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Neuroscience, meninges, blood-brain barrier, cake (or cookies)
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Hi Bluesky! I am Julie Siegenthaler, I am research faculty in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado USA - the
@siegenthalerlab.bsky.social
studies the meninges & brain vasculature & we ❤️ all CNS barriers...but the ones in the meninges are the best.
over 1 year ago
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Kevin Thiessen, PhD
about 17 hours ago
Thrilled to announce that later this year, I'll be joining the lab of
@mariasachkova.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
to research the evolutionary history of neurons in
#Ctenophores
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#zebrafish
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Artur
about 18 hours ago
First paper as first & corresponding author, out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🎉 napariTFM brings traction force & monolayer stress microscopy into napari, accessible via GUI; open-source, validated and no coding required. 😉 Check it out 👇
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UCD Proposal Development Services
about 9 hours ago
Reminder for
@ucdavis.bsky.social
early career faculty! Tomorrow is the first of our NSF CAREER infosessions!
#academicsky
#nsfcareer
#nsffunding
#grantwriting
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Waggoner Lab
about 8 hours ago
IL-17RA signaling promotes the dedifferentiation of Paneth progenitors through ADAM17 to regenerate gut epithelium post-irradiation
@natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial transcriptomics uncovers vasculature-centered cellular interactions driving Japanese encephalitis progression in a mouse model
@natcomms.nature.com
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Phil Lewis
about 4 hours ago
Judge orders restoration of Voice of America, putting hundreds of journalists back to work
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Judge orders restoration of Voice of America, putting hundreds of journalists back to work
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have...
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Mississippi Free Press
about 4 hours ago
OPINION: "[Wil] Haygood’s books are not produced quickly. He is a meticulous researcher and constant traveler—a 'solo voyager,' he likes to say. He needs four to five years to produce each book," Richard Campbell writes.
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Opinion | Media Matters: Wil Haygood, ‘Solo Voyager’
Richard Campbell writes about Wil Haygood, a writer and author whose pieces detail how Black history is American history.
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WeRateDogs
about 3 hours ago
This is Stinky and Binky. Their human jokingly started offering ad space on their backs, but then people actually started buying spots. Good thing Binky is running a special. 14/10 for both (TT: toocutelabs)
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Tim Onion
about 5 hours ago
I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!
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WeRateDogs
about 8 hours ago
This is Goose. He wants to know where you're going. If it's not too late, he'd like to suggest the park. 12/10 (IG: goosethelab_)
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Waggoner Lab
about 6 hours ago
Engineering an in vivo charging station for CAR-redirected invariant NKT cells to enhance cancer therapy
@natbiomedeng.nature.com
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Harmit Singh Malik
about 9 hours ago
Ahem. Also faculty positions.
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Jeremy Berg
about 6 hours ago
Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Comments due by May 16, 2026
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NOT-OD-26-047: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fis...
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-047.html
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Michael Baym
about 12 hours ago
Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline
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Timothy Fuqua
about 12 hours ago
ERC starting grant eligibility window increased to 10 years post-PhD defense:
www.ukro.ac.uk/news/changes...
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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 ERC Work Programmes
With the upcoming ERC Work Programme 2026 this July, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The main novelties for 2026 and 2027 are are summaris...
https://www.ukro.ac.uk/news/changes-to-the-2026-and-2027-erc-work-programmes/
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Ctenophores Rock!
about 17 hours ago
Introducing
#CtenophoreCtuesday
where we'll share cool
#sciart
& fun facts about your favorite
#Ctenophore
species! This first post shows the life cycle of Mnemiopsis leidyi, which can undergo REVERSE development when fed after periods of stress 🤯 Credit illustration to
@beziostudio.bsky.social
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BWJones
about 12 hours ago
THATS WHAT THAT WAS!!!
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Max Kozlov
about 12 hours ago
BREAKING:
@delauro.house.gov
announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
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Drug Monkey
about 24 hours ago
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Answering the Arguments Against Publicly Funded Biomedical Science in the United States
In recent months, as National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory councils have been depleted, thousands of federal scientists have departed, and research capacity has contracted, I’ve heard the same ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethginexi/p/answering-the-arguments-against-publicly?utm_source=direct
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Carmen Falcone
about 17 hours ago
2 weeks more to submit your abstracts for
#AstrocyteCafe2026
👀 Deadline is April 1st!!!
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Josie Glausiusz
about 15 hours ago
Forget ‘Marty Supreme.’ Meet the Real Table Tennis Champion of New York. Yasiris Ortiz, a 28-year-old star from the Bronx, is helping to bring free table tennis programing to children across the city.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/n...
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Forget ‘Marty Supreme.’ Meet the Real Table Tennis Champion of New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/nyregion/marty-supreme-new-york-ping-pong.html?ae=oa&campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20260316&instance_id=172598&nl=the-evening®i_id=67701401&segment_id=216761&user_id=c7b2d1c36361050e72c393e4be906373
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MadScientist
1 day ago
It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.711203v1
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Vicky Prince
1 day ago
Congratulations to Michael Wen and Andrew Gillis on this exciting paper out today! Shared competence forms the basis of gill arch and paired fin serial homology | PNAS
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Shared competence forms the basis of gill arch and paired fin serial homology | PNAS
The origin of paired fins is an unresolved controversy in vertebrate evolutionary biology. Karl Gegenbaur famously proposed that paired fins evolve...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529365123
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Liberty Hamilton
1 day ago
I am thrilled to announce that our group has received a new grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to study the neural dynamics of vocal learning in children! I am looking for a postdoc to join us in this effort, currently funded for 2 years. Please reach out with CV and letter of interest.
