Erica D. Pratt
@pratted.bsky.social
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Asst Prof @BostonU BME | Noninvasive biomarkers for cancer monitoring | https://ericaprattlab.com | @prattlab.bsky.social
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The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2025-2026! Our goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
Header of Pratt Laboratory website showing a colorful word cloud with terms like "computational," "biomaterials," "medical," and "systems," above the text "Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Biomedical Engineering." *alt-text generated using OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini*
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bmeunite.bsky.social
Headed to BMES? Don't miss our stellar 2025 BME UNITE Fellows at the Meet The Faculty Candidate Forum! Visit Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Kara Peak, and Taj Yeruva at their posters on Saturday, Oct 11, from 12-2:30 PM in Exhibit Hall F, G & H.

#BMES2025 #BMES #biomedicalengineering
BMES Meet the Faculty Candidate Forum Sat, Oct 11 12 - 2:30 PM Exhibition Hall F, G & H 

Joshua François (Harvard): Poster I6 
Kara Peak (UMN): Poster I9 
Taj Yeruva (UMD): Poster K15
pratted.bsky.social
So excited that Terry will be showcasing our latest and greatest undergraduate research at #BMES2025! #BMES
prattlab.bsky.social
Our talented undergraduate researcher, Terry Chen, will be presenting his work on activity-based tumor profiling at #BMES2025 this Saturday, Oct 11. We're excited to watch Terry take the next step in his career as he applies to graduate schools this fall!
BMES 2025 Annual Meeting 

Presenter: Terry Chen
Title: Live-cell profiling of cancer specific Src kinase activity using exogenous peptide probes
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct 11th 10 - 11 AM
Location: Exihibit Hall F, G & H
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kinasekid.bsky.social
Phosphorylation on tyrosines control key pathways in immunity, cancer, and metabolism. For the first time, we can now design proteins that specifically recognize individual phosphotyrosines, even in disordered regions. (1/8)

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
pratted.bsky.social
How many civilizations must fall before public figures learn not to make off the cuff sports commentary if they don't have 100% confidence?
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 36 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
pratted.bsky.social
We only care about folks who've been at the bench since pre-K...
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gigiomics.bsky.social
Shout out to masters students who are now screwed over because they changed fields
pratted.bsky.social
Yes, this is new. The announcement came out a few hours ago😤. 2nd year applicants were a large proportion of applicants in the years I was a reviewer.
pratted.bsky.social
This also unfairly penalizes PhD programs with rotation programs, allowing junior scientists to try out different research areas before committing to a thesis. People who value the opportunity to explore shouldn't be punished for wanting to broaden their horizons.
pratted.bsky.social
Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible:

    Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program
    Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed)
    Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed  
    First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)
        Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded.
        Not be a current NSF employee.

Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
dangaristo.bsky.social
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
For this who are unaware, the reason NIH now posts these data habitually on the data book site is… Jeremy Berg. He pioneered this openness as NIGMS Director.
jeremymberg.bsky.social
Since there is some discussion that NIH institutes should not simply use paylines to determine which grants to fund, I thought I would share some old data.

These are plots of funding probability fas a function of percentile score for 9 institutes.

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Graphs of funding curves for nine NIH institutes from fiscal year 2012.
pratted.bsky.social
I feel compelled to figure out how to start a project so that I have an excuse to try it out!
pratted.bsky.social
*Furiously taking notes even though she hasn't done woodworking in years*
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ritastrack.bsky.social
Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )
A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.
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chemjobber.bsky.social
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 170 tenure-track positions and 19 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
docs.google.com
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bmeunite.bsky.social
Don't miss the fourth and final BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar on Monday, September 29th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Tahoura Samad, @karapeak.bsky.social and Claudia Varela to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25
Dr. Tahoura Samad (MIT): The search for new antimicrobials: hiding in plain sight

Dr. Kara Peak (University of Minnesota): What to expect when you're expecting: Interplay of biochemical and mechanical signaling in fetal-placental development

Dr. Claudia Varela (Boston University): Implantable devices and human-engineered culture models to biomechanically probe the infarcted heart
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How many PhDs does it take...
pratted.bsky.social
The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 31 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
pratted.bsky.social
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