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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 6h

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

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 7d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 27d

"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 · 27d

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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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · Aug 28

I miss the old brand #CDC

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Rocket Gurl @rachellerockett.cloud · Aug 25

$2.4B of Harvard’s canceled research grants, visualized

www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/u...

$2.4B of Harvard’s canceled research grants, visualized | CNN

As Harvard University and the Trump administration negotiate a funding stalemate, billions of dollars of research grants hang in the balance.

www.cnn.com

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 24

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Aug 23

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking.

All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.

Yay for us!

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Aug 22

What's so wildly gaslighting about all of it is THIS IS A GOLDEN AGE OF BIOLOGY like the breakthroughs are unbelievable? It's like nobody cares??? they're talking about cancer vaccines?? cystic fibrosis treatment revolutionized?? The covid vaccine story is an absolute triumph???

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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excited to share our recent viewpoint with @storerlab.bsky.social led by Kirsten Sadler, on epigenetic mechanisms of regenerative resilience.

Ageing versus developmental silencing: Answers from the epigenome - Sadler - The FEBS Journal - febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FEBS Press

It is easier for young animals to regenerate damaged or missing tissues. In this Viewpoint, we propose that this is, in part, attributed to epigenetic changes, with chromatin becoming more closed and....

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 21

This week on the @science.org podcast--the role of the immune system in endometriosis w/ @meredithwadman.bsky.social

🎧Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 20

SCIENTISTS OF BLUE SKY

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 20

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!

I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”

🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

Me securing a shark getting measured for a research workup

Posing with some friends as part of my Why Sharks Matter book tour.

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Aug 20

Like our sister journals, you can also submit an additional language abstract at @dev-journal.bsky.social and we cater for non-Western characters for author names. Did you know Development also facilitates retrospective author name changes?

Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Aug 19

You can find the first JEB additional language abstract by Cameron Nemeth and colleagues in #Hawaiian accompanying their paper, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales at

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Screenshot of the Research Article, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales, by Cameron Nemeth, William T. Gough, Paolo S. Segre, Frank E. Fish, Andrew Szabo et al. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb249607. doi:10.1242/jeb.249607. The first line of the Abstract reads, 'Maneuverability in cetaceans is facilitated by pectoral flippers, flukes and spinal flexibility, features that are pronounced in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).'. The Research article includes an Additional Language Abstract, in Hawaiian. The first sentence of the Additional Language Abstract reads, 'Kōkua ʻia ka huli ʻana o nā cetaceans e ka ʻēheu, hiʻu a me ka palupalu o ka iwikuamoʻo, ahuwale nō kēia mau mea i ke koholā (Megaptera novaeangliae)'.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 18

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit.

You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Aug 14

"NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails. You can use Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities." 🧪

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Home | Grants.gov

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

4/5 The Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award:
Dr. Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social, Harvard University, 👏👏🥂

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 13

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Aug 12

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

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