New painting to honor my brilliant trainee, Cali Thompson, who conceptualized this epic sign for the 2025 Stand Up for Science protest that I then drew for her and now painted to hang in the lab

Gaining therapeutic access to the human brain is one of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedical science. Today @nature.com, we uncover a massive influx of immune cells into the human brain during aging, revealing that the brain is more accessible than previously thought. 1/

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

It is a loud music, dancing while doing experiments kind of day. Boyz n the Hood while the girls split cells; Jay Z fueling single cell experiments My trainees used to think I was crazy but now they are dancing with me 😝

The ‘24-hour rule’ and other tips from sport can improve lab life, says Megan Cooke go.nature.com/4wbiJvl

Seven ways endurance sports have taught me to be a better researcher

The ‘24-hour rule’ and other tips from sport can improve lab life.

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"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko set to retire  — Harvard Gazette

After decades of advancing work on vision-threatening disease, she passes the torch to scientific successors.

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Parenting is so much like science, you troubleshoot different approaches, sometimes finding unconventional methods work best. “If you don’t stop whining I will read more of Noam Chomsky’s critical review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior to you” has been surprisingly effective

I ❤️ data Same 6 mile run, two different vibes. Thank you Beyoncé

If you have time to browse bluesky this weekend, you have time to submit your comment on the proposed OMB rule to politicize science funding agencies. This one is important. Here's my comment if some inspiration will help. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...

Submit your OMB comment this weekend.

This one is important. It's due on Monday.

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What role will glial cells play in the future of brain health? The Spring 2026 issue of CWRU Medicine Magazine features our founder & director, Paul J. Tesar, PhD, on the growing importance of glial cells in brain health. Read more: case.edu/news/school-... #Glia #Neuroscience

School of Medicine researchers collaborate on work that could reverse course in neural conditions | CWRU Newsroom | Case Western Reserve University

At Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, researchers are advancing on a goal that once seemed unthinkable: reversing neurodegenerative d...

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Keep those comments on the OMB proposed rule coming! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Comments Flood OMB Proposal on Political Control of Grants

The White House Office of Management and Budget has so far received 90,000 public comments on its plans as scientific and other groups rally against them.

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The 2026 Journal of Young Scientists is coming soon! We are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the manuscripts for publication. Free online access will be available soon, featuring original research from these amazing young scientists!

Congratulations to both Rishi Deshmukh and Sunny Eoh for funding of their NIH T32 proposals!!! So proud of them both and excited for all the cool science to come Two more corks on the line & a group photo with my 4yo's stuffed dog that she urged me to take with me today "to meet the lab"

Happy to announce that I received tenure! This is all down to the brilliant team I get to work with every day and my collaborators and supportive colleagues. Now UCSF can’t get rid of me…

Working with undergrads is such a trip 😂 (name redacted to not embarrass student. bet)

“The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Congratulations to Professor Kalli Kappel (@kallikappel.bsky.social) on receiving the 2026 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (ΑΧΣ) Glenn T. Seaborg Award! www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/2026-uc...

Lab next door got a neon astrocyte sign!!! Slowly transforming the floor

It is out 😍 check it out!! Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning. @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

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All hands in @ the Scavuzzo lab (minus Michael Kovach, JP Flores, and Sohan Gangam)

You don't want to miss this opportunity!!!! @reyesruiz.bsky.social is a phenomenal scientist and human, highly recommend

Valeria Reyes Ruiz@reyesruiz.bsky.social · last mo.

Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Back on the piano, but the inexpensive electric piano I found on Amazon which I have learned has no soul. An emotionless Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp Minor does not slap the same

Need a bigger office!!! Birthday appreciation notes for Joel. Dream team

2020 Hanna Gray group photo, shot on my phone by Ohio based ENS development expert and 2025 Hanna Gray Fellow Maple Adkins-Threats 😂 👵

#HannaGray Fellow Marissa Scavuzzo grew up knowing basic biomedical science can change lives — now she studies support cells called glia. Her message to prospective HGF program applicants: "You have nothing to lose & everything to gain" (& sometimes, 2x is the charm). Opens 11/3! bit.ly/HGF26 🧪

CONGRATS @stevenssostre.bsky.social !!!! 💫💫💫💫💫🤩🤩🤩🤩

Alfred M. Mays@amays-bwfund.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congrats BWFUND/Revson PDEP! www.bwfund.org/news/2026-po...

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Fun to bump into Juan Jeffrey and Laolu Ogunnaike, two all star volunteers for @riseupneo.bsky.social, out in the wild at Larchmere Porchfest Volunteer or donate to Rise Up to support public school science education!!! www.riseupnortheastohio.org

I know I say this a lot but man I love my lab. Started the day with energizing meetings with passionate trainees and cool data. Watching them grow and become more and more independent while encouraging each other the whole way brings me so much joy

Great to spend time with ENS expert and good friend @begumaydin.bsky.social, @glialsciences.bsky.social director and good friend Raeka Aiyar, Pasteur Fdn director and new friend Emily Warne, and brain scientist with a brain Daniel Hochbaum in NYC! A major highlight: meeting Begüm’s cat 🐱