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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 12h

nice! we have a jacket in your size😜

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 3d

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”

www.scripps.edu

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 3d

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍
Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows
Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Senior Director - Scientific Officer

Primary Work Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the disco...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 3d

Finally out: our recent work with Nick Betley is a view into how the brain reshapes its behavior in the face of competing survival needs- and also a potential angle on treatment targets for enduring pain.

A brief rundown...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A parabrachial hub for need-state control of enduring pain - Nature

Activity in a set of parabranchial neurons in the mouse brain is increased during chronic pain, predicts coping behaviour, and can be modulated by circuits activated by survival threats.

www.nature.com

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 3d

congrats all, paper looks great, cant wait to digest in detail

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 3d

I would like to thank my lab, my family, my mentors, recommendation letter writers, reviewers, and many prior winners who helped at each stage of the process. Special thanks to Professor Kafui Dzirasa, my constant champion who always pushes me to dream even higher.

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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Stanford University @stanford.edu · 4d

Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources.

🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Meera! Best PhD advisor I could ask for.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

The program officials and staff at NIH are absolutely exceptional. All the work behind the scenes in the multiple rounds of reviews, and then getting things through before the Sept 30 deadline. They are true heroes. Ive known since April.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you and your assistance was invaluable!

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats to the winners! Its notable that Omar Yaghi was a refugee. Refugees and immigrants once again making American science great!

Nature @nature.com · 5d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing metal-organic frameworks.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded for Development of New Molecular Architecture

The prize was awarded on Wednesday to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi.

nyti.ms

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 5d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 6d

Attention, Attention, Early career investigators in Neuroscience: this is a great funding opportunity and a terrific community of scientists to join: deadline for application is February 25, 2026 🧠🧬🔬🧪

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Darleane Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive superheavy radioactive elements, died last month. She was 98.

Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission.

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Mehmet Keles @flyman.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am proud to share that our work of 4+ years has finally been published. We wondered if there are distinct behaviors that mark sleep in 🪰, where sleep has been defined as prolonged immobility.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FlyVISTA, an integrated machine learning platform for deep phenotyping of sleep in Drosophila

A machine learning platform identifies and characterizes the dynamics of microbehaviors during fly sleep.

www.science.org

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Cordero-Vásquez Lab @cvlab.bsky.social · 9d

Our new PNAS paper "Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease" is out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3

Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease | PNAS

Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, is characterized by sickle erythrocytes that are ...

www.pnas.org

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats! I remember this project from my Penn Bio days.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8

"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for
nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 16d

1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
buff.ly/NrHlEKD

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18d

Big wow! Wonderful listen on my commute home. My 2 cents is that what @antihebbiann.bsky.social is talking about here (biological mechanisms for computation that interface with brain activity but go beyond it, like hormones) is the next big impactful thing, and she's among those leading the way 🤩.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18d

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @braininspired.bsky.social talks to @antihebbiann.bsky.social, who argues that molecular signaling, like protein expression, controls innate brain responses to varying environmental contexts.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Ann Kennedy explains the theoretical neuroscience of survival behaviors

The Scripps neuroscientist calls for a broader theoretical neuroscience approach in her area of research, which focuses on how the subcortex bridges life and cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17d

love this pic and the people in it!

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 17d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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