It's academic year 2020 6-7

Inflation is real

Excited to share new work from our lab that details a novel mechanism by which #Enteric #Neurons put a brake on proliferation of #Colon #Cancer cells

What a mess a misplaced vowel makes

Stress doesn’t just affect your head, it also messes with your gut. While we have all dealt with it, we dont have a cure for it. Cause? Lack of basic mechanistic science. Our paper published today identifies a mechanism by whichstress slows gut down, and how to cure it www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Wonderful work from @honghaocao.bsky.social and @sixianyou.bsky.social on crafting a new method to study the enteric nervous system and associated cells. This was a really interesting and fun collaboration between our labs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watch intently to better your Significance and Innovation section for your NIH grants youtu.be/5ptUMe9eqYE?...

How about first publishing papers that your editors don't pre-judge on the 'impact' of the study

#Boston wordplay

"What the fuck do you mean by data available on request?"

If you have ever wondered why that one particular faculty in your field/dept/school behaves the way he/she does...

Ever wondered why 90% of #Rett Syndrome (RTT) patients suffer from severe #GI issues like chronic #constipation? A new study from our lab digs into this using an Mecp2 KO mouse model. (1/n)

“Cease normalising AI hype (…) The technologies do not have the advertised capacities & their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, & safety.” openletter.earth/open-letter-... cc @olivia.science

THIS Be kind to others and to your self

All hail the AI revolution

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

A species capable of great good and great evil

Healthspan stops at 'Not Discussed'

Explains the lack of relevant expertise and a mismatch of grants and study section members' expertise at many current study sections now

Goodness Gracious Me was 'Prophet'ic, eh? @richardsever.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tw7...

Wow! Neanderthals were in soft money positions in academia for millenia...

#Fallout seems less like a dystopian fiction and more like a documentary set in the near future

Marc Andreessen is the perfect middle manager. Zero introspection. Zero constructive thoughts. Zero ability to work on feedback. Zero humanity

What the article doesnt mention is the challenge to BART from Waymo and other road-driving vehicles Bay Area folks have a history of taking decisions that will make their lives worse....so wont be surprised if killing off BART is one of them

In a world where journals don't make transformative decisions.. Biology Open has the courage to walk the talk

@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social @harmitmalik.bsky.social @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social

At what point do we accept/proclaim that decision to take up a job dependent a lot or entirely on federal funding for science was/is the worst decision ever Asking for a friend

A new chapter in understanding how #gut #inflammation in #IBD rewires its innervation Congratulations to the Bogunovic Lab at @umasschan.bsky.social

When asked a question, dodge the question When the question persists, obfuscate Classic political playbook at the NIH podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Timely reminder that Tech bros and girls exist in an alternate universe

Scientists need to be more like showbiz stars? Wait, really? We need to be influencers now? Is this satire? Has @theonion.com bought @nature.com

Data is Data

“The clock is ticking,....Our lifespan is short; our responsibilities great and grave.”

More #Keynesian bullshit

#AI will be great at having answers "Just not the correct" answers AND "Not just the correct" answers

On why pre-publication review was/is/will be a bad idea, and why we would all be better off moving to a post-publication review system

Well, they've told chairs to stop summarizing the discussion, which was a big source of those summary statement write-ups. So, color me surprised I guess?

Anyone else notice that summary statement discussions are AI slop now?

A whole lot of words in this opinion piece in @bostonglobe.com but not a single one about how and why #VC #funding for #biotech has dried up in #Massachusetts

If there was a news item that helps understand how far institutions of journalism and science have fallen, this is it Influencers have taken hold of institutions of truth in a way that seems irreversible

Hey @britishmuseum.bsky.social you seeing this?

An end of an era and an important voice is lost Thank you Mr Tully for your voice that covered the stories over the years!

Anyone else having an issue opening @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social lif format files with #Fiji? Fiji was the only tool that allowed interrogating lif files on Mac Any thoughts #imaging scientists?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o... Interesting that the Global South was saying the same thing over and over again for DECADES But now a country of the Global North says it in Davos, its called as a new doctrine Western mainstream media can

Starting off the year strong #TeamScience #EntericNeurons

Resubmitting grants each cycle

Common misconception amongst some reviewers is that if they block a study from getting funded or published, thats the end of the road for that study Dont know how many times such reviewers need to learn that simply aint true

I dont know whats more worrying... having another AI tool aiming for 'super-intelligence'; or Physicians have a 'darling AI tool' that they think is an alternate to 'READING THE FUCKING STUDIES'

Starting off the new year with...

Auto and steel are publicly traded for-profit companies and academic biomedicine is not..fact the author doesn't see and aooreciate the difference (forget about understanding the whole point of basic research) tells us how much weight we should put in this inane article @statnews.com Do better