Lydia Kisley

@lydia-kisley.bsky.social

Physicist & Chemist @cwru | Clevelander | Materials at the ultimate concentration limit🔬 | James A. Garfield Elementary alumnae 🐊 | kisleylab.science

Sometimes I think my job is just copy/paste my CV into a 87 different formats with the clunkiest UIs. The latest one- you connect your ORCID, select what to import from ORCID to your profile, save each selection, save page. Then go to your application, import from profile, save, save page. 🫠😵

Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.

Email from an nih.gov email address addressed to Jenna Norton saying they are removing the KICC meeting summary due to “unauthorized language”  including “health equity” and “racial/ethnic”

Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · last yr.

Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH

When I was in college, the President of CWRU in Cleveland, Agnar Pytte told me that his family had been a part of the resistance to German occupation and so he recognized it was an obligation of every citizen to oppose authoritarianism and any hint of censorship of thoughts or speech.

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