Cindy Veldhuis, PhD
@cbv.bsky.social
NIH-funded LGBTQIA+ health researcher. Asst Prof @ISGMH @MSSatNU @NorthwesternU. Pronounced "Veld-hice." Views my own. http://soqir.org 🌈
In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵
📣Attention NIH LRP applicants - the deadline has been moved to December 4: x.com/NIHFunding/s...
NIH Funding on X: "💡 GOOD NEWS! The NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (#NIHLRP) application cycle deadline has been extended to December 4! 📅. Interested in applying? Visit the LRP website for more details. https://t.co/bJVjLon60N https://t.co/7qWM8tL0yu" / X
💡 GOOD NEWS! The NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (#NIHLRP) application cycle deadline has been extended to December 4! 📅. Interested in applying? Visit the LRP website for more details. https://t.co/bJVjLon60N https://t.co/7qWM8tL0yu
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Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.
A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12
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My lab hosted a Halloween crafting party for our research institute @impactinstitute.bsky.social yesterday. So much fun. Grateful to my team for making this happen and for everyone who showed up!!
@impactinstitute.bsky.social is taking up to 4 postdoctoral fellows next year! Please see the flyer in the link below. If my own funding holds, I will be hiring one of the four postdocs, so if you have interests in women's health and need a postdoc, apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨👩👦👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Just got an email that the NIH Early Independence award is "not going forward." This was an award that catapulted promising PhD students into faculty positions and is part of the High-Risk High-Reward grant program in the NIH Office of the Director. Deadline was 9.6.25!
On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.
When chatGPT just gets you: Me: What is a better word to use in this sentence than normalize? I dislike that word for various and likely obvious reasons. ChatGPT: Totally fair to dislike "normalize"—it can feel clinical, loaded, or imply that things were previously “abnormal.”
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📣 Big Announcement! 📣 🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop! Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform how you design charts, posters, and presentations. 🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025 📍 Virtual REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR
Cindy Veldhuis, PhD@cbv.bsky.social · last yr.🎨 Calling all health researchers! Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉 💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇 🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on email list.
I bought the cabinet that came in this box on December 30, 2024. So much has happened since then. Should I contact them and see if they can fix ALL THE THINGS???
Happy pride month, all.
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Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
🎨 Calling all health researchers! Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉 💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇 🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on email list.
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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The label on my Noosa yogurt this morning promises "a delightful escape." Not sure how that is possible given [gestures to everything everywhere all at once], but am willing to try and will report back. Stay tuned.
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We continue to look for an #ImpSci Postdoc to work with us - if you consider applying and want to have a chat first, let me know. New deadline end of May: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May — together worth more than $800 million — addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
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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
Our analysis shows that, looking at just the projects terminated so far, a whopping 29% are related to HIV/AIDS and 24% to trans health. 17% are related to COVID-19.
NIH-funded LGBT+ health work has been obliterated. This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”
