Kara Marshall
@karalmarshall.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying mechanical interoception. Views are my own.
If you’re in the Houston area, the Astros are hosting a donation drive TODAY until 7 pm to support those affected by the devastating earthquake in Venezuela 🇻🇪 Items include first aid and medical supplies, Diapers, Baby food Please consider stopping by the stadium www.instagram.com/reel/DaQrQeE...
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Tomorrow! HELP Venezuela at Daikin Park Union Station
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Spent time today with students going over proposed rule changes from OMB, nicely summarized in this link. Anyone can do this, and students appreciated it! Remember this is open for public comment! We also shared ideas about explaining this to friends and family. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭
Federal Grant Rule Comparison
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Excited to share a new preprint, led by @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social! It describes a mechanism and potential therapeutic avenue for treating the aging bladder! Thanks to the amazing collab from the Beyder lab, as well as @valeriavasquez.bsky.social, Lichtarge labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Wild! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions
Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...
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You asked, we answered — this time for our united #FreemanHrabowski Scholars and #HannaGray Fellows programs. A warm welcome into who's eligible, how the programs connect, and more, from our very own Science Program team members Mary Bonds & Lucy Corcoran. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/fhs26 🧪
Recent joy: getting to take half the lab to CSHL! It was so fun to finally have them meet and hear from all these scientists I admire, and for the field to meet them. We all learned so much!
It was an absolute pleasure attending, presenting and learning at the @cshlnews.bsky.social Brain–Body Physiology meeting, organized by @karalmarshall.bsky.social , @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, and Asya Rolls. An amazing conference bringing science of brain–organ interactions together in one place.
What an inspiring week at CSHL at the inaugural Brain Body Physiology meeting. Thanks to speakers and attendees for sharing incredible science! Thanks also to the best co-organizers around, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. Mark your calendar for next time, 5/ 16-20,2028!
Taking a break for on here, maybe for now, or for good. Please text or email (and retry in case it gets buried). Let's catch up in real time! I want to see your typos and phrasing, gaze at your office art as you fumble with the share button on zoom, and hear about fun science and your life.
Deadline today! Submit and abstract and join us to discuss science in the exciting brain body interaction field!
Kara Marshall@karalmarshall.bsky.social · 6mo agoPlease consider joining us for a wonderful meeting on Brain Body Physiology at Cold Spring harbor this summer, organized with @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. In CSHL tradition most talks are chosen from submitted abstracts. Abstracts due this Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Please consider joining us for a wonderful meeting on Brain Body Physiology at Cold Spring harbor this summer, organized with @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. In CSHL tradition most talks are chosen from submitted abstracts. Abstracts due this Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Brain Body Physiology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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A wonderful piece by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field. www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...
PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places
The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…
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I save most of these kinds of posts for another site, but please talk to friends and family about what ICE is doing. This is all horrifying and your voice matters. Masked federal forces performing extrajudicial kidnapping and murder requires a groundswell of opposition from all corners.
NPR@npr.org · 6mo agoThe incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month. n.pr/3YXDGLu
NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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If anyone is looking for a summary outlining the encroaching fascism in the US, this collects it pretty well (despite the weak title). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Tests Presidential Power: Venezuela Operation, Iran Bombing and More (Gift Article)
A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.
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Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
It was so fun to celebrate a great year with the Marshall lab yesterday! We missed a few people, but we laughed, feasted, made onesies for Brandon’s sweet newborn, and discovered that our new lab member Cora is younger than Harry, my dog. It is a joy to work with these wonderful people!
So excited for @alexchesler.bsky.social and the future of pain therapeutics! I’m also sad for the huge loss for NIH and our academic field.
Alex Chesler@alexchesler.bsky.social · 8mo agoSome news. Exciting new challenges and opportunities ahead.
Lots of great news from lab lately: so proud of @brityag.bsky.social for an amazing score on her AHA fellowship!
When overwhelmed by scope of tragedy, specifics can be important. Here is just one story. Thinking of all those affected by this weekend's tragedies at Brown and in Sydney.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 8mo agoMukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said. He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Very proud that graduate student @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social and Undergraduate @catcalhoun22.bsky.social got awards in the multi-institutional Cooley Neuroscience Poster Session last weekend! So nice to see their hard work recognized.
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Please join us at CSHL May 12-16 to dig deeper into brain body interactions! Abstract deadline is in February, and in CSHL tradition, most talks will be chosen from abstracts. Link below.
Carlos Ribeiro@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 8mo agoGreat piece on #interoception and brain body interactions by @carlzimmer.com in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s... What an exciting time to work on this. Join us @cshlmeetings.bsky.social to learn more about the this exciting field meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Check out this wonderful collection! Hanneke Verstegen and I contributed a review for anyone interested in how the brain senses and controls the bladder.
Piali Sengupta@senguptalab.bsky.social · 8mo agoCheck out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social >20 review articles on Interoception www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Miriam B. Goodman, PhD@wormsense.bsky.social · 9mo agoMolecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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This group is so incredible- amazing scientists and friends. An outstanding lineup of talks. What a legacy!
Ardem Patapoutian@ardemp.bskyverified.social · 9mo agoWe had the most amazing 25 year lab anniversary today. Blown away by the science from my alumni and very proud of the current members. The community they have built is remarkable and it felt like a family reunion. The tacos, drinks, cake, and jazz were pretty great too.
