As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

I am very grateful that my department has decided to support me in my transition into an independent investigator position (wherever that might be) by naming me a Destination Biochemistry Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

This RFI includes a request for input on the notion of peer review compensation. In case you were not motivated to reply on the publishing costs, this is another issue of importance to some. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇

Some good news: @hannahhrncir.bsky.social ‘s primary PhD paper is finally online! This study lays the groundwork for a lot of technical and conceptual things the lab is currently working on, including light sheet microscopy for imaging entire biliary trees in mouse liver: rdcu.be/d90Br 1/4

Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was a fun lesson in having your hypothesis proven wrong (we thought they would have worse outcomes after injury), and having that be even more exciting. We hope what we find may help inform tissue engineering and regenerative strategies, and lead to improved clinical interventions.

For #FluorescenceFriday I'm sharing the fantastic work of postdoc Sarah McLarnon! A follow up to our '23 Development paper where we asked: Does precise vascular patterning matter for function and what happens after ischemic injury? The results were surprising! journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)

It’s a quill? A sea pen? No—it’s a gill filament! 🪶🪸🐟 Under the microscope, this fish gill structure looks just like a sea pen. Fascinating how nature keeps circling back to the same shapes. Want to learn how gills develop? 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish

Some absolutely gorgeous morphogenic work describing how distinct migratory behavior allows cells to ensheath and sculpt a mature organ. Beautiful videos and a highly tractable genetic system. Can't wait to see what Maik does in his future lab! #DevBio #CellBio #Microscopy

We specialize in creating custom viral vectors for neuroscience applications. We would love to hear what is or is not working for you. We are here to facilitate your research! www.unc-neurotools.org Stay tuned for unique insights for optimizing viral vectors in your experiments.

Thrilled to share that the first trainee-driven paper of my lab is out! Check out 1st author Jennifer’s poster at #DDW2025 or mine at #APS2025 to see where we go from here!

Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/endo/article... 🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic

Check out the latest Carolina research from @maikbischoff.bsky.social on how cells coordinate together to help shape our organs. 🐏🔬

In🐭Skin wound healing, #LangerhansCell colocalizes with sprouting tip cells Ablating CD207+ Langerhans cells impairs both #EndothelialCell- & Fibroblast-mediated repair Angiogenic secretome of Langerhans cell🤓 @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social @cp-devcell.bsky.social 2022 www.cell.com/developmenta...

I’m super proud that Science Advances chose one of my images to feature on their website! 🎉🖼️ www.science.org/journal/sciadv Huge shout-out to @aaas.org for the support. #Microscopy #CellBio #DevBio #Morphogenesis #SciArt #SciComm paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FINALLY out in #Science Advances! 🎉 3 years of hard work, a fantastic team — and I’m proud to be first and co-corresponding author! It's about Plexin signaling driving collective cell migration & organ sculpting. Check out the videos 😀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #DevBio #CellBio #Microscopy

My full story about the court's ruling today, which @scott-delaney.bsky.social called an “extraordinary repudiation” of the Trump administration. The judge ruled the “whole enterprise was rotten to its core” by declaring the “ideas that animated the policies” illegal, he told me.

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

🔥 “Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump administration…” from @bethmariem.bsky.social at @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/health/2025/... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration

This is all on Russ Vought at Office of Management and Budget for his insane crusade against federal agencies and universities and on Jay Bhattacharya at NIH for acquiescing to all this. It's red and blue states. It's going to hurt local economies and our nation's health. There is no good here.

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...

🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash. THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science. Our Open Letter is featured here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

If a foreign government conspired to decimate US science and technology in a manner akin to what Project 2025 architects purport to do, we would go to war. Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.

It’s also important to point out that a college education is the most reliable path to upward mobility, for students who grew up in poverty to gain financial stability and security. Turning off this option is trapping folks in the circumstances they were born in, an insidious form of class warfare.

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly? That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Join us virtually on Tuesday, May 27th at noon to learn about #gut-brain communication and its contribution to animal physiology and disease. @kendall-lough.bsky.social will give a Rising Stars Program Seminar. Learn more and join here: www.med.unc.edu/cellbiophysi... #devbio

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

HUGE: In federal court today, Judge Howell found that the Trump Administration and DOGE illegally removed USIP Board members, thereby nullifying ensuing actions including: - replacement of Board members with DOGE officials, - USIP staff purge, and - transfer of USIP property to GSA.

I'm no expert here, but in the midst of the severely discouraging upheaval inflicted upon the research environment, I'd like to point out the small signs of procedural resistance and hope. Today's hearing (live tweeted below) feels like a small bit of positivity to end the week.

First Bluesky post! I'm excited to share a preprint from my postdoctoral work where we 1) define the developmental mechanisms guiding formation of a vagal gut-brain circuit and 2) discover that this circuit regulates much more than just appetite. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...