‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️ Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.

how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??

Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program. this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole

this really is what it’s like

“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”

"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."

why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?

I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.

me reading your posts

General strike?

wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??

same song different font

Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬

we have more power and agency than we think we do

So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014). And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA. thedispatch.com/article/clev...

We have the power to create our own reality.

but like what if... the federal agencies didn't just follow orders?

you may find yourself… with some damn fine coffee

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The resurgence of the r-word slur is setting the ground for the coming Buck v Bell style eugenicist policies dealing with cognitive disabilities in the wake of pandemic. Which happened after both the 1889 flu pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.

love learning about the neurobiology of the two genders (lordosis and aggression) 🫠

happy first day of NYC congestion pricing to all who celebrate, ban cars!!!

discourse? on a sunday?

Economic papers are not my usual read with my morning coffee but, now more than ever, this is important. "In essence, the absence of these individuals—missing people—can lead to missing ideas, which is particularly problematic in a world where ideas may be “getting harder to find”

Texas is murdering women www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

brain stew is objectively the best green day song, right?

Can’t get past the NYPD and Eric Adams putting on a ridiculous show of force to transport Luigi Mangione and make the ruling class feel better. And across town they’re using force to attack a strike and make the ruling class feel better. Rarely is the purpose of cops so obvious.

seems a bit dramatic

the best peer review one can ask for is when someone uses your work in their own science! check out this awesome synthetic development paper that uses tools developed by Sarah Soliman in our preprint from this year! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

“NIH reiterates that compliance with the Policy does not require the payment of an open access fee to a journal…free pathway to compliance can be achieved by depositing the Author Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central for public availability upon the Official Date of Publication without embargo.“

Shorter NIH: “hey you guys know that silly embargo the publishers bribed out of Congress last time? Fuck that.”

“merit is a socially and culturally constructed concept” - Erin Cech preaching the truth at #CellBio2024

i bring a very “cities are for people” attitude that the cars in san diego don’t seem to like

Also here’s the link to RSVP and details for the #SciArt show! ^^ link so it's easy to register: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

Hello San Diego!! Excited to be here for #CellBio2024! I’m co-chairing 2 sessions and have a poster - and after the science and art session, I’ll be at the #SciArt show! Come learn about my science, @thegardinerlab.bsky.social plans & opportunities, and my #SciComm #comics!

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

“Folks might say, ‘This is not a meritorious way of distributing funding.’ What I would say to that is that the system that we currently have now is not meritorious in the way that we distribute funding in the first place,” says @cychen.bsky.social

I don’t know, man, apparently you’re supposed to just keep going on like normal

i decided last minute to join for a little bit of #CellBio2024. if you're around san diego this coming mon, tues, or weds and wanna say hey, hit me up

Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference. “Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.

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