Emily Allgire, PhD

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Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals.

Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know!

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Making Sense Of Federal Cuts To Science—And What Comes Next The CEO of one of America’s oldest scientific societies discusses the recent cuts to scientific institutions, and how scientists can respond.

“Destruction for the ill-conceived notion of cutting costs didn’t put an American on the moon, and it didn’t wipe smallpox from the face of the Earth"

- Sudip Parikh, CEO of AAAS, on Science Friday today

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#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

I really wish I knew… any suggestions?

The states don’t but this is literally a federal grant program meant to combat that and build research in these states. There are tons of great scientists in these states who care about research, want to educate their peers in these states, and they shouldn’t lose funding

We do in higher education… these are universities and losing education in these states helps no one

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

A shame I missed out on the cake but a joy to have been there and met so many great people

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

A large room at a bar full of people

Heartened by the turnout at last night’s @aaas.org Science Policy Shindig #AAASmtg It’s always invigorating to be with and learn from #scipol friends old and new!

“We’re not kidding when we say this is a coup,” says @davekarpf.bsky.social at #AAASmtg while talking about scientific data disappearing from government websites.

Oh hey! I’m in that picture. Great conversations had and surprisingly uplifting?

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A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

What the NIH funding cuts show is that average Americans have absolutely no idea how much of their economy and just general lives depends on scientific research.

GW Research at AAAS | The George Washington University Come see GW research faculty and staff present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

Happening at the #AAASmtg today: Join us at 11:00am at the Sci-Mic Stage as Slate’s @lizzieohreally.bsky.social talks w/ political communications scholar @davekarpf.bsky.social about disappearing data, the changing digital landscape & what all this means for scientists. aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu

Next step! Dissertation

This behavior was accompanied by reduced amygdala recruitment. I am currently working on a big ol' manuscript that will hopefully add some mechanistic understanding of these findings!

We've previously described altered fear extinction in a model of severe asthma accompanied by increased IL17a in the brain and increased IL recruitment. Here, we used a model of mild/moderate asthma and found no immune changes in the brain and reduced freezing during extinction.

I am so so SO excited to share the final version of my FIRST first author paper. My thesis work is exploring the relationship between PTSD and severe asthma, and this work sets the stage for the bulk of that.

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hbi3_6zybbjga