🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Amazing #ARVO2026 Had a chance moderating two fantastic sessions #aging #lipids and #agerelatedvisionloss on the rise!!

AGING EYE session is TODAY! #ARVO2026 #agingeye 3:15PM in Mile High 1A. See you there!! #aging #vision

Mullers cells gone gone wild in area with isolated atrophy. #fluorescencefriday

And why is that?? copied from @phd_pdf_scholarship (Facebook)

American science is shrinking. 
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

I am looking forward! Thank you for inviting me to talk! #aging #eye #molecularneurodegeneration

📢Today's the last to vote for #UCIrvine! Get your votes in by tonight at 1 a.m. PT: trib.al/1yoBby1 #STATMadness

I cannot believe we got so far!!! Help us to pass to the next round. Thank you!!!! 💙💙💙

Thank you @zmikulski.bsky.social ! I cannot believe we are so high in this contest. I hope our Polish friends vote for us!!! Thank you in advance!

I cannot believe we got so far!!! Help us to pass to the next round. Thank you!!!! 💙💙💙

👋👋👋👋 We are in STAT Madness (if you know March Madness - it's roughly the same but with research). We went through 3 rounds and we need your help now!!!! Vote. Register (simple!!!) and vote. Support our lab! Make us visible! Thank you 🥰 #aging #eye #AMD #glaucoma 🥰 www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

We’re in the game. Our #UCIMedSchool research led by @drdorotask.bsky.social have reached the semifinals in this year’s #STATMadness. Vote for UC Irvine and keep voting until this round ends on Monday, March 23, at 1 a.m. PT. Vote today! trib.al/1yoBby1 @ucirvine.bsky.social

We are now in Round 2 - vote for us! #STATMadness #aging #therapy

Amazing work from Edwards lab! As usual, mesmerizing images and thoughtful analysis. Congrats! And - this is the first post by @edwardsmalia.bsky.social !!! Welcome to Bluesky!

In my lab's latest paper, just out in IOVS, D. Scott McLeod beautifully illustrated the choroidal pathology in a donor with multi-focal GA. I am grateful to Christine Curcio and K. Bailey Freund for allowing us to study these eyes and to all other co-authors. iovs.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx...

Vote for #UCIrvine, led by @drdorotask.bsky.social in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at #UCIMedSchool. Let's go! #STATMadness

Just a quick clarification: everyone gets 5 votes per round (not per day!) — which makes a lot more sense 😄 Vote for us! We’re competing with a project studying how lipid supplementation may improve aging vision. More results soon, thanks for your support! #aging #AMD #vision #WomeninScience

Hi Friends! Did you hear about STAT Madness? Not enough space to explain now😀, but check it there www.statnews.com/feature/stat... and VOTE for DSK lab! Everyone has 5 votes per day. You can use all of them on DSK lab! To vote again, just refresh page. Thank you!!! @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social

Amazing work from @albrechtlab.bsky.social ! To paraphrase recent title from one of the CNS journals: Subcellular Localization as a Driver of Cellular Metabolic State. Congratulations to the team! @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social

Do you see yourself in this picture? I do... Copied from Lean In FB account.

Congrats!! Great achievement!

What a gorgeous work! And cover! Congrats!

Thank you @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social for highlighting our work! #aging #vision #GreenlandShark

The very, very long-lived Greenland sharks were long thought to be practically blind. But a new study finds that they not only can see but also maintain their vision into old age

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our lab is #hiring! Interested in #biologyofaging, #aging, #lipids, #AMD, #glaucoma, #NGS, #singlecell and in general molecular biology? Apply TODAY!!!! Indicate your interest in aging biology!!! Deadline for application to my lab - end of 2025! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09747

... And if you want to know more, here's the featured Article: Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins ($) doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is so low. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Up for a treat! @stimulatedraman.bsky.social presenting.

💲💲💲 This research would not have been possible without the support of several funding agencies, including #NIH National Eye Institute, @brightfocus.bsky.social, Thome Foundation, #RPB, the #NSF, and the Simons Foundation. Our collaborators also received support from #FNP and #NCN. Thank you!!! 💲💲💲

Our work is finally out! Learning from mechanism of #aging to presenting potential therapeutic strategy to slow down #age-related #vision loss! Very proud of my team including several undergrads and thankful for fantastic collaborations across the world! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Thank you @ash.hematology.org for supporting our research spearheaded by @silviavicenzi.bsky.social in the lab! Excited to have the opportunity to jump-start the next stage of our exploration into #bloodstemcell #aging with our collab & #lipidomics expert @drdorotask.bsky.social! #Fight4Hematology

I’ll take every bit of good news I can get. “Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health… in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending.”

Fantastic work of @evgenykvon.bsky.social team. @gracebower.bsky.social did an amazing job. It was a pleasure to assist them even as little as we did. Hope for more collaborations in the future!!! Congratulations!!!!!

Even though cataract surgery is generally safe and effective, cataract is still a leading cause of blindness worldwide. We need to understand the optical and materials properties of the eye lens to make better replacement lenses. This budget would eliminate that, including my lab's work.

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

📣 TRAVEL GRANTS AVAILABLE for trainees and young investigators! Deadline: May 26 Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the ISER/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium & Fast Track with the support of a travel grant! @iser.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social 👉 iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/abstract-sub...

Good morning!!! ☀️

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

In #myfirstpost here, I'm excited to share the news that the Crews Lab's latest research on #immunesystem #aging is now published in @geroscience.bsky.social! This work is the culmination of a wonderful collaboration with @drdorotask.bsky.social Lab with major efforts by @silviavicenzi.bsky.social!

It was a great collaboration with @crewslab.bsky.social ! Complementary expertise, curiosity and unique mouse model. Congrats @silviavicenzi.bsky.social and looking forward to working together to decipher the mechanism! #aging #Bcells #PUFA #ELOVL2 @ucirvine.bsky.social

Third time’s overrated — fourth time’s where the magic happens! I just got awarded a BrightFocus Foundation National Glaucoma Research grant! Thank you @brightfocus.bsky.social for your support!!! #agingeye #glaucoma #epigeneticmemory

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...