Fresh office decor arrived just in time for the start of the new PL season! @bethbgenetics.bsky.social I think we should get one for the lab offices too...
JT Neal
@jtneal.bsky.social
PI @ http://neallab.org. Scientist building tools to understand genetic variation in health and disease. Trail runner & World’s Okayest Dad.
I will be there! (note: the speaking portion of the event has been moved to Boston Common) #standupforscience2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.
Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab@bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 2y agoI had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
I don't know who needs to hear this, but none of the preemptive obedience is going to save us.
Our paper “A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology” is finally out today in @naturemethods.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (I tweeted about our preprint in 2023 over at the bad place, but deactivated my account, so here we go again!)
A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology - Nature Methods
An optical pooled cell profiling platform (PERISCOPE) based on Cell Painting and optical sequencing of molecular barcodes was used to develop the first unbiased genome-wide morphology-based perturbati...
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toddler is all cleaned up and settled on the plane with her headphones on. now she’s exclaiming “I’m on a call!” every time there’s an inflight announcement
“in an Uber” is not the best place to discover that your toddler gets carsick
finally deactivated my x account, seems like this place is for real
a man with a beard is saying bye felicia
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it's mind blowing to me that the developmental phase that occupied so much of my mental space & caused so much anxiety about having a kid (infant) blew by so quickly and here we are with an 18 month old