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Professor and Director, Dept. of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, structural biologist, lover of chromatin and ubiquitin, fan of the active voice.
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

In an open letter of support to the President of @harvard.edu, Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de has expressed his full support of the University in its stance against demands by the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I'm proud to work alongside many amazing women scientists! #ResearchSavesLives #WomenInScience www.youtube.com/shorts/ME3iw... @madamescientist.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

This is amazing.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Well this is interesting. Along with many of my published papers is a copyrighted textbook that I coauthored, published by Oxford University Press. It seems this may have been used by Meta. Wondering when I get my share of the profits.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. This is really stunning . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Well this is interesting. Along with many of my published papers is a copyrighted textbook that I coauthored, published by Oxford University Press. It seems this may have been used by Meta. Wondering when I get my share of the profits.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario. In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/10

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

If you are immigrant into the US and work in the biomedical sciences (like me) and are still young (not like me), please apply for the Vilcek prizes for Creative Promise founded by an inspiring immigrant couple, Marica and Jan Vilcek. vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Our dean is taking the message to where it needs to hit. www.foxnews.com/opinion/cutt...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible work- kudos to the team.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

submitted 56 days ago • 85 comments

I was that woman! I have frequently told the story of how Jeremy responded after my second NIH rejection. He said, “Whatever you do, don’t stop spending. If you run out of startup, we’ll find more money for you.” I didn’t need it in the end, but knowing he had my back was huge. Thank you!

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

DOGE is directly involved in the NIH grant terminations. Metadata on one of the grant termination letters says that someone named Joshua Hanley authored it. Hanley is listed on an alleged list of DOGE employees leaked yesterday.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Great news! But what about council meetings? There are lots of grants that have already been reviewed but aren't being funded because council meetings were cancelled. Any idea when they may start?

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

this website from the House Democrats on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee is surveying the impact of the Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies—share with friends you know have been affected

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 81 days ago • 25 comments

I just heard this, too. Terrible.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Terrible news. Is this the start of a Valentine's Day massacre?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

More bad news.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

"A cut to F&A for NIH grants is a cut to the medical research that helps countless American families whose loved ones face incurable diseases or untreatable debilitating conditions" I am so proud to see Johns Hopkins and my alma maters Chicago and Penn filing suit www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pa...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Heritage’s Project 2025 says “Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities…” CONGRESS. Even Heritage assumed this couldn’t be done arbitrarily by the executive. (Also, aren’t there contracts here? Can one party simply change the terms?) www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 87 days ago • 36 comments

Contact numbers for my fellow Marylanders and Baltimoreans: Senator Chris van Hollen 202-224-4654 Senator Angela Alsobrooks 202-224-4524 Representative Kweisi Mfume: 202-225-474 (MD 7) Representative Johnny Olszewski Jr: 202-225-3061 (MD 2) Representative Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016 (MD 3)

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... This is catastrophic.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments