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Geneticist, neuroscientist, behaviorist @Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. www.kumarlab.org
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Reese Richardson
about 7 hours ago
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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To understand the manhunt against Platner, dig a little deeper | Douglas Rooks
Controversies aside, Graham Platner's message threatens everything the ruling class has foisted on the rest of us for the past 45 years.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/03/to-understand-the-manhunt-against-platner-dig-a-little-deeper-douglas-rooks/
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Summed News
2 days ago
Via Sun Journal (Lewiston): Voters still pick Graham Platner over Collins in wake of sexting scandal, his campaign says An internal memo from the campaign aims to allay concerns from Democrats about possible new disclosures about the 41-year-old political newc…
#Maine
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Voters still pick Graham Platner over Collins in wake of sexting scandal, his campaign says
An internal memo from the campaign aims to allay concerns from Democrats about possible new disclosures about the 41-year-old political newcomer.
https://summed.news/article/maine-voters-still-pick-graham-platner-over-collins-in-wake-of-sexting-scandal-his-54d9ca14?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto
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#TuckFrump
2 days ago
Sanders weighs in on Platner: 'I’m sure he’s not a saint'
#TheHill
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Sanders weighs in on Platner: ‘I’m sure he’s not a saint’
https://twp.ai/9OXO4E
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Sahil Kapur
4 days ago
Bernie Sanders on Graham Platner:
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Sahil Kapur
4 days ago
Ruben Gallego on Graham Platner:
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Dr Kathleen Millen
16 days ago
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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NIH Seeks Input on Framework for Next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan | Grants & Funding
https://grants.nih.gov/news-events/nih-extramural-nexus-news/2026/03/nih-seeks-input-on-framework-for-next-nih-wide-strategic-plan
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Sholto David
19 days ago
Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.
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American Aging Association
18 days ago
Every $1B cut to NIH = ~8 fewer approved drugs over a decade. Proposed $18B NIH cuts = risk of 144 fewer treatments reaching patients. The
#geroscience
pipeline is in the line of fire.
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
#NIH
#AgingResearch
#ResearchFunding
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Abraham Palmer
21 days ago
A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.
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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁
about 1 month ago
1/ New preprint! 🧪With
@talmo.bsky.social
and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g.
#SpaceBiology
#OpenScience
#NASA
#SLEAP
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.30.721950v1
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Naomi Mittet
23 days ago
"This is the first study, to our knowledge, that reveals a broad agreement between sleep duration and multi-organ, multi-omics ageing clocks and links these signatures to systemic disease outcomes and mortality risk."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature
A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10524-5
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International Society for Neuroethology
3 months ago
Fascinating review on leaf-cutting ants 🐜 which are little farmers and optimized their nest architecture to provide optimal climate conditions for their fungus. 🍄
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Nest Building in Leaf-Cutting Ants: Behavioral Mechanisms and Adaptive Value
Leaf-cutting ants, which comprise more than 50 species distributed from Patagonia to North America, build the largest nests among ants. Workers forage plant fragments to cultivate a symbiotic fungus i...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ento-121423-013337
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International Society for Neuroethology
29 days ago
In this beautiful paper from the Baier lab, authors show that cichlid fish show innate nest-building behaviors, but they are refined over time as animals learn to improve their nest! Additionally, they find brain activity in a region homologous to the hippocampus. 🐠🧠
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid
Grätsch et al. examine nest-building behavior in the shell-dwelling cichlid Lamprologus ocellatus. Nest building follows a stereotyped sequence of innate behavioral motifs that improve with experience...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2826%2900324-6
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International Society for Neuroethology
about 1 month ago
🐙s are surrounded by mystery 😶🌫️ such as their mating behaviors. In this new exciting paper from the Bellono lab, they show that the hectocotylus, their specialized arm, is both a mating and sensory organ. It has chemotactile receptors for progesterone!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A sensory system for mating in octopus
Sensory systems for mate recognition maintain species boundaries and influence diversification. Thus, uncovering how molecules and receptors evolve to mediate this critical function is essential to un...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9652
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Stephen Turner
about 1 month ago
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
doi.org/10.59350/5zt...
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
https://doi.org/10.59350/5zttj-fay97
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Nicola Rennie
about 1 month ago
📊 Five
#ggplot2
functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link:
nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg...
#RStats
#DataViz
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Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-ggplot2-functions/
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Hank Green
about 1 month ago
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
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JAX Genomic Education
about 1 month ago
🧠💡 Early-career
#Neuroscience
researchers Develop skills to apply modern
#MachineLearning
methods to quantitative
#BehavioralAnalysis
at this
@jax.org
course:
www.jax.org/education-an...
Organizers:
@vivekdna.bsky.social
@antihebbiann.bsky.social
@gordonberman.bsky.social
@goldenneuron.bsky.social
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The Jackson Laboratory
about 1 month ago
🧪 🎫 ICYMI: The JAX-NYSCF Conference will be held September 23-24 at The Rockefeller University in New York, NY. Learn more about this milestone event and why you won't want to miss it:
https://go.jax.org/jax-nyscf-conf
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NYSCF Conference
The NYSCF Conference is the premier translational stem cell research conference. Held annually for two decades, it has brought together world-leading experts from various disciplines across biomedicine and biotechnology to present the latest cutting-edg...
https://go.jax.org/jax-nyscf-conf
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Marena Lin for Congress, CA-32
about 2 months ago
I’m a climate scientist with a doctorate and published research in machine learning. Science built my career. Science built the rocket orbiting the moon right now. In Congress, I will fight to fully fund NASA, restore the NSF and NIH, and protect STEM education.
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Andres Bendesky
about 2 months ago
Many wild populations are fragmenting and declining, leading to inbreeding. We are studying how animals avoid inbreeding and the consequences of inbreeding an in a >20 year study of >20,000 wild mice with whole genomes. We are recruiting a postdoc at Columbia and two PhD students in U Zurich.
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George Takei
about 2 months ago
Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me.
give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
about 2 months ago
and the same is needed to truly challenge our **humans* too!
#neuroskyence
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Michael Baym
about 2 months ago
Some day I’ll figure out how to work this into a talk
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 2 months ago
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.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754
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The Transmitter
about 2 months ago
Keith Hengen regularly features his colorful illustrations on his lab website and in research presentations. #neuroskyence By
@helenak.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
https://bit.ly/3OesjwG
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Attila Bátorfy
2 months ago
Ohh, no! :(
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️
2 months ago
Time Bandits (1981) Directed by Terry Gilliam.
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Stories of WiN
2 months ago
We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (
@antihebbiann.bsky.social
) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics. Follow the link to learn more!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
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Paper of the year!
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3 months ago
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Society for Neuroscience
3 months ago
#SfNHillDay
may be wrapping up, but the work doesn't stop here. This week, SfN Members and
#NeuroAdvocates
met with members of Congress and their staff to champion protecting NIH-funded research and scientists' ability to conduct their vital work, increased funding in FY 2027.
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Jonathan Wosen
3 months ago
@statnews.com
conducted a national survey of NIH-funded researchers and found that, a year after Trump's return, many scientists are reeling, with some closing labs entirely. ‘This is like the Titanic,' one respondent told me. For full details, see our special report
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
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National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’
A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/nih-funding-national-researcher-survey-finds-cutbacks-disruptions/
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Jonathan Wosen
3 months ago
Interviews with 30 researchers who responded to our
@statnews.com
survey on the impacts of federal science policy brought the human toll of changes at NIH into sharp focus. In addition to today's special report,
@aniloza.bsky.social
& I bring you 3 vignettes. 👇
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
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Researchers surveyed by STAT detail the scientific and personal toll of grant cuts: ‘This can't be how it ends’
STAT interviews with 30 respondents brought the unmistakably human impacts of federal science policy into sharp focus. Here are three of those stories.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/nih-funding-turmoil-young-researchers-detail-impact/
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Jen Rubin
3 months ago
My day at
#standupforscience
in DC was truly inspiring
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Genetics Society of America
3 months ago
David Botstein, a titan within the scientific community, died last week. GSA mourns his passing and celebrates his legacy. Read more about his significance to our community in this thread ⬇️🧵
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Ann Kennedy
4 months ago
You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
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Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality - CAJAL
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https://cajal-training.org/on-site/quantitative-approaches-to-behaviour-and-virtual-reality-2026/
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New R package for statistical genetics from the Munger Lab.
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4 months ago
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bioRxiv Genetics
4 months ago
Simplifying Systems Genetics with QTLretrievR: An R Package for Molecular QTL Identification
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706200v1
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Sam Wang
4 months ago
That is highly useful feedback. Looking into it. For now please mail checks to: Sam Wang for Congress P.O. Box 1284 Princeton, NJ 08542 Thank you!
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Open Data Science Conference
4 months ago
OpenAI has launched Prism, a free LaTeX-native workspace powered by GPT-5.2 that unifies drafting, citations, and real-time collaboration.
#DataScience
#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
opendatascience.com/openai-launc...
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OpenAI Launches Prism, A Free GPT-5.2 Workspace For Scientific Writing And Collaboration
OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-native workspace designed to modernize how scientists write and collaborate on research. The company frames Prism as an attempt to reduce the day-to-day overhead t...
https://opendatascience.com/openai-launches-prism-a-free-gpt-5-2-workspace-for-scientific-writing-and-collaboration/
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Wonderful talk by
@ritastrack.bsky.social
on the publishing process at Nature Biomedical Engineering @JAX Couple of things to emphasize. Editors at NBME are incredibly dedicated and carefully vet every paper. Once it goes for review, they are looking to publish, reviewer praise matters to editors!
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FraserWSmith
4 months ago
Can anyone recommend the best available tactile glove systems currently? We are looking for something like the below at a reasonable price ;-)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
#compneurosky
@stephanierossit.bsky.social
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Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove - Nature
Tactile patterns obtained from a scalable sensor-embedded glove and deep convolutional neural networks help to explain how the human hand can identify and grasp individual objects and estimate their w...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1234-z
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4 months ago
I laughed out loud when I saw “AI use statement The author used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 for research purposes and for editorial feedback after the drafting process.”
#neuroskyence
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Jeremy Berg
4 months ago
This is incredibly powerful testimony. Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly. Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...
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WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW8SZtYpI
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Sam Wang
4 months ago
News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!
samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
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TweetLD
4 months ago
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Minnesota Star Tribune
4 months ago
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Ann Kennedy
5 months ago
Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us.
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
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