Our latest work linking the Golgi Calcium Pump to actin cytoskeleton defects in Hailey Hailey Disease keratinocytes has been accepted for publication in Am J Physiol-Cell Physiol. 🥳 Big thanks to our team and collaborators at UMich Skin Biol Diseases Res Ctr (UM-SBDRC) for making this happen! 🧪
Rajini Rao
@madamescientist.bsky.social
Scientist, professor, dog mom, gardener and cook. I <3 ion transporters. Director, Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ORCID: 0000-0002-1833-5971
Creamy white bean dip with tahini, roasted garlic, olive oil and lemon 🍋 juice. Add some smoked paprika and cayenne for a kick. #foodsky
Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Baked in a cast iron skillet by my daughter. Thunderstorms outside, cozy inside 😘 #foodsky
Wordle really scraping the bottom of the barrel today! Wordle 1,852 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Spanish tostada, a Catalan favorite, on this scorching hot Independence Day. Grate (yes, grate) a cut tomato into a bowl and heap it on a toasted baguette or crusty bread. Sprinkle salt and a generous drizzle of good olive oil. I rubbed a cut garlic clove on the bread right after toasting. #Foodsky
Falafel for dinner on a gorgeous summer evening. Served on a bed of baba ganoush and mohamarra. #foodsky
Most antibodies are rubbish. Western blots are the least productive scientific method and have shown no real advancement for decades. But now, companies charge hundreds of dollars for tiny aliquots of this garbage. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue
Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.
nature.com
What a great idea, more of this in the US please! And yes, I was thrilled to see Freddie Mercury flash briefly on the screen. Freddie, born Farrokh Bulsara, had roots in the Parsi community of India that originally fled Iran, and came to the UK by way of Tanzania. #ImmigrationWin #FreddieForEver
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
Journalists have been reduced to spineless booklickers. As an ordinary person, I would never allow this level of disrespect from anyone.
moments after Trump called her a "disgrace" and "horrible," Norah O'Donnell tells Trump "the White House Correspondents Association very much appreciates you going last night"
Reviewer, review thyself! Not ONE of dozens of rubbish experiments forced on us by unpaid peer reviewers of our current manuscript in revision has made an iota difference to the conclusions. But it HAS wasted 2 months of two postdocs and $$$$$ that we can't afford.
🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs. 6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills". Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful. www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb...
How did I miss this awesome tutorial on pH microdomains within organelles?! 🤩 🧪
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
Join us for a day long workshop on Human Organoids featuring cutting edge science, including our keynote talk by Prof. Dan Huh from U Penn. Registration is required, but free! Zoom link available on request. 🧪
Congratulations, Raghu! You will be brilliant in this role 👏
Way to start the year with a huge humblebrag! 🎉🎉🎉 I have been selected as the Indian Ambassador for @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social seventh cohort (2026-2028)!!! Eagerly looking forward to working with other ambassadors to promote biophysics and bioinfo in India. 🥳 🙌 biophysics.cld.bz/Biophysical-...
Welcoming the New Year with black eyed peas and a cheesy gratin of collard greens for good luck 🎉 Happy New Year #foodsky ! What are you celebrating with tonight?
Annual holiday tradition- Brie with caramelized mushrooms and onions, scooped up with toasted French bread #foodsky
The best part of the holidays is that I can cook to my heart's content. Cornmeal blueberry pancakes for breakfast, udon noodles in a red curry soup with cabbage and carrot dumplings for dinner. Happy cooking! #foodsky
🧪Our paper titled “The Christianson syndrome protein, sodium hydrogen exchanger isoform 6, is required for fat accumulation" was chosen by J Physiol Editor-in-Chief as the Editor’s Choice! 🥳 This is our 1st paper using a mouse model & venturing into adipocyte biology 😍 Open Access: lnkd.in/eGs6sPds
✅Are you a Pre-Med student looking to boost your chances of getting into Med School? ✅Want to try an intensive research program before committing to a PhD? ✅Honing your skills for a competitive job in pharma/biotech? Apply to our MS in CMM program: cmm.jhmi.edu/index.php/ms...
🍼 Milk: good for babies… and organoids too? Majood & Rao argue human milk—a living fluid rich in cells, bioactive molecules, & microbiome—could transform lactation biology & contamination research. 💡It's also a vital cell source for the development of 3D mammary #organoid models. 🧪
its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
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Here come the exceptions! news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Foreign Grads Seeking H-1B Status Avoid $100,000 Trump Fee (1)
Recent international college graduates who are sponsored for H-1B status while in the US won’t be subject to a $100,000 fee imposed on the program, according to new guidance from the Trump administrat...
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Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs. The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible. 🧪 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
thecrimson.com
I just want to leave this here, so you can block all the US.GOV accounts with a couple of clicks. bsky.app/profile/did:...
I saw a patch of evening sun on the Celosia and this good boy understood the assignment 📷🐾
Remembering the NYT obit of Yvonne Brill, NASA rocket scientist, which began "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children." 🤦♀️
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment