John A. White, Ph.D.
@johnawhitephd.bsky.social
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University. Neuroscientist, Biomedical Engineer, very concerned citizen. Advocate for universal healthcare, housing, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. he/him
I have news: In January 2026, I'll be moving to @mechanicaluvic.bsky.social and @uvicecs.bsky.social as their new director of Biomedical Engineering! I'm excited to work with a fantastic group of students, staff, and faculty in an astoundingly beautiful location.
October 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I have news: In January 2026, I'll be moving to @mechanicaluvic.bsky.social and @uvicecs.bsky.social as their new director of Biomedical Engineering! I'm excited to work with a fantastic group of students, staff, and faculty in an astoundingly beautiful location.
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We are thrilled to host Dr. Stephanie Fraley @fraleylab.bsky.social from UCSD at BU this week! Join us Friday in PHO211 to hear about her exciting work in cell migration and cancer metastasis. #BME #Seminar #BUevents
September 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We are thrilled to host Dr. Stephanie Fraley @fraleylab.bsky.social from UCSD at BU this week! Join us Friday in PHO211 to hear about her exciting work in cell migration and cancer metastasis. #BME #Seminar #BUevents
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Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
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Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
OK, I guess indoor plumbing comes first. But has any medical invention saved more lives than vaccines?
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
OK, I guess indoor plumbing comes first. But has any medical invention saved more lives than vaccines?
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Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous.
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Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
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Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
August 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
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"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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August 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
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July 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
Meet Dr. Daniel Carbonero, who aced his PhD defense today and will start his job tomorrow.
June 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Meet Dr. Daniel Carbonero, who aced his PhD defense today and will start his job tomorrow.
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Fantastic day sharing knowledge with the brilliant researchers at NIH who valiantly work to advance the frontiers of science for the cause of improving human health. Thank you again for your service 🙏 🇺🇸
Today, Nobel laureate (and former NIGMS Advisory Council member) gave an NIH-wide lecture. She enthusiastically signed the #BethesdaDeclaration.
She was introduced by NIH Director Bhattacharya...(likely slightly awkward)
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She was introduced by NIH Director Bhattacharya...(likely slightly awkward)
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June 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Fantastic day sharing knowledge with the brilliant researchers at NIH who valiantly work to advance the frontiers of science for the cause of improving human health. Thank you again for your service 🙏 🇺🇸
Next month, in lovely Florence, Italy, my student Brandon Williams can tell you all about his fantastic dissertation work, at a CNS*2025 workshop organized by my awesome collaborator Carmen Canavier.
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CNS_2025
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June 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Next month, in lovely Florence, Italy, my student Brandon Williams can tell you all about his fantastic dissertation work, at a CNS*2025 workshop organized by my awesome collaborator Carmen Canavier.
www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/cell_biology...
www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/cell_biology...
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The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines
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We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
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June 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
May 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
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Honored to give the 2025 commencement speech for my amazing high school, the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (students skip years of high school, and go straight to college). My topic - how to engineer serendipity: www.youtube.com/live/nVknJwk...
May 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Honored to give the 2025 commencement speech for my amazing high school, the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (students skip years of high school, and go straight to college). My topic - how to engineer serendipity: www.youtube.com/live/nVknJwk...
I was able to attend college specifically because of Pell Grants and federal work-study. These proposed budget cuts are designed explicitly to prevent students of limited financial means from improving their positioning in the job market and society.
President Trump on Friday released a fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, which outlines massive funding cuts to the Department of Education. Here's what financial aid administrators, and the larger #HigherEducation community, needs to know: ow.ly/eX6Z50VMZNi
May 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I was able to attend college specifically because of Pell Grants and federal work-study. These proposed budget cuts are designed explicitly to prevent students of limited financial means from improving their positioning in the job market and society.
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
The great Nicholas Peppas is giving the 2025 Colburn Lecture at BU BME.
April 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The great Nicholas Peppas is giving the 2025 Colburn Lecture at BU BME.
New work from my brilliant former student, Jacob Norman, shows that reactivation of a memory suppresses neural representations of competing neural populations.
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Reactivation of memory-associated neurons induces downstream suppression of competing neuronal populations | PNAS
Inducing apparent memory recall by tagging and optogenetically reactivating cells
in the hippocampus was demonstrated over a decade ago. However, t...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
New work from my brilliant former student, Jacob Norman, shows that reactivation of a memory suppresses neural representations of competing neural populations.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Aphasia Robs Millions of Communication. Boston University Is Helping Them Regain Their Voice.
Read our recent article with The Brink detailing our impact: www.bu.edu/articles/...
Read our recent article with The Brink detailing our impact: www.bu.edu/articles/...
Aphasia Robs Millions of Communication. Boston University Is Helping Them Regain Their Voice
Treatments, informed by research, make BU and Sargent College a leader in combating the neurological disorder
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April 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Aphasia Robs Millions of Communication. Boston University Is Helping Them Regain Their Voice.
Read our recent article with The Brink detailing our impact: www.bu.edu/articles/...
Read our recent article with The Brink detailing our impact: www.bu.edu/articles/...