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Marjolein van der Meulen

@mchvdm.bsky.social

Swanson Professor, BME + M&AE, Cornell University 🦴🇳🇱🍫⛳️⛰️ Orthopaedic biomechanics & mechanobiology, #sci’sky Views are my own.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

propublica.org

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

arstechnica.com

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · last yr.

There are whispers going around that the presidential budget request for various science agencies will be at the level that would completely destroy them and American science. I'm talking 30-50% cuts at NASA, NOAA, NSF. There's a long way between requests and actual budgets, but

Marjolein van der Meulen@mchvdm.bsky.social · last yr.

“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally. Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social

LateNighter@latenightercom.bsky.social · last yr.

A month ago Samantha Power wouldn't have sounded like much of a get for late-night show, but in yet another indication of the shifting sands that have accompanied Donald Trump's first 16 days in office, she was Stephen Colbert's lead guest Tuesday night on The Late Show.

Marjolein van der Meulen@mchvdm.bsky.social · last yr.

“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge … Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2y ago

Opinion | Leaders in the Foxhole Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40ZKRV9