@cbuddenhagen @MCDuncanLab Yes, I have investigated that as well. Unfortunately, the ones I know of just support travel to the society's own annual conference. But I will be asking them as well.

@MCDuncanLab I'm going to do it, but I already did email and mention that I would have to scrape up funds and got not response on that subject, not even saying that I could get in at the student rate instead of the "professional" one.

They do not say anything about travel grants on the conference site, either. https://efi.int/efimed-network-forum-2026/registration

@vlrny Thank you. That's kind of you to offer.

I suspect I will not find anything as everything I'm aware of is usually targeted towards people who are aligned with certain institutions (either as a student or early career researcher) and unfortunately until I am accepted to a funded PhD, that is not a category I'm in.

This is a longshot, but I'm between my Masters and being accepted to any PhD programs. There's a conference that's right up my alley and I'd like to attend, but money is an issue. (EDIT: not just like to attend...could possibly network into a PhD while at the conference if I can afford to get there & attend)

Does anyone know of grants or awards that would help a non-traditional disabled woman in science get travel funds?

#AcademicChatter #Science

Someone Please Help The Emergency Physician

I've been very busy surviving this past year so I've fallen out of touch with the Glaucomflecken Cinematic Universe.

This is a comp of various shorts featuring the ER doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBIHnOflqc #Comedy #Medicine

"New Dashboard Helps Predict and Plan for Disease Outbreaks

Developed by UC San Diego with UNICEF and New Light Technologies, the tool helps Peru and Brazil anticipate dengue and malaria, plan resources and lay the groundwork for global expansion"

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-turns-research-into-tool-governments-can-use-to-predict-and-plan-for-disease #InfectiousDisease #PublicHealth #Medicine #Science

"Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy — trading a life that felt hopeless for a future she never thought she’d see."

The podcast has a transcript as well.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/08/berkeley-voices-s2e3-crispr/ #Science #Medicine

@BenjaminHimes Tremendous. Thank you for sharing that.

Something you probably feel less scared to do so you should do it now is clean house as far as who is on the board of your professional society, your college, etc.

A lot of enabling, appeasing, collaborateur BS has been going on for decades and if you want any hope of getting things back to ethical again, you'd best prepare the ground for that. #AcademicChatter #Science #Medicine