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The brain is bigger in the inside than on the outside.

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For a #FluorescenceFriday that took our team 17 people & over 5 years to complete, we wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day with a deep dive into the developing human heart (before it grows heavy or breaks), available at @dev-journal.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! Love from Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, and Ginger!!!

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Turned out if you only have Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with your desktop PC, it's a mistake to accidentally turn off bluetooth in settings.

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Yesica Mercado-Ayon in the Butler lab won the People's Choice award in the @uclastemcell.bsky.social microscopy contest! Here's her image for #fluorescentfriday #fluorescencefriday: "A tree made of neurons".

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The Department of Defense cancelling a $1.4 million grant already awarded to study Alzheimer disease and other dementias in minority veterans. Exactly the group most affected by these disorders. Excluded from clinical trials and now excluded from the few grants available as well. Invisible.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! 💞 For this #FluorescenceFriday, lots of lovely lipid droplets (pink) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #Science #Valentines

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Rare chance to work as a Postdoc with one of the nicest people and a world expert in Neurovirology. The position is to investigate the connection between viruses and #Parkinson (more relevant than ever) and funded by philanthropy, so independent of government funding.

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DEI explained

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1/12 How do animals build an internal map? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of mouse CA1 neurons over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. @nspruston.bsky.social & co-1st author @johanwinn.bsky.social Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We believe many neuro problems associated with #COVID come from the virus hijacking blood vessels to gain access to the brain. This is what it looks like for me, using super-resolution microscopy. With thanks to @harryspoelstra.bsky.social, combining vascular and neuro to understand #NeuroCovid 💪

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Version of Record of our work at @elife.bsky.social has been published! Super proud of this one after all the hard work of the lab seeing it to the end. Make sure to click through figure supplements as there is so much good stuff in there - sex differences, etc. elifesciences.org/articles/99988

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“You can’t discover what you don’t study.” @jennifergarrison.bsky.social highlights the need for more focus on women’s health at the Merkin Symposium at Caltech. Hard for anti-diversity folks to argue against addressing health issues that impact half the population…

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"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human #hypothalamus #neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hey everyone!!! We all need to be watching these things LIVE and paying attention like our lives depend on it. Because they do! 🩵

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Are you all watching the senate floor proceedings? Only 411 (out of 330 million citizens) are watching on PBS NewsHour channel I’m watching on the senate.gov site

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APOE4 exacerbates glucocorticoid stress hormone-induced tau pathology via mitochondrial dysfunction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636364v1

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I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane. NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.

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good news, finally submitted my grant to nsf on Technical biases in quantifying the inclusive fitness of minority alleles under diversifying selection in diverse microbial communities

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Don’t worry. The first year of this month is almost over.

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Just a gorgeous #Purkinje neuron all by itself in the cerebellum. Only with #lightsheet #microscopy on a whole #cleared sample could you ever hope to catch a lone reporter expressing cell in it’s entirety. #science 🧪

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How it feels to be working on a grant application right now.

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The overachieving perfectionist in me needs an “Agree” button on #BlueSky not just a “Like” button…🫠 Do I like that the world is falling apart? Probably not. But do I agree with you that it is? Yes, yes I do. Sincerely, That annoying debater chick

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Neurons are cool, but astrocytes steal the show like no other cell type in the nervous system! Check the shape of a blood vessel in the middle of the image 🔬. The brain is the most beautiful organ in the body (says my brain)🧠

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I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.

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Horrified by the fires in the Palisades, but also grateful knowing help will be on the way from the Biden Administration without political strings or coercions.

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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

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Turnin tricks for bacon on xmas, my girl ❤️🐶🎄🥂 #stayclassy #dogsofbluesky

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Happy Holidays！💐 Credit to: Dario Brunetti

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PI arriving to lab meeting

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Purkinje Cell, Ink on Yupo, 2024 #ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

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"Siloing science journalism is dangerous because it leaves the public vulnerable to misinformation. ... It allows powerful actors to manipulate public understanding by filling the void left by a lack of evidence-based reporting." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/scie... by @siricarpenter.bsky.social

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Took 4 years, but finally, the paper suggesting using hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for #COVID19 was retracted today. We need to act faster when fixing these things. @elisabethbik.bsky.social thank you for your vigilant work.

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