Fátima
@fatusn.bsky.social
She/her/ella | Studying academic research training | Facilitating mentor training workshops | Science and creative writer | Plant and critter mamma | I married Samwise Gamgee
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Fátima
@fatusn.bsky.social
· Nov 15
A thread for those of you who don't know me from the bird (it's been years!) or mammoth sites, or for those who want to learn about my recent work...(1/6)
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I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
July 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
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Suppose you are a philanthropic foundation committed to supporting US science.
Under Trump, science is suffering an existential crisis—so ROI right now is way higher than before. Moreover, the human capital and infrastructure you were counting on for future investments will be gone.
What to do?
Under Trump, science is suffering an existential crisis—so ROI right now is way higher than before. Moreover, the human capital and infrastructure you were counting on for future investments will be gone.
What to do?
3. Where allowable by foundation charter etc, philanthropic organizations should seriously consider spending down endowments given the extraordinary ROI now and the fact that the future value of funding is sorely diminished by the Trump administration's wholesale attack on science infrastructure.
May 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Suppose you are a philanthropic foundation committed to supporting US science.
Under Trump, science is suffering an existential crisis—so ROI right now is way higher than before. Moreover, the human capital and infrastructure you were counting on for future investments will be gone.
What to do?
Under Trump, science is suffering an existential crisis—so ROI right now is way higher than before. Moreover, the human capital and infrastructure you were counting on for future investments will be gone.
What to do?
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"Look for private foundation funding..."
Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Look for private foundation funding..."
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This statement did not age well
Got a message today that HHMI remains deeply committed to the existing research programs that include the Investigator, Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Hanna Gray Fellows, and Gilliam Fellow programs: "We do not anticipate changes to these or any other research or science education programs at HHMI."
May 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This statement did not age well
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Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.
May 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.
"Pause all competitons..." is something I missed on my first read through that someone pointed out to me and...👀👀👀
Finding out HHMI is canceling the Hanna H. Gray Fellows competition is heartbreaking. Especially since if they decide to hold it next year, I’ll no longer be eligible
![Email from HHMI. Subject is: [External] Update on the 2025 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Competition.
Gray box says: Some people who received this message don’t often get email (the a red cross out of the email) why this is important.
Email reads: Dear HGF Applicant:
I am writing to share that HHMI has made the difficult decision to pause all competitions as we work to ensure continued support for our scientists at a challenging moment for science and science funding. This means that we are not proceeding with the 2025 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Competition.
We received hundreds of thoughtful and inspiring applications, reaffirming the importance of supporting early career scientists through the transition from postdoc to faculty. We thank you for the time, effort, and care you put into your application materials.
Bests,
Leslie](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j4lfak3xwurrctyh62cnb2wf/bafkreienvoyscw7akdexlmkq7zbv7fuvuwcm6wfjvvrq3l4qkrobevdqqq@jpeg)
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Pause all competitons..." is something I missed on my first read through that someone pointed out to me and...👀👀👀
We're driven by our values to promote inclusion in the academy but ya know, only as far as it's cool with those up top and our tax exempt status isn't at risk...
Tom Senya GIF
Alt: Mr. Rogers putting on a clown mask GIF
media.tenor.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We're driven by our values to promote inclusion in the academy but ya know, only as far as it's cool with those up top and our tax exempt status isn't at risk...
Now that I have a "not discussed" with a pretty disappointing summary statement, I can only hope that "the world was on fire and NIH haywire" is a valid excuse to extend my ESI status to whenever *checks calendar* all of this *waves hands around* has passed us by...
May 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Now that I have a "not discussed" with a pretty disappointing summary statement, I can only hope that "the world was on fire and NIH haywire" is a valid excuse to extend my ESI status to whenever *checks calendar* all of this *waves hands around* has passed us by...
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I don’t think cis people understand the amount of pressure and coercion trans people face to not come out, to not transition. How swiftly and strictly gender is policed. How something as simple as listening to a song, a line of eyeliner, playing with the wrong toy meets stern correction.
