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Volunteering with WIS PDX offers professional development, gaining skills in budgeting, data analysis, and leadership, promoting career growth in a supportive environment. Strengthening community connections for mutual benefits. Support WIS PDX volunteers today buff.ly/jb2CKQw. #SupportScience

Looking for financial support for a conference, course, or workshop? WIS PDX provides $500 scholarship for STEM grad students in Oregon and SW Washington. Funds cover costs for professional development activities #STEMScholarships. Apply at buff.ly/pj9wabn by 10/31 #WomenInScience #STEMScholarships

Meet Dr. Jennifer Lincoln—OB-GYN, author, and advocate empowering people to understand their bodies + reproductive health. Hear her at the next WIS PDX event: Science Can’t Wait 9/18, 6–8:30pm. 🎟️ buff.ly/7DORbDZ
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White text over a black background; “Give Cancer Hell” An OHSU Knight Cancer Institute logo is placed below.

The top text reads: Cancer is the biggest fight in the history of the world. We will win. It will be hard. We're built for it. We care. Every breath. Of every second. Of every day. Great things come from the most unexpected places. Look around. We're surrounded by heroes. This is not a job. This is our life. Cancer does not discriminate. Neither will we. Bold moves only. Cancer doesn't see us coming. We will outlast, and we will outwit it. This fight is and always will be personal. "GIVE CANCER HELL." in bold at the bottom.

Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally.

Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity.

#GiveCancerHell

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Huge congratulations to Sarah LaPotin from the lab for winning a poster prize at #IZFC2025!!

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here:
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Woo great!! It's been too long!

Yay!!! Big congrats - you absolutely deserve it! Thank you for all the support during my time as a Kwantourage member and now after! Let's celebrate - this week!??

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Trump’s proposed $23 billion in cuts to NIH & NSF could cost the U.S. economy at least $10 billion a year, according to new research. Public science funding drives innovation, productivity, and long-term growth. Slashing it isn’t saving money; it’s losing our future. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research

www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

Fareed’s Take: Trump is gutting what made American science great YouTube video by CNN

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...

I cannot stress how extremely detrimental this would be to the progress of biomedical science.

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

ALERT

The expiration dates for the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for the PARENT F30, F31, and F32 awards have been changed to May 8, 2025.

To my knowledge, no new NOFOs have been posted.

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What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists? Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute).

"let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔

www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

Thanks to everyone who joined our final #GenderPayGap seminar! 💬 Powerful stories from Astrid Kurniawan, Zhou Fang & Kathryn Rotondo, moderated by CiCi Kalous. Watch the panel here (buff.ly/wulg8kT) + more info at our website. #GenderPayGap #WISPDXCourageCampaign #EquityInSTEM

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.

When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article) Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research."

The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

🎟 Registration is LIVE! 🎟 Join us for Brave Voices from Women in Science on April 24th at 6PM at the Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center. Learn about pay discrimination and self-advocacy from three inspiring speakers. 📢 Register here: buff.ly/ish8jcB #RegisterNow #WomenInSTEM #EqualPayDay

BSDB - The Fascinating World of Developmental Biology (full length) In this half-hour long documentary we showcase some of the beauty, as well as the translatability, of developmental biology research being undertaken current...

Are you enjoying all the exciting science at #biologists100? Want to spread the love of developmental biology to your friends and family? Together with @bsdb.bsky.social, we've produced a documentary video to showcase the fascinating world of #DevBio:

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#EqualPayDay #PayTransparency #WomenInSTEM

Portland area friends! Join me next month to listen to three women’s journeys in overcoming the gender wage gap and the actions they took to fight for pay equity!

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

NIH is the best investment there is.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...