I have news: In January 2026, I'll be moving to @mechanicaluvic.bsky.social and @uvicecs.bsky.social as their new director of Biomedical Engineering! I'm excited to work with a fantastic group of students, staff, and faculty in an astoundingly beautiful location.

We are thrilled to host Dr. Stephanie Fraley @fraleylab.bsky.social from UCSD at BU this week! Join us Friday in PHO211 to hear about her exciting work in cell migration and cancer metastasis. #BME #Seminar #BUevents

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...

OK, I guess indoor plumbing comes first. But has any medical invention saved more lives than vaccines?

Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.

"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

When you strip away humanity

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Meet Dr. Daniel Carbonero, who aced his PhD defense today and will start his job tomorrow.

Fantastic day sharing knowledge with the brilliant researchers at NIH who valiantly work to advance the frontiers of science for the cause of improving human health. Thank you again for your service 🙏 🇺🇸

Next month, in lovely Florence, Italy, my student Brandon Williams can tell you all about his fantastic dissertation work, at a CNS*2025 workshop organized by my awesome collaborator Carmen Canavier. www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/cell_biology...

The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

Honored to give the 2025 commencement speech for my amazing high school, the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (students skip years of high school, and go straight to college). My topic - how to engineer serendipity: www.youtube.com/live/nVknJwk...

I was able to attend college specifically because of Pell Grants and federal work-study. These proposed budget cuts are designed explicitly to prevent students of limited financial means from improving their positioning in the job market and society.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

The great Nicholas Peppas is giving the 2025 Colburn Lecture at BU BME.

New work from my brilliant former student, Jacob Norman, shows that reactivation of a memory suppresses neural representations of competing neural populations. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Aphasia Robs Millions of Communication. Boston University Is Helping Them Regain Their Voice. Read our recent article with The Brink detailing our impact: www.bu.edu/articles/...

Jennifer West, the 2025 winner of the Pierre Galetti Award from AIMBE.

Horrible news - The Adolescent Medicine Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) funded by the NIH has just been terminated. Stopping a clinical trial mid-course like this is insane. www.nichd.nih.gov/research/sup...

Read about BU BME star faculty Muhammad Zaman’s sobering work in microplastics. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The commissars have arrived open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Could twisting beams of light somehow make the internet faster and greener? BU engineer Siddharth Ramachandran has found tornado-shaped beams of light could increase optical fibers’ data handling capacity by up to 50 times. This is cool stuff. 😎

It's a difficult month. Live a little. You're welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ZG...

I can't think of a more deserving recipient.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler, a true giant in the field of eye movements & their interaction with vision & cognitive processes. She helped me as a grad student & it was always wonderful to talk to her. Her body of work is foundational to our field. Thank you, Eileen.

Willie, Mickey & Jimmy

Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04), our next Terrier of 2024, made history as the first woman and the first Black person to earn a PhD in bioinformatics. She is an inspiration to Terriers everywhere, especially those in STEM fields. Read more ⬇️

Congratulations to Josh McGee, who won the BU BME 2024 Best Paper Award! Josh's paper, published in @naturebiotech.bsky.social with Mark Grinstaff, Wilson Wong, and Florian Douam, may lead to revolutionary improvements in RNA-based vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Jordan Smiley, who won the BU BME 2024 Student Teaching Award for her excellent work teaching Statistical Thermodynamics!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20 - a good one!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 19

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 18

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 17

A new biography of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel, the acclaimed and bestselling author of ‘Longitude’, ‘Galileo's Daughter’ and ‘The Glass Universe”: the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. #WomeninSTEM

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 16

The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 128 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... obs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 15

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 14

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 13

Please circulate.

Carl Sagan saw 30 years into the future ...