Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

Proud to announce our collaboration with @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social & the Paz lab showing that transplanted human iPSC-derived microglia in a PGRN KO mouse model restores progranulin in microglia and rescues pathology, circuitry, and behavior. Preprint out now: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

She didn't try to run anyone over. And there was no reason why they couldn't have just shot her tires if they wanted to apprehend her. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A friend my age recently died from a respiratory infection, and many other friends and family have reported getting sicker than usual. Get vaxed if you can!

Why do some recomb proteins express better than others? After expressing >2000 proteins from the human secretome in CHO cells, we identified the protein features and host cell pathways linked to poor expression w/ @JohanRockberg lab. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

Haha damn

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

As White Americans we must disabuse ourselves of the "elderly white hippie savior" myth.

Listen on all platforms!! @caamodt.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2eoG...

There should be some way to stop a president from singlehandedly turning the US economy into a pump and dump shitcoin scheme.

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

Errors. Call them errors ffs. They're not hallucinations they're not lies. Call them errors. This dumbass personification of a fancy prediction tool is only reinforcing the idea that these things really are intelligent and not just a computer program.

From the @sltrib.com, @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging. I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉 🧪

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...

really great talk!! and the trainee turnout sends a very clear signal that there is a growing interest for improving science communication skills for Spanish-speaking communities 🔥

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

#skymusings: how can we shift the narrative away from “blaming physicians” to advocating for change in the challenging health care systems in which we work when we are trying to always do what is best for the patients even when outcomes are not what we wanted or expected #medsky

This is NOT a real journal. No such thing as The Academy of Public Health. Creation of RFK et al to allow false nonscientific claims to the public to support their bias without peer review or factual data. As they now control all communications out of NIH, CDC, FDA, this is dangerous to US health.

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

THIS is outrageous and scary! RFK making his own journal that appears to be associated with a medical society.There is no such thing as the Academy of Public Health! They can use this to make false claims in medicine and science, including for vaccines. These are not peer reviewed nor scientific!

Listen to Bernie!!

Proud of my home state of Louisiana for voting down all four of these proposed amendments yesterday. www.notothemall.org

Black people are more likely to have systemic lupus, so why do I meet so many people of African descent who are struggling to be taken seriously by their healthcare provider? This is why Black doctors are so critical.

I feel like there should be more of an effort to get more aggressive messaging out there about this. In five years I think most Americans would rather have a cure for their or their child's cancer than a big tax cut for Elon Musk and no treatment options.

This aged badly

I think my favorite part of the news yesterday is that this is an administration that has mercilessly attacked and portrayed DEI as a blight on meritocracy, and yet the highest officials in the country displayed the single greatest incompetence I've seen from the White House in my entire life.

More deeply unscientific and regressive actions by NIH "leadership" www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

I wish every American could watch Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film. It helped me understand that American Democracy succeeded for so long because it was treated as a fragile experiment that everyone had to work together to uphold.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

This one is giving "Salk Institute." Art by www.instagram.com/lordess.foud...

Psychologist Alberta Banner Turner was born 116 years ago today. She specialized in clinical approaches to helping youths in the criminal justice system, and developed organizations to recognize the achievements of Black women. #WomenInSTEM #BlackWomeninSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth #PsychSky

Worth a watch if it's been a minute since you read Aristotle. youtu.be/HMguSl8PHS4?...

Thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

Enbies who grew up watching the X Files are more likely as adults to have STEM-related careers and also believe in aliens.

A ranked ballot lets voters specify their 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices etc. For example, my 1st choice might be Liberals and 2nd NDP. Voters have more power to express their full opinion and they don't have to worry about vote-splitting. Encourages positive behaviour, as parties need to have wide appeal.

Channeling Bernie \○/

Yes! 📣 That’s why we’ll be #StandingUpForScience on Friday all around the globe 🌏 supporting the vital importance of research! 🔬 🧠 See you out there! @standupforscience.bsky.social

I'll be talking about some of this at the rally at UCSD tomorrow, thanks for having me!

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

My mom just sent me a reminder that 13 years ago today I stood up in front of a room and defended my PhD. Never would have imagined that I would spend my defense-i-versary protesting for the future of science in the US. But I am - because Science is worth the fight!

Trump solamente esta enculado porque el no hablo la otra lengua majora de los estados unidos (y esta desmasiado perezoso a appredender).