Uschi Symmons
@usymmons.bsky.social
Programme manager for #health and #biotech at the EU Innovation Council (#EIC), based in Brussels. Previously research in genomics, single-cell bio, rare diseases & animal models. Talks a lot about science #funding, #mentorship & #equity. Opinions my own
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#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Normally, every year I make a special advent 🗓️ for my family. They have included treasure hunts across town, quizzes and a day-by-day story. But this year, my 7y.o. and husband went all out to surprise me with a calendar they made for me! ❤️🤶🏻🎄🎄🤶🏻❤️
Can't wait to see what each day has in store!
Can't wait to see what each day has in store!
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Normally, every year I make a special advent 🗓️ for my family. They have included treasure hunts across town, quizzes and a day-by-day story. But this year, my 7y.o. and husband went all out to surprise me with a calendar they made for me! ❤️🤶🏻🎄🎄🤶🏻❤️
Can't wait to see what each day has in store!
Can't wait to see what each day has in store!
Almost 20 years after it was published I finally read World War Z and I'm crazy shocked by
a) how underrepresented women are in the book, and
b) how little this seems to be discussed in most analyses of the book.
#howManyWomen #weekendreading
a) how underrepresented women are in the book, and
b) how little this seems to be discussed in most analyses of the book.
#howManyWomen #weekendreading
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Almost 20 years after it was published I finally read World War Z and I'm crazy shocked by
a) how underrepresented women are in the book, and
b) how little this seems to be discussed in most analyses of the book.
#howManyWomen #weekendreading
a) how underrepresented women are in the book, and
b) how little this seems to be discussed in most analyses of the book.
#howManyWomen #weekendreading
The #EIC work programme 2026 is out!
It includes 2 health-related challenges:
- ⌛Pathfinder Challenge: #Biotechnology for Healthy #Ageing
- 🧫 Advanced Innovation Challenge: Translating Disruptive New Approach Methodologies #NAMs into Practice
📑 Check it out: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...
It includes 2 health-related challenges:
- ⌛Pathfinder Challenge: #Biotechnology for Healthy #Ageing
- 🧫 Advanced Innovation Challenge: Translating Disruptive New Approach Methodologies #NAMs into Practice
📑 Check it out: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...
www.linkedin.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The #EIC work programme 2026 is out!
It includes 2 health-related challenges:
- ⌛Pathfinder Challenge: #Biotechnology for Healthy #Ageing
- 🧫 Advanced Innovation Challenge: Translating Disruptive New Approach Methodologies #NAMs into Practice
📑 Check it out: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...
It includes 2 health-related challenges:
- ⌛Pathfinder Challenge: #Biotechnology for Healthy #Ageing
- 🧫 Advanced Innovation Challenge: Translating Disruptive New Approach Methodologies #NAMs into Practice
📑 Check it out: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...
Ghost train in Vienna...
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ghost train in Vienna...
Almost 10yrs ago🫣 I contributed to a @nature.com Careers story on Individual Dev Plans (IDPs).
This summer I got to follow up,discuss my career&IDPs some more.
🎧The podcast is now out! It's part of a series on career strategies/tools, all of which is worth a listen👂🏻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This summer I got to follow up,discuss my career&IDPs some more.
🎧The podcast is now out! It's part of a series on career strategies/tools, all of which is worth a listen👂🏻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Almost 10yrs ago🫣 I contributed to a @nature.com Careers story on Individual Dev Plans (IDPs).
This summer I got to follow up,discuss my career&IDPs some more.
🎧The podcast is now out! It's part of a series on career strategies/tools, all of which is worth a listen👂🏻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This summer I got to follow up,discuss my career&IDPs some more.
🎧The podcast is now out! It's part of a series on career strategies/tools, all of which is worth a listen👂🏻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Really enjoying this story about Fred Ramsdell not knowing about his Nobel prize in Medicine, because he's offline, hiking in Idaho.
There seems to be such pressure to be reachable all the time nowadays, that is nice to see! 😅
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
There seems to be such pressure to be reachable all the time nowadays, that is nice to see! 😅
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Really enjoying this story about Fred Ramsdell not knowing about his Nobel prize in Medicine, because he's offline, hiking in Idaho.
There seems to be such pressure to be reachable all the time nowadays, that is nice to see! 😅
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
There seems to be such pressure to be reachable all the time nowadays, that is nice to see! 😅
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Husband recently got a @newyorker.com print subscription, and I've really enjoyed some of their #science and #technology pieces.
For example, this one on the search for interventions for healthy #ageing was a really fun read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For example, this one on the search for interventions for healthy #ageing was a really fun read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Husband recently got a @newyorker.com print subscription, and I've really enjoyed some of their #science and #technology pieces.
For example, this one on the search for interventions for healthy #ageing was a really fun read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For example, this one on the search for interventions for healthy #ageing was a really fun read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
September 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🚨🚨🚨🧪 H1B scientists who are traveling outside the USA. Please be aware that current advice is to return to the USA IMMEDIATELY
This is not my normal content, but given that I have friends and followers this affects, this is the advice one large tech company is giving about H1B visas and the exec order set to go into place on the 21st.
