Aileen Suarez
@acsuarez.bsky.social
Incoming Beckman postdoc UIUC. Dr. Hokie ‘25. Helluva Engineer ‘19. Working as a tiny ex vivo mouse ob gyn and trinket maker. (They/Them) 🇨🇺🏳️⚧️
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We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25
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How can we talk about health disparities to build support for change?
Our new study found that highlighting structural causes for racial differences in health—like housing segregation—rather than just describing disparity rates increases support for addressing inequality, without backlash.
Our new study found that highlighting structural causes for racial differences in health—like housing segregation—rather than just describing disparity rates increases support for addressing inequality, without backlash.
1/6. One thing I’ve often found interesting in research on perceptions of health disparities is the frequency with which the perspectives of the communities that bear the brunt of those disparities are omitted. In our latest @commhsp.bsky.social paper, we highlight what gets lost when that happens.
May 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
How can we talk about health disparities to build support for change?
Our new study found that highlighting structural causes for racial differences in health—like housing segregation—rather than just describing disparity rates increases support for addressing inequality, without backlash.
Our new study found that highlighting structural causes for racial differences in health—like housing segregation—rather than just describing disparity rates increases support for addressing inequality, without backlash.
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Drug candidate eliminates breast cancer tumors in mice in a single dose
"This effect is robust and independent of tumor size with eradication of even very large tumors."
Open Access
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
"This effect is robust and independent of tumor size with eradication of even very large tumors."
Open Access
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Drug candidate eliminates breast cancer tumors in mice in a single dose
"This effect is robust and independent of tumor size with eradication of even very large tumors."
Open Access
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
"This effect is robust and independent of tumor size with eradication of even very large tumors."
Open Access
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Recipients of these F31s should ABSOLUTELEY be contacting their research administrators and Office of Sponsored Projects to initiate appeal processes. The cancellation of these contracts may even be illegal. I've heard some institutions even have templates to help w/ the first steps of this process
There are lots of ways for individuals and institutions to step in and support here - everything from filing formal appeals to offering bridge funding to organizing happy hours. Do what you can as often as you can!
April 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Recipients of these F31s should ABSOLUTELEY be contacting their research administrators and Office of Sponsored Projects to initiate appeal processes. The cancellation of these contracts may even be illegal. I've heard some institutions even have templates to help w/ the first steps of this process
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We're looking for a Research Fellow to come join @mfh-research.bsky.social for 3 years to develop their own research ideas and fellowship applications. If you're an outstanding postdoc in reproductive biology (especially immunology!) get in touch :)
Research Fellow in Maternal and Fetal Health:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We're looking for a Research Fellow to come join @mfh-research.bsky.social for 3 years to develop their own research ideas and fellowship applications. If you're an outstanding postdoc in reproductive biology (especially immunology!) get in touch :)
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This #BMHW25, we’re honoring legacies, fostering healing, and taking collective action to strengthen Black Maternal Health. Black Mamas deserve equitable, culturally affirming care and community-driven solutions that drive lasting change. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BlackMaternalHealth #ReproJustice
April 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This #BMHW25, we’re honoring legacies, fostering healing, and taking collective action to strengthen Black Maternal Health. Black Mamas deserve equitable, culturally affirming care and community-driven solutions that drive lasting change. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BlackMaternalHealth #ReproJustice
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A transcriptomic atlas of the endometrium (the inner lining of the uterus) of women with polycystic ovary syndrome uncovers both disease signatures and potential therapeutic targets, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. 🧪
Single-cell profiling of the human endometrium in polycystic ovary syndrome - Nature Medicine
A transcriptomic atlas of the endometrium of women with polycystic ovary syndrome uncovers both disease signatures and potential therapeutic targets.
go.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A transcriptomic atlas of the endometrium (the inner lining of the uterus) of women with polycystic ovary syndrome uncovers both disease signatures and potential therapeutic targets, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. 🧪
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I’m excited to be in Charlotte for my first time at #SRI2025 🤩 I’m presenting my work investigating how gestational diabetes impacts the mechanical properties and ECM of umbilical vasculature on Saturday - swing by poster S110 during poster session 3 to learn more! @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’m excited to be in Charlotte for my first time at #SRI2025 🤩 I’m presenting my work investigating how gestational diabetes impacts the mechanical properties and ECM of umbilical vasculature on Saturday - swing by poster S110 during poster session 3 to learn more! @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social
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First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
March 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
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Interested in nuclear mechanobiology, and how advanced genomic tools can shed light on how the cell nucleus might sense mechanical forces? Read our latest review by excellent Julien Morival and Anna Hazelwood, now published @jcellsci.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
Feeling the force from within – new tools and insights into nuclear mechanotransduction
Summary: This Review discusses new insights and technological advances in understanding how the nucleus contributes to the ability of the cell to translate mechanical stimuli into transcriptional resp...
journals.biologists.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Interested in nuclear mechanobiology, and how advanced genomic tools can shed light on how the cell nucleus might sense mechanical forces? Read our latest review by excellent Julien Morival and Anna Hazelwood, now published @jcellsci.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wrapping up your doctoral work is not so bad when @raffae-a.bsky.social makes pastelitos de guayaba 💝
March 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Wrapping up your doctoral work is not so bad when @raffae-a.bsky.social makes pastelitos de guayaba 💝
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The amount of cis people who think mouse models of gender affirming care are irrelevant or niche is driving me NUTS right now. As a cis woman with endometriosis, I would love more data on how exogenous hormone treatments, gnrh analogues, and surgical approaches affect basic biology in an organism!
Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies.
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
March 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The amount of cis people who think mouse models of gender affirming care are irrelevant or niche is driving me NUTS right now. As a cis woman with endometriosis, I would love more data on how exogenous hormone treatments, gnrh analogues, and surgical approaches affect basic biology in an organism!
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Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/
March 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/
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In Science Advances: Prof @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team have created a highly accurate lab-grown model of the human fallopian tube. The NIH-supported project promises to advance research on ovarian cancer, gynecological diseases, and fertility. #ResearchMatters engineering.jhu.edu/news/a-tube-...
A Tube with a View: Engineers Build a Precision Model of a Human Fallopian Tube - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins engineers have created an innovative and highly accurate lab-grown model of the human fallopian tube— an innovation that promises to advance research on ovarian cancer, gynecological dis...
engineering.jhu.edu
February 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In Science Advances: Prof @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team have created a highly accurate lab-grown model of the human fallopian tube. The NIH-supported project promises to advance research on ovarian cancer, gynecological diseases, and fertility. #ResearchMatters engineering.jhu.edu/news/a-tube-...
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Yeah, no.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yeah, no.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
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#Medsky🧪 #oncosky #publichealth Ying and Yang: The menstrual cycle influences #breastcancer and its response to treatment. Study show that the reproductive cycle in 🐁 influences their sensitivity to #chemotherapy www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com
The oestrous cycle stage affects mammary tumour sensitivity to chemotherapy - Nature
In three mouse models of breast cancer, we show reduced responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy when treatment is initiated during the dioestrus stage, when compared with initiation during the oestrus s...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
#Medsky🧪 #oncosky #publichealth Ying and Yang: The menstrual cycle influences #breastcancer and its response to treatment. Study show that the reproductive cycle in 🐁 influences their sensitivity to #chemotherapy www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com
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"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's extremely disappointing to see BME colleagues being silent about the imminent danger that the new administration poses to the trans community.
Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.
Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.
February 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's extremely disappointing to see BME colleagues being silent about the imminent danger that the new administration poses to the trans community.
Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.
Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.
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There's a lot of organizations declaring "we're doing this based on legal advice about EOs" going around. As an administrator I always knew that advice is not a mandate. It takes a leader's directive to convert advice to action. Leaders need to be prepared to own that directive AND its consequences.
mandate.it
February 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There's a lot of organizations declaring "we're doing this based on legal advice about EOs" going around. As an administrator I always knew that advice is not a mandate. It takes a leader's directive to convert advice to action. Leaders need to be prepared to own that directive AND its consequences.
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The CDC website is back online. Complete w/an inaccurate definition of endometriosis.
Endo is a full body inflammatory disease-it has nothing to do w/the endometrium. A hysterectomy won't cure endo.
And it's a UTERUS, not a womb.
But we've learned now to not rely on government websites
#medsky
Endo is a full body inflammatory disease-it has nothing to do w/the endometrium. A hysterectomy won't cure endo.
And it's a UTERUS, not a womb.
But we've learned now to not rely on government websites
#medsky
a picture of a woman with the words mummy 's going to be fine on it
Alt: Moira from Schitt's Creek says, Mummy is going to be fine
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The CDC website is back online. Complete w/an inaccurate definition of endometriosis.
Endo is a full body inflammatory disease-it has nothing to do w/the endometrium. A hysterectomy won't cure endo.
And it's a UTERUS, not a womb.
But we've learned now to not rely on government websites
#medsky
Endo is a full body inflammatory disease-it has nothing to do w/the endometrium. A hysterectomy won't cure endo.
And it's a UTERUS, not a womb.
But we've learned now to not rely on government websites
#medsky
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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.