Ayse Asatekin

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Just landed in Nashville for #NAMS2025. Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues, sharing our latest results, and enjoying this supportive and innovative community.

It was a true honor to have Dr. Linda Broadbelt give this year's Gregory M. Botsaris Lecture at Tufts ChBE! It was an inspiring look at how reaction pathway analysis can be used to understand and guide plastic pyrolysis as well as to guide the discovery and synthesis of bioderived plastics

Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.

“a 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now…is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence”

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...

Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE.

Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!

It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.

Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵

Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.

Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make.
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...

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I heard about Doug retiring over the summer. I went to his website to email him and heard about the accident. So devastating! I have always been a fan of his work, but whenever I met him, I was amazed by his wisdom about everything in general. Such a loss...

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

Want hands-on battery research experience? Join the Battery Research Summer School!

4 days of real labs, real data, real problem-solving. Learn to cycle, test & troubleshoot Li-ion batteries.

📅 June 3-6 | 📍 Tufts University
📌 More info: www.eventbrite.com/e/1234043610...

Universities, it's time to lawyer up! Get those General Counsels to earn their pay! (disclaimer: it's Friday night, and I've had enough this week)

Straight into court, and you can expect universities to be seeking injunctive relief immediately. This is the way Trump has always conducted himself, lawless and without honor or compunction.

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social please act to stop this latest illegal overreach too. It would bring research to a halt, stop the development and commercialization of new technologies, skyrocket tuition, and cost thousands of jobs.

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

Anyone doing basics science knows that we're barely making ends meet with the grants, particularly if your primarily nsf funded. The budget hasn't increased with student and postdoc salary (primarily cost of grants). Meeting it 1/3 kills all science everywhere

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Skype a Scientist can match you with a teacher. I had the privilege of being matched with a science teacher in Michigan who gathered about 90 students as I talked with them. I will likely do it again.

I think publishers should offer credit towards future publication/OA costs per review.

5️⃣5️⃣ Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995, only the fourth woman member of 113 at the time.

www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

As #PhD application season is starting, I'm looking for 1-2 students to join my group at Tufts University next fall. One of these is likely to be a co-advised project with Prof. Panzer with an energy storage component. You don't need to email me - just apply. We admit a cohort to the department.

Calling all polymer scientists! Let’s re-find each other as people continue to migrate over!

Please tag people in the comments and share! I’ll continue updating as we find more people. #polymers

go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa

For anyone who needs to hear it, be confident. You're good at what you do. It took me too long to realize how strong a chemist I am. Many students passed through my courses, especially #womeninstem, lacking confidence in themselves. #STEM can be full of hurdles and adversity, but you can do it. 🧪🥽👩‍🔬

Could you include me please? I'm trying to move over to Bluesky also, and would love to build connections. Thank you!

I would like to be included please. Trying to move here one more time. Thank you!

My grader for this exam.

Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding - Nature Reviews Materials Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-mone...

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Reviews Materials make the case that women departing academia exacts a massive scientific and economic toll, and outline reforms to promote funding efficiency in the academic sector. 🧪

I think we are in an age where statements and public/social media-visible actions trump the actual work of creating and maintaining a positive, inclusive environment. The latter is a lot less visible but it is a lot of work, and in my opinion more important.