NEXT WEEK on #WebinarWednesday: Musculoskeletal Research at the VA. Hear from VA researchers on tech development from bench to bedside, followed by live Q&A. Brought to you by the ORS Innovation Committee. Register: ors.memberclicks.net/vss073025in

On March 7th, we’re Standing Up for Science— and against political censorship, autocracy, and fascism. Science stands at a crossroads. This is a wider fight for truth, for democracy, and for the future. We hope you join us. www.standupforscience2025.org

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

The Mauck Lab is well represented at #ORS2025. We work on such a wide variety of problems, that hopefully there’s a little bit of something for everyone! Presenters on Bluesky: @emsharp.bsky.social @meghankup.bsky.social

Reducing the indirect rate on NIH grants to 15% will kill biomedical and health research in the US. I'm not exaggerating here. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The Gullbrand Lab is talking science at #ORS2025 this week! Check out our presentations if you’re in Phoenix and interested in intervertebral disc degeneration, cell therapies, and more! @sgullbrand.bsky.social @emsharp.bsky.social @orssociety.bsky.social

Please read our public statement issued by @aimbe-official.bsky.social on the recent disruptions to federal science agencies & biomedical research. Fellow or not, I urge my BME colleagues to fill out a letter (<2 mins) to send to your congressional representatives 👇✉️ aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

Sad to see webpages of NIH diversity supplements taken down. I know this was suspected to happen, but it’s heartbreaking to see. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Eg., NIMH www.nimh.nih.gov/about/organi...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic," by @meredithwadman.bsky.social, Jocelyn Kaiser www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org @monscience.bsky.social

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our spine research team's newest paper out in Acta Biomaterialia! If you're interested in whole disc tissue engineering, large animal and finite element models, the facet joints and paraspinal muscles - check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 Congrats to Emily Sharp, #ORS2025 Dr. Peter Roughley Award recipient! A 4th-year PhD candidate at @Penn, Emily is recognized for her work in spine, disc, & cartilage biology. This award supports mentor-trainee research collaboration. Learn more: bit.ly/3BlyCrW

The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) has officially joined BlueSky! 🦋 We are here to connect, share, and inspire through cutting-edge #orthopaedic research and innovations. Follow us to stay updated on events, deadlines, and insights from your global #orthocommunity.

You're telling me the next generation of medical therapies will be made INSIDE fruit flies? But how? And why? fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/fruit-flie...

Good things come to those who wait (for 4 years 😅) - our new research MRI is finally installed and operational!! So excited for all the cool imaging we’ll be able to do!

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

We are 70+ and growing! Feel free to recommend friends, or self-nominate. It is exciting to see the growing orthopaedics community on this platform. #ORSSMC

I can’t think of a better way to christen my shiny new @bsky.app account than celebrating this paper! So thrilled to see this published - all aboard the BLST hype train! 🚂

Let's see if we can make @bsky.app the home of the spine research community go.bsky.app/DBKUvJq