Got reviews back on our lab's first (solo) manuscript. A little thread on our experience: Overall, I am grateful to the reviewers for their enthusiasm & truly constructive feedback. I will be honest as a #newPI, submitting this paper was more terrifying than submitting any grant.

🚨 New pre-print! If you are interested in new roles for SARM1, check this out. The lab did cool work showing macrophages need Sarm1 to efficiently respond to immunoogical stimuli and PNS injury. Cell specific sarm1 KO mice give surprising results- check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

SARM1 is required for macrophage immunophenotype switching that is essential for nerve repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.716973v1

IT WAS DISCUSSED AND SCORED! I feel like this is a huge accomplishment for my first R01 submission. Not sure how NINDS is determining funding since announcement of not using percentiles to set paylines. Celebrating this little win for now 🤞🥳

Join us for the 2nd EMBO workshop on Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration (meetings.embo.org/event/26-axo...). It will be held again at the beautiful @oistedu.bsky.social. We have an incredible line up of speakers and topics. Hope to see you there! #emboaxonalregeneration @embo.org Please share!

My grant is in study section today. Thinking about refreshing ERA commons all day to distract myself from the real world shit that is happening.

Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9! Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah! medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...

Any other PIs notice they lose all concept of experimental time once they become a PI? I just can’t seem to understand why the experiment I asked for 2 hours ago isn’t done yet 😂

Congratulations to Kalinski Lab graduate students for submitting fellowships this week! Julianna (NSF GRFP) Halimah (SPARC) Noah (DoD NDSEG) 👏👏👏 Submitting was a huge accomplishment and I am very proud of the proposals they put together!

LIS1 is critical for axon integrity in adult mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683562v1

Check out our paper in this weeks issue: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Dual roles of Sarm1 in the injury response. 👀 read on for more!

Paper Alert!! Our collaborative work with Giger Lab at UMich is out now in #ScienceTranslationMedicine Deletion of murine Sarm1 results in a microenvironment that delays peripheral nerve regeneration after injury | Science Translational Medicine @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Arrived in London, with the family in tow! Sightseeing and science, what can be better!?! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work on Friday and to bring the kids to this wonderful city.

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience or physiology at University of Michigan LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB): lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

It has been 1 year since the lab opened its doors at the University of South Carolina. Looking forward to, hopefully, a long impactful career here. #neuroskyence #WomenInSTEM

We had a great time at the Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN) research retreat yesterday. 2nd year PhD student Noah Leever gave a great short talk on his Sarm1 work! Also if you don't know about the amazing work of CAN, check them out - it is quite amazing! sc.edu/study/colleg...

My kiddos are my number 1 fans. We had a paper accepted yesterday so they made me this sign. Skytorial coming soon on our first major work on Sarm1 and PNS injury. 🧪👩‍🔬🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience

🚨Update for PIs planning NIH app submissions for Oct/Nov deadlines: Many NIMH NOSIs I'm engaged with are expiring on Sept 8th so plan accordingly! This includes: 1. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 2. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 3. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hey #neuroscience #neuroskyence we are hiring a Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina (uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190...) We have a vibrant neuroscience community with extensive university support for research. I am extremely happy here. Come join us!

Gave our lab entry way a little update today. Nearly 1 year since we’ve been at UofSC and lots of great memories already

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

This #FluorescenceFriday we have adult DRG neurons cultured in microfluidics! Axons traveled through ~640um length microgrooves to the next compartment. Cyan is neurofilament. These were cultured/imaged by our super talented postbac, Jess. (who is looking for lab tech/grad positions in NJ/NY)

New York bagels in South Carolina!?! And out of a food truck so I know it will be good. Now the question- toasted or untoasted? @mikefeigin.bsky.social

CHOMP, CHOMP! Check out this hungry macrophage for #FluorescenceFriday. Taken by our fantastic lab technician Julianna, following a myelin assay. Lipids in Magenta, Macrophage marker in Green, DAPI in blue.

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

As a young girl in STEM summer camps I was constantly told I didn't belong. A high school guidance counselor told me to not apply to college because I wouldn't cut it. 20 years later I am running a lab & considered an expert in my field. Use those "you cants" as fuel to succeed. You CAN do it. 👩‍🔬

And...it's here. UW announced tenure clock extension options for junior faculty last week. Leadership frames this as part of their deep support to junior faculty. But how, exactly, is more time (& delayed promotion) are meaningful support in response to reduced & uncertain research resources?

Celebrating this birthday with a little Neuroscience IPA from Hazlewood Brewing 🧠👩‍🔬

Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

#NewPI Milestone: First R01 officially submitted to the NIH. This is a culmination of 4 yrs of work built from the ground up by tenacious undergrads. Our grad students brought it to the finish line this year & I am so proud of everything they have done so far. 🤞

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

We are pleased to announce that the @ucl Queen Square Motor Neuron Disease Centre Sixth Hybrid #ALS/#MND International Symposium in Partnership will be held on Friday 5/9/25. The theme is Translating Targets to Therapies. To register, click below⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-queen-...

My 10yr old made our lab a sign. She is #standingupforscience 🧪🧠👩‍🔬

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹 But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

Finished my first R01. Feels like a big deal so, cheers! 🥳 (Fingers crossed it won’t be submitted into this unpredictable NIH void and actually get reviewed.)

Notice on extension of ESI status for NIH grant applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

Julianna representing the lab at the Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment Center research round-up! Main takeaway- remember your neurons do not exist in isolation! Think about their microenvironment too! Macrophages are our favorite non-neuronal cell to think about. #WomeninSTEM

Cheers to finishing out the first academic year of the Kalinski lab at @sc.edu. Proud of all this team has accomplished in another, unprecedented year. Looking forward to a very productive scientific summer. #NewPI #WomeninSTEM #neuroscience

One of the best bits of wisdom I've gained in my academic career is when to just wait on things to resolve themselves, and not waste time, energy, and professional capital. This is a huge thing mentors can guide ECRs in (assuming the mentor isn't someone who just prefers to defend the status quo).

Something we don’t really talk about, but is one of the hardest things as a PI- Learning how to have those super hard conversations on the fly The human element of running a lab is where I feel the most unprepared & things seem the most unpredictable. Today involved a lot more pacing than usual…

I must once again repeat: CONTACT 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 OFFICE 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 SPONSORED 👏🏽 PROJECTS 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 FIND 👏🏽 OUT 👏🏽 HOW 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 INITIATE 👏🏽 AN 👏🏽APPEAL 👏🏽

A bit of happy news the lab needed today- two of our undergraduates received Honors College Research Grants to support their projects in the lab! Congrats to Josh and Grace! @uofsccas.bsky.social

BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.

That moment of grant writing when you have poured everything into your proposal, only to be 2 pages over the limit, so now you're just axing text like it didn't take you hours to write those now useless paragraphs.

💯 I will fight everyday for diversity, equity and inclusion. We are better because of this. Science is better because of this. We need all of us.

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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