Anna C. Fagre
🦠 Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine (FagreLab.org)
🦇 veterinary epidemiology, arboviral ecology, diagnostic microbiology, wildlife health🔬
🎨 🎵multi-media analog synthesis ✂️🎹
🏳️🌈 she/they
- This is devastating on so many levels. Thank you to @noamross.net and others at grant-witness.us for organizing this. ALSO... feeling so proud of all the trainees (including my first PhD student) who submitted proposals despite all of the hurdles they faced in November.
- NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
- Reposted by Anna C. Fagre“WHO therefore regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe.” 🧪 www.who.int/news/item/24...
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreAlex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
- The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreBeen hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
- Reposted by Anna C. Fagre“But we can fight back. The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values.“ 🧪
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- Logged onto X yesterday for the first time in months and was immediately met with this gem 🧭🗺️🤔
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreHey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
- Reposted by Anna C. Fagre🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreHello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇
- Reposted by Anna C. FagrePlease share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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- Hey fellow PIs! 👋 What’s the single piece of advice that saved you when you first started your lab? Drop it below—let’s start a coffee table book! 🧠 🧪
- Thrilled to be getting settled at my new scientific home in the ISU College of Vet Med! 🧬 @iowastateu.bsky.social #iowastate vetmed.iastate.edu/article/dr-a...
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- Reposted by Anna C. FagreIn a survey of nearly 1,400 scientists released this week, 83% said federal government policies since January 20, 2025, had caused an "extremely negative impact" or "irreparable harm" on their field of science.
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- Obligatory new faculty selfie outside the campanile. Thrilled to be starting this chapter at Iowa State University! 🔔❤️ #NewFaculty #IowaState #NewPI #ISUVetMed #VetMed
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreAmidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week! Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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- New EO mandates *codification* of a process allowing termination of AWARDED grants at any time “for convenience, including when the award no longer advances agency priorities or the national interest.” I can’t fathom the number of ways this will hurt trainees, ECRs, and TT faculty.💔
- A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants. Story via @mmolteni.bsky.social, @aniloza.bsky.social, @angusrohan.bsky.social and me for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
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- 👀global mapping of veterinary care 'coldspots' 🐮access to veterinary care = zoonotic surveillance capacity 👉(i.e., many spillover events linked to domestic/farmed animals as intermediary hosts (e.g., Nipah virus 🐷)) doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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- Congratulations to these wasps who have successfully upcycled one of my old empty birdfeeders. Good work, gang.
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- Protect trans scientists! 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️🌈 It was an honor to be a coauthor on this critically important piece… and a huge thanks to @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social for leading and coordinating this effort. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Anna C. FagreIn the new issue of @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & Nick Cheney seek out a better metaphor. They propose a generative model concept to capture the indirect, distributed, & non-linear relationship between info in the genome & form of the organism. Worth a read: 🧬👇🧪 11/11
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- Science doesn’t die in a coup. It dies in committee. We are already feeling the acute impacts of this (i.e., grant terminations & “shifting research priorities”)… but the long term effects of this destabilization? Our biomedical research infrastructure will never be the same.
- ~40% cuts to NIH research awards. ~35% cuts to training programs. ~27% cut to internal research. ~30% fewer grants awarded overall. The Common Fund will be cut in half. American science has never faced a threat like this. www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com
- This NYT visualization shows just a fraction of the growing instability in NIH funding. For the most current—and self-reported—data, bookmark grant-watch.us 👀 (Oh, and they’ve been tracking NSF grants too🙏)
- New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreHi! We just released three new pages. First up, we break down the devastating defunding of medical research in the US, including grant terminations and delays representing nearly $5B in funding losses, cuts to future funding, and attacks on training programs: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
- Excited to announce that I’ll be joining Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor of Virology this fall! My new lab will officially open its doors in August 2025! 🧪 I’ll be recruiting soon—please reach out if you’re interested in collaboration or training opportunities. 🧬🦟🦇
- Super proud of my friend, mentee, and now colleague, Dr. Lily Cohen, MD! 🩺 No doubt she will contribute to advancing public health and infectious disease epi while strengthening transdisciplinary research & providing top patient care ❤️ icahnhonors.com/lily-cohen @lilycohen.bsky.social
- ‼️Do you want to do your MS or PhD studying wildlife disease and ecoimmunology? Exciting opportunity👇 with a great PI! 🦇 🧪🦊
- I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇 simonislab.weebly.com/opportunitie... linking to 🧪 and 🦊
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- Excited to read this one! Beautiful figures and some great outstanding questions... for instance, how do different anthropogenic factors impact a given host's pathogen avoidance tactics?
- 🔔If you want to stay updated on some of the changes in NIH policy, you can subscribe to the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts newsletter here: list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.e...
- 👉 Self-reporting your terminated grants is becoming increasingly important — the 'mechanisms' for termination are getting more difficult to track as transparency plummets. Thanks to the folks that dutifully oversee this critical resource for the scientific community.
- Reposted by Anna C. Fagre🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- Reposted by Anna C. FagreAnd, last but not least, Trump’s proposed budget shuts down the world’s leading computer models of climate change. “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said a former NOAA official. 10/10 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
- Reposted by Anna C. FagrePLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
- Reposted by Anna C. FagreLatest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Looking for an awesome opportunity in the pathogen transmission modeling space? Look no further!
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- Reposted by Anna C. FagreU.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
- Excellent sleuthing by @jeremymberg.bsky.social and kudos to the Washington AG for pushing forward on this case.
- It was a privilege to support the Seifert lab in this work. Can’t wait for future collaborative endeavors exploring bat-virus interactions together 🦇 @stephseifertphd.bsky.social
- Are bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Thank you for shining a light, @jeremymberg.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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