One of the things I was most excited about 1yr ago was joining 1 of the MOSIAC UE5s as a project scientist to work with those ECRs assigned to it. The opportunity to serve our greater communities. Truly a program that supported people across broad institutions, unlike the parent.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Sea turtles Black tip sharks Moray eels Conch Flying fish

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Interested in Zebrafish brain imaging? We released a 3D printed mold that's is super helpful for us. Check it out Customizable FDM-based zebrafish embryo mold for live imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Work by Marcela and Jaakko in the lab

Thats 216 biomedical PhD students for their whole degree, or 140 2 year R21 grants, or 30 5 year R01 grants, or one fired football coach...

A great intro to academic conferencing. Not sure how I missed this one. scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

Landed at golden hour ❤️ #STX #home 🏝️

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Today I am starting a weekly post titled "Autism: The Evidence". I hope it helps someone fight the colossal wave of misinformation that is drowning us. Part 1: I heard Autism prevalence has gone up. Is that true? If so why?

Read how understanding and tracking recent changing trends for lobular breast cancer are important—not only to improve care for those affected by it, but also to advance NBCC’s overarching mission to end all breast cancer. https://nbcc.info/4qmyBbS

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

Adding more signs of how NIH science is/was broken: my lab team could not show up for 3 more accepted talks at scientific conferences, totaling 9 for the year now. If you interview current NIH trainees for grad or med schools please understand that we are giving them the best experience we can.

I wrote in the New York Times about how I think companies saying women are leaving because of "return to office" is a cop out. Nursing, a fundamentally in person job, is almost 90% female. So what do women really want? Boundaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

"Regrettably, and despite the null hypothesis being simple, elegant and often underpinned by evidenced or reasoned convictions, conventional p-value analysis can only argue against the null hypothesis, never in favour of it."

When times are tough and we’re stressed out, we have to take extra care to not make other people’s lives unnecessarily hard, especially if they don’t have the freedom to easily avoid us (e.g., employees, students, family). Don’t let your shit roll downhill

A couple of fresh analogies in here that might be useful to you at Thanksgiving dinner.

As a first generation Jamaican-American, the impact of Hurricane Melissa hits differently. To say that Jamaicans are resilient is an understatement, the island will need help now and for a while. This is what you can do to help www.instagram.com/reel/DQW_h8D... #islandsky #Caribbeansky #Jamaicansky

there was a deliberate decision to not cite my MIRA on this commentary, even though service to the scientific community is *supposed* to be a consideration during review www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Also worth mentioning, the deletion test is impossible to do when we have so many hidden figures in science and medicine whose contributions were significant but poorly acknowledged: people like Vivien Thomas, Herman Branson, Rosalind Franklin, and many others who are more hidden by history.

Online Now: Art breaks obesity’s health information silos #trends #endocrinology #metabolism

I know & trust that NIH staff will get this round of reviews done. Yet having done my own CSR reviews 'for nothing' & with my own R01 sitting unreviewed now, working on another NIH grant has never felt so painful and futile. A quiet impact on science, perhaps, robbing the joy from looking ahead.

This is ~70 5 year NIH grants to study blindness, Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, epilepsy, infectious disease, stroke, respiratory diseases, etc...etc...etc...

Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was not a sample of academics.

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👨‍🔬Considering a career in cancer research, pharmacology, and/or prevention? Join our team in the fight against cancer as a phD student! 📚🔬 Applications for Summer 2026 are open through December- we'd love to meet you at an upcoming info session! tumorbiology.georgetown.edu/phd/admissio...

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department! I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad. 12/12

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

Congratulations @needhibhalla.bsky.social !

Bridging the Gap between Genomics and Social Determinants: Melissa B. Davis, Brittany D. Jenkins-Lord, and Michelle J. Lee addressed this topic in an #AACRdisp25 plenary session chaired by Christopher R. Flowers. @MeliD32 @ChrisRFlowersMD

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Biobanking Resources to Improve Cancer Research Outcomes for All: W. Douglas Cress, Heather A. Lankes, Joshua C. Denny, and patient advocate Alia Graham addressed this topic in an #AACRdisp25 session chaired by Jennifer B. Permuth.

Elena Martinez, Kemi M. Doll, Erica T. Warner, and Tanya D. Agurs-Collins discussed "Obesity and Cancer" in an #AACRdisp25 plenary session chaired by Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano and Lauren E. McCullough.

Breast Cancer in Young Women: When, Why, and How? Melissa Troester, Kornelia Polyak, and Sherene Loi will address this question in an educational session at #SABCS25 (December 9-12). Learn more: buff.ly/OB6T5Xs @loisher.bsky.social

I want to start a new global movement: Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

Glioblastoma depends on the amino acid serine as a fuel source & serine-deficient diet slows tumor growth in mice @nature.com @dnagrathlab.bsky.social @lyssiotislab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My guy wrote an op-ed and it's really good. Send it to your advancement officer, your dean, your grandmother, your neighbor. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...

New Opinion out today in @chicagotribune.com "The Bio10 is an academic powerhouse." "The health of our society depends on generations of young students equipped to embrace, and succeed in the face of, uncertainty." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

My research area is hiring! Very excited for new colleagues.

Big day for our team: our pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) organoid paper is now up on bioRxiv! This was a tour de force across 6 institutions, 37 authors, building patient-derived organoids from 35 PPGL patients /🧵 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can peer review be done faster, without compromising on quality? Biology Open has embarked on an exciting experiment to find out - Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5h...

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Yes please!! #edusky

My dear friend @duncan.dev put some math behind the bandwidth of my zipping 400TB across the country: duncan.dev/link/bwj-400tb

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...