Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Neuroscientist & science communicator. President at @stellatecomms.bsky.social, Senior Producer for @storycollider.bsky.social, musician and open-water swimmer.
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈TONIGHT, Jan 26! No❄️Day! Weather you have to⛷️🏂or🛷, make sure to JOIN @storycollider.bsky.social at Caveat NYC when Diana Li & @paulacroxson.bsky.social host @denisejcai.bsky.social & 4 other #StoryTellers for an unforgettable evening of deeply personal stories. TIX👉 storycollider.org/tickets/2026...
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- I’m on the podcast this week with one of the most vulnerable stories I have ever told: about my mum, my dream to be a scientist, and why I am the way I am 💙
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈🧪 The University of Edinburgh is seeking a Director for the Institute of Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research
- Want a change of scenery in these interesting times? Our institute is recruiting a director/head of school. wittkieffer.com/positions/38...
- It's such an honour to have been elected President of The Story Collider's Board of Directors ✨ I told my first story back in 2013, and it's no exaggeration to say it changed the course of my career - and my life ❤️ 🧪
- 📣 📣 Calling all #scicomm practitioners and enthusiasts in #NYC! 📣 📣 SciCommUnity NYC is hosting our first after work mixer on Tuesday, January 13th at 6pm! Come mingle with our members and spark new connections with NYC-based scicommers! RSVP here: luma.com/xfr3trbn Hope to see you there!🗽🪐 🧬
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- I'm so proud to count myself among the amazing producers at @storycollider.bsky.social ! Seven of them will be sharing stories in a special online show - yes, online, so you can watch from anywhere in the world! - on Wednesday, November 12 at 7pm ET! 🧪 www.storycollider.org/tickets/2025...
- The Careers in #SciComm & Media panel at #WCUB2025 on Saturday was a fantastic opportunity to share and learn! Grateful for the invitation, and to fellow panelists @sallyburn.bsky.social, Olipriya Das and Chris Gilbert for sharing your wit & wisdom! 🧪 A few takeaways in 🧵1/3
- New Yorkers, a super useful guide - read before you vote!
- This Monday 10/13, @dianateuthis.bsky.social and I are back with @storycollider.bsky.social for 5 true personal stories of finding out, from superstitions & magic to getting out of our comfort zones! 7pm at @caveatnyc.bsky.social Grab tix now www.storycollider.org/tickets/2025...
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- One of the coolest things about working at @stellatecomms.bsky.social is getting to work with an incredible team of designers who really understand how to bring science communication to life ✨ 🎬
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/
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- 🧪 Medical research funding continues to be critically endangered, but at least some grants have been ordered to be reinstated - a sure sign that we have to keep pushing back on these illegal, harmful decisions. 🧵 from this week's update - and how you can help with Unbreaking.
- Join us for the first of @stellatecomms.bsky.social FREE webinars on Web Design for Nonprofits on August 6, 2025 from 1-2PT ET! ✨
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- Very excited for this! In person (in NYC) and livestream tickets available!
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- This is an admirable decision, and must have been a devastatingly hard one. It shouldn't have to be this way - these demands are illegal AND unethical.
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- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
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- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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- 🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
- 💫 Please share these resources widely - they are designed to track what we know and make sense of things in a well-sourced and fact-checked way. The page on medical research in particular covers a lot of ground and will be updated regularly. 🧪
- Hi! 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...
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- One week from today, on June 3, @storycollider.bsky.social is turning 15 and celebrating with an all-star lineup of fave storytellers! ✨ We still have a few tix left, so please join us in NYC or via livestream - and support us in our mission to tell science stories! 🧪 www.storycollider.org/15years
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈Applications are now open for our fall internship program! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
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- I'm really excited to be part of @unbreaking.org. Our goal is to share information about what is happening - and the human cost - in ways that are clear and rigorously fact-checked. More pages coming soo, including on funding cuts and other attacks on medical research unbreaking.org 🧪
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- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0. Two things come to the fore every time. i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.
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- Science Is Stronger When We Live Our Values: two scientists have drafted a pledge to uphold our values as scientists and STEM professionals. Learn more, sign it and share it here blog.ucs.org/science-blog...
- Rapid response funding for education-related projects impacted by recently-terminated or cancelled grants from NSF. $25,000 grants to address immediate needs - where possible, early-career scholars will be prioritised. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈🚨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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- Turns out the warning about the NSF taking down grant information was (thankfully) a false alarm, but happy I shared it in case it was true. Never a bad time to keep our own records, and grateful to @lizneeley.bsky.social and others for keeping track of this rapidly-evolving situation 🙏
- 🚨 An URGENT heads-up for NSF grantees to screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your collaborators and colleagues to do the same.
- 🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
- I'm proud to have been part of producing both of these amazing stories of breaking down barriers in #science 🧪! Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.storycollider.org/podcast
- Amazing to see such a great turnout at our #scicomm session at @cogneuronews.bsky.social and so many scientists engaging with the public or eager to learn 🧠 It's never been more important to communicate how science is necessary and beneficial.
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- Reposted by Paula Croxson (she/her) 🏳️🌈#scicomm is more important than ever, as science is under attack @charan-neuro.bsky.social Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
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- In a world where diversity, equity and inclusion are under attack, we must lean in harder. Inclusion of people with lived experience of illness and disability in biomedical research makes it more innovative and drives it forward. 🧪Out today in @natrevneph.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- So excited for this show celebrating the brain and the scientists who study it! 🧠 🎙️ 3/18 at 7pm ET - get your tickets now!
- Amazing to see so many scientists standing up for science and advocating for research around the world yesterday! We won’t be censored! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
- Science is essential. We need to restore scientific funding and end censorship of science now. #StandUpForScience rallies will be happening across the country today. standupforscience2025.org
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- This is a very useful explainer on why the proposed cuts to incorrect costs on NIH grants will be so damaging. This won’t just hurt medical research, it will gut our universities. And yes, it is illegal to make a cut like this without approval of Congress.
- 1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
