Caroline Bartman
@cbartman.bsky.social
brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her) https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w agoThoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
Kazuo Ishiguro: In my book Never Let Me Go I invented Hailsham as a cautionary tale Tech Bro:
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
A new proposal from the White House on federal funding could prohibit America from being included in the International Space Station, or in any type of weather and pandemic monitoring, the founder and head of Stand Up for Science said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lfYYuM
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>
The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost
For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...
piie.com
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
super excited to share that I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at CU Denver this fall! my lab will be right in the heart of downtown Denver :) mattioli-lab.org i'm hiring! if you're interested in joining us to study how alternative isoforms contribute to cancer, please reach out
Er um er um sorry but...wondering if any gastroenterologists out there can answer <cringes> what characteristic makes diarrhea "explosive" volume? Force of intestinal contractions? Gas content?
I'm tired of the hypervigilance that comes with knowing that public health is being dismantled and preventable outcomes are becoming more prevalent.
Read this! Menopause research has lagged historically but finally biotech/pharma companies are starting to work on it
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoAll of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w agoElon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Helpful form to help craft comment for submission regarding OMB rules, deadline July 13!!
Tara C. Smith@aetiology.bsky.social · 4w agoThis can help you get started if it all seems intimidating.
Just finishing the story collection Brawler by Lauren Groff. I didn’t love Fates and Furies, I like this better- her stories are all very dramatic and emotional which works better for me in short form. One story here, Birdie, about high school friends reuniting when one is dying, was excellent!
Ok so reading is the ability to see words, rather than hear them Braille is the ability to feel words Has anyone developed a system to taste or smell words
Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...
Worked with @bobjherman.bsky.social on the data for this piece. Here’s the chart I think is the showstopper: Over the last 40 years, the amount of money spent on employer-sponsored insurance premiums skyrocketed by nearly 1000%, well above baseline inflation.
STAT@statnews.com · 4w agoAmerica's employer-based health insurance system is crumbling. STAT investigates why, in our new series, “Out of Pocket, Out of Reach.” www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/s...
Earth, wind and fire: a very comprehensive house insurance policy
Just read my first John Dickson Carr mystery, The Emperor’s Snuffbox! Lots of fun- only 160 pages, vividly described (well, some a little cartoony) characters, and the mystery holds together!
Yeah. And, I could be wrong, but as a general matter arguments of the form "AI can't do this in principle" are generally unsatisfying because the models are very weird and change frequently. Melanie Mitchell had a really good somewhat related essay last year: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 2
Evidence For (and Against) Emergent World Models in LLMs
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Are podcasts one of the last good parts of the internet? I have been loving The Worst Bestsellers, especially their episodes appreciating iconic childhood books like Bunnicula! Any fave podcast suggestions???
Absolutely this. Bell Labs was very productive when I was a kid. But they, as a monopoly, basically had the ability to tax the entire US population. Moreover, while they published or otherwise disseminated some of their findings, they kept some just for A T & T.
Brent Simmons@thrashy.bsky.social · last mo.It's worth pointing out that one of the few private entities to ever do significant amounts of basic research was Bell Labs, a subsidiary of a telecom monopoly at the height of its monopolistic abuses. Basic research is a costly endeavor, and few entities outside gov. can afford it.
happy 250 USA birthday, we are now almost older than a Greenland shark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenla...
Greenland shark - Wikipedia
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love this article about synthetic cells, very relatable how they die after a while if no one gives them their favorite snack (in this case ribosomes) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.
From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.
nytimes.com
Q: What do you call a group of parrots? A: Polly-ploid.
Could you call somebody with many plots and stratagems Poly-ployed???
An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):
The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?
An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.
bloomberg.com