Kayleigh O'Keeffe

💔 the Senate just passed that awful cruel budget bill, but it’s not over yet. Now it goes back to the House to vote.

If you have a Republican member of Congress: Call, email, comment on all their social posts, @ them. Tell them to vote NO. Get your friends to do it too. ☎️: (202) 224-3121

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

100% agree to both of those things.

11 nights in a row?! Reading that makes me tired. And I'm already pretty tired. 🙃

🚨HISTORIC MOMENT ALERT🚨

The W is leveling UP — three new teams, three new cities, one unstoppable future. ⭐

Say hello to our newest expansion teams:
🟣 Cleveland- coming 2028
🔵 Detroit - coming 2029
🔴 Philadelphia - coming 2030

New energy. New legacies. New era. #WelcometotheW

I will be teaching a summer course starting tomorrow, and while I have taught the course several times, it is my first time teaching it aynchronously. Would love any hot tips!

Graph showing where PennPORT scholars are now. PennPORT will have trained >100 scholars, most of whom are in academic positions now.

Map showing where PennPORT scholars are now...in 25 states!

Spent Friday at an event to celebrate PennPORT, Penn's IRACDA program that, along with all of the other IRACDA programs, had their funding terminated. IRACDA programs bring together early career folks passionate about teaching & research, providing community, education, & experience. What a loss.

Love seeing Lehigh go deep in the women's tournament in the governor's bracket. Hoping for a repeat upset of a #2 seeded Duke team by a #15 seeded Lehigh! Let's go #LehighWBB!

#EduSky join @scifri.bsky.social today from 2-4 pm ET for great science stories. 🧪 Excited to hear the interview with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social about his book, "Everything is Tuberculosis." 🦠 I'm a total fan! Of John, not TB. Just to be clear. Learn more at www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/mar...

Just got pretty jazzed reading my students’ proposals for their #scicomm projects on a topic within disease ecology and evolution. Podcasts, videos, children’s books, and even an escape room! Should be fun!

Disease epidemics and species interactions: A manipulation of seasonal establishment of fungal diseases in an old field Many disease epidemics recur seasonally, and such seasonal epidemics can be shaped by species interactions among parasites, pathogens, or other microbes. Field experiments are a classic approach for ...

Excited to share our data paper on fungal diseases in tall fescue! Fun and useful experience having our data peer reviewed for usability and clarity. @fletcher-h.bsky.social @kokeeffe12.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A photo of Sarah on stage giving her speech at the Stand Up for Science rally in Philadelphia

Amazing speech by @sarahmackattack.bsky.social inspiring us to be "bad" for the greater good - Embrace chaos and break the right rules. #StandUpForScience2025 #Philadelphia

Change over time in EDU's budget and authorization levels in CHIPS and Science, showing authorization levels are far higher than the actual budget.

At #StandUpForScience, let’s also stand up for the next generation of STEM leaders by pushing for *increased* NSF EDU funding.

Here’s a crazy idea: What if we urged Congress to fund at a level that…Congress itself previously said the nation needed?

Green line is the bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act:

About 45 minutes

I usually listen to news/political podcasts on my commute, but I think to not start my day in an acute state of dread, I need to change it up. Any non-political podcast recommendations??

My one cat HATES closed doors, I can’t imagine the wrath of 3 cats insulted by a closed door.

Philly Today: Fetterman Skewered Over Missing Senate Votes Plus, a favorite Philly Jeopardy contestant returns to the show.

Hey PA folks, if you have been calling your reps about all the things, looks like it would be good to not just urge them to vote a certain way but you know, actually show up and vote at all. 🤦‍♀️

A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!

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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Hi greater Philly area folks, here's the link to the local site for this action. It will be 3/7 at 11am at City Hall. An important opportunity to make it clear that science in the US as we know it is in danger! Science is for everyone and benefits everyone. standupforscience2025.org/philadelphia...

The official AMS logo.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.

Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

GO BIRDS!!!

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl.

can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

Same….except to my 36 year old husband 🤦🏼‍♀️

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

Besides being cruel, anticipatory obedience doesn’t work www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

A mentor of mine suggested this when I started my current position, and I am so glad she did!

Thanks for sharing, @anthroeric.bsky.social!

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

I'm connected with mostly academic here, but here's a helpful tool to use for calling reps/chatting about impacts of slashing indirects w/ your community.

The dollars from NIH grants support life-saving research AND support even more dollars of economic activity. This hurts our communities.