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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The commissars have arrived open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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Could twisting beams of light somehow make the internet faster and greener? BU engineer Siddharth Ramachandran has found tornado-shaped beams of light could increase optical fibers’ data handling capacity by up to 50 times. This is cool stuff. 😎

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It's a difficult month. Live a little. You're welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ZG...

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I can't think of a more deserving recipient.

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Very sad to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler, a true giant in the field of eye movements & their interaction with vision & cognitive processes. She helped me as a grad student & it was always wonderful to talk to her. Her body of work is foundational to our field. Thank you, Eileen.

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Willie, Mickey & Jimmy

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Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04), our next Terrier of 2024, made history as the first woman and the first Black person to earn a PhD in bioinformatics. She is an inspiration to Terriers everywhere, especially those in STEM fields. Read more ⬇️

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Congratulations to Josh McGee, who won the BU BME 2024 Best Paper Award! Josh's paper, published in @naturebiotech.bsky.social with Mark Grinstaff, Wilson Wong, and Florian Douam, may lead to revolutionary improvements in RNA-based vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Congratulations to Jordan Smiley, who won the BU BME 2024 Student Teaching Award for her excellent work teaching Statistical Thermodynamics!

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20 - a good one!

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 19

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 18

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 17

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A new biography of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel, the acclaimed and bestselling author of ‘Longitude’, ‘Galileo's Daughter’ and ‘The Glass Universe”: the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. #WomeninSTEM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 16

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The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 128 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... obs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 15

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 14

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 13

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Please circulate.

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Carl Sagan saw 30 years into the future ...

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Sharing news of the 2025 Rising Biomedical Engineering (BME) Scholars Regional Conference hosted by University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 2025. Advanced PhD students and early career postdoctoral researchers should apply - travel awards and honorarium will be provided!

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 12

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Lots of cool discoveries and inventions here, including a new tool to detect skin cancer early (Irving Bigio, BME/ECE), as well as new RNA technology to improve vaccines (Mark Grinstaff, BME/Chem, Wilson Wong, BME). www.bu.edu/articles/202...

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"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

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imma be real with you I really don’t think this guy should be in charge of HHS and any Democrat who has anything positive to say about this dangerous dipshit is a mark

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 11

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 10

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 9

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The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 126 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 8

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We’re honored to host Cornell’s @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, the keynote speaker for our annual student research symposium!

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 7

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“no longer department chair” works for me. 😁

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Today, I travelled back in time, to the pre polio vaccine era I closed my eyes, imagined being paralyzed… unable to breathe I imagined being stuck in this claustrophobic iron lung, to breathe Maybe we all need to time travel, to appreciate how science & public health saves us, every day.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 5

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