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Rhea Sood

@rheasood.bsky.social

PhD student at the University of Utah, Molecular Biology

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 3w ago

A study of epigenetic markers of aging in dogs looks at variability between individuals, across body sizes, and between US and Korean dogs. Dogs could be a model for age-related epigenetic change in humans. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/KZ9b50ZqOLn

A Korean Jindo dog in a flower garden. Stock photo.

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 2mo ago

The biological age of individual cell types can be evaluated using plasma proteomics, revealing diverse aging profiles across more than 40 cell types and links between the accelerated aging of specific cell types and disease, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4xHGvR2 #medsky 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows a framework for modeling cellular aging with plasma proteomics.

Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 2mo ago

New online! Single-cell four-omics with CHARM

Single-cell four-omics with CHARM

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-00986-8In this Tools of the Trade article, Yujie Chen describes CHARM, a single-cell four-omics sequencing method that profiles genome conformation, chromatin accessibility, histone modifications and gene expression.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 2mo ago

Honoring Madhav Gadgil, the pioneering Indian ecologist whose work advanced biodiversity conservation, citizen science, and indigenous rights. His work helped shape modern ecological research and people-centered environmental policy in India and beyond. Read more: https://ow.ly/MvTb50ZbgGF

PNAS – Honoring the life of Madhav Gadgil

Lyle Given @lagiven.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Big thanks to @tododge.bsky.social and @mollyschumer.bsky.social for their invaluable mentorship!! I’ll also be presenting a poster on this work at PEQG this Thursday (8:30-10pm, PgmNr 284T)

Tris Dodge@tododge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share new work on two sex-linked pigment traits in Xiphophorus! This project was led by undergrad @lagiven.bsky.social, who’s worked with me for the last 3(!) years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Rhea Sood @rheasood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Tris Dodge@tododge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exciting new work from the lab led by @lagiven.bsky.social & co-advised by @tododge.bsky.social mapping pigmentation variation in the swordtail X. nezahualcoyotl! Spotting variation is linked to xmrk but embedded in complex genomic regions that Tris & Lyle tackled with UL nanopore: shorturl.at/Ljw1z

Two melanic pigment patterns are associated with a sex chromosome-linked oncogene in the mountain swordtail Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

Sex-linked traits are widespread, but their genetic architecture has been challenging to characterize, due in part to the repetitive and structurally complex nature of sex chromosomes. In swordtails a...

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Tris Dodge @tododge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled to present my dissertation research at the Hamilton Symposium! We used approaches including GWAS, long-read sequencing, phylogenetic methods, and behavior experiments to uncover the genetic basis and evolutionary history of a shared polymorphism. Can’t wait to share what we’ve learned!

Picture of three diverged Xiphophorus species that display the false gravid spot, a sexual mimicry polymorphism that allows males to mimic females.

Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us at virtual #Evol2026 this Friday to hear from the finalists for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation! This symposium is in 3 sessions starting at 11 am Eastern.

Text: Virtual Evolution 2026 Society for the Study of Evolution Hamilton Award Symposium, Friday, May 22 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern (GMT-4).

Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Help needed! Does anyone have experience extracting nuclei from flash frozen tissue? Especially helpful if it is fish skin or tail tissue! We are trying to get some precious melanoma samples processed for snRNAseq but are having issues with either nuclei number and/or quality

Kelsie Hunnicutt @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!

A world map showing the distribution of species studied in hybridization research

Molly Schumer@mollyschumer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.

Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

Rhea Sood @rheasood.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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Molly Schumer@mollyschumer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.07.687308v1

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking: 🚨 Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump. This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3

