Angela Andersen
@angelaandersen.bsky.social
Loves science and scientists. Mom, wife, science consultant, runner, Canadian transplant. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality" T.S. Eliot. Life Science Editors Foundation www.lifescienceeditors.org & Life Science Editors www.lifescienceeditors.com
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I am suing the NIH.
As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated.
Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.
As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated.
Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.
Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
www.aclu.org
September 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I am suing the NIH.
As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated.
Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.
As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated.
Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.
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Short thread:
18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there.
Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position.
Kelton moved to Denmark.
18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there.
Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position.
Kelton moved to Denmark.
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
September 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Short thread:
18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there.
Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position.
Kelton moved to Denmark.
18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there.
Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position.
Kelton moved to Denmark.
At a recent grant-writing webinar with @qedscience.bsky.social , someone asked: "What if I just get a bad reviewer?"
Yes, you might. But there's never just one reviewer, and there's more worth saying 🧵
Yes, you might. But there's never just one reviewer, and there's more worth saying 🧵
September 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
At a recent grant-writing webinar with @qedscience.bsky.social , someone asked: "What if I just get a bad reviewer?"
Yes, you might. But there's never just one reviewer, and there's more worth saying 🧵
Yes, you might. But there's never just one reviewer, and there's more worth saying 🧵
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Spot on piece about the relationship between Federally funded science and the development of therapies. Investors want ‘de-risked’ assets. It’s their favorite word.
Drug Discovery News: The NIH funding crisis that could reshape biotech for years to come
by Bree Foster
bit.ly/475Hy0I
by Bree Foster
bit.ly/475Hy0I
The NIH funding crisis that could reshape biotech for years to come | Drug Discovery News
The NIH budget survived a proposed 40 percent cut, but falling grant numbers could still have lasting consequences for drug discovery.
bit.ly
September 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Spot on piece about the relationship between Federally funded science and the development of therapies. Investors want ‘de-risked’ assets. It’s their favorite word.
Looking forward to this! Please join us tomorrow, Aug 20th!
900+ researchers have already registered for our webinar. Join us this Thursday.
Learn how to find weaknesses in your grant, strengthen feasibility and use AI as a critical reader without treating it as the scientific authority.
📅 Aug 20
⏰ 11 AM ET
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/ywn6evs8
Learn how to find weaknesses in your grant, strengthen feasibility and use AI as a critical reader without treating it as the scientific authority.
📅 Aug 20
⏰ 11 AM ET
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/ywn6evs8
August 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Looking forward to this! Please join us tomorrow, Aug 20th!
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ok but pulitzer for whoever got this shot, it’s so good
August 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
ok but pulitzer for whoever got this shot, it’s so good
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Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join
Join — Shansky Lab
The lab at our end-of-semester field day
www.shanskylab.com
August 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join
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A scientist who just lost her grant cuts straight to the heart of it: “Requiring that NIH only fund work leading directly to a drug or other biomedical intervention… would rule out much basic research funded by the agency.”
It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
August 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
A scientist who just lost her grant cuts straight to the heart of it: “Requiring that NIH only fund work leading directly to a drug or other biomedical intervention… would rule out much basic research funded by the agency.”
It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
It’s pathetic & harmful to limit our understanding of health like this
"Make the training harder than the race."
August 20: join me @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social, PI @barakrotblat.bsky.social, and Lior Onn-Sorek from @qedscience.bsky.social for our advice on how to catch weaknesses before reviewers do.
11 AM ET | 5 PM CEST
Register: bit.ly/4gbtTKZ
August 20: join me @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social, PI @barakrotblat.bsky.social, and Lior Onn-Sorek from @qedscience.bsky.social for our advice on how to catch weaknesses before reviewers do.
11 AM ET | 5 PM CEST
Register: bit.ly/4gbtTKZ
August 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
"Make the training harder than the race."
August 20: join me @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social, PI @barakrotblat.bsky.social, and Lior Onn-Sorek from @qedscience.bsky.social for our advice on how to catch weaknesses before reviewers do.
11 AM ET | 5 PM CEST
Register: bit.ly/4gbtTKZ
August 20: join me @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social, PI @barakrotblat.bsky.social, and Lior Onn-Sorek from @qedscience.bsky.social for our advice on how to catch weaknesses before reviewers do.
11 AM ET | 5 PM CEST
Register: bit.ly/4gbtTKZ
To put it bluntly: I don't care why you care. Why should I care?
August 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
To put it bluntly: I don't care why you care. Why should I care?
