Anandi Krishnan
anandikrishnan.bsky.social
Anandi Krishnan
@anandikrishnan.bsky.social
#mom #humanist #NIH #reentrysci #ally #immigrant
AssocProf @BMERutgers @RutgersCancer @RutgersCS #platelets #translational #omics
previously12yrs @StanfordMed
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If we followed each other in the other place, and you've followed me here too, thank you & hi!
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NIH Study Section Watch Day 1: No communication about rescheduling.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Odd or jarring as it might be for some in my professional community, this brilliant @pbs.org documntary echoes aspects of my bkgrnd.

Science was the path for me & that was entirely fortuitous.

Hope many of you find a chance to watch this & think on how (& to whom) we open doors of opportunity!
'Born Poor’ in America, They're Now Fighting to Shake Poverty’s Lingering Impact | FRONTLINE
Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.
www.pbs.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!
Here is a plot in terms of PROJECTS rather than dollars. I am using projects rather than awards so that projects that received supplements do not get double-counted.

While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This ad for us scientists and educators from the Big Ten Academic Alliance is nicely done!

Share widely please - not just in reposts but also in speaking with members of your community.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...
We Are Here | Driving Health, Opportunity & Stronger Communities
YouTube video by Big Ten Conference
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September 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.

Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...

Plz RT
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Few examples:

1) understand where the payline is and what score compression looks like. I suspect a 1 will be required. Maybe 1 or 2 apps will be funded per SS.
2) be kind to ESI/NI and other discriminated groups
3) maybe drop the whole "this is an A1 but I'm going to pretend it's not" approach.
August 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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First highlight...

Senator Capito started of the discussion saying that the bill contains AN INCREASE for NIH.

The details are not available, but the bill will be released ofter the hearing.

This is not a done-deal, but it does show where the Senate is on a bipartisan basis.
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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STAT: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts / OMB directive sets up a clash with Congress

bit.ly/4lU5Lgw
July 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
July 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe!
www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
Funding Policy - Research Grants
NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.
www.cancer.gov
July 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT
The new leadership of NIH is dismantling long standing biomedical science programs & putting in their place scientifically questionable ideas. A courageous group of current NIH employees pushed back, publishing “The Bethesda Declaration” 1/2

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I urge others to similarly support our patriots at NIH who use their training and talents to improve human health and position the US as the world’s leader in biomedical discovery, innovation and technology development 🙏
Stanford's professor and Bethesda Declaration signatory @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social notes that the declaration “represents the voices of the highly trained Americans at NIH who want to serve their country and steward the biomedical enterprise.” 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown
In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
www.science.org
June 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things
May 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs
April 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Yeah, about that letter "signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised”?

And then you told us to fuck ourselves?

Yeah, that wasn't a real letter. We didn't mean it.
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I'm the new VP of WVU's Graduate Women Advocating Science and I'm on a mission! We want to host a speaker who can tell us about activism in STEM for underrepresented voices. Know anyone? My following is on the micro scale so any reposts are deeply appreciated ❤️ #womeninSTEM #diversityinSTEM #SciComm
April 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@Glaivy Batsuli (Stanford) & I are track chairs for the Basic Science (& possibly translational/laboratory) sessions for @THSNA 2026 www.thsna.org/web/

Know trainees or under-represented voices (including yourself!) we should consider?
#thsna2026 #thrombosis #hemostasis
DM or comment below!🙏
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April 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The UK Government Statistical Service is hiring a batch of stats folk.

15 Higher Statistical Officer
5 Senior Statistical Officer - National in

Locations across UK. East Kilbride in Scotland.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/

#rstats #statistics #jobs #civilservice
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives...

I am no policy expert but this is one article that is seemingly connected to Dr. Bhattaracharya - and if so, it is worth an open discussion (and possibly feedback to him!)

Thoughts?
A Blueprint for NIH Reform
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) failed us during the COVID-19 pandemic, by advocating for unscientific school closures, lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates, and by stifling scientific deba...
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM