Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
We know that incredible women from Marie Curie to Katherine Johnson have made groundbreaking discoveries that allow us to better understand ourselves and the world, but at the Wyss, you don’t have to look hard to find many more women making history.
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Detection of protein oligomers with nanopores
nature.com/articles/s41...
A new Review from @robertihorne.bsky.social @sarahesandler.bsky.social Michele Vendruscolo & Ulrich F. Keyser
Would you like to learn about a cutting edge diagnostic/characterisation technique for #neurodegenerative disease? Check out our review here! @sarahesandler.bsky.social @natrevchem.bsky.social
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#nanopore
Full text: rdcu.be/ech4q
Roche's SBX sequencing by expansion - preprint out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
If you would like to see how much economic activity and grants and how many people are employed through NIH in your state, just use this handy website.
And then contact your Congressional Rep and tell them to prioritize NIH. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
🎉 #SMPS4 Group Photo! 🎉
A huge thank you to all the brilliant minds who joined us and made this event unforgettable. Your passion and insights are what drive this community forward. Here's to pushing the boundaries of science together! 🧬✨
We just heard Sarah Sandler's presentation: DNA nanotechnology as a tool to advance understanding of neurodegeneration #SMPS4
Stop the halt of NIH!
I am reaching out to ask that you call your US Senators/Reps. Especially those of you in red states! Tell them how important the NIH is!
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Ahaha i love it 🤣
@cdeichhorn.bsky.social can i be added to the nucleic acid starter pack please? 🧬
@francolab.bsky.social can i be added please? 🧬
Reply below if you want to be included in the #nanopore starter pack!
go.bsky.app/VCoo6T
I’ve migrated over 👋 can i please be added to the nanopore group? 🧬
