Beautiful sunrise in Havre de Grace

I'm defending my PhD next Friday, May 23!(!!!!). I'll be highlighting our work looking at aneuploidy in early human development. If you're interested I'd love to have you join via Zoom (DM me for info) or on the Homewood campus!

A disturbing, but alas, not surprising, report from the Washington Post. [Gift link] wapo.st/4jtCPdw

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

@booker.senate.gov 👏👏👏

Carnage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is so depressing. As a former F31 recipient, these grants are so important for training scientists. And behind that flat line are thousands of grad students who worked tirelessly to put together a competitive submission that now isn’t being reviewed or awarded for reasons beyond their control

Very excited to share (most of) my PhD work, in which we use human retinal organoids to understand how thyroid hormone signaling is regulated in the developing retina to promote robust and accurate photoreceptor subtype specification. Turns out, it's a lot more complicated than we expected. 1/n

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency

Just a normal Wednesday at Johns Hopkins, where it's 56 degrees with a chilly breeze.....inside. 🙃

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

Current Baltimore vibes ☺️ the wind knocked out my power. Maybe a good excuse to disconnect for an evening instead of doom scrolling. Thankful for my backlit kindle 😅

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem

Glad I spent the last ~6.5 years earning my PhD in biology to enter this shit show. If I’d have known we were killing science I’d have gone into a safer field like coal mining

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Can anyone help me identify this savory snack (Indian)? I need to buy about 10lbs of it ASAP and Google isn’t helping

When the cheese comes out

WFH is great until you lose track of your coffee intake and find yourself 6 espressos deep at 2pm with a resting heart rate over 100

Retinal ganglion cell-derived semaphorin 6A segregates starburst amacrine cell dendritic scaffolds to organize the mouse inner retina Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Rebecca James, Alex Kolodkin (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) and colleagues: https://buff.ly/3Zk5Uj1