Caroline Bartman
@cbartman.bsky.social
brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
Do NOT get on a boat with an organic chemist if that’s what they think boats look like
February 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Do NOT get on a boat with an organic chemist if that’s what they think boats look like
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NBC story on NIH Institute Director vacancies...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,
National Institutes of Health faces leadership vacuum as director positions sit open
More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
NBC story on NIH Institute Director vacancies...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,
Just reread Old School by Tobias Wolff, once of my all time favorites.
Will the main character get to meet a famous author or will his ever more reckless behavior get him expelled from boarding school- and what will he learn about himself in the process
Will the main character get to meet a famous author or will his ever more reckless behavior get him expelled from boarding school- and what will he learn about himself in the process
February 15, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Just reread Old School by Tobias Wolff, once of my all time favorites.
Will the main character get to meet a famous author or will his ever more reckless behavior get him expelled from boarding school- and what will he learn about himself in the process
Will the main character get to meet a famous author or will his ever more reckless behavior get him expelled from boarding school- and what will he learn about himself in the process
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We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history.
And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others.
Measles could have been eradicated by now.
And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others.
Measles could have been eradicated by now.
A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented.
It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.
It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.
More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak
Cases reported in seven schools and a nursery in Enfield amid concern over low levels of MMR vaccination in capital
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 AM
We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history.
And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others.
Measles could have been eradicated by now.
And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others.
Measles could have been eradicated by now.
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📣 First preprint from the TeSlaa lab 📣 We investigated how methyl-rich nutrient, choline, is used in the body and how systemic one-carbon metabolism responds to dietary methyl-donor deficiency.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
📣 First preprint from the TeSlaa lab 📣 We investigated how methyl-rich nutrient, choline, is used in the body and how systemic one-carbon metabolism responds to dietary methyl-donor deficiency.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The beauty of the kidney arterial tree for this #FluorescenceFriday. Evans Blue dye labels the vasculature. Image courtesy of postdoc Sarah McLarnon.
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The beauty of the kidney arterial tree for this #FluorescenceFriday. Evans Blue dye labels the vasculature. Image courtesy of postdoc Sarah McLarnon.
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Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
do you ever get worried when you cant complete a captcha correctly
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
do you ever get worried when you cant complete a captcha correctly
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Man whose pandemic response plan was "tell people to protect the vulnerable" reveals that his plan to keep clinical trials open while dismantling the infrastructure that runs them is..."tell people to keep clinical trials open"
sciencebasedmedicine.org/demands/
sciencebasedmedicine.org/demands/
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Man whose pandemic response plan was "tell people to protect the vulnerable" reveals that his plan to keep clinical trials open while dismantling the infrastructure that runs them is..."tell people to keep clinical trials open"
sciencebasedmedicine.org/demands/
sciencebasedmedicine.org/demands/
rereading "Taking a Long Look" by Vivian Gornick. I love her essays! Clear, opinionated, she read Moby Dick so I don't have to, what's not to like!
bookshop.org/p/books/taki...
bookshop.org/p/books/taki...
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
bookshop.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
rereading "Taking a Long Look" by Vivian Gornick. I love her essays! Clear, opinionated, she read Moby Dick so I don't have to, what's not to like!
bookshop.org/p/books/taki...
bookshop.org/p/books/taki...
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Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
Worst month ever part 527 www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Catherine O'Hara, who starred in 'Home Alone' and 'Schitt's Creek,' dies at 71
O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters. "I loved playing cocky untalented people," she told Fresh Air in 1992.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Worst month ever part 527 www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
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i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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going out to dinner with your 2 year old is actually totally cool and fine if you understand that, like a bomb, they are going to detonate in exactly 48 minutes. you better be outta there not one second later
January 24, 2026 at 1:32 AM
going out to dinner with your 2 year old is actually totally cool and fine if you understand that, like a bomb, they are going to detonate in exactly 48 minutes. you better be outta there not one second later
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New and Competitive renewals
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
3/3
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
3/3
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM
New and Competitive renewals
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
3/3
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
3/3
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3 new R01s funded by NIDDK this FY.
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
3 new R01s funded by NIDDK this FY.
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Never to early to teach your little one about adaptive immunity 👼
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Never to early to teach your little one about adaptive immunity 👼
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Andrew Huberman, Dog Phrenologist
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Andrew Huberman, Dog Phrenologist
Big milestone with the 15 month old this weekend, she asked what T cells are
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Big milestone with the 15 month old this weekend, she asked what T cells are
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Can’t do good science in an unfree country. Defund ICE.
If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening
As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Can’t do good science in an unfree country. Defund ICE.
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The SBIR program has not been renewed by Congress and therefore THERE ARE NO SBIR applications at NIH or elsewhere. NIH can't even issue "noncompeting continuation awards for existing projects until the SBIR/STTR program is reauthorized."
America is giving up on small business and Science.
America is giving up on small business and Science.
NOT-OD-26-006: Notice of Early Expiration of NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Notices of Funding Opportunity and Guidance for Existing Recipi...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Early Expiration of NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STT...
grants.nih.gov
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The SBIR program has not been renewed by Congress and therefore THERE ARE NO SBIR applications at NIH or elsewhere. NIH can't even issue "noncompeting continuation awards for existing projects until the SBIR/STTR program is reauthorized."
America is giving up on small business and Science.
America is giving up on small business and Science.
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Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.