I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YASS!! Let’s keep pushing open the doors to research assessment with preprints!! asapbio.org/hhmi-enacts-...

First lab meeting w/ 6 grad students UMBC!

📣 Thrilled to share the first paper from ReForm Lab Are you an international scholar on a visa? Faculty with international students in your lab and class? Student center workers? For the 1st time, we report data on visa burdens from over 700 ECRs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Trump admin is eliminating research through cuts to the #NIH and #NSF. In this op-ed, @mayankchugh.bsky.social & @jacoates.bsky.social urge a shift to open science: a model based on transparency, equity, and free access to research. . Learn more in The Scientist. ⤵️

Science in the US is in turmoil—funding slashed, research censored, students shut out. How do we tell young scientists to stay when the system is pushing them away? Students from @mayankchugh.bsky.social's ReForm lab are worried, but they march on. #StandUpForScience buff.ly/SIRQKgn

My undergraduate students & I have been having discussions about what the current US policies mean for the science, their career aspirations, & public health. Thank you @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @elifecommunity.bsky.social for giving us a space to share our voices & fears.

There are academics I’ve spoken to that still don’t understand the publishing process @elife.bsky.social & yet have opinions on why it ain’t great. 🙄 Here’s a clear step by step with video explaining how publishing/PRC model at eLife. 👇🏽 Have you got your understanding right? 🤨

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more: #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

2/ Dine Roseline Dzekem introduced the work of eLife's Global South Committee and for an overview of our Early-Career Advisory Group, we heard from members Laura Han, @mayankchugh.bsky.social, Charlotte Ayima and Diana López.

I got to collaborate with amazing @jacoates.bsky.social on this: Calling open science community to be the guidepost & lead by example as science & scientists suffer in chaos. Read here: upstream.force11.org/open-science...

Thank you! @network-alba.bsky.social for having me to discuss challenges faced by postdocs and thank you to Katie for covering this for the @thetransmitter.bsky.social Important than ever now

Thank you @epimechfc.bsky.social for featuring and including us!!

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

So my first semester of undergraduate teaching ended and in the last class I got some sweet souvenirs from my students. I am so humbled. Awww.

Thank you so much, @godwyns.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social for having me & providing an excellent space to share my voice & experiences with the research community!

Thanks, W&M for covering me in the news. Plus, a great photo with my postdoc advisor Sean Megason & Dean Reede. news.wm.edu/2024/11/19/h...

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I’m thankful to Harvard Catalyst for giving my work a voice and making me reflect on a journey I’ve taken. It’s fun, exciting, grounding, and yet so difficult. catalyst.harvard.edu/news/article...

I think another consequence of this decision is that any journal considering some sort of similar innovation is going to see this as a punishment I've been trying to encourage the society journals I am a editor for to test this innovative model and this decision will further entrench resistance