Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year) (Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 170 tenure-track positions and 19 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Don't miss the fourth and final BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar on Monday, September 29th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Tahoura Samad, @karapeak.bsky.social and Claudia Varela to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

How many PhDs does it take...

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 31 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

DEDUCTIVE LOGICO AND THE CASE OF THE MURDERED PREACHER Murdle for 9/17/2025 👤🔪🏡 🕰️ ✅✅✅ 3️⃣:3️⃣8️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com

"Council review completed"

Back in it! DEDUCTIVE LOGICO CRACKS THE CASE OF EXPLODING CUFFLINKS Murdle for 9/14/2025 👤🔪🏡 🕰️ ✅✅✅ 7️⃣:0️⃣9️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com

I appear to have thrown my back out from...getting out of bed? I would like to rollback to the previous patch, this version is a clear performance downgrade.

A reminder that one of my favorite ways to frame the economy for most people is that they are *never* three good months away from being rich, but *always* three bad months from being homeless.

There is another chance for me to tell people about @okbjgm.bsky.social ‘s laugh out loud funny, weird, love letter to comics and science fiction. It proves you can overcome anything with good characters and smart writing. SF fans don’t deserve to be treated this well. Yet we were.

Total brain fart on this one THE MYSTERY OF THE BODY BENEATH A STAINED GLASS WINDOW Murdle for 9/12/2025 👤🔪🏡 🕰️ ✅✅✅ 1️⃣2️⃣:1️⃣2️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 27 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Coming up next week our 3rd BME UNITE seminar series featuring talented BME postdocs on the market - Monday Sept 15th at 1PM EST with @bmeunite.bsky.social Register here: ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The third BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, September 15th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Joan Pulupa, and Amy Lee to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

Updated update I downloaded the data from NIH Reporter too soon. The large end of the month update had not occurred. Here are the results as of this morning. NIH grants management staff have been busy making awards. 1/2

THE CASE OF THE ACORN Murdle for 9/9/2025 👤🔪🏡❓ 🕰️ ✅✅✅✅ 5️⃣:3️⃣8️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete. Not great news... The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year. 1/2

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Wordle 1,542 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 22 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

My comfort cdrama is no longer available in my region?!!? Viki, how could you do this to me!?

Wordle 1,538 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I've had multiple profs describe me as having good hands in the lab. As best as I can tell, this mostly means that I pay attention to what I'm doing, so all the steps, and work out a system whereby if I do something wrong I notice in time to correct it.

For example, I use pipette tips in a specific order, which lets me line up which one I should be on at any given step. When I process a tray of flasks, I take the old flasks out in a specific order, and I put the used ones back into a new tray at a 180 degree spin from the first.

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 15 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

ICYMI: I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for students and early career researchers about to write their first paper. The world of scientific writing and publishing can be confusing, but I'm here to help! 🧪🌎🦑

Our department is recruiting a new tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor. Come join the #1 physiology department in the country and some awesome colleagues doing high impact science and training the next generation of scientists jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674815/a...

Vibe check on an aims page?🙏

The second BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, August 25th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Mattea Allert, Taj Yeruva, and Said Arévalo Alquichire, PhD to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Pulled out some old sketchbooks for inspiration and instead ended up fully intimidated by doodles drawn by 15-year-old me! She would be *disgusted* with my work now😆😆😆.

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

Download our database of POSTDOC fellowships for cancer research/oncology in the US. We found 46 different fellowships. For each entry, we provide link, description, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria. Good luck! Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The first BME UNITE seminar will be on Monday, August 11th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Julia Brisbane, Sindhuja Govindarajan, and @prnano9.bsky.social to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

My lab is hiring! We’re looking for a postdoctoral scholar in the area of optogenetic control, single-cell analysis, and gene expression dynamics in microbial systems. For more details see www.dunloplab.com

We're recruiting a lab technician to assist with our ongoing liquid biopsy projects. Please encourage those with relevant experience to apply. Feel free to contact me with questions! tinyurl.com/prattlabtech

The 12 trailblazing early-career scientists selected as BME UNITE Fellows are: Mattea Allert, Said Arevalo-Alquichire, Julia Brisbane, @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social , Amy Lee, ‪@prnano9.bsky.social‬, Kara Peak, Joan Pulupa, Tahoura Samad, Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan, Claudia Varela, and Taj Yeruva.

We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Excited to share our new cohort of 2025 @bmeunite.bsky.social Future Faculty Fellows! These outstanding scientists are all on the job market this year. Register here for upcoming seminars to learn about their amazing work! ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Grant reviewers and tenure committees need to be *highly* cognizant that many new Assistant Professors just had their startups effectively slashed by *at least* 15%.

Cumulative success probability for 6 submissions a year (new max allowed) = 22% After 5 years of 6/yr (max duration of an R01) you get to 70% chance...

Well done!

Science isn’t the output. Science is the method that is formalized as the output. But ya know.

👀 What a time to propose this policy: "Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle" www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2025-2026! Our goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Resubmission comments are a perfect flip flop from significance (yay)/approach (ew) to significance (meh)/approach (perfection)😂.

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 28 tenure-track positions and 3 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #chemsky #chemjobs ⚗️🧪

Never had a small thing cause as much rage as Trello eliminating the perfectly good sidebar for a stupid button at the bottom of the screen. Who asked for this?!