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Sherida de Leeuw
@deleeuws.bsky.social
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🧫 Neuroscience anything APOE biology Alzheimer’s and healthy cognitive aging• 🎓Postdoc at Columbia• ✊Postdoc Union unit chair UAW4100• 🏋️‍♀️🏔️lift weights, contemporary dance, and questionable hiking adventures
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fundnyscience.bsky.social
We’re calling on @governor.ny.gov to invest in the Empire Biomedical Research Institute. A robust, stable research ecosystem protects jobs, fuels innovation, and builds community health statewide. NY must invest in our global leadership in science.
@gothamist.com reports:
tinyurl.com/5fab5k7u
NY medical schools press Gov. Hochul to put up billions for scientific research
The request comes amid continuing uncertainty over federal funding, with research and thousands of jobs on the line.
tinyurl.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
Trying to write up results from 2 years worth of data with an illegal amount of variables.
a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and her mouth open .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and her mouth open .
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July 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
Heck yea, a university that puts actions to words!
jbenmenachem.com jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Apr 2
Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.
Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants
The University announced its consideration to sell approximately $320 million of taxable bonds on Tuesday, following a notification from government agencies about the suspension of research grants.
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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drstarbird.bsky.social
Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.
Letter from the NIH indicating that my grant has been terminated (though it seems we can keep the remaining funds for this year?)
April 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
No comment really.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 1
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected]
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
First day of AAIC symposium on APOE & Lipids @alzassociation.bsky.social #AAICAPOE #APOE #AAIC @hyattregency.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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cpw-uaw4100.bsky.social
The Columbia Postdoctoral Workers Organizing Committee condemns the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil. We demand that Columbia restore its sanctuary campus policy and fight back against threats to the safety of international workers. Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pL4Z...
CPW Sanctuary Campus Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
From my PhD advisor @kenmiller.bsky.social at Columbia. These are the grants that funded my PhD.
So the NIH grant terminations at Columbia turned out to be: -- all training grants (T series), which were all required to have extensive sections addressing diversity -- grad student and postdoc fellowships (F series) -- center and core grants (P series), including a cancer center, Alzheimer's center, diabetes center and more, and the vision core grant Michael Goldberg has been PI of for 17 years that provides shared facilities (machine shop, imaging, ...) for vision researchers -- a smattering of individual research grants, apparently targeting anything to do with covid, vaccines, or HIV, and including one study with title involving study of diverse tissues, i.e. with the verboten word diverse.
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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humbertobasilio.bsky.social
🚨🧪 Are you a researcher affected by the recent cancellation of federal grants and contracts at Columbia University?

I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.

Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: [email protected]

Repost please!
March 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
For full alt text, follow pastebin link in next post. Partial text: Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening: First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow. The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail. Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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cpw-uaw4100.bsky.social
‼️ @columbiauniversity.bsky.social postdocs and fellows, please fill out this form if your funding has been cut in order for us to strategize organizing activities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‼️Check your email, we sent out info yesterday for the postdoc townhall Friday March 14.
How do federal funding changes impact you?
The White House's federal funding restrictions have massive ramifications for public research, our university, faculty, graduate students, and us. Now is the time for us to defend our careers, researc...
docs.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
“When we come together as unionized researchers, we can have a lot of power,” Isabel Low, a neuroscience postdoc at Columbia

So proud to be organizing with all these resilient scientists, together we stand ✊

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Academic unions are rallying to defend science
"It's sad we have to do this."
www.motherjones.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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cpw-uaw4100.bsky.social
Hundreds of NYC academic workers and allies came together yesterday as part of a National Day of Action to #DefendPublicResearch funding. They say cut back, we say fight back! ✊
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Puerto Rico!

Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
image of puerto rico with text, looking for puerto rico volunteers.
February 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Vermont!

Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Vermont photo with text, looking for vermont volunteers.
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
deleeuws.bsky.social
I love how Columbia single handedly disrupted the west Harlem community and destroyed local business, but then it’s like “look we post about black history”.. ppffff you’re not fooling anyone 😂✊
columbiauniversity.bsky.social Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social · Feb 15
Celebrate Black History Month with a collection of stories showcasing Black history and culture Uptown from Columbia Neighbors: neighbors.columbia.edu/content/colu...
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
Every single time a paper comes out with just another piece of evidence that cognitively healthy people can have a brain loaded with amyloid and therefore it’s pathological role in AD is questionable, my petty self just thinks “see I told you 🙄🫢🙈

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
I actually just birthed and submitted an entire K99/R00, 3 months of my blood, sweat, and sanity. All I can say is, I wouldn’t be here today without our grants coordinator, the real MVP, always organized, always on top of it, gentle reminders and words of encouragement ✨ ITS ACTUALLY OVER 🪩
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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joeallenjoe.bsky.social
This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
This is an N of 1, but I’ve been using a bottle of RelesR over a year past expiry date… and my iPSCs come off great! Expiry dates on cell culture supplies are so chaotic, some small molecules will be completely useless after exactly 7 days… and then there’s also things like RelesR 😅 @stemcell.com 🫢
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
The impact of dropping the diversity focused NIH F31 graduate student fellowships from review drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/02/06/n...
NIH F31graduate student fellowships
One of the primary NIH training fellowships is the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for graduate students, aka, the F31. It is requested with individual ap…
drugmonkey.scientopia.org
February 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
“…scientific journals “are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse.””
The annoying part is that (even public health experts) who have ridiculous opinions on things like Covid vaccine trials, can also be very much on point like on the issue of publishing research
altnih4science.bsky.social Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 7
The NIH Director nominee is right in the thick of some anti-science forces.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 7
Here's Wired on that new journal from RealClear.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...
February 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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sfn.org
Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans.

Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.

👇 #NeuroSky
February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
deleeuws.bsky.social
You know what’s funny, if the endowment gets taxed they’re just gonna take it out on workers who are already financially vulnerable (staff, postdocs, grad students)…😤
February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
Dear US scientists,

We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form
"Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!"

We can explain.

It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan.

Read along in thread 1/x 🧪
"The first rule of research administration is [generally scientists don't know much about it]" Time for that to change
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM