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Margaret Gardel

@squishycell.bsky.social

Prof. of Physics, Cell Biology and Molecular Engineering @ UChicago. Passionate about all the squishy matter driving dynamics and function from sub-cellular to tissue scales.

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Marine Biological Laboratory@mblscience.bsky.social · last yr.

We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m

MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory

Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last yr.

The fantastically successful NIGMS MIRA R35 "expired" on May 17, after the most recent deadline--these removals are the most aggressive attack on American science in the current series of devastating actions 🧪

Gabi Serrato Marks@gserratomarks.bsky.social · last yr.

NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants. 👀 List of impacted opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Screenshot of NIMH BRAINS funding opportunity. The expiration date is now before the next application due date.
Margaret Gardel@squishycell.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is how NIH is communicating with graduate students who applied for the now discontinued K99 program designed to support students from underrepresented backgrounds. It is disgusting. "This application responded to a discontinued program that no longer effectuated NIH priorities

Kimberly Beatty@beattylab.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm the 1st scientist in my family. My parents were amazed I could attend @caltech.edu, an elite private school, for my PhD studies FOR FREE. In fact, I was paid to become a PhD chemist. STEM is a pathway to a good career. I study TB- a disease that impacts millions. Fund NIH.

Michael Baym@baym.lol · last yr.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
Margaret Gardel@squishycell.bsky.social · last yr.

US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding | Nature

Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action. Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.

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@LaBonneLaB@labonnelab.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes this is true. The last dispersement to Northwestern was on March 27th. This is insance and is impacting important research and may cause the US to lose a generation of young scientists who would have made tomorrows important discoveries

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

FWIW, NIH had already silently barred Harvard and four other schools from receiving funds — and agency staff were forbidden from telling applicants and grantees about it. bsky.app/profile/maxk...

Suri Vaikuntanathan@vaikuntsuri.bsky.social · last yr.

check out new work by Deb in collaboration with Martin, @squishycell.bsky.social , Aleks Walczak and Thierry Mora : arxiv.org/abs/2504.15107 o on how simple mechanosensitive agents can enable learning mechanisms

Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks

In this work we show how a network inspired by a coarse-grained description of actomyosin cytoskeleton can learn - in a contrastive learning framework - from environmental perturbations if it is endow...

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Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last yr.

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD@rburdine1.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1

Joao Pereira@jdpereira.bsky.social · last yr.

I wonder, for those of us on a tenure clock, how will this situation factor in? We’re not playing the same game we set out to play.