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I don’t think cis people understand the amount of pressure and coercion trans people face to not come out, to not transition. How swiftly and strictly gender is policed. How something as simple as listening to a song, a line of eyeliner, playing with the wrong toy meets stern correction.
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I must once again repeat: CONTACT 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 OFFICE 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 SPONSORED 👏🏽 PROJECTS 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 FIND 👏🏽 OUT 👏🏽 HOW 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 INITIATE 👏🏽 AN 👏🏽APPEAL 👏🏽
These programs are so important and I encourage us all to push our institutions too develop and communicate their plans to appeal these terminations
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
May 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I must once again repeat: CONTACT 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 OFFICE 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 SPONSORED 👏🏽 PROJECTS 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 FIND 👏🏽 OUT 👏🏽 HOW 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 INITIATE 👏🏽 AN 👏🏽APPEAL 👏🏽
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1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world.
I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.
There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.
I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.
There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.
This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world.
I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.
There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.
I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.
There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.
When you're writing the intro to a paper but you start going off so you keep going even though you know it will likely get edited at a later stage 😆
April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When you're writing the intro to a paper but you start going off so you keep going even though you know it will likely get edited at a later stage 😆
Dr. Felicity Ender's work on Population Conscious Analysis at #ACTS2025 is some of the most brilliant work I've heard at a conference. ICREDIBLY excited for the paper
April 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dr. Felicity Ender's work on Population Conscious Analysis at #ACTS2025 is some of the most brilliant work I've heard at a conference. ICREDIBLY excited for the paper
@carlbergstrom.com a few years ago you posted about a study that looked at expert knowledge of standard deviation and SEM and how this affected interpretation of effect size. A preprint at the time. Can't find it now 😭my first and only attempt at using ChatGPT only yielded hallucinations. Help?
April 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@carlbergstrom.com a few years ago you posted about a study that looked at expert knowledge of standard deviation and SEM and how this affected interpretation of effect size. A preprint at the time. Can't find it now 😭my first and only attempt at using ChatGPT only yielded hallucinations. Help?
Second time around watching the Buest Guess music video by Lucy Dacus and yet again it has me blushing and smiling 🥰 Go watch it if you want some queer joy in your life
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Second time around watching the Buest Guess music video by Lucy Dacus and yet again it has me blushing and smiling 🥰 Go watch it if you want some queer joy in your life
A month off social media did wonders for my mental health...huh🧐
March 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A month off social media did wonders for my mental health...huh🧐
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The fact that federal funding for biomedical work is a huge part of the economy of and in many cases saved cities in deep red states that lost e.g. former manufacturing industries, feels like a story we gotta tell more
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The fact that federal funding for biomedical work is a huge part of the economy of and in many cases saved cities in deep red states that lost e.g. former manufacturing industries, feels like a story we gotta tell more
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These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.
Another NIH grant rescinded -
The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669
The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669
March 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.
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Friendly reminder that Ramadan starts tonight and our Muslim students may need a little more support and grace as they observe their fast. Especially if you have afternoon or evening classes, please try to be aware and (ideally) flexible.
Ramadan Mubarak!
Ramadan Mubarak!
February 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Friendly reminder that Ramadan starts tonight and our Muslim students may need a little more support and grace as they observe their fast. Especially if you have afternoon or evening classes, please try to be aware and (ideally) flexible.
Ramadan Mubarak!
Ramadan Mubarak!
Louder for the academic gatekeepers in the back👏🏼
& it can be true that it IS remarkable that some individuals succeed despite that but ALSO that it's not a referendum on the abilities of people who don't it's just the probabilities that YOU DESIGNED
UNLIKELY DOESN"T JUST AUTOMATICALLY MEAN MEANINGFUL
UNLIKELY DOESN"T JUST AUTOMATICALLY MEAN MEANINGFUL
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Louder for the academic gatekeepers in the back👏🏼
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"We have installed the world's hardest game of limbo between people and their work that has nothing to do with limbo....which makes us highly selective and rigorous!" is also not good strategy thinking
February 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"We have installed the world's hardest game of limbo between people and their work that has nothing to do with limbo....which makes us highly selective and rigorous!" is also not good strategy thinking