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kmachlus.bsky.social
I research hematopoiesis and how megakaryocytes make platelets 🩸🔬 Asst Professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital 🏳️‍🌈 she/her #medsky #scisky #hematology
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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

This is a red alert for US science, for new cures & treatments for diseases that afflict everyone in this country. This isn't "oh, it will blow over." Soon we will have reached the point of no return destroying what it has taken decades to build. WE NEED TO BE BANGING DOWN THE DOORS IN CONGRESS.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Study section freeze hits NIH

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Current inspiration as I continue doing my science as a form of protest and resistance. 🧪🩸💪

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 16 days ago • 1165 comments

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Do it. I mean, it worked out pretty well for me ... 🙃🩸🫶

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This was so much fun to do with @aswolberg.bsky.social and @gbarnesmd.bsky.social - a chat with two great friends 🥰 Isn't that why we love this community? Great science and great people.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Hi friends. This is hard. Remember, you’re not alone- there are so many of us here that care a lot and aren’t giving up. Don’t stop talking and don’t let them make you hard. Reach out to someone that needs some encouragement. We are here ❤️ #sciencesky

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring 😀 Postdoctoral position – Stem cells, Cancer, and Aging We study cell fate decision and lineage specification in hematopoietic stem and multipotent progenitor populations to modulate lineage output for therapeutic purpose in diseases and aging contexts.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Stem cell-like states confer poor outcomes in blood cancer—but what mechanisms drive this and how can they be therapeutically targeted? In our new preprint, we show how a single TF represses one enhancer to maintain a subset of high-risk leukemias: 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Machlus lab members Maria and Ginny are helping raise money for @danafarber.bsky.social this year at the #PMCWinterCycle !! 🚴 #PMC2025 #CloserByTheMile Join me in donating to the team with the most amazing name: Plaquetas Bravas 🩸🫶 profile.wintercycle.org/T00462

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Made it back to Boston after an amazing #ASH24 and I need a week on an island to recover.🏝️ Anyone else?

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Sunday #ASH24 ☀️🩸! Time to get breakfast and head over to Room 28 at 9:30 to hear Ginny talk about the role of MKs and platelets in Tet2 CH

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing talk by @beaudinlab.bsky.social at the Myeloid Workshop on cochlear macrophages in hearing loss in CMV infection 🤯 #ASH24

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone headed to #ASH24 - if you’re looking for your favorite scientists in hematopoiesis to follow on here, we have you covered 👇🏼

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The ladies of the Machlus lab are getting ready for #ASH24 🩸🧪🎉 If you see us, say HI! We will all be presenting (details below). Also, we have a Postdoc Position 👀 if you are kind of scrappy and love science…

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

A day I always look forward to - our division retreat!! Today is the 42nd (!!) Annual Vascular Biology Program Retreat The MK to Platelet Research Group is here and ready to talk science 🧪 🩸

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments