In the #NASEM chat with Bhattacharya, he talks about how supporting innovation will support early career scientists. Meanwhile, under his leadership, early career scientists have disproportionately suffered. Early career scientists were disproportionately affected by terminations.

Today is a good day for an ASHG Hill Day 🧬🏛️🇺🇸 We had great conversations with members of Congress about the importance of NIH funding for: 1) enabling discoveries that lead to better diagnoses and treatments 2) training the next gen of scientists 3) keeping the US competitive

🎉 lab’s first data paper 🎉 TL;DR: we found profound changes in vocal calls produced by mice with early-onset dystonia caused by cerebellar dysfunction. Thus, vocal impairments in people with dystonia may, in part, be driven by cerebellar dysfunction. www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/dys...

New Zoghbi lab MECP2 paper out 🎉: Modulating alternative splicing of MECP2 is a potential therapeutic strategy for Rett syndrome | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Several groups have mobilized to offer assistance to people affected by the Guadalupe River floods. via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

We are super excited to share our latest pre-print in collaboration with @sonjavernes.bsky.social lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... : Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum 🧠🧬🧵