Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026So fun to be a part of this groundbreaking work led by @bloodgenes.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Kellie MachlusJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3statnews.comThe NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH. 8520265
Reposted by Kellie MachlusJoe Italiano @megaman55.bsky.social · 20/11/2025 Join us to pursue cutting-edge research at the interface of megakaryocyte biology and translational medicine. We have NIH-funded postdoc positions available to investigate platelet production and the broader functions of megakaryocytes. I’ll be attending ASH and would be happy to connect. 063
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Excited for this session! If you’re at #AHA25 today, please join us! 031
Reposted by Kellie MachlusMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...open.substack.comA Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American ScienceWhy NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university 214682
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 13/07/2025So well put. Something I am thinking about every day with research as well. 030
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Now is a the time to get involved in your scientific societies. #Hematology #HemeSky @ash.hematology.org is stepping up for Hematology - HOW CAN YOU HELP? If you want to be on a committee nominate yourself or someone else below. I am also happy to nominate you, so just reach out. Deadline May 31! 082
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is where we are living. www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...cnn.comFlorida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN BusinessFlorida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag... 000
Reposted by Kellie MachlusJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The information I am receiving is consistent with the STAT story. The boards are being purged of women and minoritized scientists with no other obvious pattern. And for the cases where I have some information, the effects are not subtle...Boards going from 35% women to 10% women. 3/n 69380
Reposted by Kellie MachlusStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/02/2025The FDA just cancelled a meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu shots. "It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comFDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shotsThe canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed. 24290164
Reposted by Kellie MachlusOffice of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 20/02/2025The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide. 331471425
Reposted by Kellie MachlusThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.nytimes.comTrump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court RulingUsing an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy. 1131185538
Reposted by Kellie MachlusMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org5calls.org5 CallsSpend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard. 510887
Reposted by Kellie MachlusNature @nature.com · 20/02/2025Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4 go.nature.comRevealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump orderThe Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo. 8290237
Reposted by Kellie MachlusGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is a red alert for US science, for new cures & treatments for diseases that afflict everyone in this country. This isn't "oh, it will blow over." Soon we will have reached the point of no return destroying what it has taken decades to build. WE NEED TO BE BANGING DOWN THE DOORS IN CONGRESS. 415789
Reposted by Kellie MachlusThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8thetransmitter.orgFederal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freezeNIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt... 12350326
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Current inspiration as I continue doing my science as a form of protest and resistance. 🧪🩸💪 2230
Reposted by Kellie MachlusMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...globalnews.caHow a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.caIn 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic. 11264858712423
Reposted by Kellie MachlusJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...5calls.orgSave NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 CallsOn February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science … 0177139
Reposted by Kellie MachlusLaura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025There’s no argument that should reassure anyone enough to go back to business as usual, because none of these actions are happening in isolation. The war on US science won’t end with a court order on indirects. 317439
Reposted by Kellie MachlusCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings. 481484195
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Do it. I mean, it worked out pretty well for me ... 🙃🩸🫶 030
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This was so much fun to do with @aswolberg.bsky.social and @gbarnesmd.bsky.social - a chat with two great friends 🥰 Isn't that why we love this community? Great science and great people. 173
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Hi friends. This is hard. Remember, you’re not alone- there are so many of us here that care a lot and aren’t giving up. Don’t stop talking and don’t let them make you hard. Reach out to someone that needs some encouragement. We are here ❤️ #sciencesky 0162
Reposted by Kellie MachlusYoona Kang @ykanglab.bsky.social · 12/01/2025We are hiring 😀 Postdoctoral position – Stem cells, Cancer, and Aging We study cell fate decision and lineage specification in hematopoietic stem and multipotent progenitor populations to modulate lineage output for therapeutic purpose in diseases and aging contexts. 11610
Reposted by Kellie MachlusTravis Fleming @tjflemin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Stem cell-like states confer poor outcomes in blood cancer—but what mechanisms drive this and how can they be therapeutically targeted? In our new preprint, we show how a single TF represses one enhancer to maintain a subset of high-risk leukemias: 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1228
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Machlus lab members Maria and Ginny are helping raise money for @danafarber.bsky.social this year at the #PMCWinterCycle !! 🚴 #PMC2025 #CloserByTheMile Join me in donating to the team with the most amazing name: Plaquetas Bravas 🩸🫶 profile.wintercycle.org/T00462donate.wintercycle.orgPMC Winter Cycle - Donation 050
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Made it back to Boston after an amazing #ASH24 and I need a week on an island to recover.🏝️ Anyone else? 1190
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Happy Sunday #ASH24 ☀️🩸! Time to get breakfast and head over to Room 28 at 9:30 to hear Ginny talk about the role of MKs and platelets in Tet2 CH 2250
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Amazing talk by @beaudinlab.bsky.social at the Myeloid Workshop on cochlear macrophages in hearing loss in CMV infection 🤯 #ASH24 1350
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Everyone headed to #ASH24 - if you’re looking for your favorite scientists in hematopoiesis to follow on here, we have you covered 👇🏼 0187
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The ladies of the Machlus lab are getting ready for #ASH24 🩸🧪🎉 If you see us, say HI! We will all be presenting (details below). Also, we have a Postdoc Position 👀 if you are kind of scrappy and love science… 3462
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A day I always look forward to - our division retreat!! Today is the 42nd (!!) Annual Vascular Biology Program Retreat The MK to Platelet Research Group is here and ready to talk science 🧪 🩸 0180
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. 0100
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Finally- the starter pack we have all been waiting for is here … Hematopoiesis 🎉❤️🩸🦴 So excited to have reached a critical mass of this community on here. 🙌🏻 Let me know if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/KWdX5w7 398129
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Call me biased, but I can't think of a better way to celebrate my first #FluorescenceFriday here than with this beautiful megakaryocyte making proplatelets 😍. Aren't these cells amazing? 🧪🩸 #hemesky 3471
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hematology and hematopoiesis friends! There’s now a #hemesky feed 🎉 You can tag your posts with this hashtag and pin this feed to your homepage 🥰🩸🧪 bsky.app/profile/did:... 2227
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Soooo are we talking about the existential dread or just posting more dog pics? How about dogs with existential dread… 180
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Cold temps and adorable dogs named Charlie are making it very hard to get out of bed these mornings 🥱 But Charlie says- Science isn’t going to do itself! 🧪🩸🔬 0110
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Now in my 7th year as a PI (😳) I am understanding that I get so much more sustained happiness and joy from seeing my trainees succeed. Incredible WIP today from Maria, a postdoc on our team. No doubt she is going to do amazing things. 🧪 #hemesky ⭐️ 2240
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 29/09/2023💥MK to Platelet Group Lab Retreat 2023 💥 Cheers to 2 days of creative science, amazing food, tie dye, the best people and late night chats by the fire pit. I’m the luckiest 🥹🫶🏻 040
Kellie Machlus @kmachlus.bsky.social · 02/09/2023Today I had the absolute honor of talking to Arun Rath about our research studying the mystery of how platelets are made🩸🔬 NPR is truly the coolest. What. A. Dream. 🤩🙌🏻 All Things Considered on Boston’s @gbhnews.bsky.social, NPR www.wgbh.org/news/health/...wgbh.org'The question that keeps me up at night.' A Boston researcher's quest to understand how platelets ar...Despite scientists' extensive knowledge of blood, platelets — and what trigger their production — remain largely unknown. 081