Christopher Barnes

The 2026 #BlackInBiophysics Symposium at #BPS206 has concluded. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

Congratulations to all the speakers and to the co-chairs of this session, Drs. Breann Brown and Wade Zeno for organizing and for highlighting the exceptional science done by our members!

@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Holden Thorp’s slides from a recent talk.

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!)

Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵

(cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19 A Stanford-led team has found two antibodies that can work together to defeat all SARS-CoV-2 variants. More research is needed, but the approach could help in the development of treatments to keep…

#YearInReview @cobarnes27.bsky.social, @adonisrubio.bsky.social & team have designed a series of dual or “bispecific” antibodies, called CoV2-biRN, which could potentially resist the ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as other coronaviruses in the future: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes for being named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, an honor that recognizes excellence in scientific research and mentorship.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo...

@hhmi.org

Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources.

🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF

Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Hawa Racine Thiam for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. Hawa is being recognized for being a trailblazer of subcellular biophysics and unveiling new paradigms of biophysical immunology through her dynamic measurements of physical forces on organelles in real time.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...

Congratulations!! Well-deserved my brother!!! Continue to inspire and shine bright 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!

At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!

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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by @hhmi.org! We’re proud to have to #BlackInBiophysics faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @cobarnes27.bsky.social among this outstanding group. We wish you the best in this next stage of your careers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @hhmi.org 🎉 🍾

www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Congratulations!!🎉🍾🎊

Photo of thousands of people crowded together to outside

Photo of the same area from a different angle—thousands of people gather to defend our democracy

Photo of a lot of people marching on the sidewalk carrying American flags, the pride flags, and signs including “no kings”

Thousands showed up in Palo Alto (pop ~66k) to say no fauxking way!! Not on our watch. #NoKings

The Bethesda Declaration

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

COCO GAUFF WINS THE FRENCH OPEN 🏆

The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.

Join me at the @aai.org ASPIRE awards symposium and networking in room 312 starting now with @cobarnes27.bsky.social @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social and Mohammad Arifuzzaman #AAI2025

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'"

www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.

Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment...

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We are happy to see Sharyn Alfonsi and @60minutes.bsky.social covering the existential crisis facing science in the United States.

Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts!

#standupforscience

The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes. https://theatln.tc/jxfvKla3

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.

Protect US racial affinity groups On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...

Racial affinity groups are under attack. Now is the time to redouble our commitments to these vital organizations that make science better for all. Proud to pen this letter with @khadlily.bsky.social and many @wocineeb.bsky.social colleagues

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics?

@hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1!

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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.

"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12