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Jon Boyle

@boylelab.bsky.social
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Professor of Biology at University of Pittsburgh. Toxoplasma evolution placenta interactions virulence development. tragically a pirates fan can’t help it

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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Some quality placenta drawings for you. So many different structures out there and so many different ways they are drawn. All are my favorite. #placenta #drawing
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Check this out
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Longing for pre AI and pre Biorender schematics in scientific papers? Me too.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It’s like Iran On your wedding day
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done! rdcu.be/feOj6
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A single-cell atlas of Toxoplasma sexual development in the feline intestinal tract
Nature Microbiology - Single-cell RNA sequencing is used to study the sexual development of Toxoplasma gondii in cats, generating a transcriptional atlas and showing that the female-specific gene...
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This meeting could’ve been a karate match
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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Fighting through snow so I can do my science. Animal care staff, building staff, clinical staff, nurses, doctors, veterinarians all work through these weather conditions to make the NIH run.
A snowy bus stop outside the NIH. Snow on the ground and sleeting down, everything is grey and white.
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Shakira Kurosawa @jamtoday.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today I submitted a grant and I’m also getting a tooth pulled today which do yall think will be worse
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is the fucking best. Rip city forever indeed
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hello lab my old friend.
Sucrose being stirred in a beaker
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“I’m a transgender service member and today was my last day in uniform. After 11 years, eight months and 1 day I’m taking the uniform off for good. I will always be yours bc this rank, these skills, this name will always be me.” ~Technical Sargent Altesse Aurum #TransInMilitary 🫡 🏳️‍⚧️ @altessaurum
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities.
Effective immediately, the following are terminated:
NSF AWARD ID:
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NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.
Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date.
Sincerely,
Jamie H. French, Division Director
Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA) Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 29/05/2025
Heartbreaking effects of NSF, Americorps cuts to Pittsburgh’s after school programs that support and enrich our city’s kids. The need and benefits of these programs is obvious. Isn’t this what we pay taxes for? Doubt philanthropy can take over. www.publicsource.org/federal-fund...
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Pittsburgh after-school programs left scrambling as federal funding cuts hit the region
Pittsburgh-area programs reel with recent federal grant terminations from the National Science Foundation.
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This, more than anything else they are doing with funding levels etc, will ruin US Science and innovation.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/05/2025
Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable. Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇
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‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Amazing super cool and IMPOSSIBLE without a) NIH funding and b) ANIMAL RESEARCH
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ok so I agree re: HIM but sadly what he’s saying here is “do your own research and be skeptical of experts”.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The canceled grants aren't a perfect 1:1 with DEI-related projects, but what a reminder of who is and isn't doing the work to make science more equitable.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The intense racial and gender segregation of science funding will be even more pronounced going forward. This was always the intent.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
they put french fries in sandwiches rich that is what the heck is going on in pittsburgh i am all for it tbh
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 07/05/2025
EvolvingSTEM in action at Pittsburgh Perry HS @evolvingstem.bsky.social www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
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Federal freezes threaten Pitt's STEM outreach in high schools
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have been teaching inside local high schools for ten years through the Evolving-STEM program, which now faces potential federal funding cuts.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I had an NSF grant on AI education canceled yesterday. I wasn’t given any kind of reason but I have a theory and it’s just as stupid as you might think. (I will probably have more to say on this once I have more details but for right now just: 😡 )
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 14/04/2025
Just one example: In the past 2 weeks, NIH has terminated dozens of programs to support students pursuing scientific careers. These MARC or U-RISE (T34) grants provide rising undergraduates with opportunities and stipends to participate in science. Where are these programs? Not in the Ivy league:
A map showing colleges where T34 undergradaute training programs have been terminated by the NIH. Shown are: Spelman College
University Of Texas El Paso
University Of Alaska Anchorage
Texas State University
San Jose State University
Queens College
Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University
Marquette University
Kennesaw State University
Clark Atlanta University
City College Of New York
California Poly State U San Luis Obispo
Brooklyn College
University Of West Florida
University Of North Carolina At Pembroke
Rutgers The State Univ Of Nj Camden
University Of Nevada Reno
San Diego State University

Plus 30+ more unlabeled ones that are unconfirmed.
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Ai to predict how a specific monoclonal antibody will distribute throughout the body 👍
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Here’s how they’ll do it: 1. Say a lot of people are faking it 2. Vaccines 3. Food
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.
Letter from the NIH indicating that my grant has been terminated (though it seems we can keep the remaining funds for this year?)
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 01/04/2025
Given today's onslaught on HHS, I'm resharing my OpEd in @elife.bsky.social. You are not alone, and you do have an important voice! Many colleagues remain unaware that the foundation of US biomedical research is crumbling under attack. Tell them! Full text 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 26/03/2025
Banning diversity, equity, and inclusion - say it out loud - is catastrophic for US science. It attacks the core of the inclusive strengths of 🇺🇸 science - red or blue, rich or poor - despite the long road ahead. Thank you @stacyfarina.bsky.social for leading! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Banning DEI Is Catastrophic for U.S. Science (opinion)
An attack on DEI is an attack on science itself, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Stacy C. Farina, Parvin Shahrestani, Vaughn S. Cooper and Gilda A. Barabino write.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/03/2025
My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized
Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
me in the national security team group chat
box of the Dream Phone tabletop game, depicting two teen girls holding cards of cute fictional boys and holding a bright pink phone to their ears. "Guess who likes you in this talking telephone game!"
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hegseth could be def sec for only one scaramucci
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech bsky.app/profile/need...
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pay us to do it.
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/03/2025
Surely given Jay Bhattacharya's concern about censorship and academic freedom, he will step in and promptly reverse this decision.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I usually stay around my own neighborhood, so when I venture down to south Philly I get the treat of seeing a different set of street art. This one is by Sean Lugo, whose signature is animal heads on people’s bodies. His stuff is SO good. Love this cat.
Calico cat head wearing headphones on a woman’s body who is talking with her hands on the radio. She’s got green pants and a yellow sweater over a blue shirt, very cool, and the sign above the cat says she’s on air. She’s talking into a metal wxpn microphone.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
this guidance is all but useless there are no objective criteria that define allowed and disallowed categories of research that vagueness will undermine crucial health-disparities research, which by law addresses unmet medical needs (including access to care & differential treatment response)
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is it right here. Just utterly criminal and cruel.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is coooooool
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Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Omg mRNA vaccines don’t “alter the patients body” any more than protein based.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 03/03/2025
Local Pittsburgh TV anchor asked the administration to comment on the NIH funding freeze. Deputy PS Kush Patel wouldn’t comment on camera and offered this BS statement. 1/2
Deputy press secretary offers some BS about how cutting NIH funding is somehow not a direct attack on scientific research More nonsense from a deputy in the  administration
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Can speak from personal experience that some non-competitive renewals are also not going out. We were expecting a non-competitive renewal on 2/1/25 that has not been received
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