Fun read: Y can be lost as cells replicate. What if it's loss is also detrimental to cell function? theconversation.com/men-lose-the...

Scientists were pandering to Epstein for research money. Scientists are avoiding criticizing the federal government because they are worried about research money. We need to deprioritize external money in faculty hiring and promotion or we become an academy of puppets on strings.

This is maddening! This govt are literally blocking progress on a likely preventative cure for MS 🤯🤯🤯 MAHA

🧠🟦 "Neuroscience, physiology, ecology/ biogeochemistry, and chemistry of life sciences are among the proposal research topics that have been returned without review (RWR)" 😬 eos.org/research-and...

But, as they say, there is no time like the present [OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick] But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves! 2/3

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Key Takeaways from NIH Director Bhattacharya's hearing from Miriam and Bethesda Declaration whistleblower Jenna Norton (speaking in personal capacity). Our analysis? "Oof." (1/3 🧵)

74,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials were affected. You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue. That’s not how it works. I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence. 🧪 archive.today/ooHj6

I keep seeing posts about various academics schmoozing with (an often already convicted) Epstein and wondering - if they had succeeded in getting his $ - whether they were planning to include his name in their COI statements before talks. 😬

This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?

FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Very few people in the history of our species have saved as many people's lives as William Foege, who designed and lead the global elimination of smallpox, a highly contagious disease that killed 1 out 3 people it infected. ✊ www.scientificamerican.com/article/smal...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

An image of two ppl wearing security staff-type jackets w/reflective stripes in front of a row of flagpoles displaying the flags of the WHO member nations. They're taking down the US flag; it's a few feet off the ground & the man on the left has much of it draped over his shoulder.

🧠🧬Our paper is now live! "A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence With Existing Human Data" by Xiong et al. doi.org/10.1002/brb3... w/ @jlx0320.bsky.social @cosetterhoads.bsky.social @huda-akil.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

I found this article to be a useful education in the legal and practical challenges to calling a general strike in the u.s. and the intense prep work involved: wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/mass... Solidarity with MN! ✊️ #Minnesota #GeneralStrike #StrikeWithMinneapolis #IceOutForGood #UnionStrong

Update: Now 120 cities are holding Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions paydayreport.com/minneap/

Genuine question: Why would anyone want to "Guest edit" an issue for a journal?

Look who just endorsed the January 23 Minnesota-wide shutdown to protest the federal assault! “No work, no school, no shopping.”

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

To learn more: bit.ly/findawalkout (via @50501movement.bsky.social and @womensmarch.com )

I'm participating in the national "walk-out" right now to protest the administration's abuses of power. As a primarily remote worker, that translated into making phone calls to congress using the 5 calls app. In the process, I noticed my reflection in the phone and... Jesus. This needs to end, guys.

Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

ICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible. We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

There's an extremely common misconception that autistic people need to be right. That we are always correcting others because we think we know better than everyone else. And I want to explain why this is a wildly inaccurate understanding of the internal autistic experience...

Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left

For my animal behavior peeps: www.bpdaily.com/man-trains-c...

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

Thank you @boghuma.bsky.social for your commentary on the study.

Harvard University has a 9-course EdX online data science program that teaches R, with topics like dataviz and building machine learning models. You can “audit” any of the courses for free in any order (despite the displayed price, that's for a certificate). #RStats www.edx.org/certific...#RStats

Your first year of a PhD program, they give you a methods class explaining why not to do this study. When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.

This is going to hit academia, hard. The trickledown effects upon our economy will happen over years. But damage is being done by these policies.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Phenotypes url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Preprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Neurofriends - what say you? The mechanism is intriguing, but the ns are (by necessity) very small, with many tests. Believable? Long-term effects of forty-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: Insights from an aged monkey model study | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

🤓 So grateful to learn from powerhouses like Erin and @huda-akil.bsky.social during our Stories of WiN panel. We spoke about defining your legacy in science & beyond and a clear theme emerged: do science & lead according to your values. Listen here: www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

More evidence that exercise should be approached with extreme caution in people with #MECFS , as well as those with #longcovid or other chronic illnesses who experience post-exertional malaise: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Very cool: polysomnography is common and accessible medical data. ... but a few things worth noting:

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

A reverse K99 would be interesting... 2 or 3 years of R01 type funding to wind down followed by 2-3 years of funding for supplies as you are hosted as an emeritus professor - and ineligible for future grants as a PI

New Year, new #Bluesky user? Interested in #ResearchIntegrity & looking to connect with others on @bsky.app? Here are two #StarterPacks covering people connected with research integrity & there's still space so please share suggestions or wave to be added! go.bsky.app/QN5upY5 go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N

"In the prevaccine era, an estimated 2.7 million rotavirus infections occurred every year in the US & 95% of children experienced at least one infection by age 5." "[vaccines prevented annually] 280,000 clinic visits 62,000 ER visits & 45,000 hospitalizations in children younger than 5" - CDC

🧠🧵 We've added *a lot* to this paper and the results are sooooo cool: doi.org/10.1101/2025... We now formally compare: 1) traditional mono-aminergic targeting and non-traditional antidepressants 2) antidepressant effects in the hippocampus and cortex 3) antidepressant effects in bulk vs. snRNA-Seq

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super useful summary figure.