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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speakers: Annmarie Eldering, PhD (Senior Fellow, Data Foundation; she/her); Shana Goffredi, PhD (Professor, Occidental College; she/her); Victoria Orphan, PhD (Professor, Caltech; she/her). Title: "Out and Accomplished Panel"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Annmarie Eldering, PhD; Shana Goffredi, PhD; and Victoria Orphan, PhD will be featured on our Out & Accomplished Panel for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.

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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speaker: Agustín Fuentes, PhD (Princeton University; he/him). Title: "The Science Around Sex and Gender"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Agustín Fuentes, PhD will present a plenary talk, "The Science Around Sex and Gender" for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.
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Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA; Claire Lunde, PhD, PMP; and Laura Taylor, MD will be featured on a keynote panel "LGBTQ+ Healthcare: From Practice to Policy" for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.
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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speaker: Jeremy Yoder, PhD (Associate Professor, Cal State University Northridge; he/him). Title: "Workshop: Speaking Out - Bringing Tools of Science to Problems Facing the Community"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Jeremy Yoder, PhD will be hosting a workshop on "Speaking Out - Bringing Tools of Science to Problems Facing the Community" for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.
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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speakers: Jose Flores (Director of Scholar Programs, Point Foundation; he/him), Tina Kim (Chief Program Officer; she/her). Title: "Writing CVs/Resumes in These Times"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Jose Flores and Tina Kim from the Point Foundation will be hosting a workshop on "Writing CVs/Resumes in These Times" for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.
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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speaker: Erin-Kate Escobar (workplace strategist; they/them). Title: "Intersectional Identities"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Erin-Kate Escobar, M.Ed will be hosting a workshop on "Intersectional Identities" for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.

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A flyer with a gold background featuring our logo at the top, red geometric flourishes in the background, a tinted photo of the speaker(s), a QR code, and informational text about the program event and conference. Speakers: Ilan Meyer, PhD (Williams Institute; he/him), Jennifer Pfizer, JD (Lambda Legal; she/her). Title: "Sexual Identity and the Law"

Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Ilan Meyer, PhD (Williams Institute) and Jennifer Pfizer, JD (Lambda Legal) will present on "Sexual Identity and the Law" in a plenary session for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.


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Are you excited for our lineup of incredible speakers? Kei Koizumi will be providing the motivational keynote speech for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.
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Can't attend our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion in-person?Here's a preview of our virtual programming planned for Saturday, March 7! Members get access for free!
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Out to Innovate will be giving away a brand new iPad Air at the 2026 Summit on March 7. For your chance to win, register today for the in-person meeting that will feature career development and policy workshops, panels, and seminars. #LGBTQ #STEM #STEMM #postdoc #GradLife

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Just announced! Scholarships that cover the registration fees are available to students interested in attending our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion.

Link in bio or visit: oti.memberclicks.net...

#OTISummit2026 #STEMM #LGBTQ #careerdevelopment #gradschool #undergrad #postdoc

A gold-colored flyer featuring whimsical decorations and flourishes and contains program information for the 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion. For more full details visit our website at www.outtoinnovate.org/summit or scan the QR code

Have you registered yet for our 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion? Here's a preview of our in-person programming planned for Saturday, March 7!
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Registration is now open for the 2026 Out to Innovate Summit: Innovating for Inclusion! The all-day symposium will take place on Saturday, March 7 on the University of Southern California campus and will feature professional development workshops, speakers, and panels.
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.

Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

CN Health Subscribe NIH employees publish 'Bethesda Declaration' in dissent of Trump administration policies UPDATED 8 MIN AGO V By Meg Tirrell NATONA, NSTITUTES

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”

Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists.

I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH.

I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.

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Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

How do you, as someone who loves STEM outreach and mentoring, encourage young people in good faith to pursue a career in STEM in the US, given the current climate and trajectory? I already had some cognitive dissonance about it before, but now... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I arrived o̶n̶ ̶B̶l̶u̶e̶s̶k̶y̶ in this timeline (I'm the Evelyn, who's a millenial cliché, prefers flaky pie crust to crumble, and can dissect mouse mediastinal lymph nodes and yeast tetrads)

Let this be the impetus for academic boards to jump to phylum Chordata...

Opinion | America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

Couldn't have said it better: "... young researchers...are having to choose between staying in the US & staying in science. If the youngest, brightest minds aren’t soon reassured the US can support their work...they will walk away. #SupportScienceToMakeAmericaGreat

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

A flyer for the Awesome-Con panel "Would You Still Love Me If I Were a Sandworm?": A panel on alien biology in science fiction and real-life research, featuring Katherine Turk, PhD (Evolution and Paleontology); Becky McCauley Rench, PhD (Astrobiology); Steve Lindaas, PhD (Physics); and Brad Lusk, PhD (Biological Design), moderated by me!

If you're in the DC area this weekend and like nerdy stuff, please come check out the panel I'm moderating at #AwesomeCon this Saturday 4/5 at 7:45p in Rm 207! awesome-con.com/programming/...

Interesting that some Senators criticized @DrJBhattacharya for saying he would fund research at the @NIH to show that vaccines do not cause autism. The critics argued that this was 'settled science.' Yes, there is compelling evidence against the vaccine-autism relationship. However, a large swath of the public do not believe it. Because of public skepticism, it is not settled science. There is a need for further research intentending to convince the public regarding vaccine safety. It is not good enough to say "I am a scientist at a prestigious university, and you should believe what I say because of who I am." That does not work anymore, especially after the pandemic when science's reputation took a big hit...

According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism.

What mistakes does he make?

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Please send us your ideas and concerns and RSVP for our Open Meeting happening this Saturday, in response to the recent anti-trans, anti-DEIA, and anti-STEM executive orders. The Zoom link will also be sent to your member email!

Check out our op-ed in The Hill on the science of sex and gender. Please share it with folks in and outside of the scientific community. We're planning more in response to this administration's attacks on trans and non-binary people and related research. Stay tuned!
thehill.com/opinion/...

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated:

Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email info@civilservicestrong.org

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We're here at #aaasmtg in booth 423 with oSTEM! Come say hi!