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Can we resuscitate damaged endothelium after injury? | Physician-scientist studying small blood vessels and trauma physiology at the University of Vermont 🚑 | Father, dog-lover, snow-sport enthusiast, and bluegrass fiddle player 🎻
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Ah… clean sheets & towels… such a nice place for a nap! 🤣 #puppylove #dogs #dogsofbluesky

Inspiring story of discovery, tracing how ion channel research in model systems—squid giant axons, electric eels—along with natural compounds like pufferfish toxin, gave us suzetrigine, a novel, non-opioid pain medication recently approved by the FDA. #scienceiscool #MedSky #research #NIH 🧪

Laupäev on saunapäev 🇪🇪 (Saturday is sauna day)🔥 #Estonia #Eesti #Vermont #sauna

@uvmvermont.bsky.social Outstanding #UVM undergrads in the lab, making the difference! This is the future of #science and #medicine. #Vermont #research #STEM #SciComm #MedSky #EMedSky

This is a super sneaky (and illegal) move, not OK!!! If #NIH can’t schedule study section or council meetings, then no research contracts. Essentially impounding funds appropriated by Congress so they can’t be spent. #scicomm #medicine #medsky www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Take a breath and recharge

How long until American research breaks? I have thoughts, as shared with @katiewuwrites.bsky.social in her outstanding piece. And I also know there is a blueprint for how we will rebuild (albeit slowly, sadly, after too much lost time & too many lost lives). www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Let’s go already! These pups love the snow. ❄️❄️❄️ #Vermont #ski #skiing #skisky #dogs #dogsofbluesky

Attention scientists! Wondering what else can you can do to advocate for research funding? Let's all submit Programmatic Requests to Members of Congress next month, and flood the zone in a show of public support for #NIH and #NSF! ! #SciComm #Science #Medicine #MedSky 🧬🔬🧪 Details below⤵️ 🧵 1/n

swallowtail and chokecherry / colored pencil on 14x17 Duralar / 2023 Here we have a swallowtail butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) throughout multiple stages of its life - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and imago - perched on a branch of its host plant, the chokecherry tree (Prunus virginiana)!

Medical research is a HUGE part of the lives and livelihood of so many people in PA, Missouri, NC, Tennessee, and Georgia. All of this is at risk right now. Call your family, write to your representatives, tell your friends - #science is under assault and we need to fight back! #scicomm #medsky

The stakes are too high, folks - we all need to speak up and let the public know what is happening here. #scicomm #science #medicine #research #medsky #emedsky

One of my favorite things about being a scientist is that I get to hang out with scientists.😎 Outstanding cardiovascular symposium at UC Davis this week, with cutting-edge #science, fine wine, and great friends! 🧪🧬🔬 @ucd-physiology.bsky.social @ucdavispharm.bsky.social @mfnavedo.bsky.social #MedSky

Blue skies and green mountains. 💚💛 📸 Sally McCay

Yay! We made R1 today, joining the nation’s most influential research institutions! This is a milestone and means UVM is among the top universities in the US in both awarding of doctoral degrees and overall research activity. @uvmvermont.bsky.social #Medsky #SciComm #STS 🧪

Delivery of caspase inhibitors through GSDMD pores to inhibit pyroptosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637513v1

The science censorship and rampant assault on diversity training programs are not only illegal, unethical, and mean-spirited; but also, these actions will have devastating unintended consequences for science and academic medicine as we know it. @choo.bsky.social #scicomm #medsky #emedsky

Cerebral blood vessel oscillations that help clear the brain during sleep are disrupted by Ambien. 🧐 More research may be needed, but reading, listening to music, or meditating probably work just as well (only, these prescriptions don’t make profits for Big Pharma). 🧪 #MedSky #Scicomm

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The NIH Notice about the new indirect cost rate "plan"

Hard to keep up with the border collies, they are soooooo fast. Check out his jump over the snowbank at 0:21, Sebastian is totally getting air! ❄️❄️❄️ #Vermont #ski #skiing #skisky #dogs #dogsofbluesky

In Vermont: NIH awards funding $58.6M Jobs Supported: 575 Economic activity supported: $127M www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... #AcademicSky #EMedSky @balint.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov

A historic moment as the 3 Baltic states have just desynchronized their electricity grids from Russia (incl Kaliningrad). It's been two decades in the making! #technologicalzones #STS news.err.ee/1609599566/e...

Science Moms making an impact! Check out their #SuperBowl ad. ❤️ Communicating science to the public is more important now, than ever. 🧪 #SciComm #Science

Illegal & totally unethical. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be a patient in one of these trials. The long-lasting damage on future clinical trial recruitment is mind-blowing. #EMedSky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Puppy power! So much snow! ❄️ #Vermont #ski #skiing #skisky #dogsofbluesky

Hard biting #birds are slow singers - which has more consequences than you might think! In my newest article, published in The Conversation, you can learn about how beak size affects the singing and #evolution of songbirds. 🪶 theconversation.com/hard-bites-a... #ornithology #scicomm #science

Volunteering for 3rd grade trip to @sugarbushvt.bsky.social yesterday meant moving my lab meeting to the afternoon. Tough decision, but I think it was the right move. ❄️⛷️#skivermont #blueskyskiing #skiing #ski #skisky #EMedSky

We are studying the biology of wound healing, using the smallest possible acute vascular injury we can imagine—a 5 um micropoint pulsed laser deformation of the endothelial cell plasma membrane. 🧪 #MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #immunosky