Rachel A
@rxchxl.bsky.social
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started / How it’s going
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I sometimes struggle to identify what my biggest issue is with NIH Director Bhattacharya: his lying, lack of qualification, corruption, sycophancy, or extremism. But this is a big one:
He’s so ignorant about how NIH works that it’s completely and totally embarrassing.
He’s so ignorant about how NIH works that it’s completely and totally embarrassing.
I hope everyone is having a good Fourth of July break. Here is how I ended up spending some of mine...
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July 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I sometimes struggle to identify what my biggest issue is with NIH Director Bhattacharya: his lying, lack of qualification, corruption, sycophancy, or extremism. But this is a big one:
He’s so ignorant about how NIH works that it’s completely and totally embarrassing.
He’s so ignorant about how NIH works that it’s completely and totally embarrassing.
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NEWS this morning: Hundreds of NIH workers sent a sharply worded letter to Trump officials this morning protesting their actions regarding the agency, saying they are causing a "dramatic reduction in life-saving research.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’ - KFF Health News
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers — some still working, others who were fired this year — is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bha...
kffhealthnews.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEWS this morning: Hundreds of NIH workers sent a sharply worded letter to Trump officials this morning protesting their actions regarding the agency, saying they are causing a "dramatic reduction in life-saving research.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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It has quotes from Senators talking about the value of research.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It has quotes from Senators talking about the value of research.
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I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers.
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"We are on the precipice of being able to end HIV in our country," ISGMH's @mustanski.bsky.social tells @axios.com.
"We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...
"We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...
"We will have more HIV cases": Chicago researcher discusses NIH cuts
Leading LGBTQ+ researcher says Trump administration funding cuts could have widespread impact.
www.axios.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"We are on the precipice of being able to end HIV in our country," ISGMH's @mustanski.bsky.social tells @axios.com.
"We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...
"We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...
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2025 is just me screaming “what the FUCK” at my phone again and again
April 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
2025 is just me screaming “what the FUCK” at my phone again and again
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A lot of great people doing important work just lost their jobs because the most destructive, bigoted, willfully ignorant people in the world have targeted them. Here's what you can do to support yourself or anyone you know who lost a job. Please add your own advice at the end of the thread <1/n>
April 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A lot of great people doing important work just lost their jobs because the most destructive, bigoted, willfully ignorant people in the world have targeted them. Here's what you can do to support yourself or anyone you know who lost a job. Please add your own advice at the end of the thread <1/n>
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For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
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Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
March 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
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“Shithole country”
March 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“Shithole country”
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By executive order: The likely deadly consequences associated with a 90-day pause in PEPFAR funding
"estimate that a 90-day pause in funding and concomitant interruption of ART could result in over 100,000 excess HIV-related deaths over the subsequent year."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"estimate that a 90-day pause in funding and concomitant interruption of ART could result in over 100,000 excess HIV-related deaths over the subsequent year."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
By executive order: The likely deadly consequences associated with a 90-day pause in PEPFAR funding
"estimate that a 90-day pause in funding and concomitant interruption of ART could result in over 100,000 excess HIV-related deaths over the subsequent year."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"estimate that a 90-day pause in funding and concomitant interruption of ART could result in over 100,000 excess HIV-related deaths over the subsequent year."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence
February 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence
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Annual reminder that if you don’t have a specific Girl Scout to buy cookies from, Troop 6000 (based in NYC shelters) can use the support.
www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Annual reminder that if you don’t have a specific Girl Scout to buy cookies from, Troop 6000 (based in NYC shelters) can use the support.
www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
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Every day like
February 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Every day like
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️