Dr Kathleen Millen

my lab needs a repeat pipetter that can dispense 1ml 12 times. (can be analog or digital). i've never had one of these- does anyone have one to recommend?

(pls reski)

Yeah! Glad you are here!

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks How to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland

The only TED talk that stuck with me is really short TEDx talk about how to dry your hands. Thirteen years on, I think about it every time I wash my hands in a public bathroom.

MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119

This is totally, totally awesome! Thanks to Mark Terasaki for this astounding gift to the education mission of @mblscience.bsky.social.

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The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

Could be worse? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.

I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Please please please help me get the word out about this. I’m afraid everyone is ignoring our emails. We’ve sent literally thousands and have <10 people enrolled. For reference, we need several hundred. So if you’re not a PI in one of these programs but know someone who is, pls send them this 🙏🙏🙏

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#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

*meant to type science-ing but autocorrect hates me!

I'm so sorry. I'm glad that you are here, scoring! At every stage of my career as well. Even as a full professor. Most recently, a couple months ago.

OMG. SO SORRY!

1000%

Good point.

I keep meaning to write him a letter, append my CV and a few high impact papers , but I lose my nerve everytime

I'm so sorry. You deserved to be there!

And the other scientist with him laughed and then they both turned their backs and walked off. Both are still prominent neuroscientists. I'm still here. And succeeding.

Yes. At my first international meeting as a grad student a very prominent senior neuroscientist told me at my poster that I was wasting my time and science funding because I was female and I would just get pregnant and leave science anyway.

NIH saves lives.
Save NIH.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.

I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share.

These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

I actually think it’s a good thing that there are people who devote their working lives to studying something that may only be of interest to a small number of people, who get on here with great excitement and say “I nerded the heck out of this for three years, I’m proud of me, read my article!”

This story is amazing!

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Congratulations on this work. Very interesting. Really looking forward to reading it.

I'm so sweet that your grant was suspended. Terrible news

You are amazing!!

Yikes! So sorry!

Reminds me of the time a bunch of pigeon poop fell through the ceiling ventilation of my friend's top floor tissue culture room. Hang in there!

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.