Astrocytes get less attention than their neuronal neighbors, partly because they’re harder to study. But the glial cells could help explain how memories take a more stable form after recall. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/memory/engra...

#DrWho fans, it’s worthwhile checking out the Dr Who exhibit at the #Comicon museum Balboa Park San Diego. Getting ready to join as a panelist one of the panel sessions being held in Sept thru Aug.

American Acad. of Pediatrics issues independent evid.-based child & teen vaccination schedule in response to fed officials "undermining the rigorous scientific process for making recommendations." Includes guidance on COVID-19 vaccination that differs from fed policy, plus updates to RSV & flu recs.

#sdcc #startrek #scifi Fun Facts

Fun stuff nicely summarized for #neuroskyence #immunosky #medsky. the brain isn’t hidden from the immune system - these 2 systems are full partners. Like any partnership, when it works, life’s great for both mind & body. But when the relationship is dysfunctional, mind & body both suffer.

The war on science has expanded to include a war on statistics. stocks.apple.com/Ae3B2qZINTPa...

youtu.be/mBNP1-4Vn34 #jobsreport

Wow

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Critical read: As noted by a colleague, from the examples in this article, it is amazing how quickly German physics collapsed (and US exploded) after 1934. #academicsky, #neuroskyence , is there time and a route to prevent the collapse of research in the US?

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Good news - short lived, but warning to be alert! #academicsky #neuroskyence

#Academicsky #neuroskyence Contact your congressional representatives to prevent this new halt in NIH funding. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Line up after 945 and in #HallH now! #HallHLine #SDCC #SDCC2025. Free acme bags. Line moves fast and there are still lots of seats in back.

Return to an old tradition, now with children. Dr. Horrible Sing Along at San Diego Comic Con. #SDCC #SDCC25

George Lucas is heading to #SDCC for a Sunday #HallH panel alongside Guillermo del Toro and more: sdccblog.com/2025/07/geor...

George Lucas will have a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) this year — marking his first-ever appearance at the event. #GeorgeLucas #SDCC2025 #HallH #StarWars

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

#nokings - after June 14th (nokings.org), what’s next? Check out your local zip code for Thursday, July 17 events that you might wish to join. #goodtrouble goodtroubleliveson.org#attend

The Riverside Free Clinic began 21 years ago. he student-run clinic, which operates from a Riverside church every other Wednesday evening, serves two vital communities: underserved patients and aspiring medical professionals. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

Excited to share this new paper from the lab, now out in @cp-immunity.bsky.social! Led by the talented @bendevlin.bsky.social and in collab with @anneschaefer.bsky.social. a brief 🧵

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

Gut health is brain health! T cells recognizing segmented filamentous gut bacteria which drive gut inflammation, infiltrate & drive neuroinflammation in murine CNS via molecular mimicry & IL-23R-dependent programs & IL-23R-independent GM-CSF production. #neuroinflammation #neuroskyence #immunosky

#nokings This thread explains how this parade route symbolically differs from other USA victory or military parades. Worth a read

#neuroskyence who knew… If mom is on high fructose diet, neuro development and microglia phagocytosis in progeny is impaired

Physiological microbial exposure normalizes memory T cell surveillance of the brain and modifies host seizure outcomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

#academicsky #neuroskyence

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Love this! #neuroskyence

#neuroskyence. Beautiful studying showing the interplay between aging, injury and inflammmation driving neuronal senescence. Potential new targets for chronic #pain

Metabolic reprogramming through histone lactylation in microglia and macrophages recruits CD8+ T lymphocytes and aggravates spinal cord injury: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

death star? no, this is saturn’s moon mimas! may the 4th be with you 🌕

Our lab's 1st paper, led by @fchrisbennett.bsky.social & @waisenberg.bsky.social. A decade thinking how to directly assess the impact of microglia replacement. Yrs of hard work. This kind of work is needed to expand brain disease care for kids & the vision for safer, more effective cell therapy.

Thrilled to share my first first-author paper is out @cp-neuron.bsky.social! We show that Alzheimer's disease protective CLU alleles upregulate CLU in response to neuropathology, dampening inflammatory signaling between microglia and astrocytes. Read here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new work demonstrating a role for astrocytic inflammasome signaling in modulating hippocampal plasticity. @cp-immunity.bsky.social All credit to Kristine Zengeler, who was the brains🧠 and muscle💪 behind this project and is a wonderful collaborator. www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

The one thing alumni are looking at today as they think about their future contributions is how their school is responding to the assault on higher education. My undergrad school, Oberlin College, signed the AACU statement. My grad institution, UNC, did not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#academicsky Happy to see all my favorites represented as signatories👏 Especially happy colleges/uni’s of my family were in the early wave of signers. Go #sevensisters 👏 some key places stll missing! #standup “we must, indeed, all stand together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

Just when you think you know what they will do, #microglia will still surprise you with new ways of interacting with #neurons in #neurodegeneration - great read! #prions #glia #Neuroinflammation #neuroskyence

As with many things, the final breakdown of complex systems, may not be where obvious activity/damage is. It seems obvious that autoimmune loss of #cns #myelin in #MS is due to an attack on myelin-think again, perhaps it’s against a less obvious but critical system: #astrocytes #neuroskyence #glia

Rainbows appear even at sunset with clouds and rain still happening. Only commenting on weather☺️

On March 15-17, five UCR medical students and two faculty attended the All-Member Advocacy Meeting (AMAM) in Sacramento, hosted by the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) .

#nih #academicsky The post below says it all

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Happy to share that our latest review is now available online. We discuss how human model systems can be used to study the role of microglia in Alzheimer’s. Excellent work by @chandrrrika.bsky.social from my colleague Valentina Fossati’s lab here at the New York Stem Cell Foundation. #AD #microglia