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Piwi and piRNA and pugs enthusiast. Tennis on occasions.
http://laulab.bu.edu
Klingon Bond – Today is a Good Day to Spy! Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy! Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High! Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai! Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
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Salient that the late Sir John Gurdon's seminal Nobel-prize discoveries of pluripotency was accomplished with Xenopus frogs, another model organism whose NIH funding support has massively declined as much as its invertebrate brethren.
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I-75 Scientist
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The moose out front should have told you…
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NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-004.html
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This guy's shirt I saw walking to work sums up today's Oval office Dunning Kruger-esque press briefing on ASD.
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Real Slim Shady in Boston?
4 months ago
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That is some nice luciferase activity!
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7 months ago
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Welp! Sitting in dark office, entire lab building on emergency power since 3pm. Whole chunk of downtown Boston without power!
7 months ago
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Michael, so sorry! You have alot of fans of your research, myself included. Keep fighting and thank you for this brave post! Hope HMS backs up you and your lab to fight another day!
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7 months ago
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Happy Dog Day, Chester the Tennis Pug!
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7 months ago
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If Spongebob Squarepants can find these two planes, he can help fund 60 biomedical research labs on land for at least 5 years.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
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Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier | CNN Politics
Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
8 months ago
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." đź§Ş
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2832884
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Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in
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. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Traffic Jam activates the Flamenco piRNA cluster locus and the Piwi pathway to ensure transposon silencing and Drosophila fertility
Rivera et al. discover Drosophila Flamenco piRNA cluster enhancers bound and activated by the Traffic Jam transcription factor. Traffic Jam also binds many follicle cell genes including activating mul...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00125-1
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Before the ChatGPT Hyphen was derided, we
@bartellab.bsky.social
alumni were already trained in the ways of the em dash, amirite
@shechnerlab.bsky.social
?
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Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.
Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.
https://wapo.st/4co1WvY
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Been listening to the
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Ezra Klein Show, and wowed by this episode that quotes my friend
@johndoench.bsky.social
about NIH progress reports! If my PO follows me, yes I'm working on my RPPR now! Just hope I can still get my Non-competing funding, please please🙏?
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9 months ago
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@lucksmith.bsky.social
will enjoy this HA-Tag. Hemagglutinin HA? or Funny HA?
9 months ago
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Jason Rasgon
9 months ago
Hopefully this will backfire and stop future institutions from caving. The admin has now shown (as anyone with half a brain already knew) that appeasement won't save you.
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Also great to see Faculty peers here at
@standupforscience.bsky.social
BOSTON! Bill Theurkauf
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and
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Mitch McVey, Norbert Perrimon, Welcome Bender are here, Standing up for NIH funded Drosophila Research!
9 months ago
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The Attack on Science in the USA is so bad right now, this moderate independent was compelled to protest at
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BOSTON! Good turnout with my colleagues from
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9 months ago
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Annika Barber
10 months ago
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled."
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2025 Study section tracking
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing
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Sean's FAB Lab
10 months ago
Will be there! Hope to see a crowd size that trumps Trump's
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So sorry to learn of Scott Hawley's passing. I only had email communications with Scott and received some of his fly strains, but I was touched by his grace. When I wrote him about a sequencing error, he thanked me for reaching out instead of dismissing me as an inexperienced junior PI. RIP.
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11 months ago
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Thanks
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for giving a great seminar at the BU Genome Science Institute! Hope you liked the tapas! Plasmid ecology is wild!
about 1 year ago
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Pairs well with my startup of point-of-meal sequence verification of soups and sauces: Nanoporridge Technologies.
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about 1 year ago
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Hey now, Icon!
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about 1 year ago
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Happy Birthday Chester!
about 1 year ago
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I hope Bluesky is a fun place to talk Science and share goofy posts too.
about 1 year ago
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