Sabrina Absalon, Phd
@sabsalon.bsky.social
Cell biologist | microscopist studying the nuclear and cell division of Malaria parasites | https://www.absalonlab.com/ |Co-founder of Peers in Parasitology | Be who you are 🏳️🌈 |Healthcare is a human right
In @jcb.org, Liffner, @sabsalon.bsky.social et al. apply Mosquito Tissue Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal previously inaccessible details of #Plasmodium sporozoite formation and salivary gland invasion. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Organelles #Microbiology #CelDivision #Malaria
Liffner, @sabsalon.bsky.social et al. apply Mosquito Tissue Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal previously inaccessible details of #Plasmodium sporozoite formation and salivary gland invasion. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Organelles #Microbiology #CelDivision #Malaria
Day 2 of the EMBO U-ExM Workshop at EMBL Heidelberg #EMBOExM. Gels are ready and expanding nicely! We also had a lively poster session and inspiring talks from @sabsalon.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social. A very engaged group, great to see such thoughtful discussions around expansion microscopy
"TRUST YOUR NERDS"
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 5mo agoHere's another Hall of Fame sign from last year's MARCH 7th National Day of Action in Washington Square Park, New York City. What's your sign going to say this year? Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local SATURDAY, MARCH 7th NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY!
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 5mo agoA study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪
Just watched The Thinking Game and loved it. A thoughtful, human look at the people behind AlphaFold—and a reminder of the responsibility we have as scientists using AI. Highly recommend watching and sharing.
The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions. Children do not belong in government detention.
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
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Applications for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort are now open! This highly-rated and effective career development opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases. Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu! #UCSD_RAPID #FacultyDevelopment
Yet another starting example highlighting that countries and communities continue to suffer as foreign aid depletes, first with US cuts and then by other developed countries. Thanks for your relentless reporting on this topic @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
A Somali Hospital Closed After U.S. Aid Cuts. Fired Employees Reopened It Without Pay.
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Jay Bhattacharya, MAGA world, corruption, & the politicization of science: ‼️🚨‼️He replaced the chief of the NIH’s environmental health institute with a dear friend of Vice President JD Vance without going through any of the usual NIH due processes More on this ghastliness from @markhisted.org 👇
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 10mo agoThe NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.
University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
"Paper accepted in principle" is the best email to read while being in vacation with the inlaws in Brazil.
An absolute diamond of cell biology work. Congratulations 🎉 to all authors #UExM #Parasitesrule #CellBiology #Cilia
Marie Zelená@mariezelena.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur collaboration with @mbonhivers.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! 🎉Using U-ExM, we mapped the formation of the flagellar pocket collar in T. brucei. Huge thanks to everyone involved — one step closer to #PhDone! #ExM #oneringtorulethemall #Bilbo1 #trypanosoma #protistsonsky
From the 6 Surgeon Generals who served across administrations since President Bush: "Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
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Our @viroscope.bsky.social Joe McKellar interviewed by The-Scientist Magazine ! Look at all these beautiful cells we have in the lab :)
Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus
From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Christophe Leterrier⭐in #TheMicroscopists and reflects on the make-or-break moment at the end of his postdoc when he came close to leaving academia before securing his CNRS position and how these experiences shape the way he mentors others. Stream: bit.ly/microscopist...
The Microscopists | Christophe Leterrier (CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université)
This time on The Microscopists, we're joined by Christophe Leterrier, team leader at NeuroCyto in Marseille and director of a Nikon Center of Excellence for super-resolution microscopy.Christophe r...
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Delighted to report our publication on a divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein that regulates malaria transmission to mosquitoes. Great work by Domi Kwecka , @jennyregan.bsky.social @choel Kim #malaria #ookinete #mosquitoes #signalling journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
A divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein promotes Plasmodium ookinete infection of the mosquito
Author summary Malaria parasites complete their life-cycle within mammalian and mosquito hosts requiring specialised forms to invade and establish infection in host tissue. In order to transmit to the...
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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Whoever works with me knows how much I hate doing Western blots. Well today I feel the WB fairy helped me get the most beautiful sodium carbonate extraction samples analyzed with 6 antibodies, they all work amazingly and I have not a single bubble, dirt or weird running. Rebuttal paper looking good
Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz 💚 Thanks to the team @biswashere.bsky.social, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay @matthewkraushar.bsky.social @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social 💚
Conserved nucleocytoplasmic density homeostasis drives cellular organization across eukaryotes
Nature Communications - Cells can regulate their mass density. Here, the authors demonstrate how eukaryotes establish and maintain a lower density in the nucleus than in the cytoplasm via pressure...
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4 new quick-guides to help you help your friends and fam STAND UP FOR SCIENCE and protect democracy www.standupforscience.net/activate-eng... www.standupforscience.net/inform-activ... www.standupforscience.net/team-science www.standupforscience.net/calling-values @standupforscience.bsky.social
If RFK Jr approach to develop a vaccine against all viruses involves sequentially exposing himself to each of these viruses and letting his amazing body develop a vaccine the natural way, then I highly endorse this approach. I would start with something easy like Nipah or Hendra virus
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 12mo agoRFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"
