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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

...welp, this just rocketed to the top of my to-read list. Looking forward to it!

(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I've been worrying about this since their website dropped offline. Losing the NRRL folks and their microbial strain collection would be a real blow.

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

What terrible news - I'm so sorry to hear this.

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

(I missed the first talk or two because I had to pick up some posterboard and quickly slap together a sign!)

An unfinished sign on a table, surrounded by paintbrushes and paint. The sign says "Defunding science: bad for Pittsburgh, bad for PA, bad for the USA [& bad for the whole world!]"

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Memorable talks included @jeremymberg.bsky.social explaining the assault on NIH funding (while sneaking in a bit of bioinorganic chemistry!) & @repsummerlee.bsky.social giving a barn-burner of a speech in support of science research in Pittsburgh and in the US.

Rep. Summer Lee at Pittsburgh's Stand Up For Science rally in Schenley Plaza, talking about the importance of scientific research in Pittsburgh (and beyond!)

Prof. Jeremy Berg at Pittsburgh's Stand Up For Science rally in Schenley Plaza, explaining the ongoing assault on science funding at the NIH.

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today's #standupforscience rally in Pittsburgh - it was great seeing so many people turn out. #standupforscience2025

A crowd of people carrying signs supporting science at the Stand Up For Science rally in Pittsburgh, with the Cathedral of Learning in the background.

A crowd of people carrying signs supporting science at the Stand Up For Science rally in Pittsburgh.

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Hoping to see other Pittsburgh folks standing up for science in Schenley Plaza tomorrow! (It'll sure beat spending lunch doomscrolling like the last month...)

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I've been meeting with applicants from two programs who're visiting Pitt this weekend - it was more than a little disconcerting to come out of a poster session yesterday evening and see this everywhere online. (Effects on programs in the med school or that already extended offers seem... unclear.)

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Any chance you could add me? After spending too much time with natural products in methanotrophs and actinobacteria as a grad student and postdoc, I'm working on getting my own group up and running!

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Can finally confirm: #ABRCMS in person definitely beats the online early-pandemic versions. I didn't have to travel and I'm still wiped out by so many hours of posters... but there was so much exciting science and so many talented undergrad and postbac researchers! Highly recommended. #ABRCMS2024

A sculpture spelling out ABRCMS in front of convention center windows, with a river and a yellow bridge visible through the glass.

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I only was able to squeeze my way past the crowds to catch Nathalie's poster - Sophie was surrounded when I went by - but I really loved getting to hear about her research! (I think I may have actually been just off-screen in two of those photos, waiting my turn to talk proteins!)

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(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

If you're interested in microbial chemical biology and looking for a research technician position, the Kenney Lab at Pitt is hiring. You'd be working with weird new (metallo)enzymes, weird microbes, and weird new natural products. Fill out an application here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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