Paulyn Cartwright
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researcher, educator, invertebrate enthusiast, mom, concerned citizen
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
WSJ op-ed from leaders at Johns Hopkins and the University of Kansas about slow grant-making. [Gift Link]
www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...
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Opinion | Get the Federal Science Money Flowing
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/get-the-federal-science-money-flowing-ec14cdbf?st=ruB9pC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Interesting discussion on tech vs post bacc. Having run post bacc training programs I have some thoughts….
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Todd Oakley
2 months ago
We started by studying gene reuse in eyes over deep time -- but were astonished to find adaptive molecular convergence to be rampant and not directly related to important traits, including eyes. Led by PD Cory Berger
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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KU IRACDA has three postdoc positions open
iracda.ku.edu
. Eligible applicants must demonstrate interest in teaching, have a biomedically-relevant research focus, and an identified KU faculty sponsor.
www.employment.ku.edu/staff/32261BR
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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
http://www.employment.ku.edu/staff/32261BR
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Uri Frank
4 months ago
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the cnidarian Podocoryna is just out. Well done
@pcart.bsky.social
,
@baxevanislab.bsky.social
and the other authors
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709628v1.full.pdf
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Andy Baxevanis
4 months ago
🧬 New genome alert! We’ve generated a chromosome-level assembly for the hydrozoan Podocoryna. With both polyp and free-swimming medusa stages, Podocoryna is a powerful model for exploring the evolution of complex traits in early animal lineages.
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I am super excited to announce that after a tumultuous period of uncertainty, KU MARC
marc.ku.edu
has been awarded another five years of funding!
news.ku.edu/news/article...
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KU awarded $2.2 million NIH research career training grant renewal
For almost 30 years, the Office for Advancing Success in Science at KU has provided opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research through grant support from the National Institutes of Health....
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-awarded-2-point-2-million-nih-research-career-training-grant-renewal
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The deadline is near for our NSF RaMP post-bacc program BioGEM. If you know of any graduating seniors interested in doing research in EEB for a year, please encourage them to apply
biogem.ku.edu/apply-biogem
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Apply for BioGEM
https://biogem.ku.edu/apply-biogem
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! In our lab, every day is women is science day w/
@stoilovamarina.bsky.social
@gelatinoussting.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Meg Daly
5 months ago
This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that
@pcart.bsky.social
and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.
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What distinguishes those with moral courage vs. those who choose to look the other way? This article came out a few years ago but it is an inspiring read and very relevant to today's times (gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/o...
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Opinion | The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting (Published 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/sugihara-moral-heroism-refugees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.Mc6Z.zA0PPsXxX2w3&smid=bs-share
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Jenna Norton
6 months ago
So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people. We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.
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After three months away
@mblscience.bsky.social
I return to the lab with these notes welcoming me back. It’s nice to know I was missed.
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Andy Baxevanis
8 months ago
"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed1909
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Harmit Singh Malik
8 months ago
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
8 months ago
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
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🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! #shorts
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
https://youtube.com/shorts/KRi9yVx4uu0?feature=share
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Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.
8 months ago
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Enjoying the view from the lab
@mblscience.bsky.social
. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.
10 months ago
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Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=25752&siteid=5541&jobid=5163140#jobDetails=5163140_5541
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Congrats Marina!
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Gregg Gonsalves
11 months ago
All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.
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Yep!
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Bruce S. Lieberman
11 months ago
Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the
@kunhm.bsky.social
on
#paleontology
publications and data:
biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
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Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline
Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU
https://biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article/paleontologists-will-convene-in-kansas-to-boost-sharing-and-crediting-of-scholarly-data
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
12 months ago
it's another purge:
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/women-and-minorities-fired-nih-board-science/
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Dr. Lucky Tran
12 months ago
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Josh Marshall
12 months ago
Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states
www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n...
via
@statnews.com
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Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states
Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
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The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.
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about 1 year ago
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I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Drug Monkey
about 1 year ago
Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.
