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studying the role of autoimmunity in post-infectious syndromes 🦠 | Stanford immunology postdoc—Robinson Lab • Harvard neurobiology PhD, 2024 🧠 • scientist, writer, & teacher • 25/100 books in 2025 📚
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From the brilliant minds behind "THERE ARE OBVIOUS INNATE UNCHANGEABLE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEXES!", we now get "It is only necessary to perform scientific testing for one of them (male, obviously)"

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

no!!! I am not complying with your fake limit of references! Every reference was intentional and necessary actually! xoxo this is a journal run by a FOR PROFIT company that can afford to copy edit and print a few (ok 39) extra references crediting people's life work

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Come ON journals - really? Are we really trying to impose arbitrary limits on methods sections? I spent a great deal of time and effort to provide a meticulous methods section.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Hello. If you are a prospective (or current) graduate student, or a faculty member or administrator, seeing federal cuts/policies impact graduate school admissions, funding, or operations, I would be interested in speaking with you: [email protected] Signal ibogost.47

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

NQ: How can the field of neuroscience empower and support people from underrepresented backgrounds? YC: Pay them. Truer words have never been spoken.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The inimitable and indomitable Ya’el Courtney interviewed by @neuronline.sfn.org. She celebrates the power of @washu-endure.bsky.social and brings happy tears to my eyes. www.sfn.org/publications...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In 1988, the FAA required new aircraft seats to withstand 16x the force of gravity — 16g. It is likely that because of that decision, in part, that everyone survived today's Delta crash. As @PeterGoelz said tonight it was an instance "where a government regulation saved lives."

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Have computational biology skills and management experience? Want to make the world a better place by running of the most important archives of biological information in the world - ENA the DNA sequence archive? Working for @embl.org at @ebi.embl.org, based in Cambridge UK - this job is for you!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Good to stop doomscrolling and touch grass on my weekly hike - this time down by Santa Cruz with some postdoc pals!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

So so so honored to be featured in @sfn.org Newsletter as part of the Future of Neuroscience! If you want to know a little more about my background, PhD work, and future goals, this one’s for you! :) www.sfn.org/publications...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 546 comments

Society for Neuroscience - 'Future of Neuroscience: Ya’el Courtney' 'I’ve become integrated in these patient communities for people with long COVID..people with ME/CFS..' 'Moving forward, I’m hoping to study the effects of viruses on the brain post-infection.' www.sfn.org/publications...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Well-deserved recognition for @scienceyael.bsky.social S/O @sfn.org on this spotlight

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

So so so honored to be featured in @sfn.org Newsletter as part of the Future of Neuroscience! If you want to know a little more about my background, PhD work, and future goals, this one’s for you! :) www.sfn.org/publications...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

In response to an alarming Nature Medicine study about brain microplastics last week, here are 7 Science-Backed Ways to Reduce Microplastic Exposure www.youtube.com/shorts/8Aa3P...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Healio: 'On its 5th anniversary, experts address questions about COVID-19' 'Koroshetz told Healio Infectious Disease News in January that future long COVID research should include consideration for ME/CFS' www.healio.com/news/infecti...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

again, the administration's play by play following of project 2025 continues (P2025 left, NIH announcement right). If you want to know what's next, I'd take a look at their agenda. ww2.aip.org/fyi/project-...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Ardem, I am sorry. In this middle of this chaos, HHMI will always hold the dubious distinction of being the first organization, federal or private, to cut an ongoing and funded DEI program. In the darkest hour, it ran for the hills. As a member of those groups, I can’t tell you how painful this is.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments