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ach-ceneuro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, geneticist, educator, mentor, loves C. elegans, puns, birds, sci-fi/fantasy and kinda nerdy. You get my personal opinions here!
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Join the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7 to help protect the American scientific enterprise & defend science as a public good that drives social, political, & economic progress. Learn more & find your local site: https://buff.ly/3EWhSZM #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

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The real football hero

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Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Cutting NIH indirect rates to 15% is a direct attack on research in the USA. The excuse that “private foundations pay less” is silly. Universities allow private foundations to have low indirects because they provide essential seed money for high-risk projects that NIH won’t fund. #ALS #AHC

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❤️❤️ to the generous donor who believes in research and science education ❤️❤️ Best news I’ve heard today… bsky.app/profile/mbls...

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Coverage of dramatic events in USA government by most legacy media is lousy — only @reuters.com is doing a good job. I’m trying to get my “I don’t pay attention the news” family & friends to look there…

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Have you emailed/called your US Senator? Your US Representative? If you don’t tell them that you are upset with DTrump’s political appointees or stopping all federal programs (science, WIC, etc), then your reps think you don’t care…and they will vote accordingly. Tell them to fight back!!

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Reading scientific papers is a skill that requires practice. I’ve tried new AI bots that “summarize” or answer questions about papers. But, they fail to read/understand at the depth we expect from a graduate student/PhD. I’m worried that the current push for AI will decrease scientific literacy.

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A scientist I deeply respect makes points I agree with. A must read… doi.org/10.1085/jgp....

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

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I wrote a piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about why I love participating in experimental summer courses, particularly @nsb-mbl.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

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Having a blast this week at the bench with our @brownmedicine.bsky.social Neuroscience graduate students. Our January laboratory boot camp lets everyone try the techniques we read about in the Fall semester…

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Lovely paper from @bychrisvan.bsky.social identifying the EGF-family secreted molecule used by damaged peripheral tissues to drive stress-induced sleep in C. elegans. Safe bet that these will also regulate insect & vertebrate sleep! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Super fun today! Our 1st year neuroscience PhD students had a lively discussion with @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social. Grateful to @karlakaun.bsky.social for organizing and to Jason for a “memorable” class. pbs.twimg.com/profile_imag...

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A real, actual thing BCBS is doing youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

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Local used bookstore is an amazing place to find something special for the lab holiday gift exchange…

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This is a lovely piece about the 2024 Nobel Prize to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, written by Bruce Wightman, the first author of one of the prize-winning papers. It emphasizes the importance of fundamental research and the beauty of heterochronic genes. #Celegans #devbio 🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

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This is going to be really fun to watch…lots of previously undiscovered genes encode tiny uncharacterized proteins www.science.org/content/arti...

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Bringing the excitement of science to children around the world. I also had a tiny microscope as a kid! apple.news/Ahw5ZsGUwQ_a...

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