Lauren Surface

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🦴 Bone health is having a moment! #AmyPoehler dropped some osteoporosis awareness earlier this year.

In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?

More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk

Thank you to ASBMR for the support for Gerald, a fantastic postdoc in the lab! He is giving a talk on his intriguing findings on osteocytic citrate production in CKD at 4:30 today (1054), come check it out! #ASBMR2025

Group of 5 researchers hiking Mt Rainier

4 people hiking near some cliffs

Some of the lab arrived early for #ASBMR2025 to do some hiking at Mt. Rainier! Our white sneakers may be a bit dirty, but we are excited to share them and our science!

I am heartbroken and enraged that our hospital systems are abandoning trans people. Truly, disgusted that they are bowing down to our fascist government. I know some places are fighting, and I'm grateful for those doctors.

For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.

Alpine meadow full of wildflowers

Lady and kid posing for a selfie while hiking

To those attending #ASBMR2025 consider making a pre- or post- conf. excursion to Mt. Rainier!

We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom!

Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park!
@asbmr.bsky.social

Harvard existed before the Bill of Rights so I shouldn’t be surprised that it doesn’t feel especially attached to it

Vying for U. of Florida Presidency, Santa Ono Embraced Conservative Positions. It Didn’t Work. The former University of Michigan president’s bid to take over the top job in Gainesville ended in dramatic fashion at a contentious meeting of the State University System of Florida’s Board of Govern...

UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas.

www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Opinion | I’m a Russian Scientist in ICE Detention I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.

When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.

This is US police stuff. Black folks kept telling you that but people would rather believe we are all criminals who deserve extrajudicial violence. And yes i will "WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?!" every time you guys are shocked by a thing that's neither new nor foreign.

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

This is never justified, but to do this to someone who wrote an op-ed…

Bills that didn’t survive the WA Legislature’s first major deadline • Washington State Standard Bills on cow burps, the state flag and changes to traffic stop standards were among the first to land in the legislative graveyard this year.

THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD.

Great job everyone!

washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...

HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education “Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students

It is so disappointing to see @hhmi.bsky.social capitulate to fascists. One of the wealthiest philanthropies in the country cutting off their grant funding to promote retention of diverse undergrads in science in order to please this administration is pathetic. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty

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

In addition to a lot of blah blah about fetal tissue research, this

A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article) A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

An article that demonstrates both the limits and promise of science.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...

This whole song is excellent.

youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ?...

Last week, Black community members at the University of Michigan shared their stories. A long thread, because there were a lot of them, and they can make you weep.