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Liz Leadbetter

@eleadbetter.bsky.social

Assoc Prof @UTHealth in San Antonio. Cellular Immunologist. B cells, iNKT cells, chronic inflammation and obesity. Mom. Too Persistent. Views are my own.

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Anyone have a recommendation for a financial management software for a scientific research lab? Bonus if it has a user-friendly interface designed for non-accountants.

23.07.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get πŸ¦‹ and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

16.07.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Amazing author! Would also suggest her book, The Nightengale

06.07.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?

06.07.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 26567    πŸ” 6569    πŸ’¬ 1023    πŸ“Œ 350
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... πŸ§ͺ

25.06.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10350    πŸ” 6086    πŸ’¬ 316    πŸ“Œ 283

Compelling for sure

30.05.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphic for the Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

A graphic for the Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie SkΕ‚odowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September β†’ europa.eu/!fBTMgF

08.05.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 960    πŸ” 564    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 99

In grad seminar yesterday, we were talking about legacy being planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
Then this story wrecked me...

01.05.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 249    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.

Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.

#McClintockLetters

blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

21.04.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 27
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Our Health ROI Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

This is a great website that allows you to view the ROI on your tax dollars invested in NIH funded research. You can type in a disease condition and immediately see the impact of research funding on it. Also links to easy ways to contact law makers to protect science.
www.ourhealthroi.com

22.04.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8

Courage is contagious.
#Harvard
Have the day you deserve.

15.04.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8455    πŸ” 1270    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 32
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Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

14.04.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2686    πŸ” 355    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 34
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Just a few weeks ago, researchers and educators connected to immunology lost a wonderful friend and colleague: Michael Cancro, professor of pathology and lab medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
@cp-immunity.bsky.social

10.04.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 Study section tracking

Study section tracking sheet update of the day answers your burning question: Is my study section rescheduled? I've rearranged to put sections that didn't meet on the left and added a column noting if it's been rescheduled. Subject to change as FRNs go out! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

11.03.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...

10.03.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 55
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Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

10.03.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 892    πŸ” 442    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 25
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Frenchman Sears Trumps "Court Of Nero" In Scathing, Must-Read Speech Every now and again a piece of rhetoric perfectly encapsulates the time. The Gettysburg address was one such work. Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln hastily scribbed out the framework of the speech o...

Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7

07.03.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 15812    πŸ” 3428    πŸ’¬ 424    πŸ“Œ 257
We're based in the Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh. Photo shows the main staircase in the entrance to the Ashworth, stone steps from the 1920s, decorated with a series of bright, colurful banners depicting the science that's tackled in the building.

We're based in the Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh. Photo shows the main staircase in the entrance to the Ashworth, stone steps from the 1920s, decorated with a series of bright, colurful banners depicting the science that's tackled in the building.

I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.

03.03.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Absolutely πŸ’― πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ’™

28.02.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Maddow played a long clip of his speech yesterday and it was fantastic

20.02.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying β€œWhy are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 48992    πŸ” 12521    πŸ’¬ 1141    πŸ“Œ 439

Trying for an R21 but it is truly soul crushing to watch the system disintegrate under our feet as I stare down the deadline.

08.02.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Letter from colleague fired from USAID,  sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.

Letter from colleague fired from USAID, sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.

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From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?

07.02.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1179    πŸ” 577    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 43

No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH

22.01.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1029    πŸ” 445    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 41

Are Childhood Vaccines β€˜Overloading’ the Immune System? No.

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

16.12.2024 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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December 11, 2024 Yesterday, President Joe Biden spoke at the Brookings Institution, where he gave a major speech on the American economy.

#POTUS noted that Trump is inheriting a strong economy. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Biden shifted the U.S. economy from 40 years of supply-side economics that had transferred about $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% and hollowed out the #middleclass.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

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12.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11

Add me please πŸ‘‹

19.11.2024 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super helpful, thank you! How does one get added to these lovely lists?

19.11.2024 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let me be clear. This claim from RFK Jr. is flat-out false. Scotland just reported finding no cervical cancer cases in vaccinated women -- zero, zilch, zip. This man's advice has been hurting people for years, but this lie will especially harm women. publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...

10.11.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1993    πŸ” 806    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 52

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