Anne C. Hart
@ach-ceneuro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, geneticist, educator, mentor, loves C. elegans, puns, birds, sci-fi/fantasy and kinda nerdy. You get my personal opinions here! 🌈
Scientists and family foundations working together on cutting-edge approaches to cure rare childhood diseases. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
‘Too Rare to Care’? A New Center for Rare Diseases Hopes to Change That (Gift Article)
A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies — making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.
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Today is a great day to register for your Fall election mail-in ballots, especially if you can’t vote early or in-person…
A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268
New! C. elegans models for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; project led by Diana Wall, PhD at Brown University. All models show dominant defects, but each disease variant has unique defects…paralleling AHC patient allele differences #AHC #DMM #Celegans
Caenorhabditis elegans models of alternating hemiplegia of childhood have dominant neuromuscular junction defects
Summary: We report the first C. elegans models of alternating hemiplegia of childhood. D801N, E815K, L839P and G947R AHC model animals have recessive development defects and dominant neuromuscular def...
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Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2
Waiting to see if professional athletes in the USA have the courage to start protesting during the national anthem…
a group of football players are kneeling on the field and one of them has the number 7 on his jersey .
Alt: Colin Kaepernick in a group of football players kneeling on the field during national anthem.
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🧵1/4 🚨 WEEKEND APPEAL 🚨 We need hundreds more public comments on a harmful proposed rule. 🗓️ Due Jan 29 OPM (aka Vought 🤮💩) is proposing changes that make it easier to fire probationary employees and much harder to appeal. OPM = Office of Personnel Management 🔗 www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
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50 years mortgages will massively increase profit for banks and give real estate developers so many opportunities to scam people and the IRS. No wonder Trump likes the idea…
We are excited to announce a new open search for a tenure track Assistant Professor position within the Brown University Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175427
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🚨New @biorxivpreprint: We model the splicing factor disease Verheij syndrome using C. elegans. Disruption of methionine and phospholipid metabolism drives growth defects; vitamin #B12 restores metabolic balance and rescues development! #metabolism #Celegans #RNAsplicing doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Vitamin B12 alleviates Verheij syndrome-like defects via phospholipid remodeling in a C. elegans PUF60 spliceosomopathy model
Verheij syndrome (VRJS) is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the poly(U)-binding splicing factor 60 (PUF60), a core component of the spliceosomal complex. VRJS triggers multiple congenita...
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Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...
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Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.
New #postdoc position focused on ALS/FTD available in the Hart lab! Join the collaborative Brown Univ. #neuroscience community! Experience with invertebrate genetics (like #Celegans) and/or neurodegenerative disease is welcome, but not required. Details at apply.interfolio.com/172914
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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Ask a C. elegans lab on the other side of the country for a strain & it arrives <48 hours later. Impressive, even for the 🪱 community - big thank you to Jihong Bai’s lab ❤️
Brown Univ just announced an agreement with the federal government. While not perfect, it is not awful. I like that it involves Brown paying $50million to Rhode Island, workforce development organizations, not the federal government!
Good time to cancel those Paramount+ subscriptions and use the money to subscribe to PBS instead.
More complete analysis of NIH outlays (or lack thereof) from grant-watch.us grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
Trends in NIH outlays: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern funding drops to $0 – Grant Watch
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Okinawa Institute of Technology is offering safe haven from USA immigration policy madness; they are accepting applications from PhD and Masters students accepted/currently at USA institutions. The scientists and resources there are top-notch, and the campus is beautiful. www.oist.jp/admissions/s...
Special Application Deadline for Students Accepted or Studying in the United States
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Happy to spend today with my amazing mom. In 1956, she told the NYU MBA program she couldn’t attend unless they gave her a full ride - because her family in a small midwestern town couldn’t afford to pay her way. They did! My 3 siblings and I were raised by a gutsy lady…
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies. @sarareardon.bsky.social reports www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
nature.com
I love, love, love using @paperpile.com for citation management, including managing my downloaded PDFs. But…today they sent a poll asking how adding something like ChatGPT to Paperpile would help! 😲🙄😥 Please, please, please - don’t force me to use an LLM. And, you add one, let me turn it off!!
“I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to DO my job.” —Andrew Shepherd, “The American President” Too many of our lawmakers are worrying too much about keeping their jobs and not nearly enough about DOING their jobs, if they worry about that at all. It needs to stop.
