Paulyn Cartwright

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

In our lab, every day is women is science day w/ @stoilovamarina.bsky.social @gelatinoussting.bsky.social

Logo for MANUS AI, with lowercase lettering and a pointing finger.

This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.

Opinion | The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting (Published 2018)

What distinguishes those with moral courage vs. those who choose to look the other way? This article came out a few years ago but it is an inspiring read and very relevant to today's times (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/o...

So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people.

We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.

After three months away @mblscience.bsky.social I return to the lab with these notes welcoming me back. It’s nice to know I was missed.

Saving science by the sea As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...

"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium 🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! #shorts

🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!

These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.

youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...

Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.

Enjoying the view from the lab @mblscience.bsky.social. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.

sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Woah! Do you know of any other sightings in N. America?

Congrats Marina!

All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.

Yep!

Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU

Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

it's another purge: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n... via @statnews.com

The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.

Cover of Harvard magazine showing boxing gloves

I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.

I'm excited for you and for whatever new adventures await. Wherever you go, you always make such a positive impact and I have no doubt this will continue. Thank you for your service and for your unwavering dedication to making science a better space for all of us.

Excited to participate in the non-bilaterian symposium at #PASEDB2025.

Stay tuned. More to come.

Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.

This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?

Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria issue of the journal Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology @nilese.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....