Dr Kathleen Millen
@neurodevkathy.bsky.social
Tweets about dev biol, neurodev genetics, random cool science + life; usually with typos, so many typos
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist:
1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
February 19, 2026 at 1:14 AM
The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist:
1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
It sounds like a lot of people had to smack some sense into Prasad & RFK Jr. to stop them from upending vaccine approval with NO basis in science.
But serious damage has been done. Who's going to invest in new vaccines if a conspiracy theorist can block even a review on a whim?
But serious damage has been done. Who's going to invest in new vaccines if a conspiracy theorist can block even a review on a whim?
F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
It sounds like a lot of people had to smack some sense into Prasad & RFK Jr. to stop them from upending vaccine approval with NO basis in science.
But serious damage has been done. Who's going to invest in new vaccines if a conspiracy theorist can block even a review on a whim?
But serious damage has been done. Who's going to invest in new vaccines if a conspiracy theorist can block even a review on a whim?
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
For those who don't know the term cryptogyny...
Let's just chill on doing it for the billionth time.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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Let's just chill on doing it for the billionth time.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
February 18, 2026 at 6:15 AM
For those who don't know the term cryptogyny...
Let's just chill on doing it for the billionth time.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
4/n
Let's just chill on doing it for the billionth time.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
4/n
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
🧪 Vía @kffhealthnews.org
He lied during his confirmation. About almost everything. And they believed him.
“The only thing I want is good science”.
We are in the horror movie where the scientist is ignored.
He lied during his confirmation. About almost everything. And they believed him.
“The only thing I want is good science”.
We are in the horror movie where the scientist is ignored.
February 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM
🧪 Vía @kffhealthnews.org
He lied during his confirmation. About almost everything. And they believed him.
“The only thing I want is good science”.
We are in the horror movie where the scientist is ignored.
He lied during his confirmation. About almost everything. And they believed him.
“The only thing I want is good science”.
We are in the horror movie where the scientist is ignored.
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
*one voice altered to disguise identity
February 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
*one voice altered to disguise identity
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it.
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
One Year of RFK Jr. Has Left Public Health Devastated
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he sai...
bloomberg.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it.
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
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Attention science communicators!
🚨🚨🚨
The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
Attention science communicators!
🚨🚨🚨
The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
forms.gle
February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Attention science communicators!
🚨🚨🚨
The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
Attention science communicators!
🚨🚨🚨
The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
The FDA has reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine. 🧪 🛟
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
U.S. FDA reverses course, will review Moderna's modified flu vaccine application
Moderna said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review its influenza vaccine application, reversing an earlier decision.
www.cnbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The FDA has reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine. 🧪 🛟
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far
The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
This is 252 R01s, only. The math is quite devastating
New and competitive renewal awards.
The number of awards is 569 compared with more than 2200 through the same date in earlier fiscal years.
All ICs have now made awards except for NIAAA, NCCIH, NLM, FIC, and OD. NEI (Eye Institute) made its first award during the new period.
3/4
The number of awards is 569 compared with more than 2200 through the same date in earlier fiscal years.
All ICs have now made awards except for NIAAA, NCCIH, NLM, FIC, and OD. NEI (Eye Institute) made its first award during the new period.
3/4
February 18, 2026 at 6:59 AM
This is 252 R01s, only. The math is quite devastating
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Why is amoxicillin rash not considered an allergy? Ask me why I want to know
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a woman in a white shirt is holding her neck with her hands
ALT: a woman in a white shirt is holding her neck with her hands
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Why is amoxicillin rash not considered an allergy? Ask me why I want to know
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Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
I knew 2026 was going to be a big year for scientists moving around the country.
Destabilizations tend to force these kinds of things. And there has been so much destabilization.
We moved in 2025, and I hear a number of my colleagues are making big moves in 2026.
Buy, don't sell in tough times.
Destabilizations tend to force these kinds of things. And there has been so much destabilization.
We moved in 2025, and I hear a number of my colleagues are making big moves in 2026.
Buy, don't sell in tough times.
February 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I knew 2026 was going to be a big year for scientists moving around the country.
Destabilizations tend to force these kinds of things. And there has been so much destabilization.
We moved in 2025, and I hear a number of my colleagues are making big moves in 2026.
Buy, don't sell in tough times.
Destabilizations tend to force these kinds of things. And there has been so much destabilization.
We moved in 2025, and I hear a number of my colleagues are making big moves in 2026.
Buy, don't sell in tough times.
Human brain development is not like mouse! Yet another exciting addition to our growing list of human cerebellar developmental programs different from mouse-centric dogma. We can't model what we don't know! Congrats @haldipur.bsky.social and our team - including many wonderful UW undergrads
Thrilled to share our latest work highlighting Bergmann glial development in the human cerebellum. @neurodevkathy.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Spatiotemporal histogenesis of the developing human cerebellum reveals dynamic layering of Bergmann glia | PNAS
Bergmann glia (BG) are a specialized glial population essential for cerebellar development,
yet their developmental timeline and molecular identity...
www.pnas.org
February 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Human brain development is not like mouse! Yet another exciting addition to our growing list of human cerebellar developmental programs different from mouse-centric dogma. We can't model what we don't know! Congrats @haldipur.bsky.social and our team - including many wonderful UW undergrads
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
Picture yesterday didn't do this justice. Chocolate pistachio cake. Sooo yummy!
February 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Picture yesterday didn't do this justice. Chocolate pistachio cake. Sooo yummy!
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone..
February 15, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone..
Reposted by Dr Kathleen Millen
In New Jersey, it takes close to a thousand signatures to be sure of being on the ballot. I have great canvassers. Every 100 is an accomplishment!
Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!
Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!
February 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
In New Jersey, it takes close to a thousand signatures to be sure of being on the ballot. I have great canvassers. Every 100 is an accomplishment!
Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!
Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!