Michelle McCully

Public Citizen has an annual pumpkin carving competition. The Litigation Group won this year with this portrayal of the White House with the East Wing having been demolished.

Entries from other groups to come

chef's kiss 😘

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Hooray!! Congratulations, well deserved! 🎉

Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics Location: Pittsburgh, PA Open Date: Sep 19, 2025 Description The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area. More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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I would love to attend, but as a faculty member at a PUI, and thus with a heavy teaching schedule, 9am is not usually a good time for me.

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union

The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

DUCK AROUND, FIND OUT! With our duck delivery in tow, we waddled up to the Hill to let our representatives know that it's time to send the Quack-In-Chief packing. #ImpeachRFK

Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP announcement was posted! Have not read the details to see if any changes from previous years...

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

UW Tacoma is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and a teaching Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry. Please share widely and consider applying.

Biochemistry:
apply.interfolio.com/172884
Organic Chemistry:
apply.interfolio.com/172940

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Join the PUI Network for "Pedagogy for the PUI," a networking event where you can connect with your fellow PUI faculty

September 29, 12:00-1:30 PM US Eastern time
my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...

Kudos to @ucsf.edu for fitting and providing all researchers with PPE. It should be the norm.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

"We should not be naive. Will those of us named now be branded on a government list? Will our travel be restricted? Will our email communications be surveilled? ... To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university."

WOW, New Mexico! That is a game changer: free childcare for everyone in the state - no income limits, no copays, average family savings of $12k per child per year 🤯
www.nmececd.org/universal/

A green background with the words the sesame workshop is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

If you didn’t know, now you do! Sunny days are headed our way!

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

I look forward to the annual exchange of top science and connecting across boundaries!

thank you CDC staff ❤️ for your courage

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

Have you signed yet? Have you reposted and shared on other platforms?

We need a massive response to protect the FEMA employees courageous enough to sign their names to this petition. So far -2k, we need many more.

#SecPuppyKiller is hot (and I am not talking about her looks).

#FEMA
#Resist

August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus

“Historically the best & brightest in the world came to the US to study. Now under Trump’s destructive policies, the best & brightest are fleeing the country. We need to reverse course & reclaim the values that made this country a beacon of research & free inquiry.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

"Shock and disbelief does not even begin to describe the reaction from mRNA and public-health researchers. “Secretary Kennedy’s unscientific and misguided vilification of mRNA technology and cancellation of grants is the epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face.”"

Repercussions from this administration will be felt for DECADES.

Which news outlets do you recommend?

what is the most terrifying piece of lab equipment (for rational or irrational reasons)?

(inspired by discussion with my lab regarding autoclaves)

Today in "You can't unplug 1/4 of the budget of research universities & do the same things, & there doesn't seem to be any backup plan other than to cancel things, & WHERE ARE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY & COLLECTIVELY ABOUT THIS EXISTENTIAL CRISIS?"

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE.

Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️