Nancy Collie

she/her.
@NSF GRFP fellow.
Huda Lab.
opinions are mine.

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

Seriously in shock. So honored to have received the #NSFGRFP

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

Amazing lab - amazing work! Mark is the best - don't hesitate to reach out!!!!

[Mark Rossi @WhoIsMarkRossi]

We are hiring a new research assistant! Official job post to follow. Please reach out or visit https://t.co/ruMOqZVkVP if you are interested.

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

@_MaxAb17 Poison ivy

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

Do not look away.

[Tina Termini @CterminiPhD]

We as a scientific community need to be more intentional than ever in supporting, mentoring, and being available to help scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds. I urge everyone to think deeply about what they can do. For example… 🧵

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

ENDURE is the ONLY reason I’m in grad school. That program got me the NSF. What is happening is sickening and it is wrong. And this country will be hurt by these actions.

[Rubén García-Reyes @rgarciareyes4]

I wouldn't be where I'm today if it weren't for NIH programs like ENDURE, PREP and IMSD. Their funding gave me the backing and experience to win a Gilliam Fellowship. Eliminating them for no reason is unjustified. I'll do what I can to continue lifting others UP in my community.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

There’s an enormous amount of disinformation flying around about NIH right now, so let’s clear a few things up. The NIH is not Big Pharma. It doesn’t make drugs, it doesn’t set public health agendas, and it doesn’t profit from your illness.

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

Physically doing science, not just being talked down to about it, would change a lot of people's minds. Part of the reason why folks are skeptical of scientific institutions is the moat between general public participation and the various fields of research.

[Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber]

My time in industry convinced me of the importance of basic, government funded science research. It was crazy how much of the stuff we did was based directly on academic research that in-and-of-itself would have been too risky and/or too low-return for the company to do

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

This is when community counts. My grad school peers, I know we are making no money, but every little bit helps.

[Patrick Mulholland @MulhollandLab]

Dear science community, an amazing grad student with @DrJRink and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating @neuro_MUSC @charlestonarc @musc_cgs

https://t.co/vFbrLQy1PK

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Rates of of autism are the same in unvaccinated kids as in vaccinated kids.

So vaccines aren't the cause.

There.

I've saved RFK Jr a lot of time and effort.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Distilling the potential impact of science based on a title is so dangerous. Some of the biggest biomedical breakthroughs came from research that, at first glance, seemed ‘pointless or unrelated. Here are a few that I'm sure might have caused an uproar in the headlines:

[Steven Salzberg 💙💛 @StevenSalzberg1]

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

[Alexander Harris @dr_alexharris]

First they came for my diversity grant, and I did not freak out - because I still had an R01. Then they paused federal funding, and I did not freak out - because I had a start up package with central funds. Then they cut indirects, & there was no research left to freak out over

[Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD @allisonoconn]

I can not wrap my head around the disconnect I see between people wanting better treatments and cures and simultaneously being so deeply anti-science….

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

@bc_Sanders @NIH I am in the lab at LEAST 40 hours a week. Studying and class work happen at night. I’m in the lab on the weekend. PhD students work constantly. Yes, I agree that the training and the waived tuition are perks. But please don’t diminish the very real work we are doing, full time.

[Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1]

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

@joelisprudence What is this timeline?

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

I retired from the American University system at age 49 (after 26 years) so have no direct stake in this.

But am here to say that drastically cutting NIH & NSF funding and reducing grant “overhead” to 15% are among the dumbest ideas I have ever seen.

America will never be the same. Science will take a huge hit; academic stars will leave; university reputations will crumble, and homegrown talent will be even harder to find.

Asia and Europe will profit.

Epic unforced errors.

[Nancy Collie @nancy_collie]

@baym Noooo omg. Probably they do.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.

This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.