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor
1 day ago
Got a notebook you’d like to turn into a desktop app? Explore the LabConstrictor GitHub repository 🔗
github.com/CellMigratio...
And check out this demo repository built with LabConstrictor to see a simple example of the result 🔗
github.com/CellMigratio...
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GitHub - CellMigrationLab/LabConstrictor: From Jupyter Notebook to Desktop App in One Click
From Jupyter Notebook to Desktop App in One Click. Contribute to CellMigrationLab/LabConstrictor development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/CellMigrationLab/LabConstrictor
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor
1 day ago
Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗
arxiv.org/abs/2603.107...
or follow this thread ⬇️
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Jeremy Berg
1 day ago
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
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This is a collaboration with
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
and
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
. Science communication is an incredibly diverse field, and we want to summarize what is happening, how well people are surviving on science communication as a career, and where we need help as a field.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
1 day ago
Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to
#SciComm
ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
2 days ago
1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
2 days ago
4. As Jevin West and I have been saying for several years now, because a seemingly credible message no longer implies a human sender, LLMs will push us toward more emphasis on reputation and status — and as such serve as an anti-egalitarian force in all aspects of society, science included.
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open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Another thoughtful article from Elizabeth Ginexi on the dramatic reduction in the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) published by the NIH in 2025 and 2026.
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Sarah Darer Littman
1 day ago
"Now, after months of delays, we have U.S. Department of State data on visa issuances during the critical summer months of May to August 2025. The actual decline in new foreign students: 36 percent. Only once have incoming overseas enrollments contracted as much or more — during the Covid pandemic."
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Is the Sky Falling for International Enrollment?
New student-visa issuances fell by more than a third, State Department data show.
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/latitudes/2026-03-11?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_17279140_nl_Academe-Today_date_20260316
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Tommaso Patriarchi
1 day ago
Norepinephrine imaging, pushed further. Our latest NE sensors enable highly sensitive monitoring across recording modalities, Have you been using GRABNE2 sensors? the toolkit just got a major upgrade. Interested in trying them in your system? Reach out.
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Anna Clark
1 day ago
“There are 36 countries on Mr. Trump’s travel ban or restriction list. Twenty-nine of them are in Africa.” “Nearly 90 percent of African immigrant visa applicants are now banned…” via
@nytimes.com
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Sports Fans, Doctors, Musicians: Africans Lament U.S. Travel Ban
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/africa/trump-africa-travel-visa-ban.html
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Hao Yin
1 day ago
Single-cell Proteomics🔥
#MarfanSyndrome
Aortic Root Fbn1 C1041G/+🐭 2.4k proteins 3.5k cells 487 proteins/cell👈 7 Smooth Muscle Cell subtypes Prss2, Lrp1 as modulated SMC markers vs scRNAseq +SeqIF (21 Ab)
#AortaEd
Sarah Parker lab
#MolCellProteomics
2026
www.mcponline.org/article/S153...
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Axel Montagne
1 day ago
Here is the FindAPhD weblink to our BHF-DRI PhD programme! Deadline: *April 14* Please spread the word!!
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The Company of Biologists
1 day ago
Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at
biologists.com/wp-content/u...
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Cheri Sirois
1 day ago
A recognition-building and supplemental funding opportunity for early-career researchers, and your essay could be published in Science 📖:
www.science.org/content/page...
Deadline June 15, 2026
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Spirochrome
1 day ago
An amazing example of actin imaging with our expansion microscopy probe for actin HAK-actin™. These are U-ExM expanded platelets stained with HAK-Actin (magenta bottom), (anti-integrin αIIb magenta top), and fibrin (fibrinogen-A488, green). Movie from preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ
1 day ago
Link to the paper:
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Translocation of bacteria from the gut to the brain in mice
Recent studies link gut dysbiosis to neurological disease, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study shows that a high-fat diet increases gut permeability and enables bacterial transloc...
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BK. Titanji
1 day ago
A first-in-human mRNA vaccine for Nipah virus. NiV kills 40–75% of those infected, causes near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh, & has no licensed vaccine. mRNA-1215 (NIAID/Moderna) targets both surface glycoproteins F and G a first for any NiV candidate in human trials
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A structure-based mRNA vaccine for Nipah virus in healthy adults: a phase 1 trial - Nature Medicine
In this phase 1, open-label dose-escalation study in healthy adults found that the mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1215), encoding the Nipah virus Malaysian strain chimeric pre-fusion F protein linked to glycoprot...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04265-1
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Mark A. Hanson
2 days ago
I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student
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Nicolas Mouquet
9 days ago
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉
www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag
@biodiful.bsky.social
to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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The Associated Press
2 days ago
Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win the best cinematography #Oscar, taking home the award for “Sinners.”
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DiscussingFilm
2 days ago
Michael B. Jordan's reaction to winning his first ever Oscar. See the full winners list:
bit.ly/OscarWins26
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Dr. Tara L. Conley
2 days ago
some news: i just received word that i’ve officially been granted tenure and promotion :)
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Denis Wirtz
2 days ago
Download our database of free database of postdoc fellowships. 276 funding opportunities. For entry, we provide eligibility/requirements, amount, deadline, link, description, etc. Download database here:
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Max Heiman
4 days ago
NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
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His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/his-harvard-lab-was-thriving-then-came-the-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.ZLCT.hWWgFzsI_PLE&smid=url-share
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Zebrafish Rock!
3 days ago
Confocal micrograph of a transgenic adult zebrafish heart with cardiomyocytes in 🧡, blood vessels in 🩷, and cell nuclei in 💙. Credit to Dr. Aaron Scott (prev. w/
@beckrichardson.bsky.social
@bristoluni.bsky.social
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#ZebrafishZunday
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