Mary Munson

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Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

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Biological Sciences

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NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Fluorescence micrograph. Emma Miller and Alex Merz, unpublished.

🧵 After years out of the field, I and my lab are again working on bacterial type IV pili. We have just posted our first preprints, and I'm excited to share what we have discovered.

This shows Neisseria gonorrheae bacteria infecting a human epithelical cell. Here, you can see the pili in red.

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I've heard this position articulated by a lot of people, but I think this is hard to make precise. Much of this tracks a problem we already know in science: standards of authorship are not stable and there are many difficult edge cases.

Consider these cases...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Woo hoo! Congrats!

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!

www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Done!! Looking forward to reading it! ❤️

I guess also I probably should have included a link to preorder my book but I also know that people would have stopped reading the thread after that post (which doesn't feel good actually!!!)

General preorder links here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Signed copies here:

Congrats to @berondam.bsky.social on writing such an amazing book and I hope everyone will buy and read ✊🏽

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

(🧵) I have been working through the latest Epstein Files release, and there are some things I would like to remind people of as a general rule in working with this material.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

Amazing discussion of When Trees Testify

This amazing conversation between @berondam.bsky.social and @chanda.blacksky.app focused on Beronda's impactful new book #WhenTreesTestify fills my heart and soul. Thank you both!

Episode 505: Our Plant Teachers | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Part two -- "Our Plant Teachers" -- of delightful and wide-ranging conversation with @rad-institute.bsky.social Born Curious podcast team.

Listen wherever you listen to podcast.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

#WhenTreesTestify... "A Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history" - @chanda.blacksky.app

Love this description with all my heart 😍😍😍

Key Takeaways from NIH Director Bhattacharya's hearing from Miriam and Bethesda Declaration whistleblower Jenna Norton (speaking in personal capacity). Our analysis? "Oof."
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Vaccines autism

And one reason that federal funding agencies became such a huge target in Project 2025 were the evidence-based efforts that were (slowly) shifting policies so that this public good would actually fund scientific research that included and benefitted all Americans, not just white cis men
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Bridging Cellular and Structural Biology Through Cryo-electron Tomography - ASCB Cellular cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) holds the grand promise of integrating cellular architecture with molecular structure. Yet, for many cell biologists, this method can seem technically…

Curious about cryo-electron tomography but not sure how it fits into your research? This ASCB webinar with Danielle Grotjahn, Ph.D., breaks down what cryo-ET can do, where it shines, and how it works alongside other imaging methods.

When Trees Testify This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...

I’m preping to interview @berondam.bsky.social about her amazing new #BookSky release this week WHEN TREES TESTIFY and one of the points she makes is that enslavers kept better track of plants and animals than the enslaved people that they enslaved

One of the most important 🧪 books this decade.

So looking forward!

This Friday February 6 7pm at Harvard Bookstore: the profoundly inspiring, philosophical @berondam.bsky.social, fellow Fellow @rad-institute.bsky.social, in conversation with the unapologetically insightful @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book:
www.harvard.com/event/berond...

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:

“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...