Just a reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts is creeping up…13th December! ✍️ 🧠

Finals ✅, qualifying exam ✅, submit 2 abstracts to the ISMRM perfusion workshop✅ all in one week!?! Jiachen Wang is everything you could ask for in a #UTBME PhD candidate!! Excellent work!! 🙌🏾👏🏾

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Early-career researchers describe to Nature Careers how they juggled workloads, emotions and finances after having children. go.nature.com/40oWsvk

Freedom or systematic reinforcement of the American caste system? You decide.

Researchers paid $8.968 billion for their findings to be freely accessible. 🧵1/10

Venus, our closest planet, is swathed in thick white clouds that reflect 2.5 times more sunlight than Earth — occasionally rendering our neighbor a spectacular sight in Twilight skies, such as these January/February nights. Don’t miss it. High in the West after sunset.

See what Texas BME and #TCILab PhD candidate, Corina Margain Corina Margain has to say about her multinational 🇲🇽🇺🇸 translational biomedical research 🧲🫘🫀 as a Contex Fellow! Excellence embodied! ¡Buen trabajo! ConTex Conversations, Jan 2025 conta.cc/4hgCBGc

I am at Auschwitz, 80 years to the date after the Soviets liberated this death camp from the Nazis. I don’t have words. Imagine a factory for murdering people. I remember the 3,000 Americans whom Al-Qaeda slaughtered on 9-11. We still have not truly recovered as a nation.

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

This approach to suddenly cutting NIH grant indirect costs will cause chaos and harm biomedical research and researchers in hospitals, schools and institutes nationwide. A sane government would never do this.