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Join us to pursue cutting-edge research at the interface of megakaryocyte biology and translational medicine. We have NIH-funded postdoc positions available to investigate platelet production and the broader functions of megakaryocytes. I’ll be attending ASH and would be happy to connect.

Excited for this session! If you’re at #AHA25 today, please join us!

A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

So well put. Something I am thinking about every day with research as well.

This please 👇🏼

Now is a the time to get involved in your scientific societies. #Hematology #HemeSky @ash.hematology.org is stepping up for Hematology - HOW CAN YOU HELP? If you want to be on a committee nominate yourself or someone else below. I am also happy to nominate you, so just reach out. Deadline May 31!

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This is where we are living. www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...

The information I am receiving is consistent with the STAT story. The boards are being purged of women and minoritized scientists with no other obvious pattern. And for the cases where I have some information, the effects are not subtle...Boards going from 35% women to 10% women. 3/n

The FDA just cancelled a meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu shots. "It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

This is a red alert for US science, for new cures & treatments for diseases that afflict everyone in this country. This isn't "oh, it will blow over." Soon we will have reached the point of no return destroying what it has taken decades to build. WE NEED TO BE BANGING DOWN THE DOORS IN CONGRESS.

Study section freeze hits NIH

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

Current inspiration as I continue doing my science as a form of protest and resistance. 🧪🩸💪

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

There’s no argument that should reassure anyone enough to go back to business as usual, because none of these actions are happening in isolation. The war on US science won’t end with a court order on indirects.

Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.

Do it. I mean, it worked out pretty well for me ... 🙃🩸🫶

This was so much fun to do with @aswolberg.bsky.social and @gbarnesmd.bsky.social - a chat with two great friends 🥰 Isn't that why we love this community? Great science and great people.

Hi friends. This is hard. Remember, you’re not alone- there are so many of us here that care a lot and aren’t giving up. Don’t stop talking and don’t let them make you hard. Reach out to someone that needs some encouragement. We are here ❤️ #sciencesky

We are hiring 😀 Postdoctoral position – Stem cells, Cancer, and Aging We study cell fate decision and lineage specification in hematopoietic stem and multipotent progenitor populations to modulate lineage output for therapeutic purpose in diseases and aging contexts.

Stem cell-like states confer poor outcomes in blood cancer—but what mechanisms drive this and how can they be therapeutically targeted? In our new preprint, we show how a single TF represses one enhancer to maintain a subset of high-risk leukemias: 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Machlus lab members Maria and Ginny are helping raise money for @danafarber.bsky.social this year at the #PMCWinterCycle !! 🚴 #PMC2025 #CloserByTheMile Join me in donating to the team with the most amazing name: Plaquetas Bravas 🩸🫶 profile.wintercycle.org/T00462

Made it back to Boston after an amazing #ASH24 and I need a week on an island to recover.🏝️ Anyone else?

Happy Sunday #ASH24 ☀️🩸! Time to get breakfast and head over to Room 28 at 9:30 to hear Ginny talk about the role of MKs and platelets in Tet2 CH

Amazing talk by @beaudinlab.bsky.social at the Myeloid Workshop on cochlear macrophages in hearing loss in CMV infection 🤯 #ASH24

Everyone headed to #ASH24 - if you’re looking for your favorite scientists in hematopoiesis to follow on here, we have you covered 👇🏼

The ladies of the Machlus lab are getting ready for #ASH24 🩸🧪🎉 If you see us, say HI! We will all be presenting (details below). Also, we have a Postdoc Position 👀 if you are kind of scrappy and love science…

A day I always look forward to - our division retreat!! Today is the 42nd (!!) Annual Vascular Biology Program Retreat The MK to Platelet Research Group is here and ready to talk science 🧪 🩸

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

1st attempt, please add to this 😊 go.bsky.app/Cph9GV4

Finally- the starter pack we have all been waiting for is here … Hematopoiesis 🎉❤️🩸🦴 So excited to have reached a critical mass of this community on here. 🙌🏻 Let me know if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/KWdX5w7

Call me biased, but I can't think of a better way to celebrate my first #FluorescenceFriday here than with this beautiful megakaryocyte making proplatelets 😍. Aren't these cells amazing? 🧪🩸 #hemesky

Hematology and hematopoiesis friends! There’s now a #hemesky feed 🎉 You can tag your posts with this hashtag and pin this feed to your homepage 🥰🩸🧪 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Soooo are we talking about the existential dread or just posting more dog pics? How about dogs with existential dread…

Cold temps and adorable dogs named Charlie are making it very hard to get out of bed these mornings 🥱 But Charlie says- Science isn’t going to do itself! 🧪🩸🔬

Now in my 7th year as a PI (😳) I am understanding that I get so much more sustained happiness and joy from seeing my trainees succeed. Incredible WIP today from Maria, a postdoc on our team. No doubt she is going to do amazing things. 🧪 #hemesky ⭐️

💥MK to Platelet Group Lab Retreat 2023 💥 Cheers to 2 days of creative science, amazing food, tie dye, the best people and late night chats by the fire pit. I’m the luckiest 🥹🫶🏻

Today I had the absolute honor of talking to Arun Rath about our research studying the mystery of how platelets are made🩸🔬 NPR is truly the coolest. What. A. Dream. 🤩🙌🏻 All Things Considered on Boston’s @gbhnews.bsky.social, NPR www.wgbh.org/news/health/...