Evren Azeloglu
@azeloglu.bsky.social
Professor, Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Precision kidney medicine and mechanobiology using bioengineering and systems biology methods.
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Evren Azeloglu
@azeloglu.bsky.social
· May 27
Automated atomic force microscopy analysis using convolutional and recurrent neural networks
Atomic force microscope (AFM) indentation allows high-resolution spatial characterization of biomechanical properties of cells and tissues. Rapid, rep…
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American scientific enterprise, modern world order and democracy may be in peril but our @biophysj.bsky.social paper is coming out, so we felt compelled to share before everything implodes.
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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⌛Reminder: Travel grant applications for the September 2025 #KPMP Meeting are still open!
If you're an #earlycareerinvestigator working in kidney research, don't miss this opportunity!
Apply here before the deadline closes on 07/11 at 5:00 PM ET:
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If you're an #earlycareerinvestigator working in kidney research, don't miss this opportunity!
Apply here before the deadline closes on 07/11 at 5:00 PM ET:
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May 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
⌛Reminder: Travel grant applications for the September 2025 #KPMP Meeting are still open!
If you're an #earlycareerinvestigator working in kidney research, don't miss this opportunity!
Apply here before the deadline closes on 07/11 at 5:00 PM ET:
app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2ea5d...
If you're an #earlycareerinvestigator working in kidney research, don't miss this opportunity!
Apply here before the deadline closes on 07/11 at 5:00 PM ET:
app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2ea5d...
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Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
American scientific enterprise, modern world order and democracy may be in peril but our @biophysj.bsky.social paper is coming out, so we felt compelled to share before everything implodes.
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Automated atomic force microscopy analysis using convolutional and recurrent neural networks
Atomic force microscope (AFM) indentation allows high-resolution spatial characterization of biomechanical properties of cells and tissues. Rapid, rep…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
American scientific enterprise, modern world order and democracy may be in peril but our @biophysj.bsky.social paper is coming out, so we felt compelled to share before everything implodes.
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A small step for #AI, a huge leap for #mechanobiology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Incredibly spot-on. 😆
May 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Incredibly spot-on. 😆
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Tiny indeed but we'll take it.
NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/n...
NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window
A tiny ray of positive news has sunbeamed through the storm clouds. The NIH has announced (NOT-OD-25-114) that Early Stage Investigators (ESI) who reached the end of their eligibility from the Fall…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Tiny indeed but we'll take it.
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About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...
Who's calling the shots at NIH?
Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder.
DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder.
DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
On top of all grant cancellations, there is this.
We should probably remind folks that while the presidents may be immune per SCOTUS, pretty much everyone else can be prosecuted for this clearly illegal move.
We should probably remind folks that while the presidents may be immune per SCOTUS, pretty much everyone else can be prosecuted for this clearly illegal move.
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
On top of all grant cancellations, there is this.
We should probably remind folks that while the presidents may be immune per SCOTUS, pretty much everyone else can be prosecuted for this clearly illegal move.
We should probably remind folks that while the presidents may be immune per SCOTUS, pretty much everyone else can be prosecuted for this clearly illegal move.
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Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.
It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.
The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.
The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.
It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.
The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.
The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
Interview with @baym.lol lays out eloquently: how his work serves the public and how devastating weaponizing federal grants is. Couldn't have said it any better. Everyone should listen.
@baym.lol is an exceptional scientist, a valued colleague, & a wonderful mentor (with a great sense of humor). Please do take a few minutes to listen to his story here.
The deleterious impact to science, scientists, students, & the economy (cc: @kairyssdal.bsky.social) is unfolding in front of us
The deleterious impact to science, scientists, students, & the economy (cc: @kairyssdal.bsky.social) is unfolding in front of us
Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts
Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.
www.wbur.org
May 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Interview with @baym.lol lays out eloquently: how his work serves the public and how devastating weaponizing federal grants is. Couldn't have said it any better. Everyone should listen.
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I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
May 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
One needs to remind her that she is free to have relationships with any and all farmers, and to pet any and all cows, or do both at the same time.
Just don't try to feed raw milk to children.
Just don't try to feed raw milk to children.
Sometimes, but not all of the time, your child who drinks raw milk will develop kidney failure and they will sometimes, but not always, recover.
It’s not a risk I would be willing to take.
It’s not a risk I would be willing to take.
“When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
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— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
May 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One needs to remind her that she is free to have relationships with any and all farmers, and to pet any and all cows, or do both at the same time.
Just don't try to feed raw milk to children.
Just don't try to feed raw milk to children.
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We are continuing to look into grant terminations at the NIH, and we want to hear from you.
Please reach out to us with your experiences: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Please reach out to us with your experiences: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We are continuing to look into grant terminations at the NIH, and we want to hear from you.
Please reach out to us with your experiences: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Please reach out to us with your experiences: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Read up on how things are rotting from the core, while we still have free journalists.
I was naively thinking that the ship was sinking as in ancient Rome, but this is more from the soviet story line...
I was naively thinking that the ship was sinking as in ancient Rome, but this is more from the soviet story line...
Matthew Memoli, a middling researcher at NIH, criticized COVID vaccine mandates and DEI, and was chosen by Trump to dismantle NIH. Memoli becomes NIH’s principal deputy director and awards himself and close collaborator Jeffery Taubenberger up to $500 million for in-house vaccine research. Cool.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
www.theatlantic.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Read up on how things are rotting from the core, while we still have free journalists.
I was naively thinking that the ship was sinking as in ancient Rome, but this is more from the soviet story line...
I was naively thinking that the ship was sinking as in ancient Rome, but this is more from the soviet story line...
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Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research
The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
So the $55B question is: did the American scientific enterprise die already?
May 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So the $55B question is: did the American scientific enterprise die already?
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🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨
We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win!
We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science.
#standupforscience
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We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win!
We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science.
#standupforscience
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Stand Up For Science Summer Campaign!
Can you help us mobilize the fight for science and democracy? Every contribution matters!
actionnetwork.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨
We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win!
We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science.
#standupforscience
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win!
We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science.
#standupforscience
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
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February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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For those of you who may be unaware: NIH, the biggest funder of biomedical research on the planet, has not made any new funding decisions since January 21 because it needs to hold meetings that are declared on the Federal Register. No meetings = no funding.
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
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By @avaskham.bsky.social
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For those of you who may be unaware: NIH, the biggest funder of biomedical research on the planet, has not made any new funding decisions since January 21 because it needs to hold meetings that are declared on the Federal Register. No meetings = no funding.
It's too bad we don't have any funds to check his heart or bones.
When they are through with it, there won't be a single brick left on the U.S. science enterprise.
When they are through with it, there won't be a single brick left on the U.S. science enterprise.
How can we know whether there is anti-science in his heart? I'm sure there's not an anti-science bone in his body.
Never mind the unprecedented and widespread destruction to science Trump, Musk, and cronies are doing.
Some of the scientists quoted in that article need to smarten up.
Never mind the unprecedented and widespread destruction to science Trump, Musk, and cronies are doing.
Some of the scientists quoted in that article need to smarten up.
February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's too bad we don't have any funds to check his heart or bones.
When they are through with it, there won't be a single brick left on the U.S. science enterprise.
When they are through with it, there won't be a single brick left on the U.S. science enterprise.
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They do not understand how all of this will affect their lives. When all this is done, I suspect some medical schools to either close or decrease the size of their program. How is that good for the country? If you think finding a PCP is hard now, wait till that happens.
February 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
They do not understand how all of this will affect their lives. When all this is done, I suspect some medical schools to either close or decrease the size of their program. How is that good for the country? If you think finding a PCP is hard now, wait till that happens.