Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️🌈
@jasoncmarvin.bsky.social
#BlackLivesMatter | Director of Outreach & Engagement @aimbe-official.bsky.social | Biomedical Engineer & Advocate for Science | Views Are My Own | 📍 D.C.
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I am excited to share that I've accepted a full-time position as the Director of Outreach & Engagement at the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (@aimbe-official.bsky.social)!
Now more than ever, we need advocacy at the forefront of this evolving science policy landscape 📢🧪🧑🔬
Now more than ever, we need advocacy at the forefront of this evolving science policy landscape 📢🧪🧑🔬
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1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
Thrilled to welcome this phenomenal cohort of medical and biological engineering researchers to @aimbe-official.bsky.social's Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)!
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Thrilled to welcome this phenomenal cohort of medical and biological engineering researchers to @aimbe-official.bsky.social's Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)!
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Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
grants.nih.gov
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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AIMBE is thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of Emerging Leaders! Congrats and welcome to the AIMBE community. View and share the press release announcement: aimbe.org/aimbe-select...
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
AIMBE is thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of Emerging Leaders! Congrats and welcome to the AIMBE community. View and share the press release announcement: aimbe.org/aimbe-select...
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Translation: partisan appointees overseeing ICOs can circumvent the peer review process by overriding Impact Scores when determining program grant paylines.
Result: ideological choice over merit, lobbying, and corruption.
Result: ideological choice over merit, lobbying, and corruption.
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Translation: partisan appointees overseeing ICOs can circumvent the peer review process by overriding Impact Scores when determining program grant paylines.
Result: ideological choice over merit, lobbying, and corruption.
Result: ideological choice over merit, lobbying, and corruption.
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If you’re going to be at #ABRCMS, there are a few opportunities to hear from my lab. Nicole is currently applying to graduate school and Lesley is applying to medical school, and both have been EXCELLENT additions to my lab. Come hear about their work! 👇🏾
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If you’re going to be at #ABRCMS, there are a few opportunities to hear from my lab. Nicole is currently applying to graduate school and Lesley is applying to medical school, and both have been EXCELLENT additions to my lab. Come hear about their work! 👇🏾
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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
urldefense.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
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COME ON...between the cost of living and these tuition hikes, public higher education in California is increasingly out of reach for Californians. The state needs to prioritize support like it used to when a UC education was affordable and accessible.
Students from nine UC campuses plan to rally this week against a regents vote on tuition hikes, arguing possible increases make education more inaccessible. UC officials say changes will shield against inflation & make costs more predictable over time:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Students oppose UC tuition hikes. Leaders say campuses need money in the Trump era
The University of California board of regents will vote on whether to increase overall tuition and renew program that keeps tuition costs the each for each new enrolling class. Student leaders strongl...
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
COME ON...between the cost of living and these tuition hikes, public higher education in California is increasingly out of reach for Californians. The state needs to prioritize support like it used to when a UC education was affordable and accessible.
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Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
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7. Another major university system, Texas Tech, attempted to ban “transgender topics” in September. The Texas A&M System is even larger and more consequential. It serves approximately 175,000 students every year.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-univ...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-univ...
Texas Universities Are Now Banning Professors From Even Acknowledging Trans People Exist
Campus officials claim to have no choice but to censor the mere mention of trans people. But that’s not actually the law.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
7. Another major university system, Texas Tech, attempted to ban “transgender topics” in September. The Texas A&M System is even larger and more consequential. It serves approximately 175,000 students every year.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-univ...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-univ...
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1. Texas A&M has voted that Professors must seek out official permission to talk about trans people, sexuality, or race.
One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Texas A&M Votes That Professors Must Have Permission To Discuss Trans People, Sexuality or Race
The Texas Board of Regents said it wasn’t restricting “teaching,” but professors—and a university press release—says otherwise.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
1. Texas A&M has voted that Professors must seek out official permission to talk about trans people, sexuality, or race.
One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Calling all middle TN (including Vanderbilt Univ) folks! Time to get you and all your friends and neighbors to help flip this seat for a candidate that will #standupforscience
BREAKING: Stand up for Science endorses @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-07) for Congress. From speaking at our Nashville rally in March, to advocating for our health and hospitals, Behn is a fighter for science!
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Calling all middle TN (including Vanderbilt Univ) folks! Time to get you and all your friends and neighbors to help flip this seat for a candidate that will #standupforscience
Rounding out my 2025 travel by going home to Texas to attend the #2025ABRCMS Meeting in San Antonio!
I’m looking forward to engaging with the trainees and hear more about their engineering research/work.
