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Stephanie Smelyansky

@ssmelyansky.bsky.social
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PhD @ MIT in the Kiessling Group | Yale ‘19 🐶 | lover of all things chemical biology, microbes, and glycans 🦠🔬

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 43 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Also, thanks for letting me host the glow party karaoke 😉 for the sake of everyone’s dignity no videos shall be shared here, but I think everyone had plenty of fun and it was a much needed sense of relief for our little corner of the science universe
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After the GRS, I was lucky to stay for the Bioorganic Chemistry GRC, chaired by Denise Field and @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social. This meeting is truly one of my favorite weeks of the year, and as every year, I learned so much and left the meeting so inspired in my own science!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Massive thanks to our keynote speaker, @mbogyo.bsky.social, and our career panelists Prof. JP Maianti, @ritastrack.bsky.social, and Dr. Ziad Ganim as well for sharing your science and safe words of wisdom throughout the meeting. We were so happy to have you at the GRS!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Last week, I had the privilege of chairing the Bioorganic Chemistry GRS with my amazing co-chair @zhilindseylin.bsky.social. Thank you to all of our amazing speakers, poster presenters for a truly incredibly GRS!
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is an excellent article on the termination of all federal funding at Harvard. This visualization shows all of the terminated programs that were supposed to train the next generation of scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Image showing all ~$2 billion in grants terminated at Harvard, highlighting the many terminated grants that were focused on training and career development
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Check off glycosylation!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Can confirm it’s new this year (or at least hasn’t been done for the last two years).
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We are trying to post printouts of job ads in the vestibule of the conference center! So if anyone wants us to advertise post doc positions, please let us know so we can make them public!
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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We are happy to seek 3 post-docs across Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow & UCL in an exciting project to investigate mechanisms linking glial ageing/longevity & neurodegeneration (MRC-funded). Info attached @nathanwoodling.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
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Joe Greener @jgreener64.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Interested in a postdoc position combining computational protein design and molecular simulation? There is an open position in my group at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, UK. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Feel free to message me with any questions.
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Structural Studies - Dr Joe Greener - LMB 2633 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12840475
Postdoctoral Scientist Salary £41,344 per annum  Fixed Term – 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK We are looking for a postd...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Heading to the Biorganic GRC tomorrow! I will be on a GRS career panel and will be representing both Nature Methods and Nature Chemistry as an editor! Pitch me your papers!!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 06/06/2025
During my recent Europe trip, I kept getting asked why we are not in the streets every day protesting. Here is your chance, San Diego. Join us today at noon. I will give brief remarks. See you at UCSD. actionnetwork.org/events/stand...
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Stand Up for Science Education Summer Send Off
At this rally, we will stand up for science education and highlight how cuts to funding will impact the pipeline of discovery, education, and training.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Bioorganic GRC is set! I got tired of the lack of swag so made a couple of unofficial tees. Order one if you want to support the conference (or simply enjoy strange looks in grocery stores). Spirit: chembio-shop.fourthwall.com/products/grc... World Tour: chembio-shop.fourthwall.com/products/spi...
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Preliminary score: ND
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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Practical course on bioimage analysis!
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live! Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops Please repost and share widely! Some more info in 🧵 1/
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ChemKritzer @chemkritzer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Boston-area pharma/biotech people! Are you considering a future in teaching? Tufts Chemistry has a new part-time Professor of the Practice position focused on mentoring graduate students for a future in research. Please apply, or DM me with your questions! apply.interfolio.com/168150
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Potential follow-up? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119522...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi: 9780812979305 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical' Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
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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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/05/2025
Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Share Your “Why” In Support of a Strong National Institutes of Health
United for Medical Research (UMR) is launching a campaign called "My Why" to highlight the critical role of NIH funding and its impact on the education and careers of researchers and scientists as wel...
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Done!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"If I’m told to build a computer, I am trained to first ask how fast it needs to operate, not how it will be used. If I’m told to build a highway, I am trained to first ask how many cars need to fit on it, not how many people will be displaced by its path."
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I don't think I posted about this yet. COME WORK WITH US AT NATURE METHODS! This is a rare opportunity, and we can't wait for our new colleague. Feel free to contact me with questions.
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Which rep did you call? Similarly live in a blue district and want to ensure the calls I make are actually useful.
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I fundraised for the Alzheimer’s Association when I ran the Chicago marathon. Proud of this organization for standing up for the science and for the NIH.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
America’s long-term growth is at stake. Congress is weighing sweeping FY2026 cuts to fundamental science, including $18 billion from the NIH and $5 billion from the NSF. In the long run, these cuts will cost the economy billions. @jdrakephd.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'm so excited to have you as our speaker! Since many grad students who defend earlier in the year (like myself) choose not to walk at commencement, one of the reasons I decided to go to commencement was for your address!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/05/2025
Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is good talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
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A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
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MIT Department of Chemistry @mitchemistry.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. Their findings could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-ne...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'd like to thank everyone who helped out with the paper, especially @cwma.bsky.social , who really helped me push this paper over the finish line, as well as my other coauthors, @vicmarando.bsky.social, @lsoyoung.bsky.social, Greg Babunovic, and @thebrysonlab.bsky.social!
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
MIT News did a great press release on the piece, and highlighted the potential of this approach for developing new, inexpensive molecular diagnostics for Mtb news.mit.edu/2025/new-mol...
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New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests
MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Excited to share that my first first author paper is now out in @pnas.org ! We show that we can use oxaziridines to label thioether containing glycans in Mtb. Using this approach we could visualize key glycans during model infection! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Laura Kiessling @laurakiessling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Lead author @ssmelyansky.bsky.social spearheaded a strategy to label a single sulfur-containing glycan called ManLAM on the cell envelope of the bacteria that cause #TB. news.mit.edu/2025/new-mol... or here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #glycotime @mitchemistry.bsky.social
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New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests
MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Congrats Bryan!
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
MIT is asking Alumni to SPEAK UP, giving them talking points and encouraging them to contact their legislature. This is huge. ORGANIZE! We can do this!! *Sorry - I deleted a prior post because it had an error in the caption
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Chemical biologist here 🙋‍♀️ I occasionally use LLMs to learn how to use a new software, look up data analysis methods, and sometimes do lit searches, but ChatGPT generates fake citations/doesn't cite "good" papers so have to be really careful with that. All told, kinda useful but my own work is better
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
Flyer for the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium (including QR code in top right corner). This symposium highlights the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, and community engagement. These early career scientists are preparing to launch a faculty search. Applications are due May 30th, 2025.
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
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US Applicant Week
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The real problem about science isn't about loss of trust. It's about not having a voice, a counter. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... Whai if the 300,000 scientists supported by NIH stood up? Or even half of them. Instead of <1%
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Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
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Nicholas Tay @malayoman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Excited to share that our protein editing method from the Muir Lab is now published in @science.org We believe that protein transposition will enable new biochemical studies of PTMs and open up new intersections of proteins and small molecules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protein editing using a coordinated transposition reaction
Protein engineering through the ligation of polypeptide fragments has proven enormously powerful for studying biochemical processes. In general, this strategy necessitates a final protein-folding step...
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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Congrats, Nick!!!
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