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Excited to participate in the non-bilaterian symposium at
#PASEDB2025
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about 1 year ago
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 year ago
Stay tuned. More to come. Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
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This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
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Bruce S. Lieberman
about 1 year ago
Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of
#punctuatedequilibria
issue of the journal Paleobiology
@paleosoc.bsky.social
#macroevolution
#paleontology
#palaeontology
@nilese.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis
https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.41
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Honored to be awarded the Whitman Fellowship and can't wait to be in my element this Fall
@mblscience.bsky.social
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MBL Awards Whitman Center Fellowships to 24 Outstanding Investigators | Marine Biological Laboratory
https://www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-awards-whitman-center-fellowships-24-outstanding-investigators
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SICB journals
about 1 year ago
Meet
@stoilovamarina.bsky.social
(
eeb.ku.edu/people/stoil...
) ICB submitting author Have you ever seen
#jellyfish
eyes? Here we have to two
#Cladonema
sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
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Nematostella farts through an anus!
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Tessa Hill
about 1 year ago
There’s a real rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic vibe going on in academia right now.
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Or in other words, ignorant people who say they oppose DEI don't even understand what it means.
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about 1 year ago
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Office for Advancing Success in Science / University of Kansas
about 1 year ago
Congrats to MARC scholars, Anjali, Maya, Mollie and Lou, for receiving scholarships and research awards from
@kubiology.bsky.social
. While nothing can replace MARC, kudos to these resilient scholars who continue to pursue opportunities for research.
biology.ku.edu/news/article...
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KU Biology Students receive Spring 2025 Scholarships and Awards
The Undergraduate Biology Program awarded nearly $35,000 in awards and scholarships to students in Spring 2025.
https://biology.ku.edu/news/article/ku-biology-students-receive-spring-2025-scholarships-and-awards
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Thinking of the undergraduates that just learned that their dreams have been crushed by last Fridays NSF terminations of LSAMP awards. This plus the cancellation of MARC, URISE etc. is tragic for all the talented students aspiring to become scientists and a real setback for the future of science.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
about 1 year ago
🚨🚨🚨🚨 NOT A FUCKING DRILL!!! NSF just announced slashing its indirect rate down to 15%, using the same previous fuckery at NIH. Applies to new awards made to institutions of higher education on or after May 5 or after. Demand to talk with your rep about reversing these cuts!!
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate
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...orders from the White House to accept a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1700-person staff may have been the final straws... Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS
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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-director-resign-amid-grant-terminations-job-cuts-and-controversy
about 1 year ago
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Every single research university needs to have a homepage like Harvard's. This is fantastic messaging.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
https://www.harvard.edu/
about 1 year ago
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One of our MARC scholars shares her thoughts on NIH cancelling her funding. Students in defunded Haskell, KU programs prepare to present their research projects
lawrencekstimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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Students in defunded Haskell, KU programs prepare to present their research projects
Student researchers in programs at Haskell and KU have been hard at work preparing for the yearly symposium that showcases their work. It's coming up Thursday — a week to the day after the program dir...
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/04/09/oasis-students-prep-for-symposium/
about 1 year ago
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Paraphrasing an email from NIH that we received today: Hey you know that termination email I sent a few days ago that said you have 10 days to wrap things up? JK. You actually have four months. Or maybe sooner. Who knows? LOL
about 1 year ago
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Dr. Amy Burgin
about 1 year ago
The NIH-funded Haskell-KU Bridges Program was terminated. It was one of the longest running programs of its kind, placing >130 Native American students into STEM labs over the last ~25 years. So many alums spoke of this program as being the entry point to their interest, and later, careers in STEM.
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CoreyWelch_STEM
about 1 year ago
I got my start on student programs as the 1st KU-HINU Bridge program coordinator in 1998. Sad for the students and staff who built up these amazing programs.
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Excellent coverage by
@mclarknews.bsky.social
,
@lawrencekstimes.com
on the termination of our Bridges, MARC, PREP and IRACDA programs.
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