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Amazing work from @airdlab.bsky.social and @mzspectrum.bsky.social Labs led by insanely talented Apporva Uboveja! Very grateful to play a small part in this impactful work.

Katherine Aird@airdlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's time to rewrite reviews-aKG doesn't just regulate demethylation. Work from my lab and @mzspectrum.bsky.social demonstrates a new role for aKG in promoting histone acetylation and DNA repair through regulating carnitine synthesis. Congrats Apoorva Uboveja! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪World Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked Mammal ground.news/article/thes...

World Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked Mammal

They are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again raising the plight of pangolins, the shy, scaly anteater...

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Good article regarding academic hierarchy from the lens of someone outside the classic tenure track www.science.org/content/arti...

Not going to lie, being a staff scientist is a very strange position to be in academia. Feels like limbo at times... #Academicchatter

The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The chemotherapy-induced senescence-associated secretome promotes cell detachment and metastatic dissemination through metabolic reprogramming

Cellular senescence, characterized by a stable cell cycle arrest, is a well-documented consequence of several widely used chemotherapeutics that has context-dependent roles in cancer. Although senesce...

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New Paper is up! Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes academic.oup.com/jes/article/...

It's almost #Friday, have a #frog friend. Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus #Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #Photography #Treefrogs #herps

My final paper from my PhD has been accepted!! 🙌 I can graduate in peace next week

Giving my plants away to other grad students / postdocs... I guess its really the end :,)

“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.” Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...

PhD thesis defense tomorrow???? What

A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last yr.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

🌌 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring Exoplanets: The Search Beyond Our Solar System" takes you on an interstellar journey! Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson. 🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...

Sending my PhD defense invites to my old undergrad and masters mentors ahhhhhh I hope they're proud :,^)

My 1st op-ed with Devin Burris & Mark Bray (@mark531.bsky.social)! We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists. Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...

The Goal of Killing Academia: ‘Small’ Science as a First Stop

Co-written by Jordan Williams, Devin Burris, & Mark Bray

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A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒

Cities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature Medicine

Understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing.

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Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪

"Yeah I can tell you're pretty stressed. You haven't added a recently read book in a while"

One week left for dissertation writing

How do I write an acknowledgement section without mentioning everyone who has ever even walked by me?????

A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience

Pharmacology 💊 women in STEM 👩🏻‍🔬 showed up & out for scientific funding! 🧬 #standupforscience2025 #standupforsciencephilly

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events

Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

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Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

legend has it if you stay late enough on the 13th floor of the biomedical research building you will hear the strange noise of a grad student singing while writing their thesis (its me)

New Substack! On frogs, obviously:   open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

On frogs, hope and dreams of spring, plus how to make a really good frog pond

It's me, it's February, of COURSE I'm writing about frogs.

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What is the link between PFAS type contaminant and oxylipins? None? Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread doi.org/10.1021/acs.... #epilipid #massspec #oxylipins

Annotating DHA Metabolites Interfering with the Quantification of Emerging Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids

Quantitative analyses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) commonly rely on low-resolution targeted tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) due to its high sensitivity and relatively low operational...

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"Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight." #tiedetaivas #AcademicSky

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · last yr.

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

My PI's comments on my latest dissertation chapter :,^)