Celebrating #PostdocAppreciationWeek2025 🎉Meet Amanda Iglesias, Ph.D., postdoc in the Fioravante Lab at CNS. She investigates the neural circuits underlying motivated behavior and reward-related psychopathologies. Learn more about research in the Fioravante Lab: www.fioravantelab.ucdavis.edu

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14

SCOTUSBlog story about NIH Grant Termination case www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/supr...

Really important article in the NY Times today about cuts to NIH diversity grants, featuring a profile of Ashley Albright @aralbright.bsky.social who is an amazing and super inspiring cell biology postdoc whose K99 was prematurely terminated.

We're now appreciating how the immune and nervous systems communicate across body & brain, and there's still more to explore! Had a fun time co-writing this with some amazing immunologists and neuroscientists @nickmroz.bsky.social @arimolofskylab.bsky.social @annamolofskylab.bsky.social 😎🧠

Calling all @apsphysiology.bsky.social members: let’s help raise some money to support ABRCMS student presentation awards! Goal is $1200/discipline to support 12 awards by Sept 30th! 🧪 abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Please RT: Published today, a super fun collaboration w/ @fanjumeng.bsky.social and Marnie Halpern's lab to establish methods for transgene mapping in zebrafish - TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...

MOSAIC scholars: Sharing again in case anyone missed this. Less than an hour left in this deadline 👇🏾

Trump, who said last year that he had “saved” historically Black colleges, has canceled $140 million in grants to them since March. Agencies told HBCUs “to change the language in grant applications that explicitly focus on Black people — or lose federal funding.” www.chronicle.com/article/hbcu...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Many w current R16s are also waiting on renewals and those planning on submitting for the May deadline had it cancelled last minute. These are the R01 like grants for unis w >$6M NIH funding that serve >25% Pell students. Lots of fear this mechanism would be permanently cancelled

I’ve warned that this was only a matter of time, but it’s still shocking to see in person. Here AI generated content is being used to create a fake news ecosystem, disparaging a professor who has been critical of unscientific bullshit in the form of deextinction hype.

Powerful statement by Sen. Alex Padilla. Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked. In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question. Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?

If they can do it to a United States senator, what do you think they’ll do to you?

$160 billion in new spending on building jails, hiring more ICE 'agents' to carry out kidnappings & flying people to torture prisons. For comparison, the 2024 NIH budget, which funds essentially all US medical research, was $47.1 billion. Funding racism instead of research.

Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread rdcu.be/eoaSY

No…next question. There is a clear reason so few other countries have the research infrastructure our country does.

We recently wrote a review about neuroimmune interactions in retinal repair. We dive into the literature regarding immune influences in Muller glia reprogramming, cell transplantation, and axon regeneration. Hopefully its useful, free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-FL4pAsj...

Our very first thesis defense! Anand Lab is proud to support this milestone in environmental microbiology and public health. Friday, May 9 | 10 AM–12 PM | Thornton Hall (Blakeslee Room) + Zoom #AnandLab #ThesisDefense #OneHealth #AMR @sfstatebio.bsky.social @archanand.bsky.social #Metagenomics

Thrilled to announce that my lab is now open at Ohio State! We study astrocytes as gene therapy targets for brain repair after ischemic stroke and in vascular dementia, developing new viral tools along the way. If you're interesting in joining or collaborating, please reach out! gleichmanlab.com

Four scientific societies, @ascbiology.bsky.social, @asbmb.bsky.social , @asm.org and @faseborg.bsky.social, all partners in the MOSAIC program, have filed an amicus brief today in support of this suit: www.ascb.org/society-news...

Bravo to ASCB, FASEB, and others for standing up for MOSAIC and other wrongfully terminated programs! 🙌🏾

Such an interesting talk today @sfstatebio.bsky.social Seminar by Dr. Shannon Yan from #StanfordBiology Answering physical tension questions during various stages of mitosis, vesicle budding, and migration 🔬🧫🥼👩🏻‍🔬

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

“MOSAIC awardees were chosen using a definition of diversity beyond race, gender, and disability. It includes those who grew up in poor households or rural areas or were raised by parents who do not have college degrees.” 🧪

Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇

Nature research paper: Psychedelic control of neuroimmune interactions governing fear https://go.nature.com/4iriy7u

What are the 3D spatial molecular patterns of differentiating enteric nervous system (ENS) in vivo? Are there co-expression networks? Are there spatially variable genes? In our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @RodrigoMoreC et al explored 1/4

The first retinal ganglion cell axons reaching each other in the formation of the optic nerves in a #zebrafish embryo! Image taken by @matthewbostock.bsky.social

We recently described the Axillary Lymphoid Organ (ALO) in the #Zebrafish. It's on the OUTSIDE of the fish, making it great for imaging! Learn more by checking out our paper in @jem.org rupress.org/jem/article-...

Statement from APA re/autism and what the science really says: updates.apaservices.org/autism

🔥🔥🐟 A beautiful study out by @leanneiannucci.bsky.social!

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.

#ZebrafishCareers 🇬🇧 (Postdoc) #killifish Link to MacDonald Lab website: zebrafishucl.org/macdonald-la...

Welp, i got halfway through the RPPR and then received notice the MOSAIC program, and thus my MOSAIC R00 has been terminated. Thank you to those who made this program. Thank you to the other #NIHMOSAIC fellows have supported me through my faculty journey and continue to inspire me.

Tomorrow is Gators give day! Please consider donating anything if you can! The resources will help support our amazing university, which provides a rich education and research opportunities for all! 💜💛🐊 💰💸 #SFState @sfstatebio.bsky.social #Donate www.givecampus.com/w0qcds

Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

Seems like a lot of prominent institutions didn’t really believe in diversity but were happy to pretend they did when it didn’t cost them any money.

Meningeal lymphatics-microglia axis regulates synaptic physiology: @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex....

Three researchers who served as scientific advisers to NIMH and one to NIDA were removed from their positions this week with no explanation. @callimcflurry.bsky.social and I reported for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: #neuroskyence 🧪 www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months. Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move. #Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪 record.umich.edu/articles/uni...

Students in the Health & Equity Research (HER) Lab are redefining biology research by combining molecular biology, data science, and community action. They analyze biospecimens to unravel the biological impact of lived experiences in marginalized communities and driving the fight for health equity.

✨Updated deadline, for those that missed this✨

NIH budget: $ 48b Musk wealth: $351b Both are mostly funded by your tax dollars But only one might save your life . . . . Sources: www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh... Search results: elon musk net worth g.co/kgs/6c8YEuB @standupforscience.bsky.social

Nobel Prize winner @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social talking about how important science is and how we are in danger of losing decades worth of investment in science. Highlighting the danger to programs that gave her her start in science targeted for DEI & the cost of losing them

The Molofsky Lab #standupforscience2025 San Francisco!