Marjolein van der Meulen
@mchvdm.bsky.social
Swanson Professor, BME + M&AE, Cornell University
🦴🇳🇱🍫⛳️⛰️
Orthopedic biomechanics & mechanobiology, #sci’sky
Views are my own.
🦴🇳🇱🍫⛳️⛰️
Orthopedic biomechanics & mechanobiology, #sci’sky
Views are my own.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🦴 Congratulations to Deepak Vashishth on receiving Adele L Boskey Award from @asbmr.bsky.social
#ASBMR2025
#ASBMR2025
September 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🦴 Congratulations to Deepak Vashishth on receiving Adele L Boskey Award from @asbmr.bsky.social
#ASBMR2025
#ASBMR2025
“Much of U.S. power & influence is derived from our science & technology supremacy”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Much of U.S. power & influence is derived from our science & technology supremacy”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
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The eviceration of US biomedical and engineering research…for what purpose?
“At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
“At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The eviceration of US biomedical and engineering research…for what purpose?
“At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
“At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell.
Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds
#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4
Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds
#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4
Research at Risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies
YouTube video by Cornell University
youtu.be
May 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell.
Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds
#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4
Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds
#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
Please read & act now!
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Please read & act now!
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“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨
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@paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it.
paulwaldman.substack...
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@paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it.
paulwaldman.substack...
The Real Goal of Trump's War on Universities
It isn't about stopping antisemitism. It's about power.
paulwaldman.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨
1/
@paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it.
paulwaldman.substack...
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@paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it.
paulwaldman.substack...
March 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#IDWGS
Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#IDWGS
February 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#IDWGS
Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#IDWGS
“Unity through our shared passion for research”
Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social
#ORS2025 #OrthoScience
#CornellHSSCameo
Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social
#ORS2025 #OrthoScience
#CornellHSSCameo
February 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Unity through our shared passion for research”
Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social
#ORS2025 #OrthoScience
#CornellHSSCameo
Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social
#ORS2025 #OrthoScience
#CornellHSSCameo
Inspiring to be in a room full of orthopaedic researchers for the start of #ORS2025
@orssociety.bsky.social
@orssociety.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Inspiring to be in a room full of orthopaedic researchers for the start of #ORS2025
@orssociety.bsky.social
@orssociety.bsky.social
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“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article)
The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
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Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.
February 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.
Reposted by Marjolein van der Meulen
This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally.
Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social
Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social
A month ago Samantha Power wouldn't have sounded like much of a get for late-night show, but in yet another indication of the shifting sands that have accompanied Donald Trump's first 16 days in office, she was Stephen Colbert's lead guest Tuesday night on The Late Show.
Stephen Colbert Hosts Former USAID Head Samantha Power
A month ago Samantha Power wouldn't have sounded like much of a get for late-night show, but in yet another indication of the shifting sands that have accompanied Donald Trump's first 16 days in office, she was Stephen Colbert's lead guest Tuesday night…
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February 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally.
Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social
Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social
“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge …
Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com
Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com
Opinion | Leaders in the Foxhole
Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40ZKRV9
Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40ZKRV9
College leaders in the foxhole (opinion)
Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change.
bit.ly
February 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge …
Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com
Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com
🔬🦴 @vdmlab.bsky.social looks forward to sharing & talking science at #ORS2025
We are so excited for ORS next weekend! Come check out our posters on Monday night at the poster reception!!
February 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🔬🦴 @vdmlab.bsky.social looks forward to sharing & talking science at #ORS2025
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"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
chemsky 🧪⚗️
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
chemsky 🧪⚗️
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
chemsky 🧪⚗️
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
chemsky 🧪⚗️
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.eenews.net
February 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...