Reposted by Caroline BartmanIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 5hinpreparation.substack.com50-Year-Old Man With No Conflicts Of Interest Beginning To WorryHOUSTON, TX— Clicking past his single-slide conflict of interest disclosure at the beginning of a departmental grand rounds Monday morning, MD Anderson translational oncologist Dr. 092
Reposted by Caroline BartmanShrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Chat let's look forward to something. I'm not doing the bonne maman advent calendar this year, but I still want to open a little present that's nice every day. Please share with me advent calendars that are not exclusively sugar themed that you think I should know about 11165
Reposted by Caroline Bartmanc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently... 7251109
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love astrology because what do you mean my spirit animal is an analytical balance 1131
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski! 31615
Reposted by Caroline BartmanPolitics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 10830561211
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026NEVER do macropinocytosis at a job interview. It’s simple, folks. 1253
Reposted by Caroline BartmanApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381370564
Reposted by Caroline BartmanChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple plant-related ones: Photochemical quenching; Dark respiration 151
Reposted by Caroline BartmanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27574863128
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have been transformed into a PI. Similarity to Gregor Samsa beetle: useless at lab work, hard to explain to family members, general feelings of stress 2252
Reposted by Caroline BartmanAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026shadow, shade, shroud, disembodied (fly P450 genes) 281
Reposted by Caroline Bartmantransitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Suicide inhibitor. 1131
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other? 588922
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why didn’t the roof get the chickenpox vaccine? It wanted to get shingles 4497
Reposted by Caroline BartmanAndy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Well this is a pleasant surprise. While PA's "democratic" senator is out there boot-licking Trump, McCormick actually seems to get it with regards to research funding 043
Reposted by Caroline BartmanEmily Moin @emilymoin.com · 24/09/2026I swear I'm not subtweeting anyone specific but if foundations and professional organizations want to support early career investigators in These Troubling Times they should change their grant submission process to accept grants written in NIH format with *no required modifications* 3479
Reposted by Caroline BartmanMaxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In related news, I read a paper from 2001 today (in Nature Genetics). There were 6 figures, but each figure was just one panel of a very simple experiment. What a beautiful world we once had... 4414
Reposted by Caroline BartmanKLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Since most of these are for fixed cells, it's more like beautifying corpses for open casket funerals 071
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Do you think when you stain cells for immunofluorescence they feel like they’re in clown makeup 🤡 292
Reposted by Caroline BartmanSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy! 3228142
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Rage against the machine” is a very relatable state as a scientist 4380
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026PROPOSAL: an a capella group that sings about low carb diets The Key Tones 3333
Reposted by Caroline BartmanSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net. 13420144
Reposted by Caroline BartmanJulia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Do you have a baby, want to have a baby, or care about babies? If rollbacks in vaccine access and vaccine requirements for school reduce population vaccination rates, it is babies under the recommended vaccination age (12 mo for measles but can be 6 mo in outbreak) who will be most affectedcbsnews.comCoroner releases details on 2 infant deaths in Pennsylvania measles outbreakNeither infant was old enough to be vaccinated. The first dose of the measles vaccine is typically given at around 1 year of age. 2154
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ok I love Faberge eggs so what if a jeweler made faberge eppendorfs Like lil jewel encrusted tubes made of gold and you pop the top off and there’s a little platinum cell pellet inside 2214
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Cookie Monster is an apex predator and without him the cookies would breed out of control and the chocolate chip population would collapse 4261
Reposted by Caroline BartmanLucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026tired: make a little birdhouse in your soul wired: make a little carwash in your nose 0241
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026do you ever think of your airway cilia as a tiny little carwash inside your nose all those little nubbins waving back and forth and cleaning up 2173
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excited to share our second Bartman lab paper! MSTP student Amelia developed a sensitive LC-MS method to measure Coenzyme A level. We can also combine this method with tracing to measure CoA synthesis rate. Congratulations Amelia!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...pubs.acs.orgA Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Method to Quantify Total Coenzyme A Concentration and Isotopic LabelingAbstract. Coenzyme A is an essential cofactor synthesized from pantothenate, which carries activated acyl groups in cellular metabolic reactions. Coenzyme 1276
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Working €£¥ to 🫠🕰️ A song about the absurdity of time by Dali Parton 010
Reposted by Caroline BartmanChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't need to say this, but it's obvious to me: this dramatic drop can be laid at the feet of the Trump Administration. The impacts, I predict, will be dramatic, bad and only visible 5 to 10 years from now at the earliest.* *it's falsifiable, but quite a ways from now 0259
Reposted by Caroline BartmanDirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the broadly defined area of organic chemistry. I have the honor of chairing the search committee. apply.interfolio.com/192648 12814
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026call me sebastian the way i'm always hanging out with Arial oh am i writing a grant? how did you guessstatic.klipy.comAriel, The Little Mermaid Disney PrincessALT: Ariel, The Little Mermaid Disney Princess 0231
Reposted by Caroline BartmanAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe wrong platform for scienceDaniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu... 4495263
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excited to share the first published paper from my lab! Postdoc Helen Jordan led this study on 1) how metabolites change differently in inflammation in tissues versus in cells in a dish and 2) the role of one of the most-increased metabolites, soluble sialic acid www.jbc.org/article/S002...jbc.orgMetabolomics of in vivo inflammation identifies soluble sialic acid as a conserved myeloid-cell metaboliteDuring an immune response, metabolism changes dramatically. Metabolites are oxidized to power immune cell functions, serve as building blocks for proliferation, and act as effectors to regulate pathog... 1114227
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s super macro multi transcript anti dogma splicing nature.com/articles/s41...nature.com 2153
Reposted by Caroline BartmanDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .science.orgMore Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects 310651
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Really enjoying What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed- Both a first contact sci fi story and a story of different human cultures negotiating different approaches to gender. Think Left Hand of Darkness plus Speaker for the Dead. 161
Reposted by Caroline BartmanInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 04/09/2026OMB Grants Rule Delayed Until Mid-December bit.ly/4d3jjUr 053
Reposted by Caroline Bartmanc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There's 'surprise', and then there's =SURPRISE!= and the tropical royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) knows the difference. This video is by wildlife photographer Stefano Ianiro (stefano.ianiro on IG). Let's learn about these regal, colorful birbs. 428364
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Convinced this was designed by the James K Polk fan club 340
Reposted by Caroline BartmanStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”. 282115302173
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’ve been writing too many grants and I’m not enjoying it so could you consider giving me a paper shack to put in my office 1152
Reposted by Caroline BartmanAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147402817
Reposted by Caroline BartmanThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 27/08/2026ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 45331
Reposted by Caroline BartmanDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The US FDA has approved a treatment for pancreatic cancer that in clinical trials nearly doubled the overall survival time for patients. Those who took daily daraxonrasib had an average survival time of 13.2 months, compared to 6.6 months for those on chemotherapy. 🧪💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFDA approves breakthrough drug daraxonrasib to treat pancreatic cancerExperts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers. 2104