Nadia McLean
@heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
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Washington State University |Neuroscience PhD Candidate 🧠 | Rossi Lab | Electrophysiology, Animal Behavior, Addictions Neuroscience | ARCS Fellow | KU Alum💙❤️ (she/her)
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heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
1. My paper was accepted in Neuropharmacology 🐁🧠
2. @ericwinzenried.bsky.social had his NIH grant reinstated 🤓📄
3. #thelovehypothesis announced it is being turned into a movie 🧑🏻‍🔬💕👩‍🔬

It's been quite the day of good news!
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standupforscience.bsky.social
👀 Currently at 586 signatures! WOW!

📈 Can we get to 1000 signatures by 5pm et? (This would really help part 2 of our 5 point action plan...)

✍️ SIGN AND SHARE, DORKS!

#StandUpforScience
#SummerFightforScience
standupforscience.bsky.social
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
"Someday you're going to miss your time in grad school" I tell myself as I leave lab at 10:45pm with my pants covered in mouse plasma that I spilled 😮‍💨😅
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heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
See ya at noon #standupforscience2025
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sufspullman.bsky.social
‼️📢📢Get ready to #Standupforscience #Pullman with us and make some signs!! 🪧
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sufspullman.bsky.social
Science is actively being attacked by the Trump administration. We need to stand against these threats. There has already been massive firing of federal workers (affecting WSU USDA PIs directly), threats to cut research funding, censorship of DEI research and freezes to government research at NIH.
heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
PULLMAN! We officially have an event! Help spread the word and #standupforscience2025
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standupforscience.bsky.social
☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Washington!

Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #washington
Washington photo and text that says "looking for washington volunteers"
heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
In a time where the news/internet/life brings negativity and stress, Dungeons and Drag Queens has been a source of light. If you need a good full belly laugh, this series is it 👑🧝🧚
dimension20.bsky.social
The final Adventuring Party talkback for Dimension 20: Dungeons & Drag Queens season 2 is out now on @dropouttv.bsky.social 👇
heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
A fleece lined lab coat feels appropriate 💅
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant

We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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joshgerstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
So rude to interrupt a Kendrick concert with a football game
heyaitsnadia.bsky.social
It's so sad to see mechanisms built to improve diversity in science are now actively punishing anyone from an underrepresented background. This is unacceptable.
miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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doctorzen.net
Worst week for science EVER.

Sunday: ASM scrubs DEI mentions from website.

Tue: NASA scrubs DEI from website; ICE arrests a student on campus; NSF plans to cut staff; USAID halted.

Wed: HHMI kills diversity program; NIH trashes applications for diversity F grants.

Fri: NIH cuts indirects.