Good luck to all of the folks submitting NSF GRFP applications today! If you have been able to keep up with their constant changes and get all of your letters submitted, documents written, formatted, and uploaded on time you have already accomplished so much! Good luck to all.

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Catching up on Physical Asia, and it's so obvious that Ray has never watched a single reality tv show in his life. I know the producers were giggling as he handed them everything they needed for a villain arc.

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I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners. Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

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💯 I defended affirmative action one day and woke up to stuffed monkeys hung by a noose in my dorm's bathroom. None of this is shocking or new.

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We have a great line up of talks and posters we can't wait to share at #BMES2025. We kick it off first thing tomorrow with 2 talks in the first session! #mechanobiology #regmed #VCUatBMES @BMESociety @VCU_BME @VCUENGR

Headed to BMES? Don't miss our stellar 2025 BME UNITE Fellows at the Meet The Faculty Candidate Forum! Visit Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Kara Peak, and Taj Yeruva at their posters on Saturday, Oct 11, from 12-2:30 PM in Exhibit Hall F, G & H. #BMES2025 #BMES #biomedicalengineering

So excited that Terry will be showcasing our latest and greatest undergraduate research at #BMES2025! #BMES

Phosphorylation on tyrosines control key pathways in immunity, cancer, and metabolism. For the first time, we can now design proteins that specifically recognize individual phosphotyrosines, even in disordered regions. (1/8) Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How many civilizations must fall before public figures learn not to make off the cuff sports commentary if they don't have 100% confidence?

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Shout out to masters students who are now screwed over because they changed fields

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

For this who are unaware, the reason NIH now posts these data habitually on the data book site is… Jeremy Berg. He pioneered this openness as NIGMS Director.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

*Furiously taking notes even though she hasn't done woodworking in years*

Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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

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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...

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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