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Joe Bondy-Denomy @jbdsf.bsky.social · 14d

Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist!
aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

Microbiology and Immunology – Faculty Position (Ladder Rank) – Assistant Professor

University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.ucsf.edu

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Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social · Jul 18

Learn more about @dukeengineering.bsky.social 's new Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation! Watch how we equip clinicians to find, track & treat disease. Featuring @drjessilyn.bsky.social @monicaagrawal.bsky.social @cameronkimbme.bsky.social.

WebsEdge Science @websedgescience.bsky.social · Jul 17

Explore how @profamandarandles.bsky.social‬ at @duke-university.bsky.social‬ is using AI & wearables to detect diseases before symptoms appear & to monitor them. This is how we transform healthcare from from 1-size-fits-all to precisely yours. @embs.org‬ #EMBC2025 youtu.be/NS6hOGCK1ec

Find, Track, Treat – Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation

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IEEE BSN 2025 @ieeebsn.bsky.social · Jun 8

🚀 Good news! The #BSN2025 Call for Papers & Abstracts deadline is EXTENDED!

New deadline: June 22, 2025

Get your cutting-edge research on #DigitalHealth, #wearables, & #BodySensorNetworks ready! Don't miss out.

🔗 bsn.embs.org/2025/

#IEEE #BSN2025 #CFP

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Jun 15

Tons of people in Durham showed up for the No Kings rally today! Thanks @jessiet1023.bsky.social for the toddler support :)

Sign in front of toddler that says “protect my future, not his ego”

Women dressed up as handmaids at the rally

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Katey Rich @kateyrich.bsky.social · Jun 14

Just an unending stream of people in glorious Durham North Carolina

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Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social · Apr 30

📣 Call for Papers! The IEEE-EMBS Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2025 conference is now open for submissions.

Proud to share that #CDHI Center member @drjessilyn.bsky.social is a Technical Program Co-Chair!

🔗 bsn.embs.org/2025/

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Apr 4

Sayan was a wonderful colleague and will be deeply missed

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Mar 19

So thrilled to be on the TPC for #BSN2025! It is going to be a great meeting!

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IEEE BSN 2025 @ieeebsn.bsky.social · Mar 10

We are very excited to announce the call for papers for the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2025) to be held in the stunning city of Los Angeles, California, USA. Please visit bsn.embs.org/2025/contrib... for details #BSN2025

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Mar 10

As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.

Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · Mar 10

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities. The letters are addressed to all U.S. universities that are presently under investigation for Title VI violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

“The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws.”

The schools that received letters from the Office for Civil Rights include:

American University
Arizona State University
Boston University
Brown University
California State University, Sacramento
Chapman University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Drexel University
Eastern Washington University
Emerson College
George Mason University
Harvard University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Middlebury College
Muhlenberg College
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Pacific Lutheran University
Pomona College
Portland State University

Princeton University
Rutgers University
Rutgers University-Newark
Santa Monica College
Sarah Lawrence College
Stanford University
State University of New York Binghamton
State University of New York Rockland
State University of New York, Purchase
Swarthmore College
Temple University
The New School
Tufts University
Tulane University
Union College
University of California Davis
University of California San Diego
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California, Berkeley
University of Cincinnati
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
University of North Carolina
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Tampa
University of Tennessee
University of Virginia
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wellesley College
Whitman College
Yale University

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Association for Health Learning and Inference (AHLI) @ahli-cc.bsky.social · Mar 7

For #CHIL2025, we're gathering top literature from 2024 in AI & healthcare. "Top" can mean an exciting topic, a method you found extremely useful, or a game-changing dataset. Drop your recommendations (and why you chose them) in the coments below! 👇

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Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) @rccn-aging.org · Feb 27

Revisit the 2022 RCCN Workshop ‘mHealth and Digital Health Approaches to Research in Aging’ with these recommendations from the workshop publication, originally published in Innovation in Aging: bit.ly/3CYAKqD #AgingResearch #mHealth #DigitalHealth

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Mar 4

Very excited to be the Workshop/Tutorial co-chair! Hope to see lots of great submissions!

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IEEE BHI 2025 @ieeebhi.bsky.social · Feb 28

We are very excited to announce the call for papers for the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2025) to be held in the beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Please visit bhi.embs.org/2025/papers/ for details #BHI2025 #HealthInformatics #biomedical

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Mar 3

Seems like the rate limiter is the number of sensors? @yann-lecun.bsky.social

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Feb 14

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

www.whitehouse.gov

Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Feb 14

While there are some aspects of this EO that could be promising, like focusing research on prevention as opposed to reactive medicine, there are a lot of concerning specifics. I highlight here just two.

Screenshot highlighting the bullet described above in the post

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Feb 8

Science is absolutely key to the US's success but this government's intention to now dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree and expecting it to continue to flourish.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · Feb 7

Is this our line in the sand? How can we review NIH applications knowing they specifically exclude members of our community?

Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · Feb 7

The members of the review panel should refuse to serve unless the applications are reinstated.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · Feb 7

The members of the review panel should refuse to serve unless the applications are reinstated.

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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · Feb 7

Reducing the indirect rate on NIH grants to 15% will kill biomedical and health research in the US. I'm not exaggerating here. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is an insane move for NIH to make when the obvious answer is to review all the F grants this cycle as a single pool.

Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · Feb 7

My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.

Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · Feb 5

The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?

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Radical.Rachel.Love 🖤 @radrachellove.bsky.social · Feb 7

My NIH NINDS Workforce Diversity Success Story is no longer on the NIH website. "403 Access Denied".

Radical.Rachel.Love 🖤 @radrachellove.bsky.social · Nov 18

Re-posting this article I wrote in March 2020.

Ahéhee' (thank you) to the #NIH #NINDS for allowing me to share my story about my journey as a Native #BiomedicalEngineer and Co-Founder & CEO of a #MedTEch company!

Native engineers/scientists please feel free to contact me!

Click>>
bit.ly/rld-nih

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Jessilyn Dunn @drjessilyn.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thank you so much!!!!

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