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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Not sure about you Perry, but my hand has been up since 1996...

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Kidney Precision Medicine Project @kpmproject.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

⌛Reminder: Travel grant applications for the September 2025 #KPMP Meeting are still open! If you're an #earlycareerinvestigator working in kidney research, don't miss this opportunity! Apply here before the deadline closes on 07/11 at 5:00 PM ET: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2ea5d...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

Update to https://scienceimpacts.org to include terminated grants

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Congrats to @nephrin.bsky.social for knocking another thesis chapter out of the ballpark! And just like 99% of all modern science, we couldn't have done this without federal support, so we thank NIH and DoD. 💰

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Full paper is available here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7aP1SPTB... and as always the whole code including annotation and the training data is available on our GitHub or on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1527...

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

COBRA not only surpasses accuracy and reproducibility of existing AFM analysis methods by over an order of magnitude, but it also introduces a human-in-the-loop training segment that allows fine tuning for user-specific content. 🔍

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Trained with over 5,000 indentation curves from 7 different cell types, COBRA rapidly processes AFM elastography data, or force-indentation curves, identifying contact point, removing noisy or anomalous curves, extracting biomechanical information including non-Hertzian depth-dependent modulus.

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We built a deep learning algorithm, COBRA (comprises a COnvolutional and Bidirectional Recurrent neural network Architecture), to automatically process atomic force microscopy (AFM) data in real-time. 🔬 Thanks Kris Billiar for the shout out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Poking cells: AI can help here too

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

American scientific enterprise, modern world order and democracy may be in peril but our @biophysj.bsky.social paper is coming out, so we felt compelled to share before everything implodes. A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Automated atomic force microscopy analysis using convolutional and recurrent neural networks

Atomic force microscope (AFM) indentation allows high-resolution spatial characterization of biomechanical properties of cells and tissues. Rapid, rep…

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Tiny indeed but we'll take it.

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

On top of all grant cancellations, there is this. We should probably remind folks that while the presidents may be immune per SCOTUS, pretty much everyone else can be prosecuted for this clearly illegal move.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/05/2025

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Interview with @baym.lol lays out eloquently: how his work serves the public and how devastating weaponizing federal grants is. Couldn't have said it any better. Everyone should listen.

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Unbelievable, indeed. Thanks to Congresswoman @delauro.house.gov.

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

One needs to remind her that she is free to have relationships with any and all farmers, and to pet any and all cows, or do both at the same time. Just don't try to feed raw milk to children.

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Read up on how things are rotting from the core, while we still have free journalists. I was naively thinking that the ship was sinking as in ancient Rome, but this is more from the soviet story line...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/05/2025

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win! We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science. #standupforscience actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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Stand Up For Science Summer Campaign!

Can you help us mobilize the fight for science and democracy? Every contribution matters!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Congrats! Must be a relief. Amazing news.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

ATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For those of you who may be unaware: NIH, the biggest funder of biomedical research on the planet, has not made any new funding decisions since January 21 because it needs to hold meetings that are declared on the Federal Register. No meetings = no funding.

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's too bad we don't have any funds to check his heart or bones. When they are through with it, there won't be a single brick left on the U.S. science enterprise.

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 16/02/2025

They do not understand how all of this will affect their lives. When all this is done, I suspect some medical schools to either close or decrease the size of their program. How is that good for the country? If you think finding a PCP is hard now, wait till that happens.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

ProPublica is interested in covering these developments and will keep communications private and secure. You can reach out to www.propublica.org/people/annie...

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Evren Azeloglu @azeloglu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello world. Couldn't have thought of a better day to start dreaming of bluer skies.

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