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Erica D. Pratt

@pratted.bsky.social
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Asst Prof @BostonU BME | Noninvasive biomarkers for cancer monitoring | ericaprattlab.com | @prattlab.bsky.social

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to Samantha Lewis of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2026 WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research recognizing outstanding early-career scientific achievement. www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-anno…
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breaking: A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted on Wednesday in favor of a blood test for multiple cancers. The Galleri test is designed to help screen for cancers before symptoms appear, but some experts say more research is needed before approval.
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Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval
If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NCI visuals is gone again? 😱
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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 15/09/2026
🧬🔬 Applying to Competitive Graduate School Fellowships this year?⁠ ⁠ Join our webinar on "Applying to Graduate School Fellowships"⁠ with a focus on HHMI Gilliam, NIH F31, and NSF-GRFP. ⁠ 📅 Thursday, 10/1 @ 12pm ET⁠ 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-t... #CientificoLatino #CLAcademy⁠
Webinar on Applying to Graduate School Fellowships
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 159 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (by Todd N. Whittaker) has 34 research/teaching positions and 3 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs
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AY26-27 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Against the Current really came out swinging from EP 1. Like...what is HAPPENING?
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 2026-2027 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 28 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/Qq4GmF9axXHE... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cracked me up that "y'all", "roly poly", and "coke" are what cracked the code on where I'm from 😂. So many places take diphthongs *really* seriously
A map of the United States showing regional American English dialect patterns. Blue indicates “least like you” and red indicates “most like you,” with strongest red across much of the South and central U.S. and strongest blue in the Northeast. Cities marked include Oklahoma City, Dallas, and Miami.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s my 7 year anniversary @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and I have been a professor for 10.5 years total! It has been an amazing journey so far and I’m lucky to have such a wonderful team to work with. I started my @ucdavis.bsky.social journey on 9/1/2019 and here we are today!
The Rogers Lab at UC Davis 2020-2026.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The 2026-2027 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 22 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/Qq4GmF9axXHE... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I LOVE the Abhorsen series and it is seriously underrated*. Now I need to go listen to the audiobook pronto! *I pick all of our lab computer names from the Abhorsen family tree😂
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today I'm posting a new blog! Nearly two hundred papers have muddled the names for different proteins and recorded using the wrong antibody for a range of experiments. This time it's PERK vs. p-ERK. Including researchers from Harvard, the Mayo Clinic, and more. sholto.substack.com/p/perk-vs-p-...
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (by Todd N. Whittaker) has 13 research/teaching positions and 3 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs
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AY26-27 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 72 tenure-track positions and 3 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ok, I can totally see why villages would descend into hysteria and burn everything down. Because this is CLEARLY a portent of DOOM.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The 2026-2027 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 10 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/SDCEzzXSHGZV... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join
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Join — Shansky Lab
The lab at our end-of-semester field day
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
JetPens is the best!!
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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Phrased that wrong! More accurate: 5-6 *days* of Claude prompts ~ one -80 freezer daily use (15-20 kWh) ~ half of a regular US house (or one entire day for a small apartment)
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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The 2026-2027 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 4 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/pv2PmF3Vdttb... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The entire thread is worth reading. But I want to sidebar to ask *who* thought caffeine-infused pantaloons would ever be a good idea?!!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 27 tenure-track positions and 1 teaching-only position: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 23 tenure-track positions and 1 teaching-only position: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
unfortunately the part of the brain responsible for writing can only be activated by passing through this emotional state. i did in fact NEED to have a full blown emotional breakdown in order to access the proper mental state. this is sustainable and i’m not getting weirder every time.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2026-2027! My goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/Qq4GmF9axXHE... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
Header of Pratt Laboratory website showing a colorful word cloud with terms like "computational," "biomaterials," "medical," and "systems," above the text "Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Biomedical Engineering." *alt-text generated using OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini*
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I love when my brain decides that eggs taste like egg and are therefore morally and gastronomically unacceptable. Had to happen on a fresh carton, too.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm so lucky to have multiple people giving me detailed grant feedback! But I think I need to add a disclaimer about my 10+ yrs of experience publishing short stories before I was a PI. I'm used to evisceration of every word choice. Editing is love! I want to see red dripping from the page! In short
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Tear The Bitch Apart Bitch
ALT: Tear The Bitch Apart Bitch
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is such premium tree law subreddit bait that it *has* to be a troll post🤣.
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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 22/06/2026
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...
A photograph of Octavia E. Butler.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Me, watching Dale briefly consider the consequences of his actions and then still doing the Dalest thing possible. #WidowsBay
Guy pulling off his headset in disgust meme
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
These are an amazing form of science communication! Torn between Whooping Cough or Rabies as my favorite. Wouldn't it be great if they put out a series of one-shot mangas for each disease describing their infection lifecycle?
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Second, what LLMs do is make papier-mâché of their input. So you could put in the best, most carefully curated sources in the world and what would come out would still be some kind of slurry. >>
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Subserviance?!!?!
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
THE CASE OF THE PAWN Murdle for 6/8/2026 👤🔪🏡 🕰️ ✅✅✅ 2️⃣:1️⃣8️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My mind is blown. This an earth shattering (in a good way) result that will have enormous impact for patients, caregivers, and the entire field. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Daraxonrasib or Chemotherapy in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer | NEJM
Current therapies offer limited benefit for patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC). Aberrant activation of the RAS pathway is the key driver of PDAC, w...
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Ok, that's a way cooler explanation than I was expecting!
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is also being observed in New England.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 New preprint from the Feigin Lab! 🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Opioids have profound effects on the pancreatic cancer microenvironment! An FDA-approved opioid antagonist that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier decreases tumor aggressiveness in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer!
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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
One last piece of news to cap off the year.... the Lee lab is now funded by an ✨NSF CAREER✨!!! We'll explore how transgenerational inheritance affects the earliest decisions in C. elegans embryos AND build new CUREs for our first-gen students. 🪱🧬 This is how we feel about being funded! 👇
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨first Bartman lab preprint! it's an LC-MS method to measure "total Coenzyme A" (sum of all acyl-CoAs). this will let us study coA synthesis flux using heavy-isotope tracing! huge congrats to first author Amelia Taylor and star coauthor @mzspectrum.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz
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Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Thrilled to receive the NoA for our first #NIH grant, a NIBIB R21 Trailblazer award! This high-risk/high-reward mechanism will support development of new tools to functionally profile circulating tumor cells (CTCs). A huge round of thanks & applause to NIH staff who are working around the clock!
Screenshot of an NIH Notice of Award document from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Congratulations to coral farmer and future environmental lawyer Demi Johnson #GoodNews "I think the coolest thing I've learned is that oysters actually serve as a filter in the water…And they can serve as a home to over 300 species…" alt-text: image of brilliant Black teen, she is smiling 🌱🪸
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Meet the ninth grader who’s helping restore Mississippi’s oyster reefs
In the past two decades, the oyster population in Mississippi’s Gulf waters has been devastated by both natural and manmade disasters. Among those working to restore oyster habitats is ninth grader De...
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New FeiginLab paper is OUT! A commonly prescribed anti-anxiety drug reduces inflammatory signaling in pancreatic cancer through regulation of cancer-associated fibroblast activity! aacrjournals.org/cancerrescom...
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Alprazolam reduces inflammatory cytokine production in pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts
Abstract. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) diagnoses are often accompanied by a number of physical and psychological symptoms, including anxiety and depression. As a result, many patients are p...
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