Kristina Penniston

I am sending so much love to my colleagues at NIH today. They are incredible people and scientists and don’t serve any of this. 💔

Every Democratic Senator should be doing what @booker.senate.gov is doing right now, back-to-back, nonstop.

Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.

Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.

Blazing your own path for the W

👏👏👏👏👏

"If the president's special envoy is okay with Russia serially eating neighboring countries, and continuing to roll through up to and through NATO bounds, then he is essentially saying he's okay with the potential of a World War III."


Susan Rice joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

Science makes us stronger, healthier, and more prosperous. My heart is hurting today for those NIH, CDC, FDA employees who dedicated their lives to supporting science and now have lost their jobs

This Saturday - April 5 - noon to 4pm @ Colorado State Capitol in Denver (or find an event near you)

NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards

The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. scim.ag/42dCJjc

Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.

Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.

Yay Senator Cory Booker!!! Loved it when you read letters from wisconsin citizens and acknowledged their struggles. Thank you for standing up for us! @booker.senate.gov

That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse

Florida child labor bill SB 918 would let minors as young as 14 work overnight Ron DeSantis and other Florida lawmakers propose replacing undocumented workers with children.

Apparently, immigrant labor is not wanted in Florida, but child labor is!! Are we great yet?

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients

Attacks on the CFPB highlight DOGE’s pretense - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Shutting down that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would almost certainly reduce government efficiency, not increase it.

DOGE is working to dismantle the CFPB despite the important work it has done to protect American consumers.

It seems these efforts are just an attempt to help wealthy corporate interests line their pockets and escape government regulation.

Hear her! And you will feel the pain. 😭

Folks are going to hell with this bullshit

"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'"

Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.

My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...

Last week’s Data Science Research Bazaar was a big success, and it would not have been possible without the support of our generous campus and industry sponsors. Thank you! datascience.wisc.edu/2025/03/25/t...

Are you a student researching diabetes, kidney, digestive, obesity, metabolic, liver, endocrine, urology, nutrition, or hematology diseases?

The 2025 dkNET Summer of Data Student Program offers an opportunity to utilize dkNET tools and resources in your research project. dknet.org/about/Summer...

Urinary biochemical ecology reveals microbiome-metabolite interactions and metabolic markers of recurrent urinary tract infection Recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs) are a major clinical challenge and their increasing prevalence underscores the need to define host-microbiome interactions underlying susceptibility. How the...

🚨 Preprint update

Excited to share our updated preprint on the biochemical ecology of recurrent UTI.

🧬 #Metagenomics + #metabolomics
🧪 Lipid biomarkers for active UTI (AUC = 0.91)
⚠️ DCA as a predictor of recurrence

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

#UTI #Microbiome #Metabolomics #PrecisionMedicine

NIH employees should NOT be complying with these data calls.

This data call raises serious first amendment concerns, and no NIH employee should obey it until a serious outside Constitutional attorney and/or court has weighed in.

Don’t break the law, NIH workers! Even if the GC tells you to.

🧪 More research into women's health is badly needed, #NIH had been moving more in this direction, and the Trump/Musk cuts have harmed this effort.

Here's one group of institutes that give hope: bsky.app/profile/drse...

This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪

Are you looking for a postdoc position (University of Washington, Seattle)?

Apply now to work on a project involving optimizing a novel biomaterial to clear uropathogenic bacteria in a rodent model of UTIs. Applications are due April 1st!

Info: cairibu.urology.wisc.edu/cairibu-kiosk/

Have You Read This?

"Disrupting Biofilms on Human Kidney Stones-A Path Toward Reducing Infectious Complications During Stone Surgery"

Read it: buff.ly/R9wjACl

Read more like this: buff.ly/kBhrhC3

Columbia’s leaders’ capitulation makes it harder for every other scientist in the country to fight grant terminations.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

"2. Do town meetings and office hours—in R districts.
3. Add field hearings to the town halls. [Dems, do field hearings at or outside NIH!]
4. Use every tool in the rule box to delay, obstruct, and showcase the destructive Trump–Musk–congressional R policies. [Bring the Senate to a halt!]"

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.