Kyle MacQuarrie MD PhD

Every time I see ‘7’ as normal, I just….🫩🫩

A cute little pineapple growing on a pineapple plant in my office.

Office-grown pineapple update: it continues to be both pretty adorable and sort of disturbing at how well it is doing here in Chicago in the winter.

I have 3 different writing deadlines over the next 4 days, so I too am wondering how I got here.

A large raccoon with the caption ‘gimme da gorbage’.

Same vibes.

Hey, you can just keep adding more ‘.final’s on ad infinitum. (Ask me how I know!)

I endorse this plan and this message.

A screenshot from the TedX Northwestern website showing that I’ll be one of the speakers for ‘The Ripple Effect’.

As if it wasn’t already tough enough to get me to stop talking, now I’ll be giving a TedX talk.

(But in all seriousness - very appreciative that Northwestern’s TedX is giving me this chance to talk about pediatric cancer.)

@manneresearch.bsky.social

I’m imagining the taste of vaporub combined with mint. 😟

A recipe for cough syrup recommending a mixture of syrup of ipecac, camphor, peppermint essence and laudanum.

Did not expect to find instructions for cough syrup in one of our old cookbooks. Pretty sure coughing was the least of your worries after you took this. 😐

Professor X?

I could not smash ‘like’ on this update any faster.

Oh yeah, that’s a thing.

Immediately heard this in my head upon seeing the gif, and now my mental ears are ringing. 😕

Tenuous biomedical funding has put first-year Ph.D. students in a bind First-year biomedical graduate students across the country said labs have been hesitant to take them in due to a tenuous funding environment

With continued uncertainty over federal government support for biomedical research, PhD students are struggling to find labs willing to take on new students, @jonathanwosen.bsky.social reports.
New students are the future of US science. www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/f...

A pineapple plant with a tiny (growing) pineapple.

Signs that your office tends to be a little bit warm - the fact that your pineapple plant has started to fruit.
During January. In Chicago.

A screenshot of it being -3 degrees in Chicago.

Ugh, beat me by 6.

Doesn’t feel quite right hitting ‘like’ on this, but going to support the good results!

🫩

Yeah I binged all of season 1 a few weeks ago. This pace is killing me too.

A tri colored corgi passed out so hard on my lap that her nose is smashed into my leg.

She seems much less interested in the new episode of The Pitt than I am.

A line grant showing new and competitive renewal awards made by NIH is fiscal year 2026 compared to 2021-2025. The line for fiscal year 2026 is very close to zero.

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding.

New and competitive renewal awards.

3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years).

No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR.

1/2

I’m pretty sure I read every Far Side comic panel in existence for the same reason.

Gold OA: the gift that keeps on giving

Blitzy. 😑

Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule: www.aap.org/en/news-room...