Case 3:25-cv-03698-SI Document 85 Filed 05/09/25 Page 1 of 42
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO,
et al.,
Case No. 25-cv-03698-SI
Plaintiffs,
v.
ORDER GRANTING TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER AND
COMPELLING CERTAIN
DISCOVERY PRODUCTION
Re: Dkt. No. 37
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
United States District Court
Northern District of California
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The new presidential administration has made clear that it intends to change the way the
federal government operates. An Executive Order issued on February 11, 2025 seeks to
“commence[] a critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy” by “eliminating waste, bloat, and
insularity[.]” Exec. Order No. 14210, 90 Fed. Reg. 9,669 (Feb. 11, 2025). It is the prerogative of
presidents to pursue new policy priorities and to imprint their stamp on the federal government. But
to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his co-equal
branch and partner, the Congress. Federal courts should not micromanage the vast federal
workforce, but courts must sometimes act to preserve the proper checks and balances between the
three branches of government. As a group of conservative former government officials and advisors
have written to the Court, “Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind.”
Dkt. No. 69-1 at 1.
The plaintiffs in this case—a collection of unions, non-profit organizations, and local
governments—contend that the executive branch cannot lawfully implement large-scale reductions
in the federal workforce without the participation of Congress. They bring this suit against President
Trump, numerous federal agencies, and their respective agency heads. Specifically, plaintiff

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s everything you need to know about the FDA’s latest appointee. Prasad’s pick-me energy—boosting and defending Kennedy, justifying Trump’s cuts—paid off. Now, the admin has another doctor with a history of casting doubt on COVID mitigations and mRNA vaccines in a critical public health role.

Doubt-Peddling YouTube Doctor Named FDA’s New Vaccine Chief

Vinay Prasad has a long history of questioning the necessity, safety, and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Now, he’s the FDA’s top vaccine regulator.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.

This Friday there is a major court hearing about NIH. Judge Susan Illston in the Northern District of California will hear arguments and decide whether to grant a restraining order against the DOGE RIFs. It’s a big deal! 1030am Pacific/1:30pm Eastern on Fri 5/9.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally, Trump is sued to stop the illegal DOGE destruction. New contributed post on our blog. "The Reductions in Force (RIFs) being used to deconstruct the fed gov't are an illegal usurpation of Congressional authority by Trump & Musk." 🧪 A hearing is set for May 9. 1/ altnih4science.subst...

Finally, Trump is sued to stop the illegal DOGE destruction

The Reductions in Force (RIFs) being used to deconstruct the federal government are an illegal usurpation of Congressional authority by Trump and Musk. There is a hearing set for May 9th.

daily bunnies 🐇✨@dailybunnies.bsky.social · last yr.

Two brown bunnies cuddle on a patterned rug by a wall.

Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · last yr.

"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s the status of the case, from the piece.

How this case may play out

What should we expect to happen now?

While it seems clear that the President does not have the right to destroy via RIF the capacity to execute Congressionally-mandated agency functions via RIF, much will turn on which courts and which judges are weighing in on this case.

The case was filed in the Northern District of California, and assigned to Judge Susan Illston, a liberal appointee. You can find the docket here. A motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) was filed on May 1. It asks for, amonst other things, to block or enjoin “…execution of any existing reduction in force (“RIF”) notices.” Most of the NIH RIFs would be finalized in early June. So if the judge grants the order, it will make the NIH RIF notices invalid and put people back to work supporting US science and universities and sending out funds that scientists have won for excellent proposals. The hearing on the motion is set for this Friday, May 9, at 10:30am Pacific.

That’s the big hearing. Will the judge grant a TRO? Let’s hope.

What comes after any TRO will be big. Republicans would almost certainly call for the judge’s impeachment — an entirely laughable situation, as the judges that do deserve impeachment are those like Clarence Thomas who have accepted payments from Trump-allied billionaires. (Not kidding. We should laugh in the face of anyone who proposes impeaching judges who decide against Trump.)

After the district court acts, Trump and his minders like Stephen Miller and Russ Vought will try to get any TRO up to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible, where a majority of justices have issued political decisions to protect Trump.

What would happen at the Supreme Court? It’s hard to predict with certainty. But it seems likely from here that the Supreme Court will find a way to use its shadow docket to in effect overturn the TRO, perhaps by “playing fast and loose with terminology to obscure what it is actually doing,” as even far-right Federalist Society lawyer Josh Blackman said about the SCOTUS order in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

New England scientists are in the House (literally) advocating for #NSF #NIH #NOAA funding with @aibsbiology.bsky.social #AIBS2025CVD

Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · last yr.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win! We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science. #standupforscience actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Stand Up For Science Summer Campaign!

Can you help us mobilize the fight for science and democracy? Every contribution matters!

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

Tax Day next up: NSF! 🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation. 💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure. From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.