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Nelson Medina

@neurofinch.bsky.social

Neuroscientist interested in mechanisms of learning and behavior with a focus in connectomics. Postdoc - Kornfeld Lab Nelsmedina.github.io

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Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · last yr.

A black hole in the early universe? Sometimes I like to imagine that I operate a telescope, not a microscope 😁. The hole in the middle of the image is actually a blood vessel. The stars are astrocytes🟡 in the human brain, interacting with beta-amyloid🔵. The brain is from a donor with #Alzheimer.

Confocal microscopy photo
Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻@dezene.me · last yr.

So we can now do mark-recapture and similar experiments with... tardigrades. 🤯 🧪 "This precise control also enables detailed investigations into tardigrade behavior and movement patterns..." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Patterning on Living Tardigrades

Micro/nanofabrication techniques have revolutionized modern photonics and electronics. However, conventional methods remain incompatible with living organisms due to inherent constraints including non...

pubs.acs.org

Jon Brudvig@jonbrudvig.bsky.social · last yr.

A tardigrade just got the world's tiniest tattoo. This, and so much more, in Nature's roundup of the best #science images from April. 🧪 And yes, you should take 20 seconds to play the aurora video. 😍 www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #SciencePhotography #Microscopy

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last yr.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

nbcnews.com

Dhananjay Jagannathan@dhananjayj.bsky.social · last yr.

One of our undergraduate students in philosophy at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi, has been arrested by ICE at an immigration appointment (that he thought was for his citizenship application) in Vermont. I am standing up to say: hands off our students.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last yr.

A package of research papers from the MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) consortium in Nature and Nature Methods provides a detailed map of mouse brain cell structure and connections, offering insights into how they relate to activity in the mouse brain. 🧪

The MICrONS Project

An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation for discovering the computational bases of cortical circuits.

go.nature.com

eLife@elife.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Today, we publish the first of seven articles in a series exploring ‘Science Under Threat in the United States’. The authors discuss what they describe as the Trump administration's "assault" on science and scientists, and what the response should be. #StandUpForScience

A crowd of people at a protest. One is holding a sign that reads “science = progress”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
Frank Beier@beierlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!

NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

nserc-crsng.gc.ca

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · last yr.

“Since the entire staff was also placed on administrative leave, we have been locked out of our computers, and have no chance to assist in an orderly transition in our work.” Sounds super efficient and safe

A letter to the American People: For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving you to make government technology work better. We are nonpartisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers. However, all employees at 18F - a group that the Trump Administration GSA Technology Transformation Services Director called "the gold standard" of civic tech - were terminated today at midnight ET.This was a surprise to all 18F staff and our agency partners. Just yesterday we were working on important projects, including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS, and other critical projects with organizations at the federal and state levels. All of that work has now abruptly come to a halt. Since the entire staff was also placed on administrative leave, we have been locked out of our computers, and have no chance to assist in an orderly transition in our work. We don't even have access to our personal employment data. We're supposed to return our equipment, but can't use our email to find out how or where.
John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last yr.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Katie Sandlin@kmsandlin.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

Office desk without any personal items or decor