Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D

Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D

@khajdarovic.bsky.social

Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis. Cats, embroidery, labor unions Views my own. https://khajdarovic.github.io/ She/hers/her

1,897 Followers 1,029 Following 338 Posts Joined Aug 2023
13 hours ago

I can say this as a person of scary eyebrows experience

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13 hours ago

Critical difference is those people are brown and/or have scary eyebrows

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1 day ago

Could write a novel on b, featuring my large wrench of yes scientists are workers

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1 day ago

The NIH has arbitrarily defunded grant recipients on baseless claims, forcing scientists to sue the Trump admin and their "war on science" to restore funding for terminated grants.

Read the latest by Minoli Perera and Northwestern's AAUP Dispatches, a column dedicated to academic freedom:

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2 days ago

I store my woke in obscure file formats you haven’t even heard of yet

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2 days ago

A majority of fellows voted for our union, and the NIH and the union came to a legally-binding agreement. The agency cannot renege on that deal just because they feel like it.

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Screenshot of an email “As a result of bargaining unit determinations, union dues will no longer be deducted from your monthly stipend beginning with the April 1, 2026, stipend payment.
Thanks for your partnership on this matter.
NIH Employee & Labor Relations Branch

This ridiculous union busting does nothing to help the early career researchers the NIH director claims to support. This is ridiculous.

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2 days ago

The new Pokemon game allows me to live out my childhood dream of being best friends with charmander

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3 days ago

A fair question for our director!

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3 days ago
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‘How is he going to have the time?’ NIH staff voice concern as Bhattacharya takes on CDC role Scientists fear NIH director will be even more absent and leave key issues unresolved as he takes interim CDC lead

Great new piece by @melodyschreiber.com in The Guardian about NIH/CDC Director Bhattacharya .

In it, I talk about asking Bhattacharya in January about a recent issue affecting the affordability of healthcare for thousands of early career researchers on the NIH campuses.

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4 days ago
NIH Fellows Union speaking at the SUFS National Day of Action Take Back Our Science Rally.

NIH Fellows Union speaking at the Take Back Our Science Rally in Washington D.C.! They are putting out the call to ORGANIZE!!!

#StandUpForScience
#science
#March7
#March7DC
#savescience

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4 days ago

I saw those too! I thought I was being really original with my sign and saw like 500 of them haha

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4 days ago
Sign that says "I stand with Jenna and NIH"

Speaker Dr Jenna Norton NIH and NIDDk has fans in DC!

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4 days ago
Kaity holds a UAW sign that says science not silence

Back this time, now with union power @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social @uaw.org

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Kaity is smiling and holding a sign that says “girls just want to have funding for science”

My first @standupforscience.bsky.social rally was ten years ago. Excited to be here in DC to once again affirm the importance of science for the US and beyond

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4 days ago

DC IS LIVE! #STANDUPFORSCIENCE

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5 days ago

If you block junior scientists from ensuring that they can afford to live (or start families!) in the exorbitantly expensive areas around their workplaces, only family-subsidized solitary rich kids will be able to pursue careers in research - amidst exponential inflation, increasingly few people.

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5 days ago

They just hate to see girls winning

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6 days ago
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Multi-tissue transcriptomic aging atlas reveals predictive aging biomarkers in the killifish - Nature Aging Characterizing molecular aging features is crucial for understanding systemic and local factors contributing to the aging process. Here Costa, Chen et al. performed RNA sequencing on 13 tissues across...

Online now! Costa, Chen et al. performed RNA-seq on 13 tissues, six ages in male and female African turquoise killifish. The Killifish Aging Atlas provides a comprehensive resource for aging studies. @emkcosta.bsky.social @jingxunchen.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s435...

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NIH reneges on recognizing union for early career researchers The biomedical research agency says trainees in its labs are not “employees”

NIH sent notice this week that it will no longer recognize a union of early career researchers on the basis that trainees aren't "employees." My latest for @science.org.

www.science.org/content/arti...

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1 week ago

Is there such a thing as "gold standard union busting"?

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1 week ago
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NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

Podcast Jay continues to attack the very people he promises to support, early career investigators. Now he wants to rip up the collective bargaining agreement with the NIH Fellows Union (illegal, BTW). Who's next, the NIH police union? The firefighters?
www.notus.org/health-scien...

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1 week ago
Screenshot of the NIH website page for the NIH fellows CBA, showing the page has been deleted. Superimposed over this is the “there is so war in ba sing se” woman

NIH HR deleted our CBA off the website. Luckily for us, even if the agency says there is no CBA in ba sing se, the union still exists.

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1 week ago

Whatever you do, make sure you document the conversation, ideally put your response in writing, and cite the relevant portions of the faculty handbook/ policy when you do!

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1 week ago

More evidence for my thesis that the right wing freak out we’re currently experiencing is entirely due to the widespread adoption of birth control and subsequent emancipation of women

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Some feminists have long contested this view, often using political discourse rather than the scientific method. If gender is socially constructed, they argue, it is "mutable" and can be reshaped through political and social reforms. Feminists often refer to "biological determinism" in a pejorative sense, as they seek to reform society into a genderless one by eliminating what they perceive to be constructed gender traits.

Why did the editors allow him to make claims without citations? Which feminists, where, idk how they do things in geology but at least in neuroscience we cite our sources in an academic paper

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1 week ago
Screenshot from the linked paper stating that the data used in the graphs is available upon request

Don’t worry guys I really stand by my claims

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1 week ago

We gotta turn pepco into the people’s co, asap

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1 week ago

I’m starting to get why a bunch of men were very very scared about MeToo going “too far”

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