A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize and make sense of the current moment for an everyday reader. Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact. - ThreadSky

marynmck.bsky.social • 2 days ago

A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize and make sense of the current moment for an everyday reader.
Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact.

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smarterthanawaffle.bsky.social•2 days ago

There is a woman in Kentucky who has a sewing channel called sew sew drew. I don't know her but I k ow she just go fired from her government job

mechteach.bsky.social•2 days ago

I believe that Jenifer Silk at the University of Pittsburgh had money taken away from her study on preventing suicide in LGBT teens.

omegamom.bsky.social•2 days ago

Saw this today. Grant funding cancelled, grant cancelled, four years of work, only two more months left:

jaxbeginsagain.bsky.social•2 days ago

I just saw a mother in a town hall speaking to her daughter with a rare illness and fighting to find the resources with the lab closing and Medicaid pulling back. Heartbreaking.

marynmck.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oof. Did you see that in person or on the news/socials?

jaxbeginsagain.bsky.social•2 days ago

googled, this is a different family similar issues:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/parents-of-children-with-disabilities-say-medicaid-cuts-will-put-livelihoods-kids-health-at-risk/3871381/

jaxbeginsagain.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly, I don't remember. It was horrific. Upstanding citizens, adopted kids, I think he was retired military she was articulate and fierce and making a case for her family.