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Matthew E. Brown, PhD

@mebrown4.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor. Pluripotent stem cell biology and transplantation immunology researcher at UW-Madison. Likes/follows are not endorsements. www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-brown-4…

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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Saw the first of two Spoon shows at Summerfest! So far so great!
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Brown Lab is looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you know of anyone looking to explore the nexus of transplant immunology and pluripotent stem cell biology--including hypoimmune gene editing and humanized mouse modeling--please send them our way! hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-...
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Postdoc, Postgrad, and Research Intern Vacancies
Browse Postoc and Research Intern vacancies at UW–Madison.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Resisting AI slop
It’s hard to talk about any topic in science or education today without the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) coming up—whether large language models should be allowed to aid in searching for a ...
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
madison.com/news/local/b...
madison.com
UW Health aims to grow living organ donors list by 20% in 2 years
The Living Donor Initiative will create educational materials and include face-to-face discussions across Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
One Battle After Another has the best cinematic representation of gel electrophoresis ever, hands down.
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I encourage everyone in academic science to read these proposed rules and comment on them per the instructions on the Federal Register. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I’m excited to share our new manuscript in Nature Communications, Saha et al., “ Diminished immune cell adhesion in hypoimmune ICAM-1 knockout human pluripotent stem cells.” rdcu.be/eAnEC
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Diminished immune cell adhesion in hypoimmune ICAM-1 knockout human pluripotent stem cells
Nature Communications - Hypoimmune gene editing in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provides a promising platform for cellular therapies. Here, the authors report that CRISPR mediated deletion...
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wisconsin is about to get smoked www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
washingtonpost.com
Canada wildfires force 17,000 to evacuate, with smoke blowing toward U.S.
Authorities in Manitoba, which shares a border with the U.S., issued a state of emergency. Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RIP Val Kilmer, one of the greats. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...
nytimes.com
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-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...
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Underrepresentation of certain ethnic groups in biomedical research is a real problem. See: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2647... In recent years, the NIH and others have made efforts to address this. Will this important issue become a causualty of the ongoing anti-DEI efforts?
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Improving Representation in Clinical Trials and Research: Building Research Equity for Women and Underrepresented Groups
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
HA "That sounds bad. But 60 times 7,000 is not 42,000. It is 420,000. This is what Joe Schwarcz noticed. The estimated exposure is not even a tenth of the reference dose. That does not sound as bad." On black plastic spatulas, and scientific mistakes nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit
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Matthew E. Brown, PhD @mebrown4.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Bluesky skeets, not Twitter tweets.
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