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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🙌 Musqueam & Squamish welcomes to open the World Congress of Biomechanics in Vancouver 🙏 #WCB2026

Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🔬 Welcome to #WCB2026 in Vancouver! Mesmerizing views from the convention center. 🦴 Looking forward to all the great science & many seaplanes

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🗓️ March 27 Early registration deadline #WCB2026 🦴 World Congress of Biomechanics 🇨🇦 July 11-15, Vancouver, Canada #Biomechanics #Mechanobiology

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Waterfalls! One of the joys of living in the Finger Lakes. 💦 Aunt Sarah's Falls #FingerLakes #FLX #I❤️NY

Aunt Sarah's Falls, a cascade falls in Montour Falls, NY

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Upsetting news for the musculoskeletal research community. Thank you Lindsey for your leadership of NIAMS.

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Great opportunity to pitch your technology at #WCB2026!

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 from vdMlab@bsky.social 🙏 @orrenshachaf.bsky.social our costume lead!

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🦴 🏃‍♀️ Take steps for your musculoskeletal health! #WhiteSneakers #ASBMR2025

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🦴 Congratulations to Deepak Vashishth on receiving Adele L Boskey Award from @asbmr.bsky.social #ASBMR2025

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“Much of U.S. power & influence is derived from our science & technology supremacy” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The eviceration of US biomedical and engineering research…for what purpose? “At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🎥 Livestream in hour 68 now! ⛅️ Dr Clare Singer claresinger.github.io #SaveAmericasForecasts

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Clare Singer

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell. Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds #ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4

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Research at Risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies

YouTube video by Cornell University

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...

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The Real Goal of Trump's War on Universities

It isn't about stopping antisemitism. It's about power.

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🥧 Happy Pi Day! Yummy early celebration yesterday thanks to @vdmlab.bsky.social #PiDay

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #IDWGS

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Unity through our shared passion for research” Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social #ORS2025 #OrthoScience #CornellHSSCameo

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Inspiring to be in a room full of orthopaedic researchers for the start of #ORS2025 @orssociety.bsky.social

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

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Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article)

The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/02/2025

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally. Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge … Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🔬🦴 @vdmlab.bsky.social looks forward to sharing & talking science at #ORS2025

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." chemsky 🧪⚗️ www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🧪⚛️ Holy cow. Threats to layoff 25-50% of NSF (!!!). This would be a complete disaster. Anyone who thinks cutting the workforce at a $9B/yr agency by this much will lead to greater efficiency is just out of their mind. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

politico.com

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

politico.com

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/02/2025

The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

🦴 Wonderful to have PhD 🎓Maureen back for #CornellBME seminar! Great way to kick off the semester 🔬 #science

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🔬🍺 @vdmlab.bsky.social takeout dinner at Science & Suds at Hopshire Farms & Brewery tonight. 🦴 Cool to hear @cornellengineering.bsky.social Lara Estroff talk about many forms of biomineralization

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Marjolein van der Meulen @mchvdm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Wonderful to see Chris Shoemaker tonight. Chris joined #CornellCEE faculty in 1973 & was the first woman tenured in @cornellengineering.bsky.social #CornellEng140yrsWomen