Tess Eidem PhD

Microbe wrangler, cannabis scientist, bioaerosol investigator, dog lover, nature nerd, musician, she/her.

[Tess Eidem PhD @tesseidem]

@MicrobiomDigest @Thatsregrettab1 He does it in the cannabis space as well. Seems like a very unhappy person.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding.

Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year.

Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

[Tess Eidem PhD @tesseidem]

@JDVance That's why the first thing you do as a researcher is try to replicate basic work. You publish and present what your results are and how they compare to others.
Biology is complicated.
You are able to make this statement because scientists argue and publish on it all the time.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today on Mother’s Day, let’s remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable child care, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.

America must become a nation which treats all mothers and their kids with the respect and dignity they deserve.

[Joao Pereira @jdpereira]

Take care of people.

People that work with you, people that you supervise, people that you mentor.

Take care of them.

Everything else comes after.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

The hard lessons of Germany’s dark history are speaking to us today. The message: It’s easier to lose your democracy than to regain it.

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at https://t.co/cXNiqsFuuD.

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.

Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design

Please RT 💚

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

NPR receives $2-3M/year in federal funding.

PBS receives $80-85M.

The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.

We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”

[Meathead "BBQ Hall of Famer, Hedonism Evangelist” @meathead]

Your health is at risk. My wife is a PhD microbiologist. She retired from the FDA in 2018. She and her team did vital research on food safety. They developed rapid testing methods for detecting pathogens (one of her tests was adopted by McDonalds). She was involved in identifying the pathogens found in BlueBell ice cream and Jack-in-the-Box and many other cases. There were a dozen or so other teams in her lab working to save lives and make food safer. They all got the axe today. And don't give me the BS that the FDA is corrupt. These are scientists not politicians. She couldn't even accept a box of donuts from an equipment salesman and they made me sell my stock in OXO Good Grips because the FDA regulates kitchen tools. They worked long and hard for you. This is sad.

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

What in the holy hell.

Cost cutting? How much does it actually cost to post numbers on the internet?

They’re denying people essential information to protect themselves. Shameful.

https://t.co/jXEuV74GhI

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

The comment thread below this post is an excellent example of the toxic discourse around science on this app. The algorithm promotes the least informed people/bots, creating an echo chamber of idiocy and conspiracy theories. Not good.

[nature @Nature]

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://t.co/ly8mKijdtQ

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

When did firing people like nuclear scientists and air traffic controllers seem like a better idea than simply taxing the rich?

[Olivier George @brainaddiction]

It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment

Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on NIH-funded research—that’s all 210 drugs. But what the public sees is just the tip of the iceberg.

Pharma takes credit for the final product, but beneath each drug developed, there are ~20 years of basic research, and 90% of the cost is from basic research funded by the NIH, which discovers drug targets, understands disease mechanisms, and creates life-saving treatments.

Figuring out how cancer evades the immune system, how addiction rewires the brain, and how heart disease develops is the role of the NIH, creating the foundation for the breakthrough drugs that come 20 years later, and the NIH does all that with only 0.8% of the US budget.

Without NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti-overdose medication, no anti-heart attack or stroke medication, no cutting-edge treatments.

If NIH funding is cut, the iceberg will melt. That means fewer cures, more suffering, and more lives lost.

The science beneath the surface keeps us afloat.
Invest in NIH. Invest in life

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

the problem is that we don't "randomly cut everything by 10-35%." when it comes to austerity, the first things on the chopping block are always education, healthcare, and aid to the poor. why don't we first try "randomly" chopping corporate welfare and "see what happens?"

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

[Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD @allisonoconn]

Tough day to be a physician in America.

Tough day to be a scientist in America.

Tough day to be a woman in America.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

God help us

[Dr. Tara Nordgren (Gries) @tmnordgren]

https://t.co/sF6fFjkdxI Over three months and counting without a lab of our own, and a university that continues to downplay the severity of the situation. Something has to change.