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Nafisa Jadavji, PhD, FAHA @nafisajadavji.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @bwfund.bsky.social for their support! Our team (@drkozik.bsky.social @drchristsmith.bsky.social @lilyycheng.bsky.social, Ada Haagan, and Amanda Haage) has been collecting data since 2018 on the faculty job market, check out our work at: faculty-job-market-collab.org

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Peaches von Strangle @vantablackvamp.blacksky.app · 17d

Happy Earth, Wind and Fire DAY!!!!

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · Sep 4

I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.

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Ouija F. Baby @heartbreakscholar.bsky.social · Aug 20

My senior thesis was titled “The osteological manifestations of enslavement”

The number of parry fractures in adult and sub-adult bones was heartbreaking.

(A parry fracture is a broken ulna resulting from trying to block a direct strike to the face or upper body)

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Aug 20

idk - branding humans like cattle, chaining them to dead bodies, feeding them to each other, filling them with gunpowder then blowing them up, burying them alive for insects to eat -- it being so bad mothers killed their children and people jumped from ships to drown

seems, like, super bad dude

is slaves to feed the others with the flesh. They died not
only from the regime but from grief and rage and despair.
They undertook vast hunger strikes; undid their chains
and hurled themselves on the crew in futile attempts at
insurrection. What could these inland tribesmen do on the
open sea, in a complicated sailing vessel? To brighten their
spirits it became the custom to have them up on the deck
once a day and force them to dance. Some took the oppor
tunity to jump overboard, uttering cries of triumph as they
cleared the vessel and disappeared below the surface.
Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty in the crew.
One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and
dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each
of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with
the same torture .• Such incidents were not rare. Given the
circumstances such things were (and are) inevitable. Nor
did the system spare the slavers. Every year one-fifth of all
who took part in the Mrican trade died.
All America and the West Indies took slaves. When
the ship reached the harbour. the cargo came up on deck
to be bought. The purchasers examined them for defects.
looked at the teeth, pinched the skin, sometimes tasted the
perspiration to see if the slave's blood was pure and his
health as good as his appearance. Some of the women af
fected a curiosity, the indulgence of which, with a horse,
would have caused them to be kicked 20 yards across the
deck. But the slave had to stand it. Then in order to restore
the dignity which might have been lost by too intimate an
examination, the purchaser spat in the face of the slave.
Having become the property of his owner, he was branded
on both sides of the breast with a hot iron. His duties were
explained to him by an interpreter, and a priest instructed
him in the first principles of Christianity.1

he massacre of the whites was a tragedy; not for the
whites. For these old slave-owners, those who burnt a little
powder in the arse of a Negro, who buried him alive for
insects to eat, who were well treated by Toussaint, and
who, as soon as they got the chance, began their old cruel
ties again; for these there is no need to waste one tear or
one drop of ink. The tragedy was for the blacks and the
Mulattoes. It was not policy but revenge, and revenge has
no place in politics. The whites were no longer to be feared,
and such purposeless massacres degrade and brutalise a
population, especially one which was just beginning as a
nation and had had so bitter a past. The people did not
want it--all the wanted was freedom. and independence

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Aug 7

OD600

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Aug 7

Correct

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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you applied to assistant professor positions in North America in 2024-2025, we want to hear from you as we continue to collect data on the applicant experience.
Thanks also to @bwfund.bsky.social for their support of our work!
Link to 2024-25 Applicant Survey.
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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · Jul 29

Are you planning to apply for faculty positions in North America this Fall? Our team of researchers have synthesized 3 years of applicant survey data to create a dashboard to allow assistant professor candidates to see where they stand.
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Explore Our Data | Faculty Job Market Collaboration

A record of our team's research and funding.

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Phil Hare's Ghost @mrlepus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Wrong. It is, and always will be, this.

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High-pitched voice theory - Neanderthal - BBC science

YouTube video by BBC Studios

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 24

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thrilled to share the first preprint from my group! Prevotella are predominant but understudied members of the respiratory microbiome. They have a reputation for being hard to work with, but understanding them is likely important for understanding how they contribute to respiratory health. 🧫🔬

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jul 5

Development of a basal media for carbon utilization assay and analysis of the starch utilization locus in Prevotella melaninogenica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663206v1

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. /Fin

The text of the poem
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · Jun 13

FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations.

If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Jun 13

Wolfgang Amadeus indeed. I think you are thinking of Confutatis, which is absolutely the next track I listened to 😆

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Jun 13

Playlist was on random and Lacrimosa from Mozarts Requiem came on…and I had to just turn it up and let him cook because what is this timeline.

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · Jun 3

…..there’s a lesson in here somewhere.

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Nafisa Jadavji, PhD, FAHA @nafisajadavji.bsky.social · May 27

Were you postdoc on the faculty job market May 2024 - May 2025? Are you a new assistant professor who landed your position (any field!) in the past year? We want to hear from you about your experience on the faculty job market.

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · May 26

This. And that’s IF you can afford to be away for 5 days and you have enough support to keep things going while away. I can only sometimes manage this once per year unless the location is nearby. My spouse does not have the same kind of flexibility with his job and that’s a big deal.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · May 26

That brings up another good hybrid point....for me to travel to a meeting on the west coast means a full day of travel and another back, so a 3 day meeting is actually 5 days away from my kids. In person only meetings suck for parents. Thanks for making that point

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · May 16

Congratulations!!!!!🎉🎊 We love to see it!

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 16

"We’re talking about biomedical research as a whole. Here there’s no question of false hope or over-promising. We’ve been at this for 80 years...It’s no hyperbole to say that wrecking biomedical research now will leave many of us without cures or treatments in the future. It’s close to a certainty."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 16

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A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research

Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · May 6

life-saving treatments. AND, we must continue to support and invest in scientific research and researchers like the talented individuals training in my laboratory. Science may move slowly, and it move behind the scenes of day to day life, but it absolutely saves lives.

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · May 6

This year's theme is "make inhaled treatments accessible for ALL!" Chances are, you know someone affected by asthma. It is one of the most common non-infectious conditions -- affecting over 260 million people. We need to work across sectors to ensure that people across the globe have access to

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · May 6

Today is World Asthma Day! I am a respiratory microbiome scientist partly because of my specific interest in understanding asthma. It is a condition that asserts the interconnectedness of our bodies with our environment. It is complex, dynamic, and life-altering.

Colorful graphic that says World Asthma Day, May 6, 2025. Make inhaled treatments accessible for ALL! Global Initative for Asthma. ginasthma.org @ginasthma

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 30

Happening now: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 30

"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 12

The Senate Committee on Appropriations is holding a hearing on Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation on April 30 at 10:30am ET, chaired by Senator Susan Collins 🧪

www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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