Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social)

Apply by August 1st for the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop supporting female graduate students and postdocs considering careers in academia. meche.engineering.cmu.edu/rising-stars.h…

@christlet @inkscape @SchulzScience_ and I created a guide to figure-making, with a focus on using open-source materials and software (Inkscape). We've also made all our teaching materials openly available. We think it provides a good intro for trainees: #inkscape-101-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/nrokh/Scientif…

Funny thing about science is that If you ignore the existing literature or never bother to read it every single one of your findings is a fantastic novel breakthrough!

Are you a female graduate student or postdoc considering a career in academia? Apply by August 1 for the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop to gain career skills, connect with a cohort of peers, and engage with mentors. meche.engineering.cmu.edu/rising-stars.h…

1st meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories, cosponsored by RCSA, @BeckmanFnd, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and Walder Foundation, ends today with proposals to accelerate innovation in basic research through advances in automated instrumentation & AI.

Carolyn Bertozzi on the "false dichotomy" of meritocracy vs. diversity/inclusion: "First of all I'd say that you really can't make any case that your system is a meritocracy if you can't see the diversity of human beings represented." Watch the interview: youtube.com/watch?v=SLFjqd…

@jrbexbox I see you!

CMU MechE is hiring! We have multiple tenure-track and a teaching-track position open. Full details here:  meche.engineering.cmu.edu/employment.html

I just got a BSKY invite code. Let me know if you want to claim it.

That moment when you realize the NSF won't update your proposal's status again until after the holiday, but you keep checking anyway.

As we work to build ever-smaller and more uniform micro- and nanorobots, milliscale models help us understand locomotion determinants! Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our work with cerebral #organoids and #TBI is published @SciReports! Many thanks to my advisors and collaborators! @pascalzinn @LeDucLab_CMU @jrbexbox @AHabibMD nature.com/articles/s4159…

🔓 #OpenAccess + Most Read in the past 30 days: "Synthetic Cell Armor Made of DNA Origami" by Wang, Hayes, Ren, & @jrbexbox go.acs.org/5RR

We are delighted that Nature has written a highlight about our team’s recent work on tunable DNA-based nanoshells for cells. Congrats to Weitao Wang for leading this! Thanks to Xi (Charlie) Ren for being such an amazing collaborator. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @CMU_Mech @cmu_bme

@rogerrubio Thanks Roger!

@jrbexbox Super nice work!! 🧬

New paper alert: Our simple DNA origami exoshell can act like cell armor — it can tunably modulate effective stiffness and protect cells from mechanically challenging environments such as osmotic swelling, high fluid shear and centrifugation: doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

Really pleased to announce our new paper! We present a first solution to a reverse problem that has not been tackled before in DNA nanotechnology 🧬: inferring a DNA origami design given just the underlying scaffold and staple sequences: doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj…

@FrancoLabUCLA Congratulations!!!🧬

My first paper as joint senior author has been accepted in Advanced Materials 🥳 With the triplex origami method, researchers can achieve a level of artificial control over the shape of double-stranded DNA that was previously unimaginable. Can't wait to see where this will lead!

My high school gave out books at graduation… mostly religious books, but you could request something else if it had more meaning for you. So as a child of Knoxville, I received a copy of Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I guess it’s now time to reread that wonderful book. Sad day.