Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D
Associate Prof of Anthropology, Biology, and WGS at Boston University, queer 🏳️🌈, AAAG devotee, primate genetics/genomics and field biology. he/they.
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.Dnot the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DReminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DMy Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DWe're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DMarvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DWe're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.Dtl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DAs of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html: 05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants. @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DNew paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DWho's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
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- Happy 21st birthday to same-sex marriage in Massachusetts (and thank you)! 🏳️🌈🍾🍻
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DIt's official. I filed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval. RFK is CLEARLY in violation of his constitutional oath. He must resign.
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DPostdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm! tinyurl.com/3aewk286
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DI am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DFYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DBREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here- The author disabled quotes.Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DThe National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DPlease consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍
- The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DThe rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DWhen 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, the fate of its vast genetic database became unclear. In today’s episode, we look at what might happen to the genetic data of 15 million 23andMe customers as the bankruptcy process unfolds.
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DJoin us at the Royal Society in London 14 November for a day on Ancient genomes, human biology and medicine! Many slots are reserved for talks from submitted abstracts related to the topic, alongside speakers Svante Pääbo, Priya Moorjani, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social and Lluis Quintana-Murci.
- Registration now open! Join us for our Autumn Meeting: “Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine” organised by @janetk.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social. Explore how ancient DNA informs migration, adaptation & disease. genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
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- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DNature research paper: Complete sequencing of ape genomes go.nature.com/3EfWwqk
- Reposted by Christopher Schmitt, Ph.DA project five years in the making, we've now published complete "T2T" genomes for six additional ape species! It turns out that finishing (and analyzing) six genomes is slightly more work than one... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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