A rare postdoc: hands-on animal work and a genomics pipeline in the same job description. Windy McNerney is hiring at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto. Interested? Email her: margaret.mcnerney@va.gov 🧵/4 @eisch.bsky.social @sfn.org @deptvetaffairs.bsky.social

Science takes all types of contributions and this is a great example of recognizing volunteer and community contributions when the rise to the level of co-authorship. #nasa #citizenscience #openscience science.nasa.gov/get-involved...

650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers - NASA Science

After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁@eisch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

6/ The fun part: one mouse on day 10, doing what we call circling. We reconstructed the kinematics in 3D. Centripetal acceleration oscillated and occasionally exceeded 1g. A mouse running for fun, briefly making its own gravity. Maybe @talmo.bsky.social can post the video....

Context: Rodent Research-1 flew mice to the ISS in 2014. Cage cameras were for health checks, not behavioral science. Decades of this footage exists. Almost none has been analyzed with modern tools. #Spaceflight

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

We tracked mice in space! This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩‍🚀 Preprint thread below 👇

Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁@eisch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

I forgot to put the 🔭emoji in my post, so it didn't show up on the Astronomy feed!

Tony Dunn@tony873004.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Artemis II is scheduled to launch on Wednesday evening.

Machine Learning Ensemble Reveals Distinct Molecular Pathways of Retinal Damage in Spaceflown Mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701181v1

We have just published “Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support” in @natureportfolio.nature.com #Biofilms & #Microbiomes. It highlights how #bioinformatics and #microbiology come together to study biological systems & food-associated biofilms. Stellar multidisciplinary team! rdcu.be/e0esg

Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support

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NASA science data and software highlights for December! This includes a new repository for Aura software, THEMIS and SphereX and life sciences data, and new tools at the Exoplanet archive. #NASA #OpenScience #OpenSourceSoftware science.data.nasa.gov/features-eve...

Just me, formatting manuscript references by hand. As God intended

a man is sitting at a table with a stick in his hand

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a stick in his hand

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120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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C. elegans. They wiggle to space. They wiggle back down. And sometimes

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

NASA mission patch for #celegans in space. Artist/scientist is Dr. Rebecca Androwski (Driscoll lab, Rutgers)

Glad to appear in @cnn.com talking about #drugdiscovery specifically our collaboration with @elonverse.bsky.social on accelerated drug discovery. We also show some (unrelated) @accelerationc.bsky.social @thematterlab.bsky.social robots that we used to do materials on the same video.

Acceleration Consortium@accelerationc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to @cnn.com's Clare Duffy for telling our story about how the Acceleration Consortium is using #AI + automation in our self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of molecules + materials we need the most, incl. life-saving drugs. 📺 Watch the interview w/AC director @aspuru.bsky.social now!

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth [new]

So grateful to have this pre-print out 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth

The public and commercial space industries are planning longer duration and more distant space missions, including the establishment of a habitable lunar base and crewed missions to Mars. These missio...

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bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.633017v1

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.633017v1

Thrilled to share our pre-print on 1st Federated Learning model deployed between Earth & @Space_Station 🚀 Huge thanks to HPE (SpaceBorne Computer), Intel (OpenFL), & NASA via the NASA Open Science Data Repository. Let’s build & move the ball forward! 🌅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Launch window opens tonight (1/12) 1am ET, 10pm PT (1/11). So thrilled for this!!! 🎉🚀🌌 First ever launch of New Glenn 🌅

DutchSpace@dutchspace.bsky.social · 2y ago

And we have a New Glenn flight profile. via Blue Origin on the other site.

Our postdoc Julien Cicero just sent me this beautiful image of IPSC derived motor neurons and I had to share 😍😍😍

🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A genomics learning framework for undergraduates

Genomics is an increasingly important part of biology research. However, educating undergraduates in genomics is not yet a standard part of life sciences curricula. We believe this is, in part, due to...

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Now available as preprint: The ENCODE 4 expanded registry of regulatory elements - 2.35M 🧍 human cCREs - 927k 🐭 mouse cCREs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @moorejille.bsky.social, this preprint summarizes data and analyses generated by hundreds of contributors across ENCODE 4

Congrats are overdue to Suni Willaims, who 3 days ago, became the 2nd most experienced US astronaut!

🧠🚀Could space exploration increase the risk of Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Dr. Nilufar Ali led our perspective in npj Microgravity exploring parallels between spaceflight stressors and PD-like changes, from mitochondrial dysfunction to altered dopamine pathways. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review - npj Microgravity

npj Microgravity - Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review

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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

In honor of all the new arrivals, I'm sharing one of my favorite videos. It shows 24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock. Brilliant work by Bartosz Wojczyński. 🧪 artuniverse.eu/gallery/1907...

I’ve been working with rangers at @officialnps.bsky.social for almost 20 years now promoting #darksky and science outreach in the parks. www.spacearttravelbureau.com

Hubble 🔭views of Saturn 🪐: each filter combination emphasizes differences in the planet's cloud altitude or composition. Hubble checks in on Saturn and the other giant planets as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which celebrated 10 years this month! go.nasa.gov/3VXposZ

Brushing up on my cardiology (am a computational biologist) and it’s oddly uncommon to see the electrics overlaid with the plumbing so to speak… here’s one of the clearest I’ve seen. From Braunwald’s Heart Disease.

Spatial omics of human arteries to understand what drives atherosclerosis: highlights role of the microvasculature (vasa vasorum), adventitial inflammation, migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (and more) nature.com/articles/s44...