Cathie Klapperich
@cathieklapperich.com
Scientist. Women’s health. Figuring out how to protect reproductive rights without getting hacked. If you make me laugh out loud, I’ll follow you. https://www.cathieklapperich.com/ The painting is by David Gonville https://www.gonville.com/
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bring a sign, and we have battery operated candles 150+
we have American flags that will be upside-down.
we have American flags that will be upside-down.
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
bring a sign, and we have battery operated candles 150+
we have American flags that will be upside-down.
we have American flags that will be upside-down.
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congratulations to the Genius commentator who wrote "After half a century, the other 45 ways to leave your lover remain unrevealed"
January 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
congratulations to the Genius commentator who wrote "After half a century, the other 45 ways to leave your lover remain unrevealed"
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I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
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my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
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Hard not to feel personally attacked by this.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Hard not to feel personally attacked by this.
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Back in caveman days, humans were routinely riddled with early death via virus, bacterial infection, parasites and all of the above. Our primordial immune system needed to be a real asshole to help its human reach the ripe old age of 40. 🩺
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Back in caveman days, humans were routinely riddled with early death via virus, bacterial infection, parasites and all of the above. Our primordial immune system needed to be a real asshole to help its human reach the ripe old age of 40. 🩺
This semester I'm just lecturing. No handouts, no slides (except images). You are just going to have to show up and listen to me. And take notes.
January 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This semester I'm just lecturing. No handouts, no slides (except images). You are just going to have to show up and listen to me. And take notes.
In 2025, due to Trump NIH freezes, we took back offers of admission to PhD students in the biomedical sciences - people who would have gone on to careers in medical research. Our class is down about 10 - and this tracks across all US institutions.
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
In 2025, due to Trump NIH freezes, we took back offers of admission to PhD students in the biomedical sciences - people who would have gone on to careers in medical research. Our class is down about 10 - and this tracks across all US institutions.
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Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices.
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
buff.ly
January 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices.
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
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“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
🤍 Loving greetings for the new year 🌱
#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
🤍 Loving greetings for the new year 🌱
#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
January 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
🤍 Loving greetings for the new year 🌱
#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
🤍 Loving greetings for the new year 🌱
#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
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I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
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🗞️ Applications are now open for the 2026 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship! (@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social)
Spend 10 weeks in a newsroom translating science for the public.
Apply by TODAY Jan 1, 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/r8c6ybG
#AGU #AAASMassMedia #ScienceCommunication #MassMediaFellowship
Spend 10 weeks in a newsroom translating science for the public.
Apply by TODAY Jan 1, 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/r8c6ybG
#AGU #AAASMassMedia #ScienceCommunication #MassMediaFellowship
January 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
🗞️ Applications are now open for the 2026 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship! (@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social)
Spend 10 weeks in a newsroom translating science for the public.
Apply by TODAY Jan 1, 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/r8c6ybG
#AGU #AAASMassMedia #ScienceCommunication #MassMediaFellowship
Spend 10 weeks in a newsroom translating science for the public.
Apply by TODAY Jan 1, 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/r8c6ybG
#AGU #AAASMassMedia #ScienceCommunication #MassMediaFellowship
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I made an interactive map! This is a look at the effects Tx book-banning laws have had just *since the end of last school year*. I made it because it's easy to hear a shocking story about a book ban and then forget it and lose the larger picture.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26 - Google My Maps
Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26
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January 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I made an interactive map! This is a look at the effects Tx book-banning laws have had just *since the end of last school year*. I made it because it's easy to hear a shocking story about a book ban and then forget it and lose the larger picture.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Reiterating that the proposals were likely submitted 2+ years prior to termination (some far earlier). Staff were hired and teams built to execute these projects. Not only is it incredibly disruptive, but how can anyone project if the “new priorities” will hold?
How is this “innovation”?
How is this “innovation”?
January 1, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Reiterating that the proposals were likely submitted 2+ years prior to termination (some far earlier). Staff were hired and teams built to execute these projects. Not only is it incredibly disruptive, but how can anyone project if the “new priorities” will hold?
How is this “innovation”?
How is this “innovation”?
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DHS publicly fantasizing about massive state violence should be taken seriously, and warrants labels such as fascist and white supremacist. But don't lose sight of the fact that it's beyond their capabilities.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
DHS publicly fantasizing about massive state violence should be taken seriously, and warrants labels such as fascist and white supremacist. But don't lose sight of the fact that it's beyond their capabilities.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
I hope 2026 is less outright gross than 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I hope 2026 is less outright gross than 2025.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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In bioengineering there are routinely 400+ applicants per job. In my experience, the top 30+ are indistinguishably qualified. The next 50+ have one or more minor "negative," like a "non fancy" PhD ("pedigree" 😑), as Dr. Perry points out. The majority of these folks would succeed given the chance.
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In bioengineering there are routinely 400+ applicants per job. In my experience, the top 30+ are indistinguishably qualified. The next 50+ have one or more minor "negative," like a "non fancy" PhD ("pedigree" 😑), as Dr. Perry points out. The majority of these folks would succeed given the chance.
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Leah Foley, U.S. Attorney for MA, says that authorities believe the two knew each other but declined to say whether investigators can now confirm the crime was targeted.
Authorities believe Claudio Neves Valente, the now-deceased Brookline and Providence murder suspect, went to the same university in Portugal as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who he shot and killed on Monday.
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Suspect in Brookline and Providence killings found dead in New Hampshire, authorities say - Brookline.News
Claudio Neves Valente, 48, is responsible for killing MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and two Brown students in separate shootings, law enforcement officials said Thursday night. Valente died by suicide o...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Leah Foley, U.S. Attorney for MA, says that authorities believe the two knew each other but declined to say whether investigators can now confirm the crime was targeted.
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Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
for everyone watching and waiting, @brooklinenews.bsky.social had the first story on the MIT Prof murder, and they will likely have the next bit of credible information out of Boston. brookline.news/as-homicide-...
As homicide investigation continues, neighbors, colleagues gather to remember 'extraordinary' Brookline scientist - Brookline.News
Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed at his Gibbs Street home on Monday night.
brookline.news
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
for everyone watching and waiting, @brooklinenews.bsky.social had the first story on the MIT Prof murder, and they will likely have the next bit of credible information out of Boston. brookline.news/as-homicide-...
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Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it.
Here’s how to use it.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it.
Here’s how to use it.