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Paulyn Cartwright

@pcart.bsky.social
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researcher, educator, invertebrate enthusiast, mom, concerned citizen

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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Had such a wonderful time back in my happy place @mblscience.bsky.social attending #cnidofest2026. Great science, great people and great fun. (T-shirt art credit @stoilovamarina.bsky.social)
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Really excited to see this very cool story published!
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our NIH funded PREP postbaccalaurate program just got renewed! PREP is fully funded postbac program for recent graduates interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical research. Applications are open for a start date of this Fall. prep.ku.edu/apply
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We would love to host a post-bacc in our lab to work on mechanisms of neural signaling in a cnidarian model system.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We are recruiting recent graduates interested in pursuing a PhD in the biomedical sciences to our PREP post-bacc program. We will review applications on a rolling basis so apply now.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We are super excited to see this published. Podocoryna is a wonderful jellyfish model. Closely related to the model organism Hydractinia, easy to culture in the lab, and now a high quality genome!
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Free college is not such a radical concept. When I went to UCLA in the 80's, tuition and fees were $800/quarter. There is no way my family could afford to send me to college with today's rates. I am absolutely certain I would not be where I am today without this opportunity.
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Anna Klompen, PhD @gelatinoussting.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
First postdoc paper and first Nematostella project! By using the dynamic expression pattern of minicollagens, we describe the transcriptional profile during biogenesis for two major stinging cell types: nematocytes and spirocytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #StunningStella
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Minicollagen expression dynamics reveal a transcriptional program for cnidogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Cnidae are explosive harpoon-like organelles localized within stinging cells, or cnidocytes, of the phylum Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, and corals). These unique Golgi-derived vesicula...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
WSJ op-ed from leaders at Johns Hopkins and the University of Kansas about slow grant-making. [Gift Link] www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...
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Opinion | Get the Federal Science Money Flowing
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Interesting discussion on tech vs post bacc. Having run post bacc training programs I have some thoughts….
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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We started by studying gene reuse in eyes over deep time -- but were astonished to find adaptive molecular convergence to be rampant and not directly related to important traits, including eyes. Led by PD Cory Berger www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora. Photo by David Liitschwager taken in the lab of Todd Oakley at UCSB
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
KU IRACDA has three postdoc positions open iracda.ku.edu. Eligible applicants must demonstrate interest in teaching, have a biomedically-relevant research focus, and an identified KU faculty sponsor. www.employment.ku.edu/staff/32261BR .
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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
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Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the cnidarian Podocoryna is just out. Well done @pcart.bsky.social , @baxevanislab.bsky.social and the other authors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Andy Baxevanis @baxevanislab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🧬 New genome alert! We’ve generated a chromosome-level assembly for the hydrozoan Podocoryna. With both polyp and free-swimming medusa stages, Podocoryna is a powerful model for exploring the evolution of complex traits in early animal lineages.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am super excited to announce that after a tumultuous period of uncertainty, KU MARC marc.ku.edu has been awarded another five years of funding! news.ku.edu/news/article....
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KU awarded $2.2 million NIH research career training grant renewal
For almost 30 years, the Office for Advancing Success in Science at KU has provided opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research through grant support from the National Institutes of Health....
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The deadline is near for our NSF RaMP post-bacc program BioGEM. If you know of any graduating seniors interested in doing research in EEB for a year, please encourage them to apply biogem.ku.edu/apply-biogem
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Apply for BioGEM
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! In our lab, every day is women is science day w/ @stoilovamarina.bsky.social @gelatinoussting.bsky.social
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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.
Logo for MANUS AI, with lowercase lettering and a pointing finger.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What distinguishes those with moral courage vs. those who choose to look the other way? This article came out a few years ago but it is an inspiring read and very relevant to today's times (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/o...
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Opinion | The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting (Published 2018)
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people. We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
After three months away @mblscience.bsky.social I return to the lab with these notes welcoming me back. It’s nice to know I was missed.
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Andy Baxevanis @baxevanislab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 03/11/2025
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems. youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
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🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! #shorts
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Enjoying the view from the lab @mblscience.bsky.social. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Congrats Marina!
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Yep!
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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
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Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline
Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
it's another purge: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n... via @statnews.com
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Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states
Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.
Cover of Harvard magazine showing boxing gloves
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excited to participate in the non-bilaterian symposium at #PASEDB2025.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Stay tuned. More to come. Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria issue of the journal Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology @nilese.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Honored to be awarded the Whitman Fellowship and can't wait to be in my element this Fall @mblscience.bsky.social .
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MBL Awards Whitman Center Fellowships to 24 Outstanding Investigators | Marine Biological Laboratory
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Meet @stoilovamarina.bsky.social (eeb.ku.edu/people/stoil... ) ICB submitting author Have you ever seen #jellyfish eyes? Here we have to two #Cladonema sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Nematostella farts through an anus!
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There’s a real rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic vibe going on in academia right now.
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a man in a tuxedo is playing a violin in front of a crowd
Alt: a man in a tuxedo is playing a violin in front of a crowd of people trying to evacuate the ship
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Or in other words, ignorant people who say they oppose DEI don't even understand what it means.
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Office for Advancing Success in Science / University of Kansas @oasis-ku.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Congrats to MARC scholars, Anjali, Maya, Mollie and Lou, for receiving scholarships and research awards from @kubiology.bsky.social . While nothing can replace MARC, kudos to these resilient scholars who continue to pursue opportunities for research. biology.ku.edu/news/article...
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KU Biology Students receive Spring 2025 Scholarships and Awards
The Undergraduate Biology Program awarded nearly $35,000 in awards and scholarships to students in Spring 2025.
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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thinking of the undergraduates that just learned that their dreams have been crushed by last Fridays NSF terminations of LSAMP awards. This plus the cancellation of MARC, URISE etc. is tragic for all the talented students aspiring to become scientists and a real setback for the future of science.
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