Marjolein van der Meulen

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
from vdMlab@bsky.social

🙏 @orrenshachaf.bsky.social
our costume lead!

🦴 🏃‍♀️ Take steps for your musculoskeletal health!
#WhiteSneakers
#ASBMR2025

🦴 Congratulations to Deepak Vashishth on receiving Adele L Boskey Award from @asbmr.bsky.social
#ASBMR2025

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

“Much of U.S. power & influence is derived from our science & technology supremacy”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

The eviceration of US biomedical and engineering research…for what purpose?

“At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

🎥 Livestream in hour 68 now!

⛅️ Dr Clare Singer
claresinger.github.io

#SaveAmericasForecasts

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

#ResearchAtRisk

YouTube video by Cornell University Research at Risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies

Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell.

Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds

#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

@kleach5.bsky.social is leading a fantastic
#NIH_T32 training program
#CoolDude 😉

Really appreciate the lovely visit! Impactful science presented by @ucdavismedschool.bsky.social MSK research trainees!
#NIHFundingMatters #MSKresearch

Please read & act now!

The Real Goal of Trump's War on Universities It isn't about stopping antisemitism. It's about power.

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨
1/
@paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it.
paulwaldman.substack...

🥧 Happy Pi Day!
Yummy early celebration yesterday thanks to @vdmlab.bsky.social
#PiDay

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!

Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#IDWGS

“Unity through our shared passion for research”
Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social

#ORS2025 #OrthoScience
#CornellHSSCameo

Inspiring to be in a room full of orthopaedic researchers for the start of #ORS2025
@orssociety.bsky.social

Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article) The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...

“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally.
Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social

“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge …
Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com

🔬🦴 @vdmlab.bsky.social looks forward to sharing & talking science at #ORS2025

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."

chemsky 🧪⚗️

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.

"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."

www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

🧪⚛️ Holy cow. Threats to layoff 25-50% of NSF (!!!). This would be a complete disaster. Anyone who thinks cutting the workforce at a $9B/yr agency by this much will lead to greater efficiency is just out of their mind. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...