Kristen Kroll
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I lead a Washington University lab focused on regulation of brain development and using stem cell, organoid and mouse models to study its disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders. Views are my own. https://sites.wustl.edu/krolllab
🧪Rita Levi-Montalcini escaped war torn Italy and had a career of incredible brilliance and resilience. I loved learning about her life and wonderful scientific interactions with embryologist Viktor Hamburger throughout her years at Washington University open.substack.com/pub/kristenk...
The Woman Who Turned Her Bedroom Into a Laboratory — and Changed Neuroscience Forever
Rita Levi-Montalcini, the trailblazing scientist who kept working to survive
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🧪Highlighting Kakenya's Dream, educating and empowering the women in STEM careers in places where opportunities are lacking, and Phoebe, a recent Kakenya grad and newly minted nurse, who provides essential medical care in her under-resourced community in Kenya. open.substack.com/pub/kristenk...
The Future, One Girl at a Time: Kakenya’s Dream Gives Girls a Chance to Beat the Odds, Gain an Education, and Transform their Communities
Here’s how Kakenya’s Dream — and its graduates — are changing what’s possible for girls and women.
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We’re excited to share this essay about Trudy Elion, a groundbreaking biochemist who, against all odds, helped design drugs still used today. Trudy succeeded despite the social barriers erected to discourage people like her. Stay tuned! (And read and share, please!) substack.com/@debbywaldma...
Trudy Elion: The Drug Detective Who Saved Countless Lives
A pioneer of rational drug design whose discoveries continue to cure disease
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🧪 The latest installment of our "women in STEM" series, on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. substack.com/profile/6958...
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My terrific former student/lab member and colleague Renata Shen did the primary writing on this installment of our "women in STEM" essay series, on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Wu's life prompts us to r...
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Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal. The SAVE Act doesn’t fix a real problem; it creates one. It builds a giant bureaucracy to hunt for rare cases and ends up blocking huge numbers of eligible citizens who did everything right. #sheshed
🧪 A new series on women in STEM (introductory essay below), to raise awareness among the public, especially since education, science, and hard won rights gained by the last generation of women are under existential threat in the US. Feel free to share. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
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In our new Substack series featuring women in STEM, we’ll tell one story at a time, about women whose discoveries changed medicine and science, and what it cost them to be heard. Each week, we’re goi...
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Boy, if I were Donald Trump, I’d be pissed that my supposedly loyal Vice President has gone completely and totally silent on social media since these Epstein emails dropped. Vance always does this when it gets really bad—just disappears. Like Homer in the hedges.
How did we get to the longest oligarchic retrenchment in America’s history (e.g. now)? How did ‘movement conservatism’s’ rhetoric, ideology, and misinformation campaigns of the past ~45 years bring us to this point? And where do we go from here? Dr. Richardson illuminates our history and future.
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth": Heather Cox Richardson explains America's tilts between democracy vs. oligarchy past & present
"There is nothing more American than standing against kings...what will make the difference...is remembering that we are we the people. This is our moment. Let’s get out there and do it." HCR-10/14/25
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I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings 2 - National Protest (West County, STL)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings 2 - National Protest (West County, STL) · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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substack.com/@kristenkroll/ Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance? Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map We inhabit the twilight preceding the potential loss of democratic governance…
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Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance? Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map We inhabit the twilight ...
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🧪 Many official government websites now have partisan propaganda about the government shutdown (as below for NIH/HHS)--this is an illegal violation of the Hatch Act. See the instructions below for registering your objection to this illegal use of government webpages for partisan propaganda.
For many years now—we must stand up for democracy, if we want to continue living in one.
🧪Guideline convergence across specialties and borders leads to the same recommendation: acetaminophen remains appropriate first-line therapy for fever and pain in pregnancy. Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
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What the best evidence actually shows: Large, modern, better-controlled designs The 2024 Swedish population study (n≈2.5M) used sibling analyses to control for shared genetics and environment. Result...
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🧪on recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding autism and Tylenol: You may wish to pass this along to others who need to separate facts and data from the unsupported or falsifiable assertions made by those with much less knowledge leading our HHS. substack.com/@kristenkrol...
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For those who have asked me about recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding Tylenol and autism, please see this article and the NYT deep dive penned by Sam Wang, who has also studied this topic in depth....
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Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’: substack.com/@kristenkrol...
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https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’—amazing!
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Stephen’s conservative cousin returns to have “a word” with us 😂😂 Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good. Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert! fb.watch/CcSqeXuH_4/?...
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Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich substack.com/profile/6958...
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https://fb.watch/C8WkS8BNio/?fs=e Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich
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Congratulations, Stephen! You saved our sanity for decades with incisive satire, brilliant commentary, kindness and humanity. Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”. Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives
🧪AUTHORITARIANISM IN ACTION RFK Jr. has banned government scientists from publishing in the world’s top medical journals. This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result. Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!
RIP, Charlie Kirk. Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong” Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death. And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong. I’m sorry. #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #Pinks
Cut them loose so the rest of us can move into the 21st century, rather than back to the dark ages. substack.com/@chrisarmita...
Cut the Failed Red States Loose: Why America Can't Keep Carrying the Dead Weight
Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.
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🧪Very cool work to unleash new repair capacity in a damaged brain after stroke
Ben Novitch@novitchlab.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis is a lovely article that showcases some of the outstanding work that my UCLA colleagues Tom Carmichael and Alcino Silva and their trainees have done over the past few years seeking to leverage intrinsic repair pathways. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...
🧪An excellent article about what we’re losing in science and education in America and why it is mission critical that we fight for it: “Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election
by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…
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