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Mark Cookson

@markrcookson.bsky.social

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Cell Biologist accidentally thinking about human genetics. He/him. Husband, Dad, wannabe musician and cook, immigrant. Views very definitely my own.

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 13

May as well start out with our big resource. We spent a long time getting this up and running - and it's now a real thing and still growing! Repost!!!
www.jax.org/jax-mice-and...

Human <span>iPS</span> Cells

In partnership with the iPSC Neurodegenerative Disease Initiative, a project from the Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (NIH), and with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Alig...

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 16d

In @jcb.org, @lysoluis.bsky.social, @markrcookson.bsky.social et al. show how two distinct pRAB effectors and RHD members, JIP4 and RILPL1, provide antagonistic motor force to regulate #lysosome tubulation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Apr 24

I heard Norway is recruiting “top” researchers to leave some countries and join them. Yet I have not had a call. Hallo?

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Mar 1

Funny I have the same followers but study different things. They must be planning a grant together to work on the intersection of inflammation and neurodegenerative disease

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is a sign of how upside down the constitutional order is right now. The President is supposed to ask Congress for money, not the other way around! #mepolitics

Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · Feb 27

Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday vowed to fight cutbacks to National Institutes of Health research grants, saying she will personally lobby the Trump administration and is helping to form a broad coalition in an attempt to reverse the funding caps.

Sen. Susan Collins vows to fight medical research cuts

The Maine Republican said she is helping to form a coalition to undo Trump administration cutbacks, and will also lobby HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.pressherald.com

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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · Feb 27

I don't really have words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural program. This has to be stopped.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 27

More hits to #NIH:

"The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed." 🧪
@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

www.science.org

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John Ball @john-m-ball.bsky.social · Feb 27

Just astonishing.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 27

Scientists, please just READ what Jay Bhattacharya has said in public. It is bad.

www.techdirt.com/202...

For Bhattacharya, Free Speech Means Freedom To Defund Dissenters

Over at MSNBC, I have a new piece debunking the false claims from many that Donald Trump’s pick to run the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, is somehow taking over the government age…

www.techdirt.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 27

"Memoli had no choice, he insisted: He was following the direction of three HHS officials—Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy—who told him, in no uncertain terms, that the pause was to continue..."

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Inside the Collapse at the NIH

Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Feb 28

The future of science in the U.S. is looking so promising.

In a not-so-dystopian future, glum-looking Oompa Loompas working at a sad Willy's Chocolate Laboratory will be the picture of science being made in the U.S.. .. Sad just like the experience in Glasgow.

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Alzheimer's Association @alzassociation.bsky.social · Feb 26

Ensure the voices of people living with dementia and their caregivers are heard. Urge your members of Congress to reaffirm their commitment to the Alzheimer’s community today. We’ve made great progress and we cannot afford to stop now. bit.ly/alzaction

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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · Feb 22

I was part of the Marzi lab for my masters, PhD, and now postdoc. @sj-marzi.bsky.social is an enthusiastic scientist and supportive mentor. The science is cool and the people are even cooler. Can’t recommend enough!!! 🤓

Apply apply apply 👇🏻

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hear what you want to hear

Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Dec 3

I’ve long wanted a BS meter outside the office but it would always be at zero … plus yeah HR

Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Dec 3

That should be zero

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Dec 2

What fresh hell is this? Have a tea bag of reasonable repute in my hotel room but it’s decaffeinated? What use will this be tomorrow am???

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Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social · Nov 28

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

Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy - Nature

The authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off...

www.nature.com

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · Nov 27

A two-month-old has died from pertussis in Queensland, Australia. Like many countries including the US, Australia is in the midst of a pertussis epidemic. In Queensland, uptake of maternal pertussis vaccination & infant vaccinations have declined. Lower rates of both put the youngest at risk.

Infant dies amid worst Queensland whooping cough epidemic on record

Queensland Health confirms child’s death from highly contagious infection as vaccination rates plummet and cases spike across Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 28

So this would come under ad hominem attacks. Credit to @michelerosenthal.com

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 28

Can you figure out how many publications came from this funding?

Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 27

useful rubric for those of us who love logic from @michelerosenthal.com
Just in case this comes in handy in the next, say, few years or so

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hey @mahoneykc.bsky.social more evolutionary information for you

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Juan S. Bonifacino @juanbonifacino.bsky.social · Nov 26

In remembrance of those lost to COVID-19, I created a Spotify playlist featuring songs by musicians who passed away from the disease: open.spotify.com/playlist/6jE.... So much beautiful humanity gone.

Musicians lost to COVID-19

Playlist · jbonifacino1 · 23 items

open.spotify.com

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 25

Welcome

Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 20

Scary, sorry. As for the scanning for DEI, I worry we'll all be subject to that soon enough. Sad.

Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 20

Confirm

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Mark Cookson @markrcookson.bsky.social · Nov 19

Patrick Stewart on behalf of many other old white men