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Rebecca Pompano

@pompanolab.bsky.social
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Assoc Professor @ University of Virginia. Microfluidics | Bioanalytical Chem | Ex vivo models of immunity | Organs-on-chip | Vaccines | DEI | www.pompanolab.com

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bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
There’s still time to submit your abstracts for poster presentation at CMBE 2026 in beautiful Puerto Rico! www.bmes.org/2026/cmbecon... #CMBE2026 #BEvision #BME #Bioengineering
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2026 CMBE Abstracts | 2026 CMBE Conference
Submit your abstract for the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, by October 15, 2025, to showcase your research.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We have no permanent president, CEO, or dean as of today. We’re either on the cusp of utopia or about to slide into a hell of blood and fire. Will report back.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tell your senators to vote NO on Trump’s rescission package and protect foreign aid, NPR, PBS, world hunger, HIV/AIDS prevention, and more. These funds have already been allocated and Trump and the GOP want to slash them which will hurt millions of Americans & will dismantle our government further.
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The Trump Rescissions Package
What is at Stake Before July 18
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is extremely bad: “expect placement by political appointees.” This is Lysenkoism, politics controlling science, and we know how it ends: with the death of science. “For successful science, reality must take precedence over politics, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My daughter graduated two years ago, a niece last year. This was not the way. This has largely happened in just one year.
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
💥 👩‍⚕️ Human Stem Cells at "Closeout Sale" Prices 🧪 Induced human pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines for research
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Re: the crisis at UVA. The world notices when a US president connives with local Republican politicians & wealthy MAGA donors to force an American university president out of office. They know that it means very bad things for this country as a whole. 👇🏽
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
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LGBTQ+ Cell Biologists @celllgbtq.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Please join @kateycooper.bsky.social and @ascbiology.bsky.social for a webinar about LGBTQ+ experiences in biological sciences! June 18th, 2025 at 2pm EST. #pride #pridemonth #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Trump admin wants to cut the NSF's budget by 57%. In terms of directorates, EDU and ENG would see the biggest cuts at 75%, while MPS is looking at a ~67% cut. The proposal also defunds nearly all postdoc programs and slashes the NSF GRFP budget by 55%. More here: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
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NSF budget proposal slashes funding across the agency
The proposed 57% cut will drive down the agency’s funding rate and eliminate training programs
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women infected with COVID-19, about 1 in 80 deliveries was a stillbirth — the loss of a fetus anytime after 20 weeks. That’s compared with 1 in 155 among uninfected women” Pregnant women need access to Covid boosters. TW for photos of Covid placenta:
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Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths
New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/05/2025
Raise your hand if you want a Covid-19 booster! 🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚🤚
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
FDA is set to restrict access to Covid shots for healthy people 6 months-64. I asked HHS if initial shots will be available to infants; no answer. One former CVS executive thinks healthy ineligible people who want a shot will face new costs. w / @maggieastor.bsky.social GIFT:
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The F.D.A. May Restrict Covid Shots. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We tried to warn everyone that every Covid infection ages you, and we tried to warn them it would take a few years for the impact to manifest. On cue, everyone's talking about Gen Z's "accelerated aging," and they still refuse to acknowledge one major source of the problem.
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My heart is absolutely breaking for US science
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Alan Dreams of Deep Quiet Snows @alans9.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
6 weeks now. No Funding Opportunities.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/05/2025
The FDA names Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.
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FDA names oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Covid vaccine critic, as the new vaccine chief
Prasad was an outspoken critic of the FDA’s response to the pandemic, including the former vaccine chief, Dr. Peter Marks.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
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Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research
The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 02/05/2025
Scientific research is going to be hit by tariffs: Lab research supplier Millipore Sigma is going to add temporary surcharges on all orders shipped to the US. More @statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social: #chemsky #sciencesky 🧪🩺🧫💉⚗️ www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Millipore Sigma will add temporary tariff surcharges on products shipped to the U.S.
Millipore Sigma, one of the largest suppliers of medical research products, will start adding a temporary tariff surcharge to all product orders shipped to the U.S.
