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I'm proud of Yale for doing this

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Hey BlueSky! Want to learn more about some almost literally mind-bending brain research being done by @noonanlab.bsky.social? Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

Despite the Times trying to spin this as “Harvard should quit,” the article really (and likely unintentionally) conveys the message “Harvard should absolutely keep fighting.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

For #FluorescenceFriday, here's a human-chimpanzee iPSC-derived chimeric somitoid, with human cells shown in red and chimpanzee cells shown in green, made by our student Je Won Yang (1/2):

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, this... 👇

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

As a rare bit of good news, a huge congratulations to @jkpritch.bsky.social who was just elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Here's the full list.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

I'm honoured to have been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It's a wonderful recognition of all the hard work by the amazing folks in the lab over the years. A huge thanks to them all.

submitted 46 days ago • 37 comments

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

submitted 47 days ago • 18 comments

Glad to see that Yale has co-signed this statement. bsky.app/profile/cant...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Our own Paschal candle. Happy Easter, everyone.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Today the NY Times posted an interview with Chris Rufo that anyone associated with universities — or anyone who benefits from advances in health care or any other aspect of the research taking place there — should listen to or read in transcript. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...?

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

On the futility of collaboration, from Tom Scocca. I'd also like to point out that trust in higher ed and institutional expertise is so low right now in large part because of a decades-long right wing propaganda campaign to achieve exactly that end. defector.com/the-bargain-...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public. #academicSky #eduSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

A project five years in the making, we've now published complete "T2T" genomes for six additional ape species! It turns out that finishing (and analyzing) six genomes is slightly more work than one... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

submitted 61 days ago • 89 comments

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

Cornell is unique among the Ivies in that many of its constituent colleges are effectively part of the SUNY system. Doesn't this give New York State standing to sue the federal government? bsky.app/profile/deni...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

submitted 68 days ago • 132 comments

Congratulations to Dr. Atreyo Pal, who defended his PhD thesis today! He is our 11th PhD! You can read all about his work here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

exciting news for our scientific community! www.nygenome.org/news-events/...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to: -- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or -- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.

submitted 74 days ago • 26 comments

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Trying to make sense of the current situation, I put together some thoughts in an op-ed for @elife.bsky.social on what we, as scientists, can do – and what institutions MUST do – to protect science right now elifesciences.org/articles/106...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

These are children. Little girls and boys playing at "government."

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Nathan for conceiving and designing this unified demultiplexing toolkit!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge" Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

submitted 81 days ago • 71 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

📣 We are advertising for a postdoc to join our team at the University of Edinburgh! Our lab studies gene regulatory mechanisms in development, and how genetic changes may impact these processes to alter development and shape human craniofacial form and function 🧬🧪

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

Columbia seems poised to cede control of their institution to the whims of people who want to destroy it and higher education as a whole. It's impossible to overstate how short-sighted this is. The idea that Trump will stop here is beyond belief. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

An intro to the Massilani Lab youtu.be/oTjbWoEokns?...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 87 days ago • 33 comments

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Well, confirmed, I guess

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Michael Yuan is recruiting graduate students and potential postdocs to join his new evolutionary ecology lab at TCU in Fort Worth (www.myuanlab.com). He has funds to fully support PhD students starting both this fall 2025 and fall 2026. Please RT.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering if your PO, SRO, or other NIH official is still at NIH? Tara pointed out this useful search tool. Unfortunately my MIRA PO, who just took over this portfolio in December, is no longer listed. 💔

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

submitted 93 days ago • 72 comments

A beautiful blustery day in Hartford Connecticut to gather in support of scientific funding and research. Great that @blumenthal.senate.gov showed up, too!

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

submitted 94 days ago • 83 comments

My reading of this is that it will affect every single institutional training grant. Every T32 has a section describing how the program includes efforts to promote diversity. I guess we'll see if T32 NOAs are issued this spring. bsky.app/profile/jere...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This is grim reading. They are trying to starve the NIH and universities into compliance. The fact that this will also destroy public health, American higher education and will literally kill people is clearly of no concern to them at all. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments