I am excited to share that I've accepted a full-time position as the Director of Outreach & Engagement at the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (@AIMBE)! Now more than ever, we need advocacy at the forefront of this evolving science policy landscape 📢🧪🧑‍🔬

Congratulations to 6 AIMBE Fellows on their election to the National Academy of Medicine (@theNAMedicine)! 👏 - Christopher Chen - Daniel Fletcher @FletcherLab_UCB - Lihong Wang - Molly Stevens - Pamela Woodard @PamelaWoodardp - Rebecca Richards-Kortum https://t.co/NrnrHdgwmQ

AIMBE was honored to host Karl Leif Bates (@klb8s) for a virtual workshop titled "How And Why To Communicate Our Research" that covered essential science communication skills, including: - Common Challenges - Dos and Don'ts - Engagement Avenues - Knowing Your Audience ✍️📽️🧪

🏗️ Dems melt down over White House “Ballroom-Gate” As President Trump begins construction on a White House ballroom leaders of both parties have long wanted, Democrats can't decide whether it's more like Hitler or 9/11,

AIMBE is hosting a session titled "A Collective Call to Action: The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering Research" at the @TERMISAM Annual Meeting on November 11. Join @BeraudDawn and our AIMBE Fellows for this important conversation on advocacy 👇

Dozens of U.S. PhD programs in physics, astronomy, and biology are admitting few or no students after Trump’s funding freezes and political pressure on universities. The future of America’s research pipeline is undeniably at risk.

🎓 BIN SURP Symposium is coming to Howard University! 🧠✨ Join us Oct 30 (9:30 AM–2:30 PM ET) to celebrate & support early-career neuro researchers with workshops, roundtables & more. 📍 Howard Univ, D.C. 🔗 Register: https://t.co/KAyBuHx6Td #BlackInNeuro #BINSURP #BINChapters

Ringing in 30 with a new job and new city that I love 📸🕴️

🎉 It’s Roll Call time! Join us on Monday, Oct 27th for a day of celebration across our BIN Chapters! Connect with your regional community, introduce yourself, and shout out your chapter using #BINTogether. We can’t wait to see you!🌍 ➡️ Register: https://t.co/KAyBuHwz3F

Our @AIMBE staff, @BeraudDawn and @JasonCMarvin, attended the 2025 @BMESociety Annual Meeting last week in San Diego! We kicked off the meeting with an AIMBE reception where we connected with >60 Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Council Representatives 🍤🍷 (1/3)

It’s inspiring to see this community continue to grow, especially since first meeting Ana Maria Porras when we overlapped at Cornell 🐻 Many thanks to the @LatinXinBME leadership and symposium organizers for the kind invitation ☕

Honored to have spoken at the 2025 @LatinXinBME Symposium at UC San Diego! It was a privilege sharing the advocacy work underway @AIMBE. I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊

⏳ It’s not too late! Contact your Members of Congress today and urge them to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget as the government shutdown deadline looms tomorrow, Sept. 30. AIMBE makes this easy to do in 1-2 minutes using our letter template below 👇 Share widely!

I'm honored to be a 2025 @CMBEjournal Young Innovator! Our paper "Hyaluronic Acid-Coated Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds Promote Myoblast Attachment, Alignment, and Differentiation" is open access https://t.co/u7WhIhER88 Congrats to all authors, esp. Alycia Galindo & Alyssa Chi! 🤩

Submit your abstract for the @BiophysicalSoc 2026 Meeting by the October 1st deadline and apply to the #BlackInBiophysics Travel Award by October 3rd❗️ #BPS2026 #BIBPS @blackinxnetwork

🦴 ASBMR members — don’t sleep on the benefit of the Education Resource Center (ERC)! Check it out for: ✅ Mentorship ✅ Webinars ✅ Career growth Not a member? You might be missing out 👀 🔗 https://t.co/KSFBlowJM5

Thanks for amplifying @AIMBE's letter campaign! I strongly encourage my @ORSSociety colleagues to take 1-2 minutes today to send letters to their Members of Congress urging them to pass the budget before tomorrow, September 30th 👇

🚨 Urgent: Congress must pass the FY2026 budget by tomorrow at midnight to prevent a government shutdown that would disrupt biomedical research. Take a minute to contact your lawmakers using AIMBE’s quick letter tool: https://t.co/u4WZR0G2E1

The new restriction by the NSF, barring 2nd year PhD students from applying for the GRFP, is deeply unfair and ill-timed. My colleague @creinhartking weighs in on the news in an AAAS Science article posted today (free access): 👇 https://t.co/PaVUdIMOEG

Congratulations to all the CMBE Young Innovators. I’m especially proud of @mhhettiaratchi, my incredible colleague @UOKnightCampus!

NSF GRFP Solicitation just dropped: "No clinical or health degree programs are eligible for NSF GRFP consideration. In FY2026, Clinical Psychology graduate degree programs are not eligible for NSF GRFP." T.T Very sad day...

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl will lead Engineering Innovations in Medicine initiative, launched by @cornelleng & @WeillCornell to transform human health through data-driven innovation & interdisciplinary collab w/ @IwijnDeVlaminck @nozomi62 @CornellNews https://t.co/FrVnizjt9J