TheDrKittendorf
@thedrkittendorf.bsky.social
www.katemittendorf.com
#cancer 🧫 #Genomics 🧬 #d&i 🏥 #SciArt 🦠 #HealthEquity🩸 #inclusion in STEM 🔭 research education/training 🔬#LGBTQhealth #QueerinSTEM 🏳️🌈 they/them 🏳️⚧ #DisabledInSTEM ♿️♾️ opinions/typos mine #ArtSci #SciSky #OncoSky #GeneChat
#cancer 🧫 #Genomics 🧬 #d&i 🏥 #SciArt 🦠 #HealthEquity🩸 #inclusion in STEM 🔭 research education/training 🔬#LGBTQhealth #QueerinSTEM 🏳️🌈 they/them 🏳️⚧ #DisabledInSTEM ♿️♾️ opinions/typos mine #ArtSci #SciSky #OncoSky #GeneChat
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Kate Mittendorf, PhD
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www.katemittendorf.com
Hi folks who found me from the #DisabledInSTEM starter pack. I am so passionate about this topic that I curate a ton of resources just bc. You can find more info on my website under Disability Resources, including a bibliography of external resources divided by topic!
www.katemittendorf.com
www.katemittendorf.com
Not everyone was at #NSGC until Mon, but several folk thanked me for my question after the late-breaking plenary. Dr Botha is who I cited related to the first speaker’s choice of language. If you were negatively impacted by that talk & want an alternate perspective, check this out. #GeneChat
Genomic and other Autism research raises hopes for improved health outcomes yet also raises concerns.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Though I would like to add that Likert questions etc are qualitative assessments we tend to analyze quantitatively. Likert responses are not quantitative & if I review one more student paper who codes their Likert responses for analysis (eg 1-5) then calls them a quantitative variable I will scream.
people doing research: putting a free-text box on your quantitive survey does not make it "mixed methods" it makes it quantitative with a free-text box
thank you that is all
thank you that is all
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Though I would like to add that Likert questions etc are qualitative assessments we tend to analyze quantitatively. Likert responses are not quantitative & if I review one more student paper who codes their Likert responses for analysis (eg 1-5) then calls them a quantitative variable I will scream.
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people doing research: putting a free-text box on your quantitive survey does not make it "mixed methods" it makes it quantitative with a free-text box
thank you that is all
thank you that is all
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
people doing research: putting a free-text box on your quantitive survey does not make it "mixed methods" it makes it quantitative with a free-text box
thank you that is all
thank you that is all
BlueSky is basically where LinkedIn #wallflowers go to hang out. The kids who just want to make art or get into college without exhaustively self-promoting, becoming class president, & getting crowned homecoming king/queen. Who want to share #science without a sales pitch. #SciSky #MedSky #OncoSky
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
BlueSky is basically where LinkedIn #wallflowers go to hang out. The kids who just want to make art or get into college without exhaustively self-promoting, becoming class president, & getting crowned homecoming king/queen. Who want to share #science without a sales pitch. #SciSky #MedSky #OncoSky
I feel for all NHS workers & vulnerable NHS patients. Port access has nurses up in my face. I want them to be healthy for me but also w/ staffing concerns both here & there, you’d think keeping nurses healthy & on floor would be priority. Shortsighted moves on both sides of the pond lately.
This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I feel for all NHS workers & vulnerable NHS patients. Port access has nurses up in my face. I want them to be healthy for me but also w/ staffing concerns both here & there, you’d think keeping nurses healthy & on floor would be priority. Shortsighted moves on both sides of the pond lately.
Oh no, this is too deeply relatable. Also at all the various Kaiser I go to when I don’t have to check in because the receptionist waives me to sit down from the back of the line.
When I was younger, I thought one day maybe I'll go to a bar all the time and the bartender will know my order. Never happened. But today the pharmacist looked at me and said, we got your order, hold on. Not the way I imagined this moment at all.
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Oh no, this is too deeply relatable. Also at all the various Kaiser I go to when I don’t have to check in because the receptionist waives me to sit down from the back of the line.
