Science peeps, particularly trainees: When reviewing grants, it really, really helps if you have a Google Scholar page, an ORCID account, or a website that makes getting information about you, easy. Some sort of web presence. I'm begging you. Make it easier for study sections to give you money.

Congrats Jake Willows on winning the Peripheral Nerve Society cover image competition! 2yrs of membership awarded and a full year on the Journal of PNS cover. We accepted the award for him today at the annual mtg. 🎉🎉 #dorsalrootganglia #peripheralnerves 🧪🧪

Cloth posters are the BEST invention for international conferences. No wrinkles, high resolution even for fluorescent images, and lightweight in a carry on. 🎉 looking forward to re-connecting with this great PNS community 🎉 #PNSociety #PNS2026 🧪🧪

🧪 Inspiring first annual Women’s Health Summit yesterday - women’s health talks and discussions among industry, investors, patients, scientists and clinicians - organized by Pillar in Boston. Energizing optimism in the room all day! #womenshealth

For a clear description of what is in the new OMB grant-making regulations, see elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of... 1/2

Huge congrats to newly minted Dr Jake Willows (yesterday) & Dr Tianyi Tao (today)!! Fantastic job! As tough as things are in science right now, it’s the PEOPLE who make it all worth it. 🎉🎉 🧪🧪

More on the destruction of US science. www.chronicle.com/article/they...

🧪 Sometimes you just need to knock-out a gene in adipose tissue. Not whole body, not a certain cell type driven by a cre-line. We share our novel approach employing light-inducible cre to target gene knockout to inguinal sc adipose www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧪Sharing negative data & technical challenges w the research community is hugely important. Issues w Rax-Cre in adult KO were shared at conferences, but we show our findings here in print. Thank you @faseborg.bsky.social for a journal outlet for this type of finding! tinyurl.com/2t5htaz5

Do brain circuits really sit in a 'soup' of neuromodulators? Are neurons like soggy bits of bread soaked in signaling factors? Is the whole brain just squelching around in one big pool of warm modulators?

In the last couple weeks, we've seen a remarkable number of food recalls due to salmonella contamination. So many, in fact, that it's worth our time to take a deeper look at some of the reasons why. 1/10

Happening today! We hope to see you there 🧪🧪 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In this Review, the authors discuss the current understanding of adipose progenitor subtypes, the plasticity of these cell types and their roles in metabolic health and disease (£) bit.ly/4ugB09p #EndoSky #MedSky

Always been a fan of lifelong learning and adult learner programs at universities. Just learned about the national OLLI program when I gave a talk for OLLI Denver last week. Wow!! More here and see if one is near you: 🧪🧪https://www.osherfoundation.org/olli.html

Lab inspiration tree. Why do we do what we do? What motivates us to keep going? What little things bring you joy each day?

Overdue but excited to see this!

The somatic signals impacting consciousness…entering the mainstream with @michaelpollan.bsky.social 🧪 🧠 youtu.be/hYrgLn7pWp8?...

More evidence that neuropathy is widespread - here sympathetic neuropathy of the aged thymus. 🧪

AI executives and researchers “readily admit that they have not yet released a model that writes well,” Jasmine Sun writes. She speaks with AI experts about why LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing:

Proud to advocate for patients, clinicians and researchers who want to see better treatments and a cure for #peripheralneuropathy. The Foundation for PN has had massive growth over the last year, and moving toward an exciting 2027 symposium! 🧪🧪

Indianapolis is a biotech/biomed research powerhouse. Enjoyed my visit at IU and Lilly this week, the scientific discussions were so uplifting. Thanks to Jon Flak for hosting me! 🧪🧪

Two neurobiologists who helped decipher how the somatosensory system detects touch and pain have won this year’s Brain Prize, the largest award in neuroscience. By @helenak.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/somatosensat...

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Translation of scientific discovery in action! Our Keenan iCORPs team - 2 Fisher MBA students (Bria, Chase) + Gargi (postdoc our research group) - did a great job w early customer discovery - our new treatments for metabolic & nervous system (obesity, neuropathy). 🧪

Oh wow! It finally got warm! Outdoor goodbye celebration with the lab for Karierah and Holly tonight.

A bit late for V-day this year, but from our lab to all of you: a flower bouquet (neuromuscular junction) by Magda, and a green heart (dorsal root ganglion) by Gargi 💐💚🧪

A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance 🧪🧪https://t.co/uhQFaNCW3W

Love this tradition @ohiostatepress.bsky.social. Promoted faculty pick a book and write a dedication. 🧪💚🧪 Here is mine from my promotion to Professor in 2025.

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words

Grateful to be at NIH (or the “mothership” as a fellow speaker called it today), to support the next generation of new @dknet.org (NIDDK) investigators. Glad to pay it forward, and remembering how impactful this event was for me after my first R01. Still learning from colleagues!

Sharing our latest paper in Molecular Metabolism, led by Jake Willows w our dental school collaborator Sarah Peters. A semaphorin 7a KO had altered adipose innervation, especially across development, showing Sema acts on the nerves, not just adipocytes. tinyurl.com/3x8x6yy2 🧪🧪

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all

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Join us for an educational webinar with Peripheral Nerve Society on April 29 (register below) “Metabolic Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy – Mechanistic Insights from Bench to Bedside” with me, Chris Gibbons (Harvard), and Brian Callaghan (UMichigan). 🧪https://tinyurl.com/mvjs5xjc

In a new Science study, researchers introduce DrugCLIP, a contrastive learning framework that virtually screens small molecules and protein pockets, analyzing protein-ligand interactions 10 million times faster than most standard molecular docking approaches. https://scim.ag/45FfSj2

Most beautiful science of 2025, from @nautil.us 🧪🧪 nautil.us/the-most-bea...

#Science2025-6 🧪🧪 Former Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi: “Sometimes people say, “Oh, you flip-flop.” No, the environment changed. ... You cannot be dogmatic about your strategic direction. When the environment changes around you, you’ve got to zag a little bit." From @farnamstreet.bsky.social

Such a well-deserved recognition, and a discovery that continues to have huge impacts on research in the brain. Congrats!!

New forecasted R25 opportunities in research training. Research Experiences: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Non-competitive renewal awards. On a more or less normal curve but not catching up from the government shutdown-related delay. All ICs except for NIAAA and NCCIH have made some awards with NIAID having made the most at 579. 2/2

Quoted in New Scientist today, coverage by Linda Geddes, 2 articles reveal nuanced functions of adipose conferring health benefits around the body. Links below @newscientist.com 🧪🧪https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511715-body-fat-supports-your-health-in-surprisingly-complex-ways/

Only well-off AAAS fellows are "ok"; the rest of us aren't. If the science minibus passes, the decimation remains. Colette notes NIH ECRs are crushed. NCAR is not explicitly protected. Money won't arrive before a 5% grant success rate at NASA planetary forces more ECRs out after the 20% NASA RIF.

*not including NIH

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

For anyone interested in the new Dietary Guidelines, here's a breakdown and my thoughts: kcklatt.substack.com/p/ambiguous-...

Doing tactile things has been helping my anxiety, and my genius sister-in-law made an app that prompts a daily doodle and I'm LOVING it. She just put out the beta. Main rule: NO AI. I'm 2/skwurlhat on there. Come draw with us. It's so nice. www.doodl.app/join-the-beta

Every. Single. Day.

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

This. And “I can speak loudly, I don’t need a mic” is also not considerate.

A reminder that applications for the MIT KSJ Fellowship close this Friday, January 9. So if you're applying this year, get those applications and references in. ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...