@nancyrmack.bsky.social
NIMH F32 Brain Initiative Fellow @ Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
Check this out! It was such a pleasure capturing her story!
17.10.2025 02:38 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Love how this project came together with the amazing @endoeartha.bsky.social ! Have you wondered about the role that testosterone plays in the ability to re-pattern social behavior when you are at home in your "territory" vs away? We have answers for you...
25.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Check this out!! Neat unsupervised quantifications of rich social behavior, while simultaneously recording from the entire hormone-sensitive subcortical social behavior network. Massive effort, congrats @endoeartha.bsky.social !!
25.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Thank you @nancyrmack.bsky.social and @princetonneuro.bsky.social for a great explainer about our paper!
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/wh...
3D printing has a wide variety of applications, from birthday present gimmicks to usage in state-of-the-art science projects, but did you know the technology has its roots in government-funded reseacrh? Read more: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...
05.06.2025 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It's hard to imagine a world without GPS, letting us get to unfamiliar places with the greatest of ease. But did you know that GPS initially started as a federally funded project under the department of defense?
Learn more at: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...
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.
The joy of a new baby can turn into a nightmare when the mom develops postpartum depression. Federally funded research developed a new fast acting medicine to help those moms. publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202... Ask Congress to save science.
#FundingScienceSavesLives
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Our database of terminated grants is powered first by PIs who send us information about their grants. If your grant was terminated--or if you received a stop work order of some sort--let us know!
forms.gle/8qWNSjBerJ1G...
Looking forward to removing you from office as soon as possible since you refuse to vote for the people you represent.
14.03.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They handed the American people on a silver platter over to a dictator-CEO for the price of bitcoin and a bratwurst.
14.03.2025 21:01 — 👍 51 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
14.03.2025 00:17 — 👍 3272 🔁 1119 💬 38 📌 128Every college and university in the United States should take notice of the real lesson here. It's not to give in.
The lesson is that with this crew, if you cave, they take it as a sign of weakness. When a sheep is cornered by the wolf, it's not a great move to lie down and show the belly.
Incredible turn out in Philadelphia today! I spy my poster👀
07.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Philadelphia! I’m Dr. Eartha Mae Guthman. I’m a Philadelphian, a trans woman, a neuroscientist, and a proud card carrying union member with UAW. I first worked in a lab 15 years ago. I fell in love then and there with the scientific method, and I've worked as a scientist ever since. Today, I want to talk to you about how this administration’s attacks on trans people and trans health research harm us all. When I began transitioning seven years ago, I was terrified! For my safety. For my scientific career. Would my colleagues find me credible? Would they see a scientist who happened to be trans, or would they only see me through the lens of my transness? I decided then, regardless of the outcome, I would dedicate my life to improving healthcare for trans people. For the past seven years I’ve worked towards this goal. I’ve spent holidays inventing new tools to study the brain and behavior. I’ve spent weeks going to work after dark, sitting with my mice to run overnight experiments, and then coming home, crossing the Delaware with the sunrise. I’ve been fortunate to have achieved success in my work: I’ve published over a dozen papers, including guides on how to develop animal models for hormone therapy; I’ve been awarded highly competitive NSF and NIH grants; I’ve been appointed a fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and at other academic organizations.
And, about a year ago, I received the best news of my career: I had been awarded a prestigious NIH grant to not only fund my research at Princeton, but to provide me funding to start my own lab. In my lab, I want to ask questions about how hormones impact the brain to influence mood, the body, and behavior. I want to apply this research to design better hormone therapies– yes, for gender affirming care, but also for birth control, menopause, endometriosis, PCOS, the list goes on! My goal, set so many years ago, was within my grasp. I had put in the work and sacrifice, taken the risks, and it had all seemed worth it. But my dream grows less likely by the day because of Republican efforts to reverse decades of acceptance for various minorities. Through anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders and laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race and gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism and fascist takeover of institutions.
Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders censor me and those like me. At the State of the Union on Tuesday, Trump complained that NIH wasted money on “transgender mice”, directly attacking the work my colleagues and I do. Wednesday, a White House press release called trans health research “fraud” and “waste”. Yesterday, Nature reported that the administration has bypassed congressional control of the budget to terminate ongoing grants related to trans healthcare. They report that the NIH will terminate hundreds of already awarded, active research grants if they support DEI or trans people in any way. I don't know how or if I’ll get paid next month, and I don't know if I’ll actually get the funds that congress has already awarded me to start my lab. I don't know what's going to happen to my career, and I'm really fucking furious. I've dedicated my entire adult life to this work. But to Trump and his supporters, I am not a scientist who should be judged for the work I do, who happens to be trans. To them, I am trans, and therefore cannot contribute to science because I’m inherently biased and unfit.
But I'm here speaking to you now because this moment is about more than just me. Under the guise of this anti-trans and anti-DEI moral panic, Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science. Their actions prevent us from making life-saving discoveries across all fields. They see science as a tool to control people and carve their desired reality into our bodies and minds, not as a way to understand our beautifully complex world. But we can stop them. Because we are many, and they are so, very, very few. Right now we need to give our legislators hell until they start standing up for us. Push universities to establish contingency funds for researchers whose active funding is terminated. And keep showing up, keep protesting. Keep standing up to cruel bullies and fascists. Don’t comply with unjust orders or demands, fight back! Fight for a world where the next scientist like me is seen for her contributions to science and human health, not seen only as trans. And lastly, fight for a world that loves and values trans people.
My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest.
Everything I do is for my community 💜✨
Going to the Stand Up For Science rally at noon today? If you can't get to the big one in Washington DC, find one close to you.
I'll speak at Trenton. An advance copy of my remarks: samwang.substack.com/p/stand-up-f...
So many students are curious about science funding and not at all in the know. This is the perfect moment to fill them in.
www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...
See you there!
04.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stand up for science flyer for Trenton rally at 145 W. State St on March 7th at 12 pm. RSVP at http://tiny.cc/SUFSTrenton25
📣 Public protest is legal! 📣 Come out and @standupforscience.bsky.social in Trenton, NJ where we have a rally site permit, a sound permit, and portapotties! Hear from former state rep Rush Holt, profs in climate science, biomedicine, and public health from Rider, TCNJ, Rutgers and Princeton!
04.03.2025 19:47 — 👍 50 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
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