Please consider giving @chestcare.bsky.social a follow!
Please check out our new open access publication in JCO Precision Oncology on the some of the work that informed the CHESTcare prototype!
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ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Please consider giving @chestcare.bsky.social a follow!
Reposted by TheDrKittendorf
Please check out our new open access publication in JCO Precision Oncology on the some of the work that informed the CHESTcare prototype!
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Please check out our new open access publication in JCO Precision Oncology on the some of the work that informed the CHESTcare prototype!
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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I keep having this conversation with colleagues. We need to make it obvious to students that revision means success, not failure, as a writer. 1/
Dozens of eyeballs, dozens of drafts
We need to make it obvious to students that revision means success, not failure, as a writer.
schoolofgoodtrouble.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I keep having this conversation with colleagues. We need to make it obvious to students that revision means success, not failure, as a writer. 1/
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This EO is a lot of words for a rule that basically says, political appointees will overrule scientists in deciding what the government considers factual information.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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New (and atypical) publication on #Disability and rest.
This is by far the most vulnerable thing I have ever shared in circles of colleagues — and my first #CreativeWriting since elementary school — and I would be honored if you took the time to read it.
lnkd.in/geHzVaQF
This is by far the most vulnerable thing I have ever shared in circles of colleagues — and my first #CreativeWriting since elementary school — and I would be honored if you took the time to read it.
lnkd.in/geHzVaQF
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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May 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
New (and atypical) publication on #Disability and rest.
This is by far the most vulnerable thing I have ever shared in circles of colleagues — and my first #CreativeWriting since elementary school — and I would be honored if you took the time to read it.
lnkd.in/geHzVaQF
This is by far the most vulnerable thing I have ever shared in circles of colleagues — and my first #CreativeWriting since elementary school — and I would be honored if you took the time to read it.
lnkd.in/geHzVaQF
Also, all my #GeneChat, #OncoSky, #MedSky, #SciArt peeps, please consider following @chestcare.bsky.social for updates on our prototype. We are committed to building personalized, evidence-based, community-collaborative cancer risk education for the trans & gender-diverse population.
May 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Also, all my #GeneChat, #OncoSky, #MedSky, #SciArt peeps, please consider following @chestcare.bsky.social for updates on our prototype. We are committed to building personalized, evidence-based, community-collaborative cancer risk education for the trans & gender-diverse population.
What an amazing conference, with so many researchers with great ideas and topics. A little intellectual light in a dark tunnel.
May 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What an amazing conference, with so many researchers with great ideas and topics. A little intellectual light in a dark tunnel.
Offers a more overt contextualization of the implications of our #healthcare #DataPrivacy piece to today’s GC practitioners, as well as examines implications of a host of other factors affecting genetics care delivery in current sociopolitical landscape. #GeneChat #DNAexchange
Potential Implications of The Trump Administration Policies For Genetic Counseling – Part 1: The Impact on Genetic Counselors
This is a two part blogpost. Part 1 focuses on the impact of Trump's policies on genetic counselors. Part 2, which I plan to post next week, will focus on the impact on…
This is a two part blogpost. Part 1 focuses on the impact of Trump's policies on genetic counselors. Part 2, which I plan to post next week, will focus on the impact on…
Potential Implications of The Trump Administration Policies For Genetic Counseling – Part 1: The Impact on Genetic Counselors
This is a two part blogpost. Part 1 focuses on the impact of Trump's policies on genetic counselors. Part 2, which I plan to post next week, will focus on the impact on patients. When everyone is up front and they're not playing tricksWhen you don't have no freeloaders out to get their kicksWhen it's nobody's business the way that you want to live…
thednaexchange.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Offers a more overt contextualization of the implications of our #healthcare #DataPrivacy piece to today’s GC practitioners, as well as examines implications of a host of other factors affecting genetics care delivery in current sociopolitical landscape. #GeneChat #DNAexchange
i can finally say this piece is out in #JoGC! Thanks esp. to partner in crime @kimzayhowski.bsky.social, w/o whom I wouldn’t be surviving 2025, & to @j9austin.bsky.social for believing in this piece.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#GeneChat #DataPrivacy #LGBTQ
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#GeneChat #DataPrivacy #LGBTQ
March 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
i can finally say this piece is out in #JoGC! Thanks esp. to partner in crime @kimzayhowski.bsky.social, w/o whom I wouldn’t be surviving 2025, & to @j9austin.bsky.social for believing in this piece.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#GeneChat #DataPrivacy #LGBTQ
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#GeneChat #DataPrivacy #LGBTQ
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On the one hand, patriachy very much wants to see trans men as a kind of embarrassed woman, but we can see them for men, and the synthesis is of this leads us "transemasculation" a more interesting conclusion than just "its misogyny, they're just women" or "its never misogyny, they're super valid"
January 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
On the one hand, patriachy very much wants to see trans men as a kind of embarrassed woman, but we can see them for men, and the synthesis is of this leads us "transemasculation" a more interesting conclusion than just "its misogyny, they're just women" or "its never misogyny, they're super valid"
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"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found".
