Anna Lipkin

Such excellent news, Mari!! Congratulations!!

I need scientists 🧪 to *THINK*: Do you really believe *only* $8mil went to research w/ transgenic mice, one of the most common tools in modern biomedicine?

Or maybe fascists are targeting trans people everywhere they can, including research using animal models of gender affirming hormone therapy?

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.

It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify

In an actually meritocratic system, diversity is a natural outcome. Homogeneity requires enforcement.

Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans.

Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.

👇 #NeuroSky

Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation

To get people to talk about any problems in the lab, I asked what people wish they knew before they joined the lab and what they wish they could change. Then decide if those will be a deal breaker for you or not. Eg will slow communication bother you?

You’ll do great! Always happy to chat more :)

Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...

The communications pause at health agencies has extended to external procurement orders for supplies for internal research @ NIH, sources tell @reportergoodman.bsky.social & me. Some researchers worry they won't be able to buy test tubes to draw blood or food for animals: www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

Hey there. If you're at the NIH or work off an NIH grant or are applying for NIH funding, please drop me a line. I want to better understand what is going on right now.

Gentle reminder that if you truly value diversity in the workforce, top down executive orders may/will change implementation but it shouldn’t change your dedication to building the best possible team/group/cohort/generation of researchers

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.

#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

I’d love to be added too!

Exactly!

I did a postbac and I’m grateful for it, but I did it because I wasn’t sure that grad school was right for me. I’m glad programs exist for that, but I’m not sure that’s the point of programs like the ones you’re talking about. I just want to see people effect change where they have actual power!

There are so many ways to see that someone can succeed in a research environment w/o people having to take two extra years in their training to prove it first. Why not expand the (narrow, biased!) standards we use now and trust that people can use the skills they already have to succeed in a lab?

my frustration w these programs is that they’re often set up by the same people who decide grad school admissions, and I think a better approach to admitting more marginalized students is to…admit more marginalized students. Why not focus on where you can make immediate change? Why focus upstream?