Imagine that a trade school would suddenly be responsible for a neuroscience research project that studies how the neurons in the gut change with aging and conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Who then would train the electricians we rely on? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

The #BloodBrainBarrier is again on the front page 🤩

The ISN-ASN discounted Early-Bird Registration has been extended to February 28th www.neurochemistry.org Don't wait until the 28th to apply for membership to register because approval can take 3-5 days It is not just about neurochemistry: it is like a mini SfN with ~30% more focus on glia GLIA!!!

@standupforscience.bsky.social does anyone know of anything being organized in South Florida? Please tag me if you know.

Very cool new paper showing that Ago2 gene in glutamatergic neurons is critical for the formation of cerebral blood vessels in the developing mouse brain 🤩 #cerebrovascular

Preprint is up! This study investigated the effects of a ketogenic diet (very low carb, high fat 🥑🥩🍳) in a mouse model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Summary thread below! (1/4) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a great explaner on what indirect costs are and why they are so important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Exactly this ⬇️. A prime example in Florida: $4bn/yr of state subsidies for private schools, sabotaging public education. "In the 2021-22 school year, 12% of the state’s education budget went to private school vouchers. This school year, that amount has nearly doubled, coming in at 23%."

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

Not all astrocytes regulate blood-brain barrier integrity, but those expressing Dmp1 apparently do ! #cerebrovascular #BloodBrainBarrier www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today, I got the acceptance letter for my last paper as a research associate in Mike’s lab. What a great holiday gift.

Astrocytes, morphogenesis, mitochondria 😍https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.22.619706

My mom got polio a couple of months before the vaccine got to Mexico. She passed her teenage years in bed and was only able to walk again for the uncountable hours her grandma spent giving her therapy. #vaccinesSafeLives

Congrats @natashaobrown.bsky.social and team. Beautiful work! 👏🏼

Are the police ready to go back and investigate this case? O is being ignored because the victim was a immigrant teenager not a rich CEO

I loved my blueskyroast.com bio too

Hi #astrocyte lovers! We are organizing the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe online, with FREE monthly seminars starting from January 2025...and we are looking for speakers! Speakers can be of any career stage: just send us an email with your topic to [email protected] 😍

#Astrocyte / #glia starter packs: AstrocyteSky: go.bsky.app/5f2V6L6 Neuro-glial interactions: go.bsky.app/MHtJzeC Oligodendroglia: go.bsky.app/JgL2evN

🧠NON-NEUROCENTRIC STARTER PACKS FOR BRAIN RESEARCH: I this thread 🧵 I will post starter packs for fields of research not directly related to neurons: #meninges, #vasculature, #glia, #immunecells, #dementia, #headache, #microscopy, and resources to get started with #Bluesky.

I will have space in my lab to supervise a new Ph.D. student and/or a postdoc to work on projects focussing on the role of the immune system in Parkinson's disease. Please share with potentially interested candidates.

Did you know that #neuronal #processes arrange perpendicular to #vascular direction around #penetratingarterioles and arterial end #capillaries? 🤔 I have speculated that this may enhance #neurovascularcoupling. Here I show examples in the #human #brain. 🧠 vb.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

We have tutorials on how to generate SuperPlots in Prism, R, Python, and Excel in the paper, but you can also easily make SuperPlots using @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social's SuperPlotsOfData: huygens.science.uva.nl/SuperPlotsOf...

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

Exciting Gordon conference on vascular cell biology - Jan 2025 in Ventura, CA org by Karen Hirschi, @UVA www.grc.org/vascular-cel...

Support for trainees and early investigators that are also parents is critical, therefore better policies should be implemented. The best support I have received is funds (never enough) for a family member or a friend to travel with me to help me take care of the kids will I work.

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation represent moments of cerebrospinal fluid flow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623271v1

Nature Learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited for this!!! Call for abstracts and registration for the #gliameeting in #Marseille starts on 10 December! Learn more about the topics, submission process and the available stipends on the #glia2025 website: loom.ly/AJI_q_Y Submit your abstract by midnight CET on 5 February 2025!

Hello, #glia lover fellows. I'm a little late to the party but finally made the switch. I stopped using the X app but was missing the networking. Hope to see you all here