kkbaldwin.bsky.social
@kkbaldwin.bsky.social
Professor of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Congrats to our PhD student Louis Romette, among the winners in this year's @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World competition! His hard work optimizing long-term live-cell imaging of developing neurons makes for mesmerizing movies (and lots of insights)
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
Live 65-hour recording of rat hippocampal neuron growth | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
Louis Romette - Live 65-hour recording of rat hippocampal neuron growth (day 3 to day 6)
www.nikonsmallworld.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Congrats to our PhD student Louis Romette, among the winners in this year's @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World competition! His hard work optimizing long-term live-cell imaging of developing neurons makes for mesmerizing movies (and lots of insights)
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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this is the conscice thing I've been mulling over all day
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
this is the conscice thing I've been mulling over all day
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🚨NEW: Maine Governor Janet Mills is strongly considering a run for the U.S. Senate against GOP incumbent Susan Collins.
RETWEET if you would support Governor Mills for the Senate!
RETWEET if you would support Governor Mills for the Senate!
July 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🚨NEW: Maine Governor Janet Mills is strongly considering a run for the U.S. Senate against GOP incumbent Susan Collins.
RETWEET if you would support Governor Mills for the Senate!
RETWEET if you would support Governor Mills for the Senate!
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Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
August 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
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"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
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i can't say for sure, but it was definitely this
Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”
July 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
i can't say for sure, but it was definitely this
I would like to start a petition to rename the JFK airport in New York. My experiences there really suggest it should be called RFK. New Yorkers.. will you sign ?
June 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I would like to start a petition to rename the JFK airport in New York. My experiences there really suggest it should be called RFK. New Yorkers.. will you sign ?
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
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Here again is the remarkable impact of immunotherapy for intractable cancer via engineered T cells
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...
June 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Here again is the remarkable impact of immunotherapy for intractable cancer via engineered T cells
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...
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"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
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Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions www.nature.com/articles/d41... with @shaicarmi.bsky.social and @hankgreely.bsky.social
Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions
Pitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits.
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions www.nature.com/articles/d41... with @shaicarmi.bsky.social and @hankgreely.bsky.social
thanks to ardem and the other brave scientists trying to tell our most beautiful stories of discovery, curing disease and international cooperation -
So I open up the NYtimes and there is my pal @ardemp.bskyverified.social saying that despite funding cuts he is staying in this country that he loves. Keep the faith you all!.... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
thanks to ardem and the other brave scientists trying to tell our most beautiful stories of discovery, curing disease and international cooperation -
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
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They say sports builds character. Here, perhaps, is some real evidence for the claim:
Letter from a girl in Maine who finished second to a trans athlete in Cross country. I've always thought cross country kids are the best sports athletes.
H/t: Craig Calcaterra
H/t: Craig Calcaterra
May 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
They say sports builds character. Here, perhaps, is some real evidence for the claim:
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Wow!
Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wow!