Mary Beth Hatten
@mbhatten.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Professor, Head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University
Congratulations Alex!
Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 4w agoExcited to host invited speaker Alexandra Joyner at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Her research explores the genetic regulation of development and how signaling pathways shape tissue patterning and organ formation. 🧬✨ #devbio #developmentalbiology #genetics #SDB2026
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Good afternoon! At midnight, the public comment period ends for a proposed federal rule change that would put political appointees in charge of science grant funding. Thousands have already written in against it, including several Nobel laureates. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Scientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grants
Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science
scientificamerican.com
We just sued the Trump administration seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including critically #endangered North Atlantic right #whales, from deadly ship strikes. Only around 380 right whales remain.
can confirm for one major public that admissions for math PhD cohort fell from >12 to 1 to possibly none during this time This country is going to sink like a *stone* in the sciences, within which it had been doing great things for a long time and had a pretty damned reliable economic engine
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · last mo.www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn
Come join us at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch as Professor in Climate Biophysics. Blue-sky research, inspiring colleagues, and generous support.
Ben Engel@cellarchlab.com · last mo.Super excited to launch this search for a new endowed professor at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch! Join us to build a research cluster in Climate Biophysics! 🌍🌊🌾🔬🧪 This is a unique opportunity to create a community in Basel🇨🇭working together on this timely topic! ⏳🌡️ Questions? Please reach out! 👩🔬👨🔬
Who are the masked cowards who call themselves the “Patriot Front”? They’re exactly who you think they are.
There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.
Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍
Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.
The USA govt attacks on science are preventing future cures. Long term, stable, broad based science funding powers cures, innovation and our economy. Please fight for science! Call your reps!
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · last mo.The magic of Wegovy, which has surpassed 3M prescriptions was discovered in lizard venom in 1990. The #NIH funding behind this & most breakthroughs is <1% of the federal budget. That 1% fuels local economies w/ a 250% ROI. A non-scientist would not see value in studying the Gila monster. 🧵🧪
This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town
The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.
forbes.com
What I hate is seeing a random video of animal control rescuing two abandoned dogs and thinking how sad it is that human left them behind, then finding out a few days later that it was ICE that left them there to die after stealing their human family.
American politics have failed its scientists-and it comes at a price to us all. www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...
America’s compact between science and politics is broken, and we’re all going to pay
How did we get here?
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Yet another editorial is out speaking against the OMB rules proposed for federal funding. One of the most prestigious journals for clinical studies published this editorial st noon www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
nejm.org
For a nanosecond I thought this David Hockney was a version of a classic diagram of cerebellum circuitry.
Jim Parrett 🍁@jymn.bsky.social · 2mo agoDavid Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)
It is BONKERS that the ADA removed scientists for passing out copies of a published editorial www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Five diabetes researchers were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.
Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House
The scientists, including the editor of a leading journal, were handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of biomedical research.
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Congratulations to Rockefeller’s #classof2026, here’s to your next adventure! 🍾 🔬 🎉 #PHDone
If you want to see the hugely positive effect of the leadership of the National Academies of Science in shying away from topics that are deemed controversial based on partisan positions, here you go... 1/3
Thanks Liqun Luo for speaking at UC Berkeley’s first Neuroscience Dept graduation under chair @danfeldman.bsky.social Students loved hearing life lessons from the author of their favorite textbook. (The loudest applause was definitely for the textbook itself! 📚)
Maybe they could set up a 1.776B fund at the NIH/NSF to pay researchers who were harmed by the trump admin’s war on science.
Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.
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Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming
Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)@tedpavlic.bsky.social · 3mo agoMIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.
