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Margaret Gardel

@squishycell.bsky.social
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Prof. of Physics, Cell Biology and Molecular Engineering @ UChicago. Passionate about all the squishy matter driving dynamics and function from sub-cellular to tissue scales.

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Dimitris Vavylonis @dvavylonis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.
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SeppeKuehnLab @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Schmidt AI + Science. Amazing fellowship opportunity at UChicago! apply.interfolio.com/173322
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Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Lab Clean Up 2025- a decade of posters to be removed to make way for new. So fun to spend time looking at work in progress from awesome alumni for a few minutes!
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Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Teaching at MBL physiology was such a gift! @mblscience.bsky.social
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
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MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We will miss Shailaja, but are very excited for her to launch a new mechanobiology lab!
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 24/06/2025
I set up a substack. What better topic to start with than the question of whether we're overproducing PhD students. clauswilke.substack.com/p/are-we-ove...
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Are we overproducing PhD students?
Every few years, reliably like clockwork, somebody claims that we’re producing too many PhD students.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The fantastically successful NIGMS MIRA R35 "expired" on May 17, after the most recent deadline--these removals are the most aggressive attack on American science in the current series of devastating actions 🧪
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Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Here is how NIH is communicating with graduate students who applied for the now discontinued K99 program designed to support students from underrepresented backgrounds. It is disgusting. "This application responded to a discontinued program that no longer effectuated NIH priorities
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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I'm the 1st scientist in my family. My parents were amazed I could attend @caltech.edu, an elite private school, for my PhD studies FOR FREE. In fact, I was paid to become a PhD chemist. STEM is a pathway to a good career. I study TB- a disease that impacts millions. Fund NIH.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding | Nature
Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action. Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.
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The Zanic Lab @zaniclab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Join us for the exciting Cell Dynamics Symposium at Vanderbilt! Poster deadline coming up May 12th. Everyone welcome - please repost!
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Gottardi Lab @carajgottardi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"If NIH budget money, designated by Congress to be spent on medical cures, doesn’t go out over the next few months, all US scientists are looking at budget cuts that will not just take away cures but harm local economies." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Yes this is true. The last dispersement to Northwestern was on March 27th. This is insance and is impacting important research and may cause the US to lose a generation of young scientists who would have made tomorrows important discoveries
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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Harvard may have a lot of issues, but none of the accusations in this acid-tripping letter are it. Don't know whether to laugh or cry as I watch monkeys tear up pearl strings.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
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Kara Marshall PHD-History of Science in America - Trilogy at Tehaleh 04/27/25
YouTube video by Steve Lawson
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Suri Vaikuntanathan @vaikuntsuri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
check out new work by Deb in collaboration with Martin, @squishycell.bsky.social , Aleks Walczak and Thierry Mora : arxiv.org/abs/2504.15107 o on how simple mechanosensitive agents can enable learning mechanisms
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Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks
In this work we show how a network inspired by a coarse-grained description of actomyosin cytoskeleton can learn - in a contrastive learning framework - from environmental perturbations if it is endow...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2025
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.
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