Mary Beth Hatten
@mbhatten.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Professor, Head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University
Pinned
Wonderful dinner with Erin Schuman, Carol Mason and Carla Shatz
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Pfizer’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Works Great, but RFK Jr. Might Ruin It for Everyone gizmodo.com/pfizers-mrna...
Pfizer’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Works Great, but RFK Jr. Might Ruin It for Everyone
In a large-scale trial, modRNA was significantly better at preventing confirmed flu cases than a typical seasonal flu shot.
gizmodo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Pfizer’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Works Great, but RFK Jr. Might Ruin It for Everyone gizmodo.com/pfizers-mrna...
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this is obscene
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
this is obscene
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Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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Thank you!
Finally had a bit of time to see @neilshubin.bsky.social Collège de France lectures on YouTube on our evolutionary journey on this rock. Wonderful. Thank you @denisduboule.bsky.social for making these accessible for those of us living far away from the City of Lights.
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you!
Pathetic
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Pathetic
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We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Xin Jin has been named the 2026 Peter Gruss Young Investigator. Her pioneering work developing high-throughput in vivo screening strategies is unraveling the genetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. buff.ly/RI9emVa
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Xin Jin has been named the 2026 Peter Gruss Young Investigator. Her pioneering work developing high-throughput in vivo screening strategies is unraveling the genetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. buff.ly/RI9emVa
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The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds
The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
And one of the first women scientists at Rockefeller before that!
Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
And one of the first women scientists at Rockefeller before that!
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oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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People don’t always follow politics (and who can blame them), but they understand stuff like “nothing to eat now,” “the president is bulldozing the White House,” “the president is hiding stuff about his relationship to America’s most notorious child sex trafficker”
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
People don’t always follow politics (and who can blame them), but they understand stuff like “nothing to eat now,” “the president is bulldozing the White House,” “the president is hiding stuff about his relationship to America’s most notorious child sex trafficker”
Disgusting
Prineville, Oregon residents are calling for the gun license of a local pastor to be revoked, after he shot a blind cat 3 times, then put it in a dumpster.
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
Petition: Justice for Pumpkin – Revoke Gun License After Cat Shooting
A pastor allegedly shot a cat three times in Oregon. Demand justice, accountability, and a revoked gun license now.
www.onegreenplanet.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Disgusting
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Prineville, Oregon residents are calling for the gun license of a local pastor to be revoked, after he shot a blind cat 3 times, then put it in a dumpster.
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
Petition: Justice for Pumpkin – Revoke Gun License After Cat Shooting
A pastor allegedly shot a cat three times in Oregon. Demand justice, accountability, and a revoked gun license now.
www.onegreenplanet.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Prineville, Oregon residents are calling for the gun license of a local pastor to be revoked, after he shot a blind cat 3 times, then put it in a dumpster.
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
He said that he shot the cat as he believes that the cat was trying to get into his chicken coupe.
www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/peti...
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Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.
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I took an entire semester of physics in college called Electricity and Magnetism.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I took an entire semester of physics in college called Electricity and Magnetism.
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Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
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After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa Tapley, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the first human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free and planning her future.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa Tapley, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the first human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free and planning her future.
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The press utterly silent about a clearly impaired elderly GOP president who cannot keep his eyes open. Lapdogs to the end.
When Biden was still riding a bike, every article was "Why isn't our frail Dem president popping wheelies?"
When Biden was still riding a bike, every article was "Why isn't our frail Dem president popping wheelies?"
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The press utterly silent about a clearly impaired elderly GOP president who cannot keep his eyes open. Lapdogs to the end.
When Biden was still riding a bike, every article was "Why isn't our frail Dem president popping wheelies?"
When Biden was still riding a bike, every article was "Why isn't our frail Dem president popping wheelies?"
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People might not realize - this wasn’t just one problematic person. He was (and is) influential. And this has real consequences.
“Female scientists who have kids can’t be taken seriously” and many other jabs at women have been directly said to me, within the last decade, by other scientists.
“Female scientists who have kids can’t be taken seriously” and many other jabs at women have been directly said to me, within the last decade, by other scientists.
I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
Based on his self-described behavior in The Double Helix and these actions it is easy and appropriate to write him off as an ignorant jerk.
38/41
38/41
November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
People might not realize - this wasn’t just one problematic person. He was (and is) influential. And this has real consequences.
“Female scientists who have kids can’t be taken seriously” and many other jabs at women have been directly said to me, within the last decade, by other scientists.
“Female scientists who have kids can’t be taken seriously” and many other jabs at women have been directly said to me, within the last decade, by other scientists.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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#GVerse And to think this orange sack of cholesterol had the balls to call Biden “Sleepy Joe.” His dumbfuck cultists will probably spin this as “Leadership Through Napping.” You can’t parody this shit anymore.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#GVerse And to think this orange sack of cholesterol had the balls to call Biden “Sleepy Joe.” His dumbfuck cultists will probably spin this as “Leadership Through Napping.” You can’t parody this shit anymore.
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Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions