Lauren Surface
@lsurface.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UMich studying mysteries of the skeleton and cells. Dreaming of trees.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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🚨 Calling all ASBMR members!
Want to make a real impact in bone and mineral research? Become a mentor through ASBMR’s THRIVE, Mentorship or Reviewer Training Track programs.
🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 21
📩 Volunteer now: hubs.la/Q03Q3MSV0
Want to make a real impact in bone and mineral research? Become a mentor through ASBMR’s THRIVE, Mentorship or Reviewer Training Track programs.
🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 21
📩 Volunteer now: hubs.la/Q03Q3MSV0
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨 Calling all ASBMR members!
Want to make a real impact in bone and mineral research? Become a mentor through ASBMR’s THRIVE, Mentorship or Reviewer Training Track programs.
🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 21
📩 Volunteer now: hubs.la/Q03Q3MSV0
Want to make a real impact in bone and mineral research? Become a mentor through ASBMR’s THRIVE, Mentorship or Reviewer Training Track programs.
🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 21
📩 Volunteer now: hubs.la/Q03Q3MSV0
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🦴 Bone health is having a moment! #AmyPoehler dropped some osteoporosis awareness earlier this year.
In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?
More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk
In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?
More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🦴 Bone health is having a moment! #AmyPoehler dropped some osteoporosis awareness earlier this year.
In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?
More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk
In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?
More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk
Thank you to ASBMR for the support for Gerald, a fantastic postdoc in the lab! He is giving a talk on his intriguing findings on osteocytic citrate production in CKD at 4:30 today (1054), come check it out! #ASBMR2025
September 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thank you to ASBMR for the support for Gerald, a fantastic postdoc in the lab! He is giving a talk on his intriguing findings on osteocytic citrate production in CKD at 4:30 today (1054), come check it out! #ASBMR2025
Some of the lab arrived early for #ASBMR2025 to do some hiking at Mt. Rainier! Our white sneakers may be a bit dirty, but we are excited to share them and our science!
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Some of the lab arrived early for #ASBMR2025 to do some hiking at Mt. Rainier! Our white sneakers may be a bit dirty, but we are excited to share them and our science!
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I am heartbroken and enraged that our hospital systems are abandoning trans people. Truly, disgusted that they are bowing down to our fascist government. I know some places are fighting, and I'm grateful for those doctors.
For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.
For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.
EXCLUSIVE: In response to threats of criminal prosecution from the Department of Justice for performing gender-affirming care, the University of Michigan hospital system will tomorrow announce they are ending gender-affirming care in the UM hospital system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...
The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught
The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I am heartbroken and enraged that our hospital systems are abandoning trans people. Truly, disgusted that they are bowing down to our fascist government. I know some places are fighting, and I'm grateful for those doctors.
For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.
For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.
To those attending #ASBMR2025 consider making a pre- or post- conf. excursion to Mt. Rainier!
We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom!
Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park!
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We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom!
Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park!
@asbmr.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
To those attending #ASBMR2025 consider making a pre- or post- conf. excursion to Mt. Rainier!
We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom!
Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park!
@asbmr.bsky.social
We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom!
Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park!
@asbmr.bsky.social
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Harvard existed before the Bill of Rights so I shouldn’t be surprised that it doesn’t feel especially attached to it
“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fan...
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July 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Harvard existed before the Bill of Rights so I shouldn’t be surprised that it doesn’t feel especially attached to it
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UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...
Vying for U. of Florida Presidency, Santa Ono Embraced Conservative Positions. It Didn’t Work.
The former University of Michigan president’s bid to take over the top job in Gainesville ended in dramatic fashion at a contentious meeting of the State University System of Florida’s Board of Govern...
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June 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...
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Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas.
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas.
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
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When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
Opinion | I’m a Russian Scientist in ICE Detention
I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
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This is US police stuff. Black folks kept telling you that but people would rather believe we are all criminals who deserve extrajudicial violence. And yes i will "WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?!" every time you guys are shocked by a thing that's neither new nor foreign.
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is US police stuff. Black folks kept telling you that but people would rather believe we are all criminals who deserve extrajudicial violence. And yes i will "WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?!" every time you guys are shocked by a thing that's neither new nor foreign.
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“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
This is never justified, but to do this to someone who wrote an op-ed…
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is never justified, but to do this to someone who wrote an op-ed…
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THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD.
Great job everyone!
washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...
Great job everyone!
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Bills that didn’t survive the WA Legislature’s first major deadline • Washington State Standard
Bills on cow burps, the state flag and changes to traffic stop standards were among the first to land in the legislative graveyard this year.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD.
Great job everyone!
washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...
Great job everyone!
washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
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February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
It is so disappointing to see @hhmi.bsky.social capitulate to fascists. One of the wealthiest philanthropies in the country cutting off their grant funding to promote retention of diverse undergrads in science in order to please this administration is pathetic. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students
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February 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It is so disappointing to see @hhmi.bsky.social capitulate to fascists. One of the wealthiest philanthropies in the country cutting off their grant funding to promote retention of diverse undergrads in science in order to please this administration is pathetic. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
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And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
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January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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In addition to a lot of blah blah about fetal tissue research, this
January 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In addition to a lot of blah blah about fetal tissue research, this
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An article that demonstrates both the limits and promise of science.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:42 PM
An article that demonstrates both the limits and promise of science.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Last week, Black community members at the University of Michigan shared their stories. A long thread, because there were a lot of them, and they can make you weep.
November 21, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Last week, Black community members at the University of Michigan shared their stories. A long thread, because there were a lot of them, and they can make you weep.