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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social · 29d

ICYMI My new picture book, SPARK, received a great review in Kirkus Reviews 🎉

Coming to bookstores on 10/21/25 via Candlewick Press 🎤

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

#STEM #sciencematters #picturebooks #kidsbooks #hiddenfigures #Blackscientist #Blackprofessor

SPARK | Kirkus Reviews

A warm salute to an undersung Black scientist.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 16

SWAT Team Robot Successfully Dismantles Black Man
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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 16

I’m begging neuroscientists to please decide if “Population Neuroscience” will henceforth refer to groups of people or groups of neurons 😭😭

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 14

🤎🤲🏾✨

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 14

Chicago ✊

Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 14

My best friend was there 🥹👏🏾👏🏾

Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · Jun 14

#Nokings
San Diego

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 14

Why does Delta airlines label me Mrs? Not that they need to know my marital status at all, bc it’s Dr!

Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 14

What happens if you wear an overnight lip balm in the daytime? Do all nighttime products need SPF to make them safe in the sun?

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Pittsburgh showing up to say No Kings!

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Jun 14

Whatever ancient secret South Africans have in their music, I hope it never dies. Any genre they touch turns to gold.

I’m just blessed to be on the same planet to hear it 🙏🏾😩

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Vic Hurtowy @vichurtowy.bsky.social · Jun 9

True story bro.

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · May 28

Check me out! Won last year's Young Explorer Award from AAAS/Science and I get to present my work in Switzerland next week 😎 youngexploreraward.nomisfoundation.ch

NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award – 2024 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · May 28

Sooo everyone else in my F99/K00 fellowship got their termination notices but I didn’t. My work *and* my mechanism are both DEI

What gives?

Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · May 19

i cant agree more. let’s get some crunch in there, tf

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 2

In a blow to many foreign medical researchers who rely on U.S. funding, the NIH has announced that by the end of September, it will halt what are known as “foreign subawards,” in which U.S. researchers share their grant money with overseas collaborators. scim.ag/42UpRyQ

‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage

Agency will make researchers outside United States seek grants of their own rather than “subawards” from U.S. scientists

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · May 3

HOW DO YOU DE-FUND PBS, NPR, NSF, NIH, FDA, CDC, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION??? LIKE WHAT ELSE IS THERE??????????? PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE POST OFFICE????

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · May 2

Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · May 1

Just thinking about how there's literally a BROADWAY MUSICAL about why we needed to enact the Food & Drug Act.

War Paint, Starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, Ends Broadway Run November 5

The closing will allow two-time Tony winner LuPone to undergo immediate hip replacement surgery.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · May 2

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants

Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

www.nature.com

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Apr 23

WHAT (and i cannot emphasize this enough) THEE FUCK

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Apr 18

I'm personally working on putting my time where my values lie. I'll be attending. mobilize.us/s/TXzddI

Democracy Movement Call · Declaration for American Democracy Coalition

The House has passed the dangerous SAVE Act, but the fight isn’t over. It’s time to move together. Join us for a national movement call to break down what’s at stake, connect the dots between federal...

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Defiant Jazz (aka Dr. Kwasa) @jkwasa.bsky.social · Apr 17

Clocked that too. smh

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Apr 16

SfN reversed their decision, THE WORKSHOP IS ON, it will center around communicating neuroscience to non-English speaking communities, see you at SfN 2025!!!!

Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 15

It Only Tuesday

WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...

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