Dr Kathleen Millen

OMG! Terrible!

thank you!!!!

Seriously people. Don't make me have to blow up your figures on my huge screen to try to read your data when I'm reviewing it. This keeps happening. I'm not superhuman, I don't have super human vision. Be reasonable. Small figures save space in grants but they really piss off reviewers!!!

The reductions in the number of new and competing renewal R01s by topic (based on simple searches in NIH Reporter).

The cuts are across the board: Cancer down 24%, Alzheimer down 45%, Obesity down 29%, Child by 21%.

Transgender was down by 84% but represents only a small number of grants.

I cannot stop thinking of all the amazing and wonderful people I have known from Israel, Iran, Lebanon and other countries caught up in this war. It is people just like them who are being killed and harmed here.

Excellent work by @markhisted.org and Natalie Aviles!

LinkedIn post to hire a new ethics leader with the office of the director.

These are comments that notice the irony.

This is going as well as expected. I can't imagine how managing the director's lack of ethics would be fun. #NIH

#ScienceJobs

#ScienceJobs

#ScienceJobs

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency Gender gaps in grant funding are attributable to less favourable assessments of women as principal investigators, not of the quality of their proposed research. We discuss reasons less favourable asse...

“These data support the second of our alternative hypotheses; namely, that gender gaps in funding stem from female principal investigators being evaluated less favourably than male principal investigators, not from differences in evaluations of the quality of their proposals.”

Yes! But permanent standard time, not permanent daylight savings time!

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency Gender gaps in grant funding are attributable to less favourable assessments of women as principal investigators, not of the quality of their proposed research. We discuss reasons less favourable asse...

It's crucial to confront the systemic barriers women face in research. This study shows that gender gaps in grant funding persist not because of research quality, but because women receive less favourable assessments as PIs. We can and must change this.
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Congratulations!!

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!

Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:

1. Remove RFK Jr.

2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.

3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.

Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7

Thanks to the organizers and speakers who reminded us

🧪 Standing up for Science means standing up for scientists

🧪Science is critical to our national security

🧪We can say NO together

#standupforscience by

Merci!

🚨All of you scientists submitting grants & papers: don't make me have to blow up your figures on my 43inch monitor to try to decipher your data! Even when it is magnified I can barely read details because the PDFs have no resolution. RULE #1 for grants and papers....don't piss off your reviewer!

Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Its time to impeach: actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

🔬✊ One year later, we #StandUpForScience again.

Attacks multiply. Funding shrinks. But our determination doesn't.

Science isn't opinion, it's the foundation of democracy.

Institut Pasteur researchers are mobilizing. Join us.

#StandUpForScience2026 #ScienceMatters #ResearchMatters

This middle part of the thread points to specific examples of potential/ongoing automation of ideology-driven evaluation, i.e., using tools to screen for alignment with administration priorities. There are significant implications here for oversight of what is unfolding with NIH grants & reviews.

I salute you!

Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

Thanks I need it as a reference set and I'm lazy to do it myself if it already exists. My pathology friends like H&E over cresyl violet for some reason.

@dev-journal.bsky.social does the same!

A delightful 🧵to brighten your day!

This 🧵thread made my day: fun adventure in the midst of ongoing terrible news. Keep us posted! As an aside - a small plastic bear and small dinosaur have spent the last 4 years finding every hiding place possible in our kitchen at home. As one person finds them they are rehidden. Great family fun.

SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!

Question for 🐁🧠🧪🔬 people. Is there an online atlas for H&E stained mouse brain (NOT cresyl violet staining)? Extra points if it includes cerebellum. Extra extra points if there are developmental stages included. Thanks everyone.