Ayse Asatekin
@ayseasatekin.bsky.social
Associate professor at Tufts University, with endless excitement about polymers, membranes, chemical engineering, and science in general. Fan of zwitterions, ampholytes, and amphiphiles.
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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
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.
May 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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.
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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
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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“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...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...
Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe
The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
“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...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...
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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!
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
www.tufts.edu
April 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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!
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
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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...
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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...
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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 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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 🧵
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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!)
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!)
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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!)
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!)
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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...
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...
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.
www.nature.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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...
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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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:
"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:
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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:
"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:
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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...
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...
February 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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...
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...
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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)
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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)
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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.
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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.
Turns out the White House cannot adjust this major source of university funding without consulting with Congress. Add this to the string of examples where they are ignoring the law. bsky.app/profile/arch...
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
February 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
@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.
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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...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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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...
www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...
December 15, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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...
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.
November 21, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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.
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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
Please tag people in the comments and share! I’ll continue updating as we find more people. #polymers
go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa
November 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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
Please tag people in the comments and share! I’ll continue updating as we find more people. #polymers
go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa
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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. 🧪🥽👩🔬
November 15, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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. 🧪🥽👩🔬
My grader for this exam.
February 19, 2024 at 1:59 AM
My grader for this exam.
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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. 🧪
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...
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December 1, 2023 at 9:23 PM
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. 🧪
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🚨🆕New collaborative #manuscript🚨with Bennet, Mace, & Lee labs. We optimize the production of landomycins in #Streptomyces cyanogenus and characterize their #antimicrobial and #anticancer properties.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 13, 2023 at 3:08 PM
🚨🆕New collaborative #manuscript🚨with Bennet, Mace, & Lee labs. We optimize the production of landomycins in #Streptomyces cyanogenus and characterize their #antimicrobial and #anticancer properties.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...