Lauren Fields, Ph.D.

So excited to announce that I’m officially Dr. Lauren Fields!!!! Thank you so much to everyone for all of their support over the years. I cannot wait to see what the future holds! 🍾

It was great to share all of the research that was able to be accomplished under the 2024 Analytical Graduate Fellowship during my visit to @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social last week! It was great to meet so many people and see some exciting science.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Sending my best to a true public servant and fellow Midwesterner, Governor Tony Evers, on his announced retirement. I saw up close his commitment to doing the right thing for Wisconsinites - and countless lives are better today because he stepped up to serve.

Thank you to Mexico 🇲🇽 for stepping up and helping in Texas!

5000+ Mexicans Form Record "Human Pride Flag" - Joe.My.God. The Latin Times reports: In celebration of Pride Week, more than five thousand LGBTQ+ activists converged on Mexico City’s Zócalo to form the world’s largest human LGBT flag. Under a shower of rain an...

Happy Pride Mexico, thank you! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How amazing! 🫶

Hey American republicans, it’s June, so “Happy I’m a pissy little bitch month” and kindly fck all the way off

#Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQ #HatredIsntChristian

www.joemygod.com/2025/06/5000...

Protect transgender scientists Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

"Institutions must support transgender and gender nonconforming and other marginalized scientists by securing their safety and privacy; their access to legal aid and health care; and their opportunities in education, employment, and society," argues a new #LetterToScience. scim.ag/4kQCMtr

Kill the brutal bill.
Before it kills us.

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.

Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.

From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

Quantitative neuropeptide analysis by mass spectrometry: advancing methodologies for biological discovery Neuropeptides are critical endogenous signaling molecules involved in a wide range of biological processes, including neurotransmission, hormonal regulation, immune responses, and stress management. D...

Check out our latest review on @rsc.org Chem Bio, featuring quantitative MS-based strategies for neuropeptide analysis and highlights their applications on revealing neuropeptide roles in biological systems 🤓 Congrats to Angel, Wenxin and Haoran 🥳
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Come check out my new work on multiplexed DIA of neuropeptides, very excited to share our new findings! #ASMS2025

We are excited to show all the new things we have been working on in the Li Lab! @liresearch.bsky.social Come check out our Monday presentations! #ASMS2025 #TeamMassSpec

Happy Li Lab Dinner Reunion 😍 #ASMS2025 allows us to have a delicious meal together. We're all fueled to learn and share cool science over the next few days. Kudos to our PI for delivering a fantastic talk today at the BSI User Meeting!

#ASMS2025 🥳 We're ready 🔥🔥🔥
Madison ✈️✈️✈️ Baltimore, MD!

#ASMS2025 is around the corner and we can't wait to share our latest MS research with you 🥳🥳🥳 Check out the special presentation of our PI @lingjun2025.bsky.social at the BSI User Meeting, 4 exciting orals and 22 informative posters from our lab this year 🤓🤓🤓

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated.

As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️

On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?

RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times

Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

This is intentional. Because higher costs (especially coupled with attacks on DEI) will mean fewer and disproportionately more privileged students going to college. Which curbs the power of universities. And which keeps anyone who isn't highly privileged from using college to grow their own power.

Huge congrats to UWMadison #ClassOf2025 🎉🎉🎉 We're so proud to watch our amazing lab members walk the stage. Cheers to Drs. @chemistlauren.bsky.social, @hnmiles.bsky.social, Zexin Zhu, Malik Ebbini, Olga Riusech, and Zicong Wang for your hard work, big dreams, and bright futures ahead! 🍻🍻🎓🎓🍾🍾

"the WWE lady who is supposed to be ending the education department is revoking Harvard's research grants": 2025 in a nutshell

The current administration’s narrative that Harvard (and all universities) feel “entitled” to federal dollars misleads the public. Nor are these funds a “privilege” 1/n

I’m at NIGMS and my F31-diversity was terminated about 2 weeks ago. I’m still in disbelief.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%.
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.

Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.

MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

I’m both grateful and mad that this awesome woman paused her metastatic breast cancer fight to fly to DC and lobby for research funding. Janet Ramsey has had her life prolonged by clinical trials and is pushing our representatives to keep investing in life saving discoveries.

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

Great account about 100 stunning days at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. As one scientist told @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social: "I want to cry." www.science.org/content/arti...