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Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v

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If your institution sent out an email about how we are not giving up on DEI two weeks ago but haven't sent out or planned anything for Black History Month, you have gotten the real meaning of that email now. This is the moment when we should be the most vocal about Diversity

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Are you a scientist interested in science communication but don’t know where to start? Ever wonder how a graduate student has time for outreach projects? Check out SCOPE! An org @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and I created! First panel on creating children’s books and podcasts is today at 1pm ET 😊🧪

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UAW statement on NIH freezes. uaw.org/uaw-statemen...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

To all us NIH grant holders: we must prioritize diversity ideals, even if the current goverment doesn't. Double down on making STEM open to all. We hold the dollars so we still have power. Never forget that you are not the powerless.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure why, but a few people started following me in the past few days so I guess it is a good day to reskeet my introduction post... Also, you will be on a possible unapologetically queer, immigrant ride, with occasionally science posts.

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The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 31 days ago • 132 comments

This week, amidst a broader purge of LGTBQ-mentioning materials from federal health sites, NIAID deleted its HIV Language Guide, an important reference on destigmatizing, people-first terminology. But it's still a public domain document, so we reposted it on TheBody: www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

1. Sabotage public institutions. 2. Claim they don’t work efficiently. 3. Eliminate them. — That’s the playbook.

submitted 32 days ago • 104 comments

I'm asking cis people: when people use mixed pronouns - such as he/they or she/they - please make the effort to use both. There's a trope: a he/they or she/they is never called "they"; I notice, & appreciate, when people make the effort.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

There’s no way to know how NIH is going to implement the gender EO, but no matter what happens, it’s important that we not participate in the attempted administrative erasure of trans people. We need to continue to report data as is standard in our fields, including gender identity where applicable.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who grew up in Austria I am really concerned about the apparent lack of concern. y'all should distribute the small book 'Biedermann und die Brandstifter' by Max Frisch ("The Fire Raisers: A Morality Without a Moral,"), which lays it out in detail. 🧵

submitted 34 days ago • 54 comments

Being called "favorite gay scientist" from the high school intern is so sweet!

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📢UCLA is recruiting an open rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty position in the basic sciences! (see link below) #AcademicTwitter 💫✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

It's an incredible honor to receive the IDEA Award, and it wouldn't have been possible without my friend and collaborator on the Queer in STEM project, Dr. Allison Mattheis, as well as the backing of @outtoinnovate.bsky.social president Dr. Rochelle Diamond, who pushed for my nomination

submitted 67 days ago • 23 comments

One month to officially submit the reimbursement (after I provided all documentation for the conference I attended) and one more month (at least) sitting with HR to review and approve the cost. Luckily, I did not charge on my personal credit card

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Green cells!!!

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"In naming ... lenacapavir as the 2024 #BOTY, Science acknowledges the next, but by no means final, step in the drive to fight HIV/AIDS, where the rigors of the laboratory and the needs of humanity are inseparable," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in this week's #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4g9kjG4

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year is lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/3BrCtUn

submitted 74 days ago • 18 comments

Second co-corrisponding preprint is out! In collaboration with Alessandra Sacco group, we manage to double the yield of PAX7+ SMPCs generated in vitro and to mature them to a postnatal stage by modulation JAK2/STAT3 signaling. Thanks to CIRM and MDA for their support #myosky #myogenesis #DMD

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Modulation of the JAK2-STAT3 pathway promotes expansion and maturation of human iPSCs-derived myogenic progenitor cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.624203v1

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 76 days ago • 15 comments

E-box independent chromatin recruitment turns MYOD into a transcriptional repressor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.627024v1

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

New Preprint from Puri lab and first co-corresponding manuscript for me! Big thanks to all the collaborators. #transcription #myoskeet #myogenesis #3Dgenome #superenhancers a skeetorial will come soon :) now it is time to celebrate!!! 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Trans lives matter. This is non-negotiable, motherfuckers

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Surprised, but not that much, on the lack of options for gender identities in the faculty applications portals: M/F/Not wish to answer But all of you want to recruit the most diverse population and are inclusive of all the gender identities. 🙄 #lgbtqinstem #diversity #dei

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

While waiting for a couple of announcements 🤞🏼🤞🏼 and to not think about the lack of replies on my applications, here is an Italian Merengue

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $750 in travel funding to present their work at the Spring @amerchemsociety.bsky.social Natl Meeting or Pittcon? Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 13, 2025. acsanalytical.org/kolthoff-tra...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of free professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

submitted 93 days ago • 45 comments

The nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense should give all Americans pause. Not only the allegation of sexual assault but also his retrograde views of women and his bizarre right wing conspiracy theories outlined in his books. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 94 days ago • 57 comments

The fantastic @shaunoboyle.bsky.social has put together a vast list linking many studies and reports focusing on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM. You can read it here. prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder for scientist: don't use red+green LUTs. Make your images and videos colorblind friendly. Run them through one of many tools available to make them accessible 🧪 #microscopy

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

Swastika on campus was not on my life bingo card...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

In 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, one of the earliest and staunchest oppositors of fascism in Italy was killed by the fascism secret police. Political opposition abandoned the Parliament, in a move that became known as "Scissione dell'Aventino"

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Proletariato unito no mas sara vencido

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