Oh silly little brain 🤦🏻♀️
Felt the pain.
Have limited range of motion.
Went to the doctor and got diagnosed…
And still I keep wondering if I am “faking” my partial Achilles tear.
Oh silly little brain 🤦🏻♀️
Oh no, I wasn’t aware that review articles could induce vomiting 😂
April 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Oh no, I wasn’t aware that review articles could induce vomiting 😂
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
If daylight savings time has no haters, I’m dead.
March 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If daylight savings time has no haters, I’m dead.
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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.
Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.
Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
Every time I wear this sweater someone asks what the tigers are for. Ummm….they are for tigers being cool? 🐅
February 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Every time I wear this sweater someone asks what the tigers are for. Ummm….they are for tigers being cool? 🐅
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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"I think eventually people will die because of it." CU-Anschutz speaks out about the Trump administration's cutback of medical research funding. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. #copolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_n5...
Trump administration puts medical research in Colorado at risk
YouTube video by Next 9NEWS
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February 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"I think eventually people will die because of it." CU-Anschutz speaks out about the Trump administration's cutback of medical research funding. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. #copolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_n5...
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Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
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Women want me. Fish fear me. Fish want me. Women fear me. Women are fish, fish are fish. Phylogenetically, all vertebrates are fish.
February 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Women want me. Fish fear me. Fish want me. Women fear me. Women are fish, fish are fish. Phylogenetically, all vertebrates are fish.
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How much does Colorado get from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation?
Who gets federal research funding in Colorado? These two charts will show you.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation send tens of millions of dollars to Colorado universities every year.
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February 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
How much does Colorado get from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation?
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Much needed self-care night 💕
January 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Much needed self-care night 💕
Hit my 500th ballet class this week! And I still can’t do a decent fouetté turn 🫠 #adultballet
January 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hit my 500th ballet class this week! And I still can’t do a decent fouetté turn 🫠 #adultballet
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Regarding the attacks on “DEI”
at NASA especially..
at NASA especially..
January 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Regarding the attacks on “DEI”
at NASA especially..
at NASA especially..
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I miss when winter was cold 😢
December 26, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I miss when winter was cold 😢
I didn’t want to do an introduction post, but doing anything else feels weird for my first post….so here are 4 photos when I felt most like myself.
I’m a proud nerd, recreational ballet enthusiast, and ex-high school teacher who misses it every day. Hi! 👋🏻
I’m a proud nerd, recreational ballet enthusiast, and ex-high school teacher who misses it every day. Hi! 👋🏻
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I didn’t want to do an introduction post, but doing anything else feels weird for my first post….so here are 4 photos when I felt most like myself.
I’m a proud nerd, recreational ballet enthusiast, and ex-high school teacher who misses it every day. Hi! 👋🏻
I’m a proud nerd, recreational ballet enthusiast, and ex-high school teacher who misses it every day. Hi! 👋🏻