Chronically infected hosts transmit sleeping sickness at parasite loads too low for quorum sensing. How? Glycerol from skin adipocytes primes T.brucei slender forms for tsetse infection. Congrats & thank you for working with @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glycerol metabolism triggers trypanosome differentiation into transmissible forms in mammalian tissue-like conditions - Nature Communications
Glycerol metabolism drives differentiation of Trypanosoma brucei mammalian forms into novel vector-transmissible stages, revealing that parasite transmission can be governed by metabolic cues and is n...
www.nature.com
August 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Chronically infected hosts transmit sleeping sickness at parasite loads too low for quorum sensing. How? Glycerol from skin adipocytes primes T.brucei slender forms for tsetse infection. Congrats & thank you for working with @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
www.science.org
August 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
To those of you who claim "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", I'd like to counter with "...or weaker, or not meaningfully different, depending on the context", despite it making the conclusions more suitable for a specialized journal.
July 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
To those of you who claim "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", I'd like to counter with "...or weaker, or not meaningfully different, depending on the context", despite it making the conclusions more suitable for a specialized journal.
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@angelaandersen.bsky.social - Watch out for our blog today. It answers some of your questions.👀
July 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
@angelaandersen.bsky.social - Watch out for our blog today. It answers some of your questions.👀
57,455 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprints in a year. The question is - 'which do I read?'
Scores like @qedscience.bsky.social the 1% are one answer. That being said, when the top 1% still skews to big, well-funded teams the model never saw, are we ranking quality or resources?
Scores like @qedscience.bsky.social the 1% are one answer. That being said, when the top 1% still skews to big, well-funded teams the model never saw, are we ranking quality or resources?
July 6, 2026 at 12:06 PM
57,455 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprints in a year. The question is - 'which do I read?'
Scores like @qedscience.bsky.social the 1% are one answer. That being said, when the top 1% still skews to big, well-funded teams the model never saw, are we ranking quality or resources?
Scores like @qedscience.bsky.social the 1% are one answer. That being said, when the top 1% still skews to big, well-funded teams the model never saw, are we ranking quality or resources?
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Pixar make this buddy movie
spotted in the wild - artifacts of three dying communication systems
June 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Pixar make this buddy movie
My husband said "imagine if they'd put that much energy into a real job" Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food
Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it
www.science.org
June 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
My husband said "imagine if they'd put that much energy into a real job" Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Celebrating our partnership with @huntsmancancer.bsky.social, which we hope inspires others. 🎉 10 scientists. Expert editorial support. $16.8k invested in science communication. Is your department next? @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
June 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Celebrating our partnership with @huntsmancancer.bsky.social, which we hope inspires others. 🎉 10 scientists. Expert editorial support. $16.8k invested in science communication. Is your department next? @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
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An extraordinary example of the kind of original, technically powerful science The 1% was created to surface by @angelaandersen.bsky.social & her team, Congratulations! 🎉
For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super-resolved imaging of mRNA ultrastructure in cells
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a central polymer of gene expression, whose ultrastructure and defining regulatory rules remain unclear. To visualize the ultrastructure of mRNA, we here develop Combi-PAINT, a...
www.biorxiv.org
June 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM
An extraordinary example of the kind of original, technically powerful science The 1% was created to surface by @angelaandersen.bsky.social & her team, Congratulations! 🎉
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Brenner, Crick, Jacob and Monod (and Meselson and Watson and and…) would be amazed.
For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super-resolved imaging of mRNA ultrastructure in cells
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a central polymer of gene expression, whose ultrastructure and defining regulatory rules remain unclear. To visualize the ultrastructure of mRNA, we here develop Combi-PAINT, a...
www.biorxiv.org
June 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Brenner, Crick, Jacob and Monod (and Meselson and Watson and and…) would be amazed.
Poised chromatin is a latent vulnerability exploited by noncoding variants & can be used to predict where new variants will have an effect. @evgenykvon.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social
Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Enhancer Poising Enables Pathogenic Gene Activation by Noncoding Variants
Single nucleotide variants within enhancers—non-coding DNA elements that regulate transcription—often lead to aberrant gene activation and contribute to a wide range of genetic disorders ([Claussnitze...
www.biorxiv.org
June 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Poised chromatin is a latent vulnerability exploited by noncoding variants & can be used to predict where new variants will have an effect. @evgenykvon.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social
Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super-resolved imaging of mRNA ultrastructure in cells
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a central polymer of gene expression, whose ultrastructure and defining regulatory rules remain unclear. To visualize the ultrastructure of mRNA, we here develop Combi-PAINT, a...
www.biorxiv.org
June 24, 2026 at 10:44 PM
For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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June 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
One more day left to vote - please help us see what tools you use! Thx!
Hello Scientists! What's your go-to tool for writing scientific manuscripts? Please answer on this poll, and please share! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
We work with scientists across every discipline, and we're curious: what does your writing workflow actually look like? Cast your vote and tell us in the comments if you mix tools or have a strong...
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June 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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