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Ginger Hunter

@flysci.bsky.social

Asst Prof of Biology at Howard University, fly pusher, runner, and lapsed musician. 🇰🇷🇺🇲🪰 she/her https://sites.google.com/view/hunterlabhu/

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American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 3w ago

Advocacy in action. ASCB members met with six Virginia congressional offices to discuss the importance of biomedical research and the challenges facing the U.S. scientific enterprise. Learn more: https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/virginia-is-for-scientists/

Virginia Is for Scientists - ASCB

ASCB Members Meet with Virginia Congressional Offices During Virtual Hill Day On July 14, 2026, six ASCB members who either work in Virginia or have roots in the Commonwealth met with staff from six Virginia congressional offices to discuss the importance of research conducted in Virginia and the challenges currently facing the U.S. life science…

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Ginger Hunter@flysci.bsky.social · 3w ago

I needed this week 🎉 -our Amgen scholar's results were so awesome and weird! - follow up data to her results confirm the weirdness! - a crazy difficult experiment seems to have worked! - Talked to Capitol Hill staffers about funding research! Going to invite our rep to visit.

Ginger Hunter@flysci.bsky.social · last mo.

Thomas' statement about biology is part of what motivates me to teach our sections on sex determination very clearly and carefully. My goal is that all of my students have a better handle of the topic than this guy

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J. THOMAS, J., concurring judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men- tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny— race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re- sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla- tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g., Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness); Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta- tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to keep men who believe that they are women out of teams and private spaces reserved for women. Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio- logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10, 27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta- ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne, Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob- scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”— is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens “as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of Power 17, 21 (1992).
I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-26-086: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity a...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator ...

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Democrats@democrats.org · 4mo ago

Virginia: Vote YES! Early voting is open for the next two weeks until Saturday, April 18. As Trump and Republicans try to rig the midterms in their favor, you have the chance to stop them. Make your plan to vote early or on Election Day, April 21, at IWillVote.com.

Graphic promoting voting in Virginia with the text "VOTE YES for fair elections." Features the Virginia State Capitol, a cardinal, and dogwood flowers. Additional text: "Early voting is open until Saturday, April 18" and "Make your plan to vote at IWillVote.com."
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup. That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 6mo ago

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

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Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 8mo ago

OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...

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molly taft@mollytaft.com · 8mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office

The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting out a recruitment call for candidates specifically opposed to data centers.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 8mo ago

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 8mo ago

The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!

Become a Summer Intern in DCEG

DCEG offers a summer research internship in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics fo college, postbaccalaureate masters-level students, and graduate students, including medical and dental st...

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