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
January 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found".
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
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Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It’s crazy, in 2025, that my entire week in meetings was basically about erasing anything Black or that could be linked to the Black/minority communities… and as a Health Equity professional it all just felt so heavy. 😮💨
January 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It’s crazy, in 2025, that my entire week in meetings was basically about erasing anything Black or that could be linked to the Black/minority communities… and as a Health Equity professional it all just felt so heavy. 😮💨
As a researcher who benefitted from a diversity supplement before my faculty appointment, this is a horrible shame. I had a different path because I had to change careers due to disability. This offered me a mentored supplement to gain some additional training in my new field.
We were planning on submitting a diversity supplement soon. This is what the NIGMS diversity supplement website looks like today. 🫠
January 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
As a researcher who benefitted from a diversity supplement before my faculty appointment, this is a horrible shame. I had a different path because I had to change careers due to disability. This offered me a mentored supplement to gain some additional training in my new field.
I know there’s a lot going on right now & a lot of high priority concerns, but tonight I’m thinking about a lot of valued colleagues this will probably impact tomorrow. The memorandum states agencies have to have plans for layoff in place by Jan 31.
All federal employees with DEI roles to be placed on leave by 5pm Weds as offices shut down.
January 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I know there’s a lot going on right now & a lot of high priority concerns, but tonight I’m thinking about a lot of valued colleagues this will probably impact tomorrow. The memorandum states agencies have to have plans for layoff in place by Jan 31.
New publication with the #PREMM team comparing PREMM5 with PREMMplus for #LynchSyndrome prediction. Love working with my #DFCI colleagues!
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
#GeneChat #genetics #HereditaryCancer #OncoSky #MedSky #SciSky
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#GeneChat #genetics #HereditaryCancer #OncoSky #MedSky #SciSky
Comparison of PREMM5 and PREMMplus Risk Assessment Models to Identify Lynch Syndrome | JCO Precision Oncology
PURPOSEClinical risk assessment models can identify patients with hereditary cancer susceptibility,
but it is unknown how multigene cancer syndrome prediction models compare with syndrome-specific
mod...
ascopubs.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New publication with the #PREMM team comparing PREMM5 with PREMMplus for #LynchSyndrome prediction. Love working with my #DFCI colleagues!
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
#GeneChat #genetics #HereditaryCancer #OncoSky #MedSky #SciSky
ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
#GeneChat #genetics #HereditaryCancer #OncoSky #MedSky #SciSky
Proud to co-author this article on the caveats of data sharing initiatives for marginalized communities with my colleague Stephanie Kraft, JD in a new @hastingscenter.bsky.social Special Report on Envisioning a More Just #Genomics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#GeneChat #ELSI
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#GeneChat #ELSI
Can Open Science Advance Health Justice? Genomic Research Dissemination in the Evolving Data‐Sharing Landscape
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December 28, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Proud to co-author this article on the caveats of data sharing initiatives for marginalized communities with my colleague Stephanie Kraft, JD in a new @hastingscenter.bsky.social Special Report on Envisioning a More Just #Genomics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#GeneChat #ELSI
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#GeneChat #ELSI