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
🚨🚨🚨🧪 H1B scientists who are traveling outside the USA. Please be aware that current advice is to return to the USA IMMEDIATELY
Reposted by Uschi Symmons
NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but...
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but...
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
Reposted by Uschi Symmons
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
And with these 1500 pieces our summer staycation has officially begun... 🧩🧩🧩
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
And with these 1500 pieces our summer staycation has officially begun... 🧩🧩🧩
Sometimes I can't help but wonder what triggered inclusion of certain points in the user manual...
Case in point: the crutch 🩼 that "does not respond to verbal or telepathic command" 😅
Case in point: the crutch 🩼 that "does not respond to verbal or telepathic command" 😅
July 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sometimes I can't help but wonder what triggered inclusion of certain points in the user manual...
Case in point: the crutch 🩼 that "does not respond to verbal or telepathic command" 😅
Case in point: the crutch 🩼 that "does not respond to verbal or telepathic command" 😅
At a conference, and just noticed someone who is "taking notes" by having his computer microphone open, which is auto-transcribing the talks and from time-to-time trading pictures of key slides.
Is this the future?
Is this the future?
June 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
At a conference, and just noticed someone who is "taking notes" by having his computer microphone open, which is auto-transcribing the talks and from time-to-time trading pictures of key slides.
Is this the future?
Is this the future?
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⭐ Faculty for the Future Fellows ⭐ Interesting opportunity for women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies schlumbergerfoundation.com/eligibility-...
Eligibility Criteria - Schlumberger Foundation
schlumbergerfoundation.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
⭐ Faculty for the Future Fellows ⭐ Interesting opportunity for women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies schlumbergerfoundation.com/eligibility-...
📢📢📢ICYMI: we're discussing #nanomedicine on Tuesday! There will be awesome #EIC projects and a roundtable discussion.
It's virtual and free! Registration link in the original post.
It's virtual and free! Registration link in the original post.
If you're curious abt #nanomedicine & #healthcare, I'm thrilled to announce *Nanomedicine for Today and Tomorrow*, a joint EIC/ETPN event!
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
Nanomedicine for Today and Tomorrow: a joint EIC - ETPN event.
events.zoom.us
April 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📢📢📢ICYMI: we're discussing #nanomedicine on Tuesday! There will be awesome #EIC projects and a roundtable discussion.
It's virtual and free! Registration link in the original post.
It's virtual and free! Registration link in the original post.
If you're curious abt #nanomedicine & #healthcare, I'm thrilled to announce *Nanomedicine for Today and Tomorrow*, a joint EIC/ETPN event!
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
Nanomedicine for Today and Tomorrow: a joint EIC - ETPN event.
events.zoom.us
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you're curious abt #nanomedicine & #healthcare, I'm thrilled to announce *Nanomedicine for Today and Tomorrow*, a joint EIC/ETPN event!
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
🗓️ 8 April, 2PM CET online
We’ll present projects+discuss challenges/opportunities to bring nanomedicine to patients.
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AqETSFZxo...
With the world on fire, this was just the thread I needed today, incl some awesome 🐁🐁🐁 mutants and what we *didn't* learn about 🦣 mutations.
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
With the world on fire, this was just the thread I needed today, incl some awesome 🐁🐁🐁 mutants and what we *didn't* learn about 🦣 mutations.
Reposted by Uschi Symmons
Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Visiting my mum+sorting through some old stuff. Found my high school geography notes, including lessons on #EU #history, #institutions & #policy from ~1999 (HU wasn't even a member state yet!). Who would have thought that 25 yrs later I will be working for the institutions... 🤯😱☺️
#BlastFromThePast
#BlastFromThePast
February 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Visiting my mum+sorting through some old stuff. Found my high school geography notes, including lessons on #EU #history, #institutions & #policy from ~1999 (HU wasn't even a member state yet!). Who would have thought that 25 yrs later I will be working for the institutions... 🤯😱☺️
#BlastFromThePast
#BlastFromThePast
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🚨 The CDC website is purging resources on LGBTQ+ health, diversity, equity, and health disparities. This is not just a bureaucratic change. It’s a dangerous decision with profound negative public health consequences. Let’s break down the harm this will cause. 🧵⬇️
January 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 The CDC website is purging resources on LGBTQ+ health, diversity, equity, and health disparities. This is not just a bureaucratic change. It’s a dangerous decision with profound negative public health consequences. Let’s break down the harm this will cause. 🧵⬇️
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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Having an amazing time attending "Women's Health: Genes, data and advancing approaches" virtually. Presentations so far were 🎉🎉🎉. I learned so much&already have a looong post-meeting reading list 📄😊
Plus,one of the best hybrid conferences I've experienced to date. #WomensHealth2025
Plus,one of the best hybrid conferences I've experienced to date. #WomensHealth2025
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Having an amazing time attending "Women's Health: Genes, data and advancing approaches" virtually. Presentations so far were 🎉🎉🎉. I learned so much&already have a looong post-meeting reading list 📄😊
Plus,one of the best hybrid conferences I've experienced to date. #WomensHealth2025
Plus,one of the best hybrid conferences I've experienced to date. #WomensHealth2025
Reposted by Uschi Symmons
EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky
"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky
"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement
www.reuters.com/world/europe...