Derek Boyd

Excited to announce that I am officially a board-certified forensic anthropologist!

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF becomes third U.S. science agency to propose smaller overhead payments to universities Courts have blocked attempts by NIH and DOE to impose a flat 15% rate for reimbursement

Getting really tired of the “we need to cut costs” rhetoric. We need billionaires to pay their taxes. That’s it.

How a Small Human ID Lab Built a Global Reputation Members of the Human Identification Lab are deployed to private property or public lands, hiking across fields and ravines, and even boating or helicoptering into some of the most remote locations.

An amazing lab getting some well-deserved recognition. Grateful to have trained at the HIL!

Big congrats to my PhD student, @eliseadams.bsky.social, for receiving an AABA Pollitzer Student Travel Award!

I am very grateful to have received a Cobb Professional Development Grant for my proposed work on respiratory disease in industrial-era England this coming summer!

Nothing says “I love you” to the working class like ending their health care coverage.

Folks have been talking about how unhinged their con law classes have been the past three weeks and I’m over here trying to figure out how to articulate the dismantling of our federal healthcare and disease control/prevention systems to graduate students in my class on infectious disease dynamics…

This new administration is making the US more and more vulnerable each and every day all to save a buck.

Whatever vaccines you have been procrastinating to get, get them now.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

MAGA rn:

Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”

Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”

Good question 😂 I was suggesting that I guess we’ll have to switch out the word biodiversity with something synonymous and my brain went to biovariation.

Guess it’s time for ✨biovariation✨ 😂😭☠️

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate

www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...

Not a bad day to start following state and local health departments on bluesky

go.bsky.app/5RKapGo

CDC Page: The page you're looking for was not found. Please try the CDC archives or the A-Z index. Search CDC.gov

The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.

Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities

Anyone else more nervous than usual about flying to academic conferences given the recent history of Boeing crashes, changes to the TSA and FAA, and now the tragedy in DC? #academicsky

RFK Jr. wants to get rid of 600 employees at NIH "not doing their jobs." What does that even mean? It means the people working on infectious disease research, lifesaving drug development, and vaccine research.

Sometimes
I just love

"THE BERN"

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Students deserve to learn in safe environments where they can make mistakes and learn from them. Not where if they don’t dodge a gunman they die. Not where ICE agents can come and snatch them away. Something needs to change. Now. #academicsky

Very scary to live in a time where we have zero faith in “The News”. We have to support independent journalists!

That’s terrible! I would just like to know who thought it made sense to freely provide intellectual labor to publishers so that they could profit and then turn around and require us to pay for access.

My R1 university wasn’t able to reach a price agreement with Elsevier about maintaining access to peer-reviewed journals, so we lost access to 1,665 of them. #academicsky

Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that ...

🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network

Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

The transgender flag, with two light blue stripes on top and bottom; two pink stripes between them; and a single white strip in the middle.

On this day of national disgrace, I will limit myself to a single comment: I stand with the transgender community. ❤️