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Matt Babcock
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Dad to Charlie, husband to Sarah. Human physiologist at CU Anschutz studying sex hormones and BP control. Coffee drinker, dog person, and outdoor enthusiast. COYS
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🌟We’re hiring! 🌟
The Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy at the @UofSCSOMC is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to join our collaborative and dynamic team!
❤️ Focus: Cardiovascular, cellular, and molecular research
Review begins Dec 1, 2025
uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/196...
Assistant Professor
uscjobs.sc.edu
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"The government-university-industry partnership built the American economy in the 20th century," he said. "Everything from the iPhone to GPS technology to fortified vitamin D has had its roots in federally funded research."

www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
www.npr.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Grateful to have had the opportunity to be one of the 70. As Scott said so well, “I hope we’ll say this was the inflection point ... when we stood up for science, for truth and for each other.”
“We must expand our #advocacy ... we must defend science itself. Yesterday, 70 attendees of this meeting ... took that message directly to Capitol Hill. This is just the beginning.” —APS CEO Scott Steen #APS2025 #WeArePhysiology #APSHillDay 9/11 🧪
April 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Fun speaking in this symposium today with a great line-up of presenters!

Thanks @ausrob-phd.bsky.social and @matt-babcock.bsky.social for organizing and moderating
April 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.

Pass it on!
April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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New AJP-Heart and Circ research published in the @apspublications.bsky.social Call for Papers on #WomensHealth and #HormoneReplacementTherapy & #Menopause demonstrates exogenous #estradiol administration does not restore ETBR-mediated vasodilation in #postmenopausal women. doi.org/10.1152/ajph...
March 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Some good news from my team among the craziness...

🚨 Our latest findings were published in Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol ! ☀️💤

Meral Culver found that poor vitamin D status is linked to greater sleep variability in healthy adults.

Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39873709/
#SleepHealth
Don't Sleep on Vitamin D: Vitamin D is Associated with Sleep Variability in Apparently Healthy Adults - PubMed
<span><b>Background:</b> Vitamin D is associated with sleep quality and duration, but it's unclear whether vitamin D status influences sleep variability. Therefore, we sought to determine whether vita...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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People believe all kinds of bullshit conspiracies but the actual conspiracy to cook the planet for profit is somehow not getting as much traction as some weird shit about cyanide in fruit or seed oils or whatever.
January 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Solanke worth every penny
January 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Join us on Wednesday! Topics to include networking, collaboration, ideation, using grant feedback to enhance resubmissions, etc. Trainees particularly welcome! #Physiology #APS @physoc.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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We’re not going back.
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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🚨We have an open rank Tenure-Track position (Movement Science) in Kinesiology at Indiana University Bloomington. We are particularly interested in bringing in a talented biomechanist! Very competitive salary and great research support!

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37750653...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position (Exercise Science; Movement Science) Department of Kinesiology - Indiana, United States job with Indiana University Bloomington | 37750653
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position (Exercise Science; Movement Science) Department of Kinesiology Appointment Status: Tenure Department: IU...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:12 PM