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Erica D. Pratt
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Asst Prof @BostonU BME | Noninvasive biomarkers for cancer monitoring | https://ericaprattlab.com | @prattlab.bsky.social
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · Jul 18
The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2025-2026! Our goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Need Help with Child or Dependent Care to Attend US HUPO 2026?

We’re offering assistance to help cover the extra child or dependent care costs related to attending the conference.

Five awards of $500 available

Apply NOW: https://forms.gle/LbvjTGNawHpeQC4d8

#USHUPO #USHUPO2026
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 87 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Erica D. Pratt
rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Good luck to all of the folks submitting NSF GRFP applications today! If you have been able to keep up with their constant changes and get all of your letters submitted, documents written, formatted, and uploaded on time you have already accomplished so much! Good luck to all.
a black cat is sitting at a desk with a laptop and the words sending you luck
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 82 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
pratted.bsky.social
Catching up on Physical Asia, and it's so obvious that Ray has never watched a single reality tv show in his life. I know the producers were giggling as he handed them everything they needed for a villain arc.
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 78 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
November 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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alexxaye.bsky.social
I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.

Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 70 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
pratted.bsky.social
💯 I defended affirmative action one day and woke up to stuffed monkeys hung by a noose in my dorm's bathroom. None of this is shocking or new.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Oct 15
Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 55 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
October 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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puetzerlab.bsky.social
We have a great line up of talks and posters we can't wait to share at #BMES2025. We kick it off first thing tomorrow with 2 talks in the first session! #mechanobiology #regmed #VCUatBMES @BMESociety @VCU_BME @VCUENGR
October 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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bmeunite.bsky.social
Headed to BMES? Don't miss our stellar 2025 BME UNITE Fellows at the Meet The Faculty Candidate Forum! Visit Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Kara Peak, and Taj Yeruva at their posters on Saturday, Oct 11, from 12-2:30 PM in Exhibit Hall F, G & H.

#BMES2025 #BMES #biomedicalengineering
BMES Meet the Faculty Candidate Forum Sat, Oct 11 12 - 2:30 PM Exhibition Hall F, G & H Joshua François (Harvard): Poster I6 Kara Peak (UMN): Poster I9 Taj Yeruva (UMD): Poster K15
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
pratted.bsky.social
So excited that Terry will be showcasing our latest and greatest undergraduate research at #BMES2025! #BMES
prattlab.bsky.social Pratt Laboratory @prattlab.bsky.social · Oct 6
Our talented undergraduate researcher, Terry Chen, will be presenting his work on activity-based tumor profiling at #BMES2025 this Saturday, Oct 11. We're excited to watch Terry take the next step in his career as he applies to graduate schools this fall!
BMES 2025 Annual Meeting Presenter: Terry Chen Title: Live-cell profiling of cancer specific Src kinase activity using exogenous peptide probes Date/Time: Saturday, Oct 11th 10 - 11 AM Location: Exihibit Hall F, G & H
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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kinasekid.bsky.social
Phosphorylation on tyrosines control key pathways in immunity, cancer, and metabolism. For the first time, we can now design proteins that specifically recognize individual phosphotyrosines, even in disordered regions. (1/8)

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
pratted.bsky.social
How many civilizations must fall before public figures learn not to make off the cuff sports commentary if they don't have 100% confidence?
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 36 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
September 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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gigiomics.bsky.social
Shout out to masters students who are now screwed over because they changed fields
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
pratted.bsky.social
Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible: Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed) Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar) Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded. Not be a current NSF employee. Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Sep 26
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
For this who are unaware, the reason NIH now posts these data habitually on the data book site is… Jeremy Berg. He pioneered this openness as NIGMS Director.
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 25
Since there is some discussion that NIH institutes should not simply use paylines to determine which grants to fund, I thought I would share some old data.

These are plots of funding probability fas a function of percentile score for 9 institutes.

1/7
Graphs of funding curves for nine NIH institutes from fiscal year 2012.
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
pratted.bsky.social
*Furiously taking notes even though she hasn't done woodworking in years*
September 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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ritastrack.bsky.social
Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM