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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 9h

We’re so excited for our 5th annual HBPA symposium, Friday December 12th at HMS

We are now accepting abstracts for:
-Oral Presentations
-Poster
Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract Submission Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 10/31/25

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Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 2d

An epic story and a must read. This is really beautiful work to understand the most amazing monthly regeneration event - menstruation. The authors reconstitute this process in mice (which don’t normally menstruate) allowing important new insights. Will also be a powerful model for future work.

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Sam!!

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Being slacked is the highest praise - thank you!!

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Ritu!!

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Needhi!!

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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:

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

My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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@NicoliLab @nicolilab.bsky.social · 2d

OMG 😱 a true game changer for biology! Menstruation is a natural miracle of tissue regeneration. Amazing biology to come!

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Begüm!!

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much, Vijay!!

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Adam!!

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Adam Gracz @graczlab.bsky.social · 2d

This is probably one of the coolest and most creative mouse models I’ve ever seen!

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! See you soon!!

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much, John!!

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Vijay!!

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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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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Camille Berthelot @camilleberthelot.bsky.social · 5d

Incredibly proud of @eulalieliorzou.bsky.social who is receiving the L'Oreal-Unesco Prize for Women in Science for her trailblazing PhD work on menstruation and its associated diseases!

www.pasteur.fr/fr/espace-pr...

Six chercheuses pasteuriennes reçoivent le Prix Jeunes Talents France 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science

Six chercheuses de l’Institut Pasteur viennent de recevoir, le 8 octobre 2025, le Prix Jeunes Talents France 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science.

www.pasteur.fr

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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 6d

For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

Nature @nature.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 11d

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

journals.biologists.com

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 27d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 27d

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · Sep 11

"In 2020, the median life expectancy for UK patients with [cystic fibrosis] was 36 but with novel three drug combinations, life expectancy is now predicted to be 82 y for patients who begin treatment by age 17"

Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · Sep 11

Cystic fibrosis: Correction of a fatal disease
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#cysticfibrosis #LaskerAward #Lasker2025 🧪

Cystic fibrosis: Correction of a fatal disease | PNAS

The 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award has been given to Michael Welsh, Jesús (Tito) González, and Paul Negulescu for their key ro...

www.pnas.org

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Sep 5

Following up on the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative: how it happened, and why it matters, what we know and don't.

By me, whole timeline is before the pay wall.

fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs...

Harvard vs Trump vs the Media: An Update.

Our oldest educational institution is standing up to the Trump onslaught. We can't know how this will end. But we can note the different narratives that different news organizations are presenting.

fallows.substack.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

My quote of the day

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

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