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Foteini (Faye) Mourkioti
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Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Cell & Developmental Biology, co-Director IRM Musculoskeletal Program, UPenn.

We study stem cell regulation, merchanosensation, telomere biology and tissue repair in healthy and diseased muscles.
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jamesmhyman.bsky.social
I wrote about the war on science and the psychological toll it's taking on me for Psychology Today.

How It Feels to Be a Scientist in 2025 | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-ne...
How It Feels to Be a Scientist in 2025
Personal Perspective: NIH has been hamstrung, which will have catastrophic effects on scientific progress and academic science. This is how it feels to be a scientist in the middle of this storm.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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fpapagiannouli.bsky.social
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Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Senior Technician
The role of Senior Technician helps to deliver timely and effective specialised research and technical support to the following project, The makeup of squamous epithelia: from the landscape of squamou...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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schiff.senate.gov
Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities.

So today, I have a message for America's scientists:

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A Message to Scientists
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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May 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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themodzlab.bsky.social
WE ARE HIRING! The lab got the Packard AND an R35! Please spread this PostDoc Ad around! Philly and Upenn are a great place to live and work!
May 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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abigailmackey1.bsky.social
Our 2026 PhD course is now open for registration🤩

@ismcopenhagen.bsky.social
Copenhagen, 5-7 October 2026

Musculoskeletal tissue regeneration – mechanisms and clinical perspectives

Exciting topics and expert teachers - come join us!

phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus...
May 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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fpapagiannouli.bsky.social
My lab is recruiting a PhD to work on a 3 years' project on squamous epithelia, funded by @acmedsci.bsky.social & Medway School of Pharmacy. If you want to be part of a supportive, dynamic research environment and vibrant PhD community, get in touch. www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships...
#PhD #STEM
April 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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gabriellekardon.bsky.social
Looking to conduct research in molecular biology and genetics? Come join the Kardon lab! Looking for lab tech to help research the role of stem cells in muscle development and regeneration and determine the effects of viral infection on muscle. Funding independent of federal resources. Please share!
March 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM