Blaine Christiansen

Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. • Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. • Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. • Experience with grant writing. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community.

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise in Davis CA

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

The key to a good academic paper is to open with “What’s up gamers”

Then move onto a webster’s dictionary definition of your topic.

And finally close with “but of course, I had the last laugh.”

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2." I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Ah yes, the universal goal of all scientists. Decide on a conclusion, then "do the studies to make the proof".

Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, 9/2/2025: The health of our society depends on students equipped to embrace uncertainty

New Opinion out today in @chicagotribune.com

"The Bio10 is an academic powerhouse."

"The health of our society depends on generations of young students equipped to embrace, and succeed in the face of, uncertainty."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

New post about Lysenko and Bhattacharya from @angierasmussen.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Trump should demand that whoever made today’s Wordle be fired.

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that …

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made (that would be the NSF budget) 😡
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
🧪

Here is some of the history of the non-existent "banned words" at NIH...

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law

The Govt. Accountability Office issued a report today finding that the Trump admin has violated a law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved

@mmolteni.bsky.social & I break it down:

www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g...

The NIH was healthiest when pay lines were in the 20th percentile range.

We are headed into an environment where pay lines are in the 5% range.

In my entire career, I’ve only had 3 grants that scored better than 5%. And my lab is considered a successful one.

This is going to destroy science.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to allow NIH diversity-related cuts Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow the government to proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants as part of the Republican president's crackdown on diversity initiatives.

Gee, I wonder how SCOTUS will view this case?
So hard to predict.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

YouTube video by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Desk: The Future of Animal Models in Research | NIH’s Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer

A discussion of the use of animals in research.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...

1/n

(Warning: Rant coming)

New paper available now in @oacjournal.bsky.social. This was a great collaboration with @tak-lab.bsky.social and Kei Takahata from his lab.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lL-93npMr...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)

Congratulations to Sophie Orr for defending her Ph.D. dissertation in Biomedical Engineering at @ucdavis.bsky.social! If anyone is recruiting a postdoc, she is the best candidate you could hope for. Send me a message if you would like an introduction.

The beneficial and detrimental effects of exercise and unloading on OA progression after anterior cruciate ligament injury Injury of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a common sports injury that can lead to post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) within 10–20 years. Surgical ACL reconstruction is often performed sev...

Another new paper from our lab! This one is a review by Yu-Yang (Will) Lin describing the effects of exercise and unloading on OA progression after ACL injury.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Investigating the role of complement 5a in systemic bone loss after myocardial infarction Myocardial infarction (MI) and osteoporotic fracture are two of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We have previously establishe…

New article from our lab! This is the capstone study from Priscilla Tjandra's Ph.D. research. Special thanks to Sophie Orr for finishing up the final steps of the research and manuscript.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.

The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Thank you #MIT

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?