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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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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 16h
My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...
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Why I am not reading your AI-generated email
I hope this email finds you well-aligned
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NIH’s shift to multiyear funding reduced the number of awards across a range of research areas. Grants reviewed by NIH panels that had "cancer" or "oncology" in their title dipped to around 1,590 in 2026, compared with 1,920 in 2024. Fewer grants funded means fewer shots on goal, fewer wins
The agency's shift to fully funding more grants upfront appears to have reduced the number of awards across a range of research areas. Grants reviewed by NIH panels that had "cancer" or "oncology" in their title dipped to around 1,590 in 2026, compared with 1,920 in 2024. Similarly, awards reviewed by vaccine-focused study sections dropped after steady year-to-year increases between 2018 and 2024, with 269 such grants awarded this year compared with 297 in 2024.
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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WRONG L-alanine is the hottest amino acid
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CONTROVERSY
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh ok, I agree with this
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of translucent Mycena mushrooms rise from the side of a mossy log in a darkening fall forest. All photos by me
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Which character of friends is which amino acid? Monica-proline-Always tied up in knots Rachel- valine- the hottest amino acid Chandler-glu or asp- acidic personality Ross-tryptophan- the nerdiest aa, I bet you didn’t know it is W Joey- glycine. Empty head no thoughts Phoebe- ornithine obviously
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Octa-here 🛑 Octagon
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just snip snip here, some super glue, and then go ahead and translate it! ✂️✂️
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RNA splicing is like the nucleus decides to do some arts and crafts
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
inpreparation.substack.com
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
Lion-sure Crab- I guess, not the most inspiring Scale- 🤡
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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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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
Differences from samsa beetle situation: spend more time using illustrator
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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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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good one!
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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
Black pawn?
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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
This BRIGHT BLUE nucleus is NOT what I would have chosen for myself
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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
This week it is “rage against the -80 freezer”
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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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MwahahahahahadScientist @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
🙏🙏🙏 So excited to have this out and hoping people will find it useful!
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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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