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A chance to explain personal connections to research we do, and how we serve the public with the federal dollars we work hard to earn. If in industry, the REU you did or NSFGRFP you got helped shape the scientist you are. Write about it! #SciComm #McClintockLetters @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
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Ben Verdi @benverdi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
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How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇. That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates. Let them be ill: MAHA! www.nbcnews.com/heal... 1/2
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Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut
Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience
The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We have the turnout today in the MILLIONS — sourced from handsoff2025.com directly and echoed by @moveon.org and @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Millions. Enormous turnout across all 50 states and globally. Please reinforce that to everyone you know.
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
So many great signs today!
Young person w/ bright red hair & "Hands off my future sign"Person holding "Hands off my school" signCrowd w/ one person holding "NO SIGN IS BIG ENOUGH TO LIST WHY I'M HERE" signCrowd w/ one person holding sign sayin NO KING!! and another w/ sign "CONGRESS DO YOUR JOB!!!"
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congrats @jennhammel.bsky.social and Jenny Munson on this great work! This model of the human lymph node stroma under fluid flow is super interesting and will be useful to answer many future questions. Always a pleasure to collaborate with you. #immunoengineering #LymphNodes #3Dculture
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Bruce Y Lee @bruceylee.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy Here’s my coverage in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services is reportedly laying off the entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy. Here's the impact
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/03/2025
Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is a disaster and its happening right now. Having spoken with some folks in Congress, this is a message they have not received--they are still back in Indirects and USAID (also important, BTW). Call Congress today unless you want ot lose colleagues one by one till all are gone
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Reviewing grants on a Sunday night on the off-chance that our study section will meet, on the off-chance that council will meet, and on the off-chance that some tech bro named big balls won’t find something “too woke” about it and throw it in the trash. Fucking hell.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/03/2025
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The administration will have an impact on science and research that will take decades to repair. #PublicHealth #EpiSky #Research www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts
Nature talks to prospective students left in limbo as some institutes withdraw offers and put applications on hold.
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards. But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 23/02/2025
Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders. They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social . My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order
Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Bill introduced: "H.R.1497 - To replace the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with 3 separate national research institutes." 😢
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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Can confirm that pestering your reps works. Just got a reply from my Congressman’s office today that they are looking at this after multiple people brought it to their attention.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/02/2025
Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.
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Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Biomedical researchers, @aimbe-official.bsky.social is seeking anecdotes about how recent policies have disrupted your grants/research: aimbe.wufoo.com/forms/qs9tsi... Your messages are critical for us to advocate to our Members of Congress to take action against these federal disruptions 👇
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Detail your Research Disruptions for AIMBE
Please share how recent policies have disrupted your work. AIMBE will be collecting stories to share with Members of Congress and their staff.
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Lola Eniola-Adefeso @lolauic.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
DEI initiatives remain lawful under federal law and Supreme Court precedent - see public memo nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Make some noise about this. Call your senators and house rep. And if you know anyone in media, let them know that NIH reviews are stopped again due to the federal register issue.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/02/2025
🚨🚨🚨 STILL LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! We'd love to have Stand Up for Science represented in all 50 states—and are so close! Please volunteer to organize your capitol or major city's protest if you're able! Link to volunteer form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
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Kalev Freeman @uvmtraumalab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Attention scientists! Wondering what else can you can do to advocate for research funding? Let's all submit Programmatic Requests to Members of Congress next month, and flood the zone in a show of public support for #NIH and #NSF! ! #SciComm #Science #Medicine #MedSky 🧬🔬🧪 Details below⤵️ 🧵 1/n
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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Do you live in the Southeast U.S.? Did you receive a tornado or severe t-storm warning from the NWS yesterday? Did you feel good knowing someone is watching out for you & letting you know potentially dangerous weather was headed your way? If so, maybe let others know why you think NWS is important.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Rebecca Pompano @pompanolab.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Wait, is the whole Gordon Research Conference #GRC for #SexDifferencesInImmunity just ... gone? Understanding the fundamentals of sex differences contributes to precision medicine. It helps everyone. Eliminating this meeting or targeting these scientists harms everyone.
Screenshot of website, https://www.grc.org/sex-differences-in-immunity-conference/2025/, which shows "Apologies. You've landed on a missing page."
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 12/02/2025
The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
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LibGuides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
A guide linking to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
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