Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8

What are the current and emerging topics in Cancer Neuroscience, and what comes next for the field? In our new review, now online @cp-cell.bsky.social, we discuss previous and ongoing research from leading laboratories and propose future directions for research. 🧠🔬 Curious? See link below 😀👇

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

This isn’t a “could face” situation. It’s a “are facing” situation. And brain drain will continue to happen as long as we undermine science in the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... destruction of Pasteur institute is disgusting

On the cover, our latest Editorial—'Childhood cancer: progress, but not enough' Read this & more in our latest issue ▶️ spkl.io/63328AF70M

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

Leaders in academic circles seem to want to downplay just how bad things are at NIH and for science in the US. Not sure if this is naivety... Bhattacharya is quite a good propagandist and sounds reassuring. But certainly folks in academia are paying close enough attention to see through his lies?

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Thanks to Francesco De Virgilis & Christoph Scheiermann for writing a great Preview on our recent paper www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 😀

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?

The findings of a study in Nature Immunology shed vital insight into the role of CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis and support an important role of Epstein–Barr virus in MS immunopathology. #Immunosky #medsky 🧪

“Eye of God” nebula. SFRO collective image, I contributed ~23hrs: app.astrobin.com/i/ixz4v8

"Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?" @dianabuttu.bsky.social on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’ READ: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...

Special thanks to @jborniger.bsky.social cial / Kevin Tracey for the neuroscience guidance. Grateful for support from @lustgarten.org en.org & @pancan.bsky.social ! 🎗️💜 Full paper: doi.org/10.1158/2159...

Now online in Cancer Discovery AACR Journals: Myofibroblasts Induce Neuroplasticity to Promote Pancreatic Inflammation and Cancer Progression - by Jeremy Nigri, David Tuveson, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @cshlnews.bsky.social

Sympathetic chain ganglia (T12) labeled with pseudorabies virus, showing neurons directly innervating a mammary tumor in a mouse (yellow) and tyrosine hydroxylase (magenta). Credit: Nik Holland

Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.

Shot, Harassed & Threatened: U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents

5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen

The boogeyman nebula ~31 hrs LRGBHa #astrophotography

School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.

Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.

We’re thrilled to share that CSHL Associate Professor Jeremy Borniger (@jborniger.bsky.social) has received the 2026 Bakewell Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation. His lab is exploring synthetic torpor—a hibernation-like state—as a novel way to slow cancer growth. #ScienceMakesLifeBetter

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

Incredible. The Trump-Vance admin just posted a video promoting their bombing of Venezuela. …And it is set to the song “Fortunate Son” — which is explicitly about the rich and powerful starting wars under the flag of hollow patriotism, and then making the rest of America pay the consequences.

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."