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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 23d

Now I'm excited to pay it forward and support the next generation of scientists! 🧬🔬 Never dreamed I'd make it here

Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 23d

Feeling grateful for everyone who supported me during my PhD and post-doc training: my incredible mentors David Julius and Vanessa Ruta, my wonderful lab mates, and the amazing communities @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social and HHWF

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in how our bodies sense the world around us, how these systems develop, or how we consciously control internal reflexes? Come join our team - we're hiring!

Excited to recruit technicians, post-docs, and Stanford graduate students in any program! Please email me.
#WeAreHiring #Stanford

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 23d

I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f...

#stanford #newPI #neuroscience

Faculty

neurobiology.stanford.edu

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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · Jun 11

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

bit.ly/3HvWSum

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · May 27

