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Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭
It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health.
Katie Sandlin
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Katie Sandlin
@KatieMSandlin
Manager of Education & Career Development Programs @ImmunologyAAI; Former Education Outreach Specialist @NIH /@genome_gov & Director of Curriculum @GEP_CURE
Bethesda, MD
Joined February 2017
- I uprooted my life to move to MD, took on significant debt to make it happen, and now, just weeks later, I’m left without income, health insurance, or stability. If you’re able to, please consider donating a few bucksToday, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health.
- Replying to @thatgirl409For whatever it might be worth, there are people out there that double mask, are fully vaccinated and boosted, & avoid crowds. You don’t see us because we’re at home. Some even try to convince others to do so. I can’t begin to imagine the lunacy HC workers are experiencing!
- Replying to @SInow @KVanValkenburg and @CDCgovHe’s mistaking “censoring” with suffering the consequences of practicing his first amendment right to spread misinformation.
- Replying to @AlexanderDent6I am 100% right there with you! Everyone from my rural hometown has known me all my life, knows I went to school forever and a day to study biology, etc. Any effort to convince them about COVID-19 is met with “you think you’re better than us just cause you got degrees.”
- Strong background in genomics and bioinformatics education and community engagement. Currently located in Bethesda, MD. Updated CV:
- I tried to combat the #PlandemicDocumentary on my Facebook last night, I’m scared to check the comments 😩😩😩
- I put together a 50ish minute lecture on long-read sequencing technology covering: 1. Review of RNA-Seq Short-read Sequencing 2. Overview and benefits of Long-read Sequencing 3. @nanopore Sequencing 4. @PacBio Sequencing dx.doi.org/10.25334/S58F-…
- I didn’t take it because I loved my new job and believed in the work we were doing. It’s illegal to terminate federal employees on probation without evidence of poor performance, which there was none. I didn’t realize folks would break the law to get rid of me.
- I was having trouble at my office w/ birds smacking my windows. I taped a piece of copy paper on each pane & it hasn’t happened since. I sometimes wish humans would become extinct so everything else could have a chance. We don’t deserve this 🌎
- Replying to @100sunnyraysI previously worked at the Genomics Education Partnership, which was supported, in part, by an NIH grant. I recently left that job to work at NIH, but was fired.
- It’s a common misconception about federal workers. The majority of folks I worked w/ were in the office most days. Those that worked from home all the time had disabilities & were overwhelmingly veterans. WFH made it possible for them to still have jobs, which I highly support.Replying to @KatieMSandlinWow, you actually went to the office. So few government employees do.
- Ma’am, I rent a one-bedroom apartment across from a funeral home.Replying to @KatieMSandlinSo, is your million dollar home for sale, too?
- Fair question: I focused on cultivating future scientists by generating genomics & bioinformatics curriculum & training for middle school through college-level students & their teachers. My team also worked to educate clinicians & the public about using their genomic data.Replying to @DJW_CFA and @KatieMSandlinIm trying to figure out what this womans job was.
