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Caroline Bartman

@cbartman.bsky.social
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assistant prof at University of Pennsylvania studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her) bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com

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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 5h
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50-Year-Old Man With No Conflicts Of Interest Beginning To Worry
HOUSTON, 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.
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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chat 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
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'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...
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love astrology because what do you mean my spirit animal is an analytical balance
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski!
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So 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...
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‘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.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEVER do macropinocytosis at a job interview. It’s simple, folks.
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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DEAD box
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’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...
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‘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.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple plant-related ones: Photochemical quenching; Dark respiration
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Radley 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.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
shadow, shade, shroud, disembodied (fly P450 genes)
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Suicide inhibitor.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other?
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why didn’t the roof get the chickenpox vaccine? It wanted to get shingles
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well 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
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 24/09/2026
I 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*
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 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...
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Since most of these are for fixed cells, it's more like beautifying corpses for open casket funerals
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you think when you stain cells for immunofluorescence they feel like they’re in clown makeup 🤡
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attention 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!
dinosaurs and bugs happily party together at the Save the Academy family rally. Saturday September 26, 2-6pm 1900 ben Franklin parkway, come dressed as your favorite dinosaur, insect, animal, or just yourself! There's a duck billed dino, a triceratops, a brachiosaurus, a pterodactyl, a millipede, dragonfly, and beetle!
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Rage against the machine” is a very relatable state as a scientist
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PROPOSAL: an a capella group that sings about low carb diets The Key Tones
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I 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.
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DO YOU REMEMBER
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do 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 affected
cbsnews.com
Coroner releases details on 2 infant deaths in Pennsylvania measles outbreak
Neither infant was old enough to be vaccinated. The first dose of the measles vaccine is typically given at around 1 year of age.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ok 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
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cookie Monster is an apex predator and without him the cookies would breed out of control and the chocolate chip population would collapse
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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
tired: make a little birdhouse in your soul wired: make a little carwash in your nose
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
do 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
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excited 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/...
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A Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Method to Quantify Total Coenzyme A Concentration and Isotopic Labeling
Abstract. Coenzyme A is an essential cofactor synthesized from pantothenate, which carries activated acyl groups in cellular metabolic reactions. Coenzyme
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Working €£¥ to 🫠🕰️ A song about the absurdity of time by Dali Parton
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I 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
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 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
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
call me sebastian the way i'm always hanging out with Arial oh am i writing a grant? how did you guess
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Ariel, The Little Mermaid Disney Princess
ALT: Ariel, The Little Mermaid Disney Princess
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers 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/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel 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...
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited 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...
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Metabolomics of in vivo inflammation identifies soluble sialic acid as a conserved myeloid-cell metabolite
During 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...
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s super macro multi transcript anti dogma splicing nature.com/articles/s41...
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More 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.org
More Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really 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.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 04/09/2026
OMB Grants Rule Delayed Until Mid-December bit.ly/4d3jjUr
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, a white man with a white beard and a mostly bald head, wearing a business suit and glasses, talks with reporters after attending the Republican Senate luncheon in the U.S. Capitol.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There'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.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Convinced this was designed by the James K Polk fan club
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’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
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The 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...
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FDA approves breakthrough drug daraxonrasib to treat pancreatic cancer
Experts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers.
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