I was featured on The Scientist as a part of their 'Postdoc Portraits' series where I spoke about my scientific career path and ongoing work on oligodendrocyte dysfunction in neurodegeneration. Check it out! www.the-scientist.com/postdoc-port...

📢 SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION! 📢 New York needs an Empire Biomedical Research Institute to create new statewide funding opportunities for scientists & physician-scientists so that patients and their families get the life-saving and life-changing new therapeutics they're hoping for ✏️ c.org/TDMy2H9JTW

I was still faculty at CSHL when Watson’s remaining titles were stripped in 2018. Duncan Watson wrote a sad/angry email to everyone living on Bungtown road. Me included. He told us we were no longer allowed to use the too “intimate” name Jim The psychology of descendants of famous men fascinates me

I'm so excited to see this Perspective with @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social out in Neuron! About 8% of our genome is made up of the remnants of LTR-containing retroelements - here, Jason and I explore the activities of retroTEs in neurological health and disease! authors.elsevier.com/c/1lzTx3BtfH...

Of all the hot takes on Rosalind Franklin, I'm truly baffled by the argument that acknowledging harm done to women somehow removes their agency. And thus, it's more "feminist" to pretend that women were not wronged by the men who tormented and harassed them

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you research endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) or want to learn more about them? 🧬🤔 Consider presenting at or attending AuusiERV - an inaugural online symposium for ERV research in Australia 🇦🇺 (and abroad) 🗺️ Abstracts due 1st October! events.humanitix.com/aussierv-2025 #ERV #retrovirus

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Filmmaker Pamela Green is planning a movie about the late Ben Barres, transgender neuroscientist, world expert on glial cells, and an inspirational advocate for women and minorities in science. Pamela is seeking funds to finish her research and script – see fundraising trailer below.

are you a PD in the glia (or neuroscience) space? Do you want to come to NYC and give a lecture and meet some amazing faculty here at @nyumedpostdocs.bsky.social? LAST WEEK TO APPLY to be a SPiNES speaker for our next season. Details and apply here: med.nyu.edu/departments-... COME AND WOW US!

For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...

Tomorrow, 6/24, NINDS is celebrating 75 years with a special congressional briefing spotlighting scientific advancements made possible from #NINDS over the past 75 years—from foundational discoveries in brain function to life-changing therapies for neurological diseases. #neurosociety #brainresearch

The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data ✨🔭🧪

Dear Mobile DNA Researchers, The 8th Woods Hole Mobile Genetic Elements meeting will be held Aug 28 to Aug 30, 2025, at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Info, registration, and abstract submission: www.eventsquid.com/event/28372 #MobileDNA #MobileGeneticElements

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

We hate that this t-shirt has to exist but we love the creativity behind it. Our friend Ed created it as he works to bring about change for all battling ALS. Now please follow the alien's request and complete an ALS Clinic Survey today. bit.ly/448GkkF

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Stop for a second and try to imagine this: a heat shock protein relocalizes to the cell surface and mediates dsRNA binding and internalization! Intrigued? Read our newly minted paper in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to all the authors and thanks to reviewers and editor!

Our paper describing the results of the MIROCALS trial of low-dose interleukin-2 in #ALS #MND is out in the Lancet @thelancet.bsky.social Open access Read it here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

My lab at NYU is hiring a postdoc interested in RNA biology and local translation in neurons following axonal injury/neurodegenerative diseases!! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/165681

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Do you have transposon-related research cooking, with some cool results you are exciting to share? Start thinking about registering to #EMBOMobileGenome workshop! Nov 4-7 2025 in Heidelberg. One of the historical TE meetings, with a diverse and welcoming community. www.embl.org/about/info/c... 1/3

Associate / Senior Research Associate in TORUS Deployment Study (University of Bristol) - new sensing technologies to support people with Parkinson's Disease participating in research. Closing date: 22nd April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/senior-r...

The Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) is seeking an experienced cell/molecular Postdoctoral Research Scientist with an interest in neuroinflammation. Closing date: 28th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoct...

Our department is hiring! Huge endorse! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Hi! Here is a PhD opportunity at Montpellier, IGH institute with Séverine Chambeyron to study endogenous retroviruses ! #TEsky #PhD

Last week, some of us from Team Jakobsson had a great time in Arizona at the 2025 CRN Collaborative Meeting! Plenty of insightful talks and networking. Shoutout to @kirkebylab.bsky.social for a fantastic talk on PSC-based therapies and models of PD 🌟🧬🏜️ #CRNPhoenix2025 @asapresearch.bsky.social

Still wrapping my head around 57% cut to CDMRP (cdmrp.health.mil) funding in CR. CDMRP funds some of the most innovative high-risk/high-reward research in biomedical science, and in it all, includes patient advocates. BEFORE the cut, the breast cancer program funded 3-5% of proposals. What now?

Super happy to announce the latest work from my lab together with Hemali Phatnani @nygenome.org & NYGC ALS Consortium! We've combined ALS patient profiling (100s!), ML classifiers and matched bulk/single-cell data to dive into ALS Molecular Subtypes #NIHfundedResearch www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I'm excited to be taking part in the ALS Expert Talk Series happening next week: Jan 22 at 7pm ET. I'll be presenting my lab's latest research into ALS molecular subtypes - what are subtypes and what can they tell us about ALS? #EndALS #EverythingALS #ALS 🔔Register: everythingals.org/events

Very excited to share our work with the QMUL Epigenetics hub and everyone else that is interested to join online and learn what the lab has been up to with regard to #transposons #longreads #nanopore and #singlecells

Happy to share our first #bluetorial & our latest #preprint, lead by postdoc @paulchammas.bsky.social. We used CRISPRa to disentangle the close relationship between Dux and MERVL elements in the induction of the 2-cell like state: #TEsky #MERVL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/8)

Applications are open for our Stanford Brain Organogenesis course in 2025! This has gotten more and more competitive and we generally get many hundreds of applications for the 20 or so spots. Please note that the committee gives a lot of attention to the motivation letter!

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Tracking transposable element (TE) activity in genomics data can be a pain, but there are solutions! Our lab built TEtranscripts -- which we've updated to work for small RNAs (TEsmall), bulk RNA at the locus level (TElocal), and in single-cell data (TEsingle). Check it out! www.mghlab.org/software