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The Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

We know that incredible women from Marie Curie to Katherine Johnson have made groundbreaking discoveries that allow us to better understand ourselves and the world, but at the Wyss, you don’t have to look hard to find many more women making history.

Women are making history at the Wyss Institute

Right now, women make up half of the college-educated workforce in the United States, but only make up 34% of the total number working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This is…

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March 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Adriana Guatame-García

@adrianaguatame.bsky.social

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Nature Reviews Chemistry

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Detection of protein oligomers with nanopores

nature.com/articles/s41...

A new Review from @robertihorne.bsky.social @sarahesandler.bsky.social Michele Vendruscolo & Ulrich F. Keyser

Detection of protein oligomers with nanopores - Nature Reviews Chemistry

An overview of the progress and potential of nanopore-based detection of oligomerizing proteins is presented, covering the latest advances and combination with other emerging technologies including de...

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March 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Rob Horne

@robertihorne.bsky.social

Would you like to learn about a cutting edge diagnostic/characterisation technique for #neurodegenerative disease? Check out our review here! @sarahesandler.bsky.social @natrevchem.bsky.social
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#nanopore

Full text: rdcu.be/ech4q

Detection of protein oligomers with nanopores - Nature Reviews Chemistry

An overview of the progress and potential of nanopore-based detection of oligomerizing proteins is presented, covering the latest advances and combination with other emerging technologies including de...

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March 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Zamin Iqbal

@zaminiqbal.bsky.social

Roche's SBX sequencing by expansion - preprint out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

February 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Steven Salzberg

@stevensalzberg.bsky.social

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

February 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Oren Gur

@orengur.bsky.social

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.

This is devastating

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 8

These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

Tweet from NIH:

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as "indirect costs." Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.

February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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Carolyn Bertozzi

@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

www.washingtonpost.com

February 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

If you would like to see how much economic activity and grants and how many people are employed through NIH in your state, just use this handy website.

And then contact your Congressional Rep and tell them to prioritize NIH. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org

January 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Ilan Schwartz

@germhuntermd.bsky.social

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible

Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46

For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B

Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activity

Every state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment
Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions
In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity

January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM

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SMPS4

@smps4.bsky.social

🎉 #SMPS4 Group Photo! 🎉
A huge thank you to all the brilliant minds who joined us and made this event unforgettable. Your passion and insights are what drive this community forward. Here's to pushing the boundaries of science together! 🧬✨

January 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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SMPS4

@smps4.bsky.social

We just heard Sarah Sandler's presentation: DNA nanotechnology as a tool to advance understanding of neurodegeneration #SMPS4

January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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Anita Corbett

@acorbe2.bsky.social

Stop the halt of NIH!
I am reaching out to ask that you call your US Senators/Reps. Especially those of you in red states! Tell them how important the NIH is!

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...