The Witch’s head on NYE. 33h 45m LRGBHa . app.astrobin.com/u/Photon_Col... #astrophotography

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... new paper from our group demonstrating how breast tumors dysregulate rhythms in the HPA axis to drive their own growth. Great collaboration with the @corina-amor.bsky.social and @cheadlelab.bsky.social labs @cshlnews.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41... happy to share our new paper out demonstrating differences between proximity labeling tools in different cellular compartments. Do you work with TurboID or APEX? Check this out! Led by stellar postdoc @alixbattison.bsky.social

The moon on December 1st

Incredible stuff. The new "Pentagon press pool" of Based influencers is filming videos to defend a neocon administration using your taxes to bomb ships as part of a lurch towards war — all in front of the Pentagon logo as if they're spokespeople for the regime

The Pleiades

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... new preprint from the lab where stellar postdoc @alixbattison.bsky.social demonstrates that two common proximity labeling approaches enrich different proteomes when localized to the same cellular compartments. Important implications for discovery proteomics.

Exciting news! Our new paper is out in Neuron! We discovered how neurons drive brain tumor growth through aberrant glutamate–tyrosine kinase signaling, uncovering novel mechanisms that shape tumor progression. Grateful to our team & collaborators for making this breakthrough possible! 🧠✨

Andromeda (M31) in LRGBHa (~24.5h) #astrophotography

Thousands of brave people from all over DC have taken to the streets to protest the illegal military occupation by the Jeffrey Epstein associate, 36 time convicted felon and rapist, Donald Trump. #3E #removeTrump #freeDC (📹 @Ronxyz00)

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read. And that's saying a lot. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Nice synapse from synaptosome prep. From @mayywu.bsky.social :))) can see presynaptic vesicles and clear PSD.

A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

Check out how we tackled one of the fundamental challenges in immunology, out today @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell-systems.... Our major innovations are BATCAVE and BATMAN, two new players to get us closer to solving TCR-pMHC predictions!

May the odds be ever in your favor. 4% payline at the NCI. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

I’m happy to share our latest work on tumour necrosis! During my time in the @megeblad.bsky.social lab, we found that tumour necrosis is not a passive phenomenon secondary to tumour growth, but an active phenomenon driven by neutrophils and NETs! Thread below: (1/13) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prasad is UCSFs failure

A discussion of the use of animals in research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk... 1/n (Warning: Rant coming)

i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

immigration is good actually.

Visiting Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s house in Barcelona featuring @erikherzog.bsky.social , Charo Robles & Luis de Lecea :))) neuroscience pilgrimage

Former NOAA official Monica Medina says the scale of death and destruction from catastrophic flooding in Texas was "entirely preventable," faulting budget cuts for hampering preparedness. "Many of those lost lives could have been saved if links in our disaster response chain hadn't been broken."

#chronobiologyGRC in Barcelona

ICE now has a budget bigger than the United States Marine Corps. ICE now has a budget bigger than what we spend on biomedical research in America. This is sociopathic to the extreme.

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature: "Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."

This is a catastrophe in the making gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...

Center of Rho ophiuchi cloud complex, 7.5h LRGB. #astrophotography

We have already received many interesting abstracts for the Cancer Neuroscience EACR Conference in Bilbao, Spain.... ...and we are looking forward to reading *yours*! 🧠🔬 📢 Abstract Deadline June 30th 📢 #cancerneuroscience #neuroscience #cancer @helloeacr.bsky.social

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

NYT story about Judge Young’s ruling

In Nature Human Behaviour, Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly against the Trump administration’s attack on science, and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent. go.nature.com/3FIV7cC 🧪

BREAKING: House approves President Trump's request to cancel $9.4 billion in previously approved foreign aid and funding for NPR and PBS.

FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him. Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting. Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Pretending it does not exist will not alter reality. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Don’t miss our latest 📝 with @chrislisgaras.bsky.social & Rick Staba on high-frequency oscillations in preclinical 🧠 disease models, with guidelines for recording, detection and analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map

The Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

Breast cancer cells lining up along nodose ganglion projections. Grabbing the “rope” to metastasize?

i'm screening preprints rn so if anyone is desperate for a DOI for their june 5 submission, DM me

Exactly as planned. Meanwhile the West continues with condemnation declarations with no sactions attached. Utterly shameful aje.io/jaudnt

Come check out @alixbattison.bsky.social ‘s poster #ASMS2025 on Thursday from 1030-230 (ThP 531)! Anyone using proximity ligation in the cytoplasm, membrane, or nucleus needs to check this out!

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

In just 4 months, Elon Musk cut thousands of jobs and defunded key federal departments—just because he could. Federal workers serve the people; billionaires serve themselves. It's time to dismantle DOGE and protect our public services! Image: webcomicname.com; Graphic: ‪@deptofworkers.bsky.social‬

Hypothalamus is always beautiful (from stellar lab tech Marina Sherman)

New Editorial—Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity tinyurl.com/58a4yn5t

M51 - The Whirlpool (18h LRGBHa) #astrophotography

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social