‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️ Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development

Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...

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the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.

how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??

Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

New STAT story about the possible new NIH grants terms and conditions www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program. this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole

this really is what it’s like

“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.

SCOOP: The NIH just officially killed diversity statements in its grant applications. Read the whole story here⬇️

"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."

why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?

Sergey Ovchinnikov@sokrypton.org · last yr.

And... So begins the death of science, technically and innovation in America... www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.

CO Rep Brianna Titone@briannatitone.bsky.social · last yr.

This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries. www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...

me reading your posts

General strike?

wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??

same song different font

Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬

we have more power and agency than we think we do

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness." "Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with." Exclusive w/ WIRED:

So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014). And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA. thedispatch.com/article/clev...

‘Clever’ Trump Executive Order Shrouds DOGE From Public Scrutiny

Situating the new department in an existing agency enables it to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.

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#goals

We have the power to create our own reality.

but like what if... the federal agencies didn't just follow orders?

you may find yourself… with some damn fine coffee

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The resurgence of the r-word slur is setting the ground for the coming Buck v Bell style eugenicist policies dealing with cognitive disabilities in the wake of pandemic. Which happened after both the 1889 flu pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.

love learning about the neurobiology of the two genders (lordosis and aggression) 🫠

happy first day of NYC congestion pricing to all who celebrate, ban cars!!!

discourse? on a sunday?

Economic papers are not my usual read with my morning coffee but, now more than ever, this is important. "In essence, the absence of these individuals—missing people—can lead to missing ideas, which is particularly problematic in a world where ideas may be “getting harder to find”

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

Texas is murdering women www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban

Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.

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