If you're at ABRCMS this week, please feel free to reach out 🌮
I’m looking forward to engaging with the trainees and hear more about their engineering research/work.
If you're at ABRCMS this week, please feel free to reach out 🌮
AIMBE has been busy with conferences this month!
Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Rounding out my 2025 travel by going home to Texas to attend the #2025ABRCMS Meeting in San Antonio!
I’m looking forward to engaging with the trainees and hear more about their engineering research/work.
If you're at ABRCMS this week, please feel free to reach out 🌮
I’m looking forward to engaging with the trainees and hear more about their engineering research/work.
If you're at ABRCMS this week, please feel free to reach out 🌮
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HHS re-released a report on gender dysphoria w/ a set of peer reviews
But, @theresagaff.bsky.social & Annalisa Merelli write many of the authors & reviewers are outspoken critics of gender affirming care
www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
But, @theresagaff.bsky.social & Annalisa Merelli write many of the authors & reviewers are outspoken critics of gender affirming care
www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
HHS names authors and releases peer-review comments for gender dysphoria report
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups
www.statnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
HHS re-released a report on gender dysphoria w/ a set of peer reviews
But, @theresagaff.bsky.social & Annalisa Merelli write many of the authors & reviewers are outspoken critics of gender affirming care
www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
But, @theresagaff.bsky.social & Annalisa Merelli write many of the authors & reviewers are outspoken critics of gender affirming care
www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
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NIH LRP application due date extended to Dec 4th. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-010: Notice of Change in Application Due Date for NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Change in Application Due Date for NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program NOT-OD-26-010. OD
grants.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NIH LRP application due date extended to Dec 4th. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
HHS names authors and releases peer-review comments for gender dysphoria report
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups
www.statnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
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Students from nine UC campuses plan to rally this week against a regents vote on tuition hikes, arguing possible increases make education more inaccessible. UC officials say changes will shield against inflation & make costs more predictable over time:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Students oppose UC tuition hikes. Leaders say campuses need money in the Trump era
The University of California board of regents will vote on whether to increase overall tuition and renew program that keeps tuition costs the each for each new enrolling class. Student leaders strongl...
www.latimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Students from nine UC campuses plan to rally this week against a regents vote on tuition hikes, arguing possible increases make education more inaccessible. UC officials say changes will shield against inflation & make costs more predictable over time:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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In reality, morale of cancer scientists is very bad. Ask me how I know.
NEW/Exclusive: I obtained a recording of the new National Cancer Institute director's first town hall. A well respected Harvard clinician and researcher, he is now attempting to walk a very fine line.
"With regard to morale, I don't know what to tell you other than, I don't think things are bad."
"With regard to morale, I don't know what to tell you other than, I don't think things are bad."
New NCI Director Says Administration Overtly Hostile to Cancer Research Is "Not Backing Away" From Cancer Research
A recording of the new director's first town hall reveals how he is trying to walk a difficult line between optimism and clear-eyed realism.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In reality, morale of cancer scientists is very bad. Ask me how I know.
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A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine.
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Yesterday, Drs. Beraud and Marvin and Sarah organized a networking event during the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social Meeting in Baltimore.
We were delighted to connect with nearly 20 AIMBE Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Council Representatives over an evening of food and conversation 🍤
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We were delighted to connect with nearly 20 AIMBE Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Council Representatives over an evening of food and conversation 🍤
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Yesterday, Drs. Beraud and Marvin and Sarah organized a networking event during the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social Meeting in Baltimore.
We were delighted to connect with nearly 20 AIMBE Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Council Representatives over an evening of food and conversation 🍤
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We were delighted to connect with nearly 20 AIMBE Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Council Representatives over an evening of food and conversation 🍤
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Reposted by Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️🌈
AIMBE has been busy with conferences this month!
Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
AIMBE has been busy with conferences this month!
Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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Last week, @dawnberaud.bsky.social hosted a session titled "The Importance of Advocacy in BME Research" @termisam.bsky.social which featured talks from AIMBE Fellows @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social, @profharley.bsky.social, and Dr. Joyce Wong.
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Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID.
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID.
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
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Powerful story from @danielpayne.bsky.social at STAT on steps that could derail vaccines for years or worse.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/t...
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www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/t...
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Trump and RFK Jr. are mulling their most disruptive vaccine policies yet — alarming manufacturers
Trump and Kennedy are considering removing aluminum from vaccines and breaking up shots that protect against multiple diseases.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Powerful story from @danielpayne.bsky.social at STAT on steps that could derail vaccines for years or worse.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/t...
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www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/t...
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