zara weinberg
@weinberz.witchlab.org
cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. ⚧️🏳️🌈🧙🏻♀️
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zara weinberg
@weinberz.witchlab.org
· Nov 10
glad I ended up on some starter packs but just a heads up to my new followers that my goals with this account are shitposting, music, preprint evangelism, social justice advocacy, ban cars, queer shit, cats, and THEN synthetic biology and cell engineering, in that order
please enjoy 😊
please enjoy 😊
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‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development
Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...
www.biorxiv.org
July 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.
June 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.
how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??
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Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
June 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program.
this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole
this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program.
this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole
this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole
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this really is what it’s like
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
this really is what it’s like
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“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”
SCOOP: The NIH just officially killed diversity statements in its grant applications. Read the whole story here⬇️
The NIH just officially killed diversity statements in its grant applications
"I think we will lose a lot as an agency," an agency employee told Mother Jones.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”
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"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."
March 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."
also helps to understand how an institution like Johns Hopkins, which is ostensibly private, is being hit so hard because their funding might be more public than similar tier “public” institutions
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
also helps to understand how an institution like Johns Hopkins, which is ostensibly private, is being hit so hard because their funding might be more public than similar tier “public” institutions
that distinction makes a lot of sense, and i guess is a good foreshadowing of which institutions will survive this
March 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
that distinction makes a lot of sense, and i guess is a good foreshadowing of which institutions will survive this
maybe that comparison isn’t reasonable given the Mark Benioff of it all, but still UWashington and UMichigan are hanging on to their grad programs too…
March 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
maybe that comparison isn’t reasonable given the Mark Benioff of it all, but still UWashington and UMichigan are hanging on to their grad programs too…
why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?
And... So begins the death of science, technically and innovation in America...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
UMass medical school rescinds PhD program offers amid uncertainty over federal funds
The notice, signed by dean of the college, Mary Ellen Lane, called the decision "unfortunate" and said institutions across the country are "rescinding offers of admission as one means of controlling s...
www.wbur.org
March 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?
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I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries.
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
$570 million in federal funding remains inaccessible to Colorado following Trump's freeze, officials say
Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
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me reading your posts
February 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
me reading your posts
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wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??
same song different font
January 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
same song different font
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Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Silva Lab – Neuroimmune mechanisms in health and disease
nicholassilvalab.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
we have more power and agency than we think we do
Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness."
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
Exclusive w/ WIRED:
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
Exclusive w/ WIRED:
‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
we have more power and agency than we think we do
the fact that quitting or delay are the only options you can think of in the face of fascism says a lot about the scope of your imagination :)
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
the fact that quitting or delay are the only options you can think of in the face of fascism says a lot about the scope of your imagination :)
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So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014).
And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA.
thedispatch.com/article/clev...
And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA.
thedispatch.com/article/clev...
‘Clever’ Trump Executive Order Shrouds DOGE From Public Scrutiny
Situating the new department in an existing agency enables it to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.
thedispatch.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014).
And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA.
thedispatch.com/article/clev...
And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA.
thedispatch.com/article/clev...
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bureaucracy isnt preventing them from dismantling the NIH or DEI programs. bureaucratic compliance is enabling it!
January 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
bureaucracy isnt preventing them from dismantling the NIH or DEI programs. bureaucratic compliance is enabling it!