𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣? 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! 🎉 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... 💻 Colab notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k9411... 🗂️ Code: github.com/yongrong-qiu... (1/🧵)

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

The Vlasits Lab is hiring a technician because our current technician was accepted into a PhD program! This position combines lab management and experiments. If you are interested in gaining experience with #retina research in Chicago, please apply. vlasitslab.org uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

NIH is not okay. @nytimes.com highlights how grant-making & ability to obligate funding is at risk from staff shortages and time consuming screening processes designed to censor research to align with the administration's political ideology. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... Some highlights:

The Vlasits Lab is hiring a technician because our current technician was accepted into a PhD program! This position combines lab management and experiments. If you are interested in gaining experience with #retina research in Chicago, please apply. vlasitslab.org uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Science is good. We should fund it.

New study led by Ning Shen w/ @phruzycki.bsky.social: a genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen in a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model identifies genes whose loss accelerates photoreceptor death. Overexpressing two, UFD1 and UXT, preserves photoreceptors, retinal function, and vision. 🧵

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Contrary to increasingly popular belief, there are, in fact, still things computers can’t do - as @sifu.tweety.fish reminds us:

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

“Flexible rhythm perception underpins human music, dance & speech. We show that bees form robust abstract rhythm representations. Results suggest an insect brain can encode & generalize arbitrary complex temporal patterns, pointing to deep evolutionary roots for domain‐general rhythm cognition.”😲 🐝🧪

HOLY CRAP! @nasaspaceflight.com @wxfront.bsky.social

Only two competitive grants funded by NEI in FY26 so far.

These machines fight traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars. That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

New @annualreviews.bsky.social #neuroscience article 👁️🧠: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... w/ @crisniell.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social Grateful to be part of this collaboration & learn from such a sharp group while rethinking vision in natural settings!

NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL RALLY Organized by Stand Up for Science Protect Our Health, Defend Our Democracy An accessible and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere. March 28th, 12:30 - 2:00pm CT followed by live stream of flagship Twin Cities event Details coming soon #NoKings #NoKings3 #VirtualRally

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

The budget bill this year does NOT mean things will go back to normal. I cannot say that hard enough: There is no reason to sit back now, the attack will continue. Ask others at NIH or who recently left (ask them in person); people at NIH know.

Russell Vought is breaking apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has led advances in whether and climate science. Some of its components will transfer to private companies, part of larger efforts to privatize science. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

🚨 Our lab is hiring postdoctoral fellows in two different areas of research: (1) mitochondrial biology and (2) reproductive science. Postings are below, and you can visit bombawarczaklab.com to learn more about what we do! Repro: apply.interfolio.com/183045 Mito: apply.interfolio.com/183230

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

'Stand Up For Science' moving from protest day to political player | STAT

Chicago getting ready to stand up for Science!

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Fun to see @standupforscience.bsky.social on local news here in Chicago last night! If you squint you can see me speaking at least year's rally. I'll be up there again today, Federal Plaza at 1PM! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

TODAY. Take Back our Science Rally. Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down. Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience.... #StandUpForScience #March7 #Rally #science #savescience

You had questions about the Take Back our Science Rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th! standupforscience.net/march7 (1/11🧵) #science #standupforscience #rally #March7

HEY YOU!!! There's research WE NEED to PROTECT! How you ask? We are rallying NATIONWIDE on SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH to SAVE SCIENCE, PROTECT HEALTH, and DEFEND DEMOCRACY! Join us by visiting standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally, volunteer, host a local rally, or host a pop-up protest!

#chicago Come out this Saturday 1pm at Federal Plaza to Stand Up for Science! Bring your friends! Bring your kids! Being your bench mates! @standupforscience.bsky.social We've got a righteous lineup of speakers, it's going to be 🔥🔥🔥 Spread the word!

Mazel Tov! I’m visiting Chicago for the Fly Meeting and I am trying to wrangle fellow attendees to go to the SUFS rally a mile away… Jack Szostack is on the schedule here.

Nicole Amor. 39 years old. Mother of two. Days away from returning home to Minnesota. 💔 patch.com/minnesota/sa...

The Take Back our Science Rally just 5 days away. FIVE DAYS AWAY! Washington DC and Nationwide. Join at local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at: standupforscience.net/march7 #science #standupforscience #rally #March7

After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"never been seen" - maybe not by humans, but I bet species with UV cones in their retinas can see it!

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

So, while we are in the street standing up for science and the scientists who can’t risk standing up for theirselves…you’re what? In your lab? Keeping your head down in “resistance”?* *ppl at risk are not included in this!!! Do better. Grow a spine.

Maybe science organizations don’t want to play outside game. FINE. 1. Apologize to your people for not responding well & 2. Support some activists who are doing the dirty work you can’t be bothered to do. Not a SINGLE science org or society has donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social said it perfectly: now is the moment for people in power to get up and do a little multitasking for the folks in our scientific ecosystem who are most at risk because of the attack on science and democracy. It’s a privilege to get to keep your head down while ICE…

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)

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

Nice to chat with @neilsteinberg.bsky.social at the Sun Times about the next @standupforscience.bsky.social rally coming up on March 7! Read here chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2... Get mobilized here: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it. bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com

The Chicago local chapter of @standupforscience.bsky.social is organizing a rally on March 7. It's more urgent than ever to Stand Up for Science in the US! Join us

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

The chief of NIAMS, Lindsey Criswell, has told her staff that her 5-year leadership appointment had not been renewed, meaning 16 out of 27 NIH institutes and centers will be operating without a permanent director. https://scim.ag/4cr5wHI