The ASPCA has a pretty handy look up tool for plant toxicity for dogs, cats, and horses. www.aspca.org/pet-care/asp...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M

If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening

Introducing Martino 🐈‍⬛

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

It's kind of like the @nytimes.com just figured this out. It is a serious problem. Keep reporting on it. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A lot lot lot of emotions (positive) today but reading the goodbye notes of "your first student" ending in "science desperately needs mentors like you" People, I'm an emotional South Italian queer person! I'm crying of joy!

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

Online now! ModulatingJAK2-STAT3 pathway promotes expansion & maturation of human iPSC-derived myogenic progenitor cells; advancing in vitro generation of skeletal muscle progenitor cells for potential cell therapy applications. https://ow.ly/6qAz50XkBvY Sanford Burnham Prebys | ISSCR

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

RESEARCH PAPER: MYOD represses gene expression from non-E-box motifs By Nicoletti, Massenet et al., Luca Caputo and Pier Lorenzo Puri ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/21-22/1299.abstract #transcription #trancriptionfactor #epigenetics #muscle #stemcells

All the people “afraid” of Zohran Mamdani are racist as hell.

🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! 🚨 New Outlook, Review and Research articles online now at Genes & Development. Click on the link to learn more: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/21-22.toc

📣 The paper is out!! In this paper we tackled 2 major bottlenecks of cell therapy, namely how to increase the yield of progenitors in vitro and, by serendipity, how to mature them to an higher developmental stage. #muscle #stemcelltherapy #muscleregeneration www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...

Adda passà a nuttata

If you introduce a trainee saying "I asked chatGPT..." I agree with the eel. And ask the pronunciation of their surname, that is basic etiquette for fuck sake.

Galley proofs! 🥳💪🔬🧫

The ISSCR joins the global scientific community in mourning the loss of Nobel Laureate Sir John Gurdon whose enduring influence is woven into the very fabric of stem cell science. https://ow.ly/BjHT50X8T6q

The email you wish to get before heading out to a conference "I am pleased to say that the reviewers have commented enthusiastically on your revised manuscript" Stay tuned 🥳😉

Vaccination: Risks and Benefits Driving is important for our jobs and lifestyles, and the risk is quite low. So is vaccination. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

My quote of the day The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa

According to a grant reviewer I have no proven experience on iPSCs 🤷

Resubmission button clicked. Now some time off. See you all in ~10 days

Really excited that our manuscript on Synovial Sarcoma is now online. Link to Open Access PDF: tinyurl.com/55bnssws A summary🧵 :

For decades, scientists thought MYOD was just a muscle-builder. But new research from Sanford Burnham Prebys shows this gene has a Jekyll-and-Hyde side—able to switch from activating muscle genes to silencing them. sbpdiscovery.org/press/muscle...

We identified a novel role of MYOD as repressor of gene expression during somatic cell trans-differentiation by interaction at non-E-box motifs and a novel role of H4acme as a dynamic enhancer marker. #MyoBlue #Epigenetics #Transcription #GeneRegulation genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

San Diego Pride 2025 is in the books. We run, we march, we serve, but we don't hide Happy Pride

The Pride Flag ceremony held at @sbpdiscovery.bsky.social at the beginning of the month goes in the right direction. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!

📢 Protest Advice - Tear Gas 🪧 If you are protesting tomorrow - this video has great advice for preparing for and responding to tear gas. No makeup, contacts, etc. If you live near a protest site - consider placing buckets of clean water outside your home so protestors have easy access. 🪣

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

Why do I run? To bring home the iamsunbear plushie. The guy is amazingly fast... and in a full costume 😅

Paper resubmitted on Friday 🤞🏼, one more manuscript under revision right now, so to relax, I started to prepare the figures for the next one...

On nonbinary gender, Plato, Symposium, 370 bc

Fuck

Refreshing email every 10 seconds does not help.

Trevor Project 24/7 Suicide Hotline: Chat & Zoom www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ Text: ‘START’ to 678-678 Voice: 1-866-488-7386 TransLifeline: Zoom translifeline.org Phone: USA (877) 565-8860

If you too are experiencing mental health issues due to the ongoing shitshow, please DM me or Signal me at ziadadina.19, I am trying to build a community to help each other. Y'all, please repost and help me out, this is serious stuff

oSTEM's 2025 Scholarship Program is offering $183k in scholarships for LGBTQ+ students in STEM. 41 scholarships ($2,500-$5,000) available for community college, undergrad, and grad students. Applications open April 14, 2025 - May 18, 2025, 11:59 PM EDT. Learn more at bit.ly/oSTEM-Scholarship

At the MDA Clinical and Scientific conference and it has never been so political. So many calls to help protecting our community and science in general. But also great to see the work of my mentor recognized as one of the achievements of the 75 years of MDa funding

not quite as clean as I'd like it for sharing - needs a readme and the abbreviations for the directorates - but here you go, better than the xlsx they shared. data in the data_clean folder. github.com/embruna/cruz...

Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v

If your institution sent out an email about how we are not giving up on DEI two weeks ago but haven't sent out or planned anything for Black History Month, you have gotten the real meaning of that email now. This is the moment when we should be the most vocal about Diversity