Paulyn Cartwright
@pcart.bsky.social
researcher, educator, invertebrate enthusiast, mom, concerned citizen
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"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! #shorts
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
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November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.
Enjoying the view from the lab @mblscience.bsky.social. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.
September 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Enjoying the view from the lab @mblscience.bsky.social. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.
Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
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August 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Congrats Marina!
First, first-author paper alert!
“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
🦑🧪
“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
🦑🧪
Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris
Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn
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August 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Congrats Marina!
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All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.
On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.
July 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.
Yep!
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yep!
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Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline
Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU
biodiversity.ku.edu
July 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
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it's another purge: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
it's another purge: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n... via @statnews.com
Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states
Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.
www.statnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n... via @statnews.com
The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.
I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.
June 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.
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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.
Judge Young's final order has been posted.
I have not yet had a chance to read it you, but go at it.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I have not yet had a chance to read it you, but go at it.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/n
storage.courtlistener.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.
Excited to participate in the non-bilaterian symposium at #PASEDB2025.
Calling all lovers of Non-bilaterian EvoDevo!! 🪸😍
We have amazing speakers for the Non-Bilaterian Satellite symposia at the #PASEDB2025
@pcart.bsky.social @jacobmusser.bsky.social @jlmah.bsky.social
Organizers: Organizers: Drs. Athula Wikramanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke.bsky.social
We have amazing speakers for the Non-Bilaterian Satellite symposia at the #PASEDB2025
@pcart.bsky.social @jacobmusser.bsky.social @jlmah.bsky.social
Organizers: Organizers: Drs. Athula Wikramanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excited to participate in the non-bilaterian symposium at #PASEDB2025.
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Stay tuned. More to come.
Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
Judge Young was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here he excoriates the Trump Administration's termination of grants at NIH. This is just the start of a process. But it is ground-breaking and good news for today.
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Stay tuned. More to come.
Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
Judge Young was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here he excoriates the Trump Administration's termination of grants at NIH. This is just the start of a process. But it is ground-breaking and good news for today.
🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
June 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
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Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria issue of the journal Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology @nilese.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very excited to have this paper with Luke Strotz out in 50th Anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria issue of the journal Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology @nilese.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Honored to be awarded the Whitman Fellowship and can't wait to be in my element this Fall @mblscience.bsky.social .
MBL Awards Whitman Center Fellowships to 24 Outstanding Investigators | Marine Biological Laboratory
www.mbl.edu
June 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Honored to be awarded the Whitman Fellowship and can't wait to be in my element this Fall @mblscience.bsky.social .
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Meet @stoilovamarina.bsky.social
(eeb.ku.edu/people/stoil... )
ICB submitting author
Have you ever seen #jellyfish eyes?
Here we have to two #Cladonema sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
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ICB submitting author
Have you ever seen #jellyfish eyes?
Here we have to two #Cladonema sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
June 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Meet @stoilovamarina.bsky.social
(eeb.ku.edu/people/stoil... )
ICB submitting author
Have you ever seen #jellyfish eyes?
Here we have to two #Cladonema sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
(eeb.ku.edu/people/stoil... )
ICB submitting author
Have you ever seen #jellyfish eyes?
Here we have to two #Cladonema sp. medusae full of orange brine shrimp after feeding. If you look closely at the base of their tentacle bulb, you can see their tiny eye spots.
Nematostella farts through an anus!
We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nematostella farts through an anus!