Caroline Bartman

This is one of the most powerful depictions of health research-driven progress. No statistics required.

If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome,look at how experts posted human genome information at NCBI: #SpellingMatters #Genomics #devbio #evodevo 👫

(Proteases, ICYMI: cen.acs.org/physical-che...)

wow birds do a lot of things (from the @science.org table of contents)

My reaction to absolutely everything right now

US measles cases grow by 8% in 1 week, for a total of 4,410 www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m... via @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social @cvdall.bsky.social

stickers are a charming thing that sort of doesn't have an adult analog like, if you do this task correctly i will give you a tiny sticky art and children are like hell yeah i will

If you put a vampire bat in a centrifuge does their stomach become a perfect Buffy coat 🩸

.@SecKennedy has pledged from the start to do studies on vaccines. He has quietly commissioned $46M worth. Here's what they are, and what else is afoot in vaccine policy. (And yes, you read "cockamamie" in the NYT ): 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Just reread Gideon the Ninth. Still excellent, just one of the best action fantasy novels I’ve read

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

sometimes you run out of stir plates #chemsky

It turns out Jolly Ranchers are strongly fluorescent under UV illumination. Bottom image taken with visible light Top image taken with 395 nm UV flashlight www.aiweirdness.com/jolly-ranche...

Was pointed to this chart at @grantwitness.org grantwitness.org/nih/analyses... does anyone know how NCI avoided massive MYF this year but still fewer grants?

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to get reimbursement using Concur

One mural costs 325 tote bag or t shirt sales. Or 283 advent calendars. Or 1625 stickers. I want to make more biodiversity murals in 2027…have you visited our shop lately? SquidFacts.net

a chance to share my favorite gif

Which has changed daily life more, the microscope or telescope? Microscope: many medicines probably? Telescope: GPS? I’m sure there are a bunch of inventions in these two categories I’m missing…

Gonna tell my grandchildren this was the sodium/potassium channel

you're not the only one who has a citric acid cycle 😉

Planning to bike around handing out sour candy on Halloween on my Citric Acid Cycle 🍬🚲

This is such a fascinating deep dive, thank you lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(co...

If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment.

Petition to change the term “organoids” to “lil cell bubbles”

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

I've long thought that the solution to the spam problem is that email should be taxed a penny a message. I don't care if you burn the money. I just want the friction. But the ability to use agents to customize bullshit at scale makes me think email should be taxed at a dollar a message.

Mitochondria is powerhouse of cell

So before people could send their friends funny Instagram or Twitter posts They could send forwarded emails full of knock knock jokes What was it before that? Humorous cuneiform tablets?

In honor of the optogenetics Nobel shine a bright light on your neurons tonight

outlook has many toxic traits but one of them is autocorrecting the spelling of people's names IN THE SALUTATION, WHERE YOU KNOW ITS GONNA BE A NAME AND NOT A DICTIONARY WORD

petition for a librarian to give a lecture describing library layouts titled: "Books: How Dewey organize them?"

Related to the #NobelPrize in #Optogenetics: I'm reflecting on the question "who invented X?" in science. 10 years ago I wrote about the people who were working on optogenetics, the patent debates and the role of race and prestige. I don't know the answer, but... www.statnews.com/2016/09/01/o...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

NIH’s shift to multiyear funding reduced the number of awards across a range of research areas. Grants reviewed by NIH panels that had "cancer" or "oncology" in their title dipped to around 1,590 in 2026, compared with 1,920 in 2024. Fewer grants funded means fewer shots on goal, fewer wins