Valda Vinson
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Executive Editor at Science
Just when I was getting going
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2 months ago
AAAS Town Hall: Aug. 13, 4–5:30 pm ET with Kelvin Droegemeier on JAG’s proposed FAIR Model for indirect costs. We invite our research community to join us to learn more, dive deep and ask your questions about the model. Register:
aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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David Malakoff
5 months ago
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (
@policyhound.bsky.social
): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-officials-take-steps-toward-radically-different-nsf
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Seth Thomas Scanlon
6 months ago
The May issue of
#Science
#Immunology
is out now! This week:
#interferon
regulates
#thymic
epithelial cell differentiation;
#efferocytosis
determines
#alveolar
#macrophage
functional plasticity: & mapping the
#stromal
cell landscape of human
#LymphNodes
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Science Magazine
6 months ago
In a new
#ScienceEditorial
, Creative Director Beth Rakouskas and Editor-in-Chief
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
introduce Science's new look—the magazine’s first print redesign in 11 years. Learn more:
scim.ag/4cWYfhe
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Science Magazine
6 months ago
This week in Science, researchers delve into the
#mathematics
that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹 Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design:
scim.ag/42DasUT
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Carolyn Bertozzi
7 months ago
Exciting new work from Barna Lab
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level
Millions of ribosomes are packed within mammalian cells, yet we lack tools to visualize them in toto and characterize their subcellular composition. In this study, we present ribosome expansion micros...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn2623
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Listening to the NSO. Food for the soul - I needed this!
7 months ago
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Stella Hurtley
8 months ago
Join me and Patrick Chinnery, Luca Scorrano, Aleksandra Trifunovic, and Min Jiang for the Westlake -
@science.org
Online Symposium Wed 28 March 13.00 CET/20.00 China Mitochondria in health and disease
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join the following webinar: 2025 Westlake Science Symposia. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar.
Mitochondria, the dynamic orchestrators of cellular energy metabolism and signaling, are essential guardians of health. Dysfunction in these organelles underlies a diverse array of pathologies, rangin...
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SrwpVCIwRSiihHXSRKg0bQ
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
8 months ago
“The weeks ahead may be the greatest test that the US scientific community has ever faced”
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
Come together, right now | Science
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9972?utm_campaign=Science+Magazine&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=ownedSocial
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Science Magazine
8 months ago
"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
in a new
#ScienceEditorial
.
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Jon Cohen
8 months ago
"As difficult and scary as it is to talk to tough reporters and critics, the alternative can be far worse."
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Breaking the silence
Research on science communication has largely focused on teaching scientists how to describe their studies in ways that interest the public while deepening their understanding of scientific exploratio...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw5838
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Commanders, what a show! I love it.
9 months ago
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Sailing out of 2024
10 months ago
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In today’s Science Adviser Science editors highlight favorite papers from 2024. Happy holidays from all of us
@science.org
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Read about this year’s grand prize winner of the Science and SciLifeLab prize for young scientists,Andrije Sente, in today’s
#ScienceAdviser
. Honored to be in Stockholm tonight at the banquet honoring Andrije and the other 3 winners. Read their essays at
@science.org
.
@nerdychristie.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Science Magazine
11 months ago
Two new studies in Science describe synthetic biology-based strategies that expand the possibilities of harnessing immune cells to treat disease. Learn more in this week's issue:
scim.ag/49nfztS
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Eric Topol
11 months ago
New
@science.org
from my Scripps Research colleagues on H5N1 A single mutation can increase the virus's binding to human receptors, highlighting the need for rigorous surveillance
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Mattia Maroso
11 months ago
@science.org
is on bsky!! Join and Enjoy! A sample? A great work on sex differences in Alzheimer's disease:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tlr7 drives sex differences in age- and Alzheimer’s disease–related demyelination
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other age-related disorders associated with demyelination exhibit sex differences. In this work, we used single-nuclei transcriptomics to dissect the contributions of sex ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk7844
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Christie Wilcox
11 months ago
These teeny bots could change the way we test for viruses—and maybe even prevent infections. That story and more of the best from
@science.org
and science in this edition of
#ScienceAdviser
:
www.science.org/content/arti...
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William J. Brady
11 months ago
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Carolyn Bertozzi
11 months ago
Exciting new discovery from colleagues
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
, astrocyte metabolism compromised by amyloid and tau oligomers leading to insufficient support for neurons. Possible new target for treating AD.
