Noah Eckman
@neckman.bsky.social
Hydrogels, immunotherapy, and rheology in the Appel Group at Stanford. engineer/musician/humanist. bluesky-ing from both sides of my brain.
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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Spray-dried microparticles with a stabilizing polymer excipient enable ultra-high protein concentration therapeutics for subcutaneous injection, and could expand home use of these critical pharmaceuticals.
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fVabSg
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fVabSg
Ultrahigh-concentration biologic therapeutics enabled by spray drying with a glassy surfactant excipient
A copolymer excipient enables stable, ultrahigh-concentration protein formulations for subcutaneous injection.
scim.ag
August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Spray-dried microparticles with a stabilizing polymer excipient enable ultra-high protein concentration therapeutics for subcutaneous injection, and could expand home use of these critical pharmaceuticals.
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fVabSg
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fVabSg
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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
June 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
What controls the viability of encapsulated cells in injectable hydrogels?
Out today in @biomatersci.rsc.org , our new paper uses rheological tools to show that yielding speed affects viability independently of stiffness! Tweetorial below:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Out today in @biomatersci.rsc.org , our new paper uses rheological tools to show that yielding speed affects viability independently of stiffness! Tweetorial below:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Crosslink strength governs yielding behavior in dynamically crosslinked hydrogels
Yielding of dynamically crosslinked hydrogels, or the transition between a solid-like and liquid-like state, allows facile injection and utility in translational biomedical applications including deli...
pubs.rsc.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What controls the viability of encapsulated cells in injectable hydrogels?
Out today in @biomatersci.rsc.org , our new paper uses rheological tools to show that yielding speed affects viability independently of stiffness! Tweetorial below:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Out today in @biomatersci.rsc.org , our new paper uses rheological tools to show that yielding speed affects viability independently of stiffness! Tweetorial below:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering
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In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering
Andreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the second...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering
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