Heather Caslin
Assistant Prof in Exercise Science. Immunometabolism researcher and toddler mom! Views my own.
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country. Find it here: www.icemap.dev. Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
- Reposted by Heather CaslinIf I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools. I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.” Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.
- Reposted by Heather CaslinTwo Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
- Lots of information about places to donate if anyone is still looking for ways to help MN
- tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinSo all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
- Reposted by Heather CaslinICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by: 1. ICE’s own photos 2. Bystander video 3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene 4. Anne Arundel County Police Now ICE is revising its story. The latest from Alex Mann: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
- Reposted by Heather CaslinMinnesota today
- Reposted by Heather CaslinTexas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
- Yall will be so interested in all of the immunology articles I have open that I swear I will read at a later date… 🤣
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinPer CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
- New review with @lab-williams.bsky.social out today! One of the most enjoyable things about being a new PI has been making new collaborations and seeing projects advance through the pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Heather CaslinThe man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
- 😭 there’s no way this is a good thing
- 8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinSocioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky
- Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinFacts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinA small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinFor our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Heather CaslinYou know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
- The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinAt least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
- Reposted by Heather CaslinI know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
- Reposted by Heather CaslinIt should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.
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- From the Black in Immuno board: we’re excited to reconnect and meet new friends here! Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.
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- Reposted by Heather Caslin#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
- Reposted by Heather Caslin#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinThe We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Heather Caslin"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."
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- CDC walkout
- AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
- Reposted by Heather CaslinMy lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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- Black in Immuno Community, We'd love to reconnect at a town hall event next month. Please share and register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Heather Caslin“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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- Reposted by Heather CaslinIn 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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