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Restoring hippocampal glucose metabolism rescues cognition across Alzheimer’s disease pathologies
Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with recent proteomic studies highlighting disrupted glial metabolism in AD. We report that inhibition of indo...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm6131
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Keith Smith
11 months ago
Do you have a PhD and broad interests in geophysics, geology, seismology and/or mineral physics? The journal Science has an opening for a permanent full-time research editor, handling papers in those fields. See the cool results before everyone else! 🧪
recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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Science News
11 months ago
"One of the most deep-seated misconceptions about the human psyche is that men are simple and women are complicated." Outdated gender stereotypes are influencing experimental design in laboratory animals.
#Science
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Are hormones a “female problem” for animal research?
Outdated gender stereotypes are influencing experimental design in laboratory animals
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw7570
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Carolyn Bertozzi
11 months ago
Now more than ever the world should learn about the life and impact of
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
neuroscientist Ben Barres, the movie is underway!
@atqmovie.bsky.social
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Hannah Isles
11 months ago
New in
#ScienceImmunology
: Research from
@boztugk.bsky.social
and team identifies an inborn error of
#immunity
caused by human LTβR deficiency, resulting in defective stromal cell signaling and impaired humoral immune responses. Read more:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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LTβR deficiency causes lymph node aplasia and impaired B cell differentiation
Loss-of-function mutations in LTBR result in a stromal defect, leading to dysfunctional secondary lymphoid organs and combined immunodeficiency in humans.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adq8796
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Stella Hurtley
11 months ago
Excellent post on nominating referees for your papers!
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Mattia Maroso
11 months ago
Check out the article related to this beautiful cover! Such a great achievement
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Maddy Seale
11 months ago
So I’m back from maternity leave and have been quiet on social media for a while. To catch up, here is a year in review of all the
#PlantScience
papers that came out in Science while I was gone. Buckle up! (1/34)
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Seth Thomas Scanlon
11 months ago
Pete Savage at UChicago pens the accompanying
#Perspective
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Macrophage modulation of tumor immunity
Macrophages deliver polarizing messages to promote immune suppression in tumors
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5661
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Seth Thomas Scanlon
11 months ago
Hot off the presses! In
#ScienceMagazine
, the Yamamoto lab reports that
#tumor
-associated
#macrophages
(
#TAMs
) polarize
#Tregs
into a
#TH1
–
#Treg
phenotype via the
#chemokine
#Platelet
Factor 4 (PF4)!
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Platelet factor 4–induced TH1-Treg polarization suppresses antitumor immunity
The tumor microenvironment (TME) contains a number of immune-suppressive cells such as T helper 1–polarized regulatory T cells (TH1-Treg cells). However, little is known about the mechanism behind the...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn8608
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In this week’s issue Kanatani et Al describe a powerful method to perform spatial RNA analysis of whole mouse brains.
@mattiamaroso.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Courtney Malo
11 months ago
I can't think of a better first post than to highlight STM's recent special issue on
#longcovid
.
www.science.org/toc/stm/16/773
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Contents | Science Translational Medicine 16, 773
https://www.science.org/toc/stm/16/773
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Keith Smith
11 months ago
There has been a great migration of scientists from Twitter to Bluesky, writes
@kakape.bsky.social
. Obviously you're already here, but it's still worth a read. 🔭
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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
https://www.science.org/content/article/old-twitter-scientific-community-finds-new-home-bluesky
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Jake Yeston
11 months ago
Here are the Science family journal editors currently on Bluesky, including the whole Science Immunology crew! 🧪
go.bsky.app/CQytTHw
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Thought they may have changed it in real time - but still not allowed for me
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over 1 year ago
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This week’s issue of Science contains a special section on the hypothalamus a small but well connected region of the brain key to many physiological processes.
almost 2 years ago
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Tfw the pilot says they’ve noticed something about a panel on the wing and they’ve sent a picture to Chicago to see if we can fly! Status update - in the air between Seattle and DC
almost 2 years ago
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Interesting innovation at the Seattle airport, little private working pods. But quite expensive.
almost 2 years ago
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Christie Wilcox
almost 2 years ago
Today’s
#ScienceAdviser
includes a chat with Max Ortiz Catalán, whose prosthetics achieve unmatched utility and comfort by using where implant integrates with bone “as a ‘USB port’ to the human body.” Plus, as always, the latest in Science and science:
www.science.org/content/arti...
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ScienceAdviser: Editor-in-chief of eLife fired for sharing satirical article
Today in Science and science: Hot farms harm birds, a chat with Max Ortiz Catalán about a bionic breakthrough, and more
https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-editor-chief-elife-fired-sharing-satirical-article
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