dr. kristin d. lane 🔬
@kristindownie.bsky.social
new assoc prof at Idaho State University in molecular biology. life, science, wine & politics. all tweets are my own. #mitochondria, #malaria, & #phage. she/her
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Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.
September 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.
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Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country.
Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high.
Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record.
Noticing a pattern?
Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high.
Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record.
Noticing a pattern?
August 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country.
Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high.
Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record.
Noticing a pattern?
Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high.
Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record.
Noticing a pattern?
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The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
August 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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A thing we haven’t talked about yet re: the contaminated lettuce situation is the amount of food waste this is going to create. Which is, you guessed it, a contributor to climate change. Especially as contaminated food recalls are only going to increase due to sparse regulations.
July 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
A thing we haven’t talked about yet re: the contaminated lettuce situation is the amount of food waste this is going to create. Which is, you guessed it, a contributor to climate change. Especially as contaminated food recalls are only going to increase due to sparse regulations.
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Speaking of using your own words, don't forget that the NIH's RFI on limiting the number of RPG awards per PI/MPI is open for comment. I will remind you that the RPG designation includes everything from R03 ($50k direct, 2 y limit) to P01, huge U mechs and DPetc.
rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
Request For Information
rfi.grants.nih.gov
July 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Speaking of using your own words, don't forget that the NIH's RFI on limiting the number of RPG awards per PI/MPI is open for comment. I will remind you that the RPG designation includes everything from R03 ($50k direct, 2 y limit) to P01, huge U mechs and DPetc.
rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
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It's not radical to believe everybody in the richest country in the world should have healthcare.
It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here.
It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.
It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here.
It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.
July 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
It's not radical to believe everybody in the richest country in the world should have healthcare.
It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here.
It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.
It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here.
It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.
This 👇 but with a manuscript
I changed a thing in chapter 3 of the novel that affects the rest of the novel, so now I’m going through the entire manuscript and editing things to make it all make sense.
Pray for me.
Pray for me.
July 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
This 👇 but with a manuscript
@marcelias.bsky.social @democracydocket.com I know you’re busy, but any chance another cause? Science needs your help!
It's great to see all the comments being made in response to OMB wanting to make all grant funding decisions political: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB....
One key thing, though - unfortunately, many of the things in OMB-2026-0034 are *already happening* due to EO #14332:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
One key thing, though - unfortunately, many of the things in OMB-2026-0034 are *already happening* due to EO #14332:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
July 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
@marcelias.bsky.social @democracydocket.com I know you’re busy, but any chance another cause? Science needs your help!
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I went to school with polio victims. It was a childhood scourge until the vaccine was invented. People who think they know about vaccines would do well to learn the history of communicable diseases.
Martha Lillard, last known US polio survivor using iron lung, dies aged 78
Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I went to school with polio victims. It was a childhood scourge until the vaccine was invented. People who think they know about vaccines would do well to learn the history of communicable diseases.
If you applied for and were awarded a #NSF grant (or know someone who did) since January 2025, I want to know. Not a GRFP, but anything else especially if it was thru BIO/MCB. Thx! 🧪🦠
July 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
If you applied for and were awarded a #NSF grant (or know someone who did) since January 2025, I want to know. Not a GRFP, but anything else especially if it was thru BIO/MCB. Thx! 🧪🦠
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They say books won’t change the world.
Tell that to every colonizer who burned them.
To every enslaved person who was punished for reading.
Literacy is resistance.
Literacy is liberation.
The library is a battlefield.
Tell that to every colonizer who burned them.
To every enslaved person who was punished for reading.
Literacy is resistance.
Literacy is liberation.
The library is a battlefield.
July 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
They say books won’t change the world.
Tell that to every colonizer who burned them.
To every enslaved person who was punished for reading.
Literacy is resistance.
Literacy is liberation.
The library is a battlefield.
Tell that to every colonizer who burned them.
To every enslaved person who was punished for reading.
Literacy is resistance.
Literacy is liberation.
The library is a battlefield.
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Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL)
Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
July 13, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL)
Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
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Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
July 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.
Utah Bans Its 36th Book From All Public Schools
Utah has banned more books from public schools in 2026 than any other year, and this week, they added their 36th title.
bookriot.com
July 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.
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Hit ❤️ if you have a library card in 2026.
July 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Hit ❤️ if you have a library card in 2026.
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Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group co-founded by RFK Jr., standby an Idaho woman charged with suffocating her twins after claiming the flu vaccine killed them.
A heartbreaking reminder of the devastating consequences of false health claims.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
A heartbreaking reminder of the devastating consequences of false health claims.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group co-founded by RFK Jr., standby an Idaho woman charged with suffocating her twins after claiming the flu vaccine killed them.
A heartbreaking reminder of the devastating consequences of false health claims.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
A heartbreaking reminder of the devastating consequences of false health claims.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
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Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb
Article: zurl.co/Juc68
Article: zurl.co/Juc68
Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
After legal challenges succeeded, Trump administration shifts from dismantling agencies to centralizing OMB control over research funding.
zurl.co
July 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb
Article: zurl.co/Juc68
Article: zurl.co/Juc68
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💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.
July 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.
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My favorite reason is #5
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July 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Currently listening to the audiobook and can HIGHLY recommend #ScienceUnderSiege
My #ScienceUnderSiege (bookshop.org/p/books/scie...) co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I explain how the origins of these antiscience myths lie in carefully crafted decades-old Russian climate denial propaganda:
July 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Currently listening to the audiobook and can HIGHLY recommend #ScienceUnderSiege
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Air Force Major Jason Watson, 20-year active duty veteran, wore his uniform to the Capitol steps July 1 holding a sign reading "Impeach Convict Remove." He was arrested. His defense fund raised $139,000. Watson: "The greatest threat to our Democratic Republic is not a foreign one. It is domestic."
Donate to Support Major Jason Watson’s Stand For Democracy, organized by DOOR, LLC
Help support Major Jason Watson’s heroic act of civil disobedience on 7/1 at the US Capitol in pursuit to IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE the tyrannical government. Al
www.spotfund.com
July 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Air Force Major Jason Watson, 20-year active duty veteran, wore his uniform to the Capitol steps July 1 holding a sign reading "Impeach Convict Remove." He was arrested. His defense fund raised $139,000. Watson: "The greatest threat to our Democratic Republic is not a foreign one. It is domestic."
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NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
July 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Any old school molbio people have a copy of the 1987 paper from BMBiochemica on using Bailey’s as a blocking agent for colony hybridization?
July 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out!
There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY
There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY
July 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out!
There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY
There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY