Katie Wilkinson
Neurophysiologist | http://wilkinsonneuro.com | Past Chair of the American Physiological Society's Science Policy Committee | she/hers
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- In honor of the athletics budget town hall tomorrow about a new student fee to primarily fund athletics: 10 SJSU assistant football coaches appear to make more money than full Profs like me (some over double as much) and the head coach makes over twice as much as our president. #priorities
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonGoing to try and watch this until I’m blinded by rage
- Hearing today with the Senate HELP committee and NIH Director Bhattacharya. www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonLead (Pb) in archived hair in Salt Lake City. "Lead (Pb) in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency " www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThe California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
- The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-ch… for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonMeanwhile, at a school and university near you, AI tools that have yet to be tested on the types of students and subjects you teach are being rolled out to/in them without robust discussion and analysis. It's a major, shameful failing of the management of education systems.
- “We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonWell, that’ll wreck you. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThe US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Thank you @liccardo.house.gov for signing on to the effort to impeach Kristi Noem and hold ICE accountable for their unconstitutional and criminal actions.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonMy sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!
- Instead of buying cheap Valentines at a place you don’t want to support, strongly suggest the super awesome science valentines from @skypeascientist.bsky.social. Daughter gave the Love Bugs ones last year and we just ordered the marine theme ones. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonWe the people have the power. Join us tomorrow, January 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community. RSVP using the link below. When using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonReally hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
- Tip for Californians- @padilla.senate.gov doesn’t allow VM at his DC office during non business hours (which seriously??) but you can leave a message at a local office. Neither CA Senators ever have people answering the phones in my experience at any office even during business hours.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonNo science or nature today. ICE just murdered another person in my home state, an ICU nurse working with vets & now they're trying to frame him for the action . All because ICE is angry & afraid of the 50000 Minnesotans who marched yesterday. If you're not calling Congress you're letting them down
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThis is the chair of ACIP. Experimenting on America's kids. HE'S GOT TO GO. “What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles,” he said. “What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What’s the incidence of death?” www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v....
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonCal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonFor some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThis was a fascinating read!
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonKennedy, obsessed with vaxxed/unvaxxed studies that would not be approved by US ethical review boards, planned to fund one in West Africa — one that would have caused unnecessary disease and death for extremely vulnerable children. After negative media attention, it was canceled. Coverage matters.
- BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Still disappointed to not see my rep @liccardo.house.gov supporting Noem's impeachment. As usual, no info available from office staff-just told to check social media. Love to hear what actions he would support to stop ICE from shooting & tear gassing people and entering homes w/o warrants.
- Reposted by Katie Wilkinsonthis is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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- Disappointed that I don't see my rep @liccardo.house.gov on this list. ICE is acting with impunity and Congress needs to step up.
- NEW: Over 50 House Democrats have signed onto Rep. Robin Kelly's articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem. That includes several swing-district members (Vasquez, Sorensen, Min) as well as other centrists (Craig, Moulton). Full list in here @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/01/13/k...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonTrump’s EPA is now ONLY considering the costs to corporations when setting air pollution rules, not how many lives could be saved. He does not care if you live or die — if it means his billionaire buddies can save a buck. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonRemembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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- Reposted by Katie Wilkinson"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonCongratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
- BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonEach semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
- This is an absolutely bonkers story. Not the craziest thing but as a physiologist dropping them at 15000ft w no acclimatization and expecting them to not only climb a very challenging mountain but also set up equipment is insane. Also not realizing the heat of the generator would cause issues?!!
- A few weeks ago graffiti threatening a mass shooting targeting certain groups was found on my campus. While the police did not find it a credible threat, only 22/115 students came to my class the next day. I wonder how many of my students have lived through a mass shooting. #GunSenseNow.
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- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonThis kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonWell this is pretty wild [🎁]
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonA study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonHere’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science. We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
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- Reposted by Katie Wilkinson“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
- I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Reposted by Katie WilkinsonIf new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
- “Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “
- Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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