Polly Fordyce
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Stanford BioE, Genetics & Sarafan ChEM-H. Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Our lab develops and applies microfluidic assays for high-throughput biophysics and biochemistry.
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We're hiring!
Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team.
Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team.
Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Research Scientist, Biochemistry in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the...
careersearch.stanford.edu
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We're hiring!
Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team.
Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team.
Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Microscopy usually requires a tradeoff between field of view & resolution. What if you want both? Velocity Bio co-founders Daniel Mokhtari & Ali Lashkaripour built a 'macroscope' that images large fields of view (34x34 mm) at high resolution (~ 3 µm) & at lower cost.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Large field of view fluorescence imaging of microfluidic devices with a tandem-lens macroscope
Microfluidic devices enable high-throughput sample processing with remarkable parallelization and miniaturization. While fluorescence microscopy provides a convenient method for reading out signal fro...
www.biorxiv.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Microscopy usually requires a tradeoff between field of view & resolution. What if you want both? Velocity Bio co-founders Daniel Mokhtari & Ali Lashkaripour built a 'macroscope' that images large fields of view (34x34 mm) at high resolution (~ 3 µm) & at lower cost.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.
Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!
Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)
Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
Faculty Recruitment
chemh.stanford.edu
September 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
Only 2 days to go! Register and join us to hear these amazing talks!
🗓️Join us for the 4th Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25!
We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.
Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.
Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
September 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Only 2 days to go! Register and join us to hear these amazing talks!
Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)
🗓️Join us for the 4th Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25!
We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.
Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.
Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
September 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
"meaningful and innovative health research has never flourished amid constraints on language and free exchange of ideas"
Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH
As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding.
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"meaningful and innovative health research has never flourished amid constraints on language and free exchange of ideas"
This is a great piece highlighting the many ways that federal investment in science benefits society.
Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.
Fay: Cuts to research funding risk the collapse of U.S. science and technology
I started as an assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming in 2001.
www.wyomingnews.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is a great piece highlighting the many ways that federal investment in science benefits society.
Thank you to the student organizing committee for a great Frontiers in Biophysics meeting at UBC!
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Thank you to the student organizing committee for a great Frontiers in Biophysics meeting at UBC!
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...
UW Human Resources
University of Washington Human Resources
uwhires.admin.washington.edu
July 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
43% cut to dollar amount awarded in federal research grants by NIH in Trump ‘26 budget. 1800 fewer grants. The 27 ICs will be restructured into 8.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...
NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers
President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%
www.statnews.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
43% cut to dollar amount awarded in federal research grants by NIH in Trump ‘26 budget. 1800 fewer grants. The 27 ICs will be restructured into 8.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
While we are watching the damage here, a far away land has reached a tipping point.
More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers
Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
While we are watching the damage here, a far away land has reached a tipping point.
More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Powerful new work! Kudos to the authors for making it easy to explore the code ❤️
Want to learn more about PromoterAI?
📄 Read the paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/...
💻 Explore the code & precomputed scores: github.com/Illumina/Pro.... (14/)
📄 Read the paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/...
💻 Explore the code & precomputed scores: github.com/Illumina/Pro.... (14/)
Predicting expression-altering promoter mutations with deep learning
Only a minority of patients with rare genetic diseases are currently diagnosed by exome sequencing, suggesting that additional unrecognized pathogenic variants may reside in non-coding sequence. Here,...
science.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Powerful new work! Kudos to the authors for making it easy to explore the code ❤️
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
Check out this fantastic conference in Boston, June 23, featuring the Ono Pharma Awardees in chemical biology, registration open now!
We will be hosting the 2025 ONO Pharma Foundation Annual Symposium on June 23 at the Royal Sonesta Boston. This event offers an opportunity to explore the latest breakthroughs presented by ONO INITIATIVE awardees and to discuss groundbreaking science in chemical biology. (1/2)
May 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Check out this fantastic conference in Boston, June 23, featuring the Ono Pharma Awardees in chemical biology, registration open now!
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
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What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
May 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
Reposted by Polly Fordyce
This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on!
innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy, Developed in Just Six Months
The first on-demand CRISPR therapy for an infant with a rare metabolic disease developed by the IGI and collaborators around the world.
innovativegenomics.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on!
innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
I was an NSF-funded undergraduate who learned how to code by analyzing high energy physics data. Then I was an NSF-funded graduate student studying how kinesin molecules are the most efficient motors ever known (1/3).
May 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I was an NSF-funded undergraduate who learned how to code by analyzing high energy physics data. Then I was an NSF-funded graduate student studying how kinesin molecules are the most efficient motors ever known (1/3).
It’s time to comment! Grant opportunities should be motivated by scientific need and grants should be reviewed by scientists with the knowledge to evaluate them. Please repost!
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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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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...
1/n
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ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s time to comment! Grant opportunities should be motivated by scientific need and grants should be reviewed by scientists with the knowledge to evaluate them. Please repost!
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Hello Community!
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
April 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hello Community!
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
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Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
Tell me you want to destroy science without telling me you want to destroy science.
March 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Tell me you want to destroy science without telling me you want to destroy science.