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Laura Herndon

@enchiladalaura.bsky.social

PhD scientist, aging researcher, WormAtlas editor who loves to travel, read and enjoy nature whenever the opportunity arises.

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Laura Herndon@enchiladalaura.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This paper was written by my WormAtlas colleagues, Dave and Nate, in addition to 5 Nobel Prize winners. Hopefully more attention and funding will find its way to the invaluable C. elegans resources described in the paper.

@wormatlas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@wormatlas.bsky.social · last yr.

WormAtlas has had a great time meeting so many new people and visiting with old friends. If you haven’t already, please come by and say hello on Tuesday afternoon. #worm25

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@wormatlas.bsky.social · last yr.

Very grateful to get to have such a helpful and informative in-person meeting of the WormAtlas Board this morning to discuss the current content and future direction of WormAtlas. #Worm25

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Jeremy Faust, MD@jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

open.substack.com

Mark D. Levine@marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Impossible to overstate the devastating impact this could have on NYC. Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk. The cruelty and chaos is the point. We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful. Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast. By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts. /fin

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything. Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.

Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans | PYMNTS.com

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a

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