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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Our observations should prompt an essential re-evaluation of the literature concerning astrocyte-neuron mitochondrial transfer" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MitoTracker transfers from astrocytes to neurons independently of mitochondria

The neuroprotective transfer of mitochondria from astrocytes to neurons has been primarily investigated by labelling astrocytic mitochondria with the dye MitoTracker. Here we report that MitoTracker transfers to neurons from both astrocytes and astrocyte-conditioned media, independently of mitochondrial transfer. Our observations should prompt an essential re-evaluation of the literature concerning astrocyte-neuron mitochondrial transfer and in other systems in which contact-independent transfer has been observed using mitochondrial dyes. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. MSD (United Kingdom), https://ror.org/004nn4n27, PRJ_20446 DEVINE MSD MRC The Francis Crick Institute, https://ror.org/04tnbqb63, CC2206

www.biorxiv.org

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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · Jun 29

For #worm25, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the #Celegans community to easily follow:

C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (50+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG

==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added!

cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

#CeleganSky 🪱 🧪 1/n

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Jessica Hartman @drjhartman.bsky.social · Jun 30

Me too, man. Me too.

Jealous of all you lucky ducks at #worm25

Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jun 30

Serious FOMO that I can't attend #Worm25

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · May 2

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims

Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

www.cbsnews.com

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Apr 17

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism.

1. It’s not a disease
2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Apr 3

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · Mar 31

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

youtube.com

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Mar 30

Would not have thought that the first person in congress to strongly defend researh would be a republican but more powerful that it is. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia

Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees!

AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations.

NIH and NSF will be case examples.

Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar: Responding to Federal Research Grant Terminations

Join AAAS on Friday, March 28 at 12 PM ET

The AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice and AAAS SEA Change will host a roundtable discussion on the laws and regulations that govern federal grant terminations, including procedures for appeals. Speakers will include a legal expert, former officials at scientific funding agencies, and a grant recipient who will share their personal experience. NIH and NSF will serve as case examples.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · Mar 21

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇!

Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination?
✅ Email PO + document questions
✅ Submit FOIA
✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation
✅ Consider outside litigation
✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

docs.google.com

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · Mar 21

I still love teaching and think it matters, God help me

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 21

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Mar 21

In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.

I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 20

NIH spending more than pays for itself. It generates about $2.5 for every $1 spent. In terms of research productivity, NIH funding dwarfs the rest of the world. The only long-term potential rival is China. Politicizing the NIH's scientific processes will hand China a huge strategic advantage.

graph showing publication of NIH funded publications, relative to other funders. China is catching up.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 14

I now have multiple sources that say at least one round of NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS will now be announced in the Federal Register.

a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper

ALT: a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper

media.tenor.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Mar 13

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Mar 13

Meeting the person you suspect is reviewer #2 in a conference

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · Mar 12

Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...