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Caroline Bartman
@cbartman.bsky.social
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brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
Thanks @vineethvengayil.bsky.social for fancying up the lab cart 😍
A cart that says “Bartman Lab Rover in search of the metabolome”
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
The broken windows theory of airports
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
I mean when I was young I did want to be a writer

but I thought the thing I was writing would be more fun to read than grants
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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translatormonkey.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
I’m in the bar. I’m in the bookstore. I’m in the bar slash bookstore. (I love San Antonio!)
A beer and a pile of books
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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christianlandry.bsky.social
#CancerGenetics people: I am looking for examples of tumor suppressor genes that are inactivated in cancers by regulatory mutations (non-coding) rather than coding mutations. Please share.
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Caroline Bartman
nickseaver.website
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
jjofbc.bsky.social Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 8d
fake evo-psych has cooked a lot of people's brains
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
'Approximately 1 in 30 trials and more than 74 000 trial participants were affected by grant funding disruptions. Affected trials disproportionately studied infectious diseases, prevention, and behavioral interventions, and were based in the Northeastern US or in other countries.'
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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magnoliabouton.bsky.social
“If this administration thinks that summarily ousting NIH employees whose only offense is calling on the agency to respect science and academic freedom will go unnoticed, they can think again.”

www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
Senator Murray Slams Outrageous Political Retaliation at NIH, Demands Answers from Trump Administration - Senator Patty Murray
Vice Chair Murray in June to NIH Director Bhattacharya: “You just received a letter signed by hundreds of your own staff who believe this administration’s actions risk breaking NIH and the lifesaving ...
www.murray.senate.gov
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
cbartman.bsky.social
my love language is people emailing me on the day that we're meeting, reminding me that we're meeting
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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mattschabathphd.bsky.social
🧪🧪 Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94 -- Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionized the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus

hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/04/n...
Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94
Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus
hub.jhu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.

Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Headline: Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China Subhed: China is attracting American scientific talent, especially in STEM fields, partly due to funding cuts and immigration restrictions under President Donald Trump.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Reposted by Caroline Bartman
mariebillaud.bsky.social
Woaw, big news. Good news.

Thanks @sthilaire.bsky.social for the Intel

@wesa.fm

www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
NIH under Trump wanted to slash indirect research costs to 15%. Pitt just signed an agreement at 59%
Pitt and the Department of Health and Human Services have agreed to maintain the school’s current 59% reimbursement rate for ancillary research costs through 2029.
www.wesa.fm
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
How is my day going? My child dropped food on the floor and then I went to pick it up and she dropped food on me

So just a regular Wednesday 😂
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
I study the tumor macro environment

(Me trying to submit a grant about basic kidney biology to a cancer foundation)
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
anyone else going to ABRCMS this month?

So excited to see all the work the students present and to talk to attendees about Penn grad programs!
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
As a PI I am like a dilettante hobbyist of cell culture

Once in a while I like to glance at some cells

I use the hemocytometer to manually count cells just to show my lab members it’s possible

I walk through and give the incubators a nice pat daily
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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matthewherper.bsky.social
OMG.

Arena BioWorks, an ambitious biomedical institute backed by billionaires, abruptly shuts down www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a... via @statnews.com
Arena BioWorks, an ambitious biomedical institute backed by billionaires, abruptly shuts down
Exclusive: Arena Bioworks, the buzzy research institute that launched with $500 million to support a decade of scientific R&D, is abruptly shutting down, STAT has learned.
www.statnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
cbartman.bsky.social
biology is so cool because like every week someone is like "Dr. Smith is coming to campus! She is the world expert in blargyblarg!"

And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
cbartman.bsky.social
seeing a lotta grant posts that want to me to solve problems using artificial intelligence
consider instead giving me a grant to use CAROLINE INTELLIGENCE
slower and dumber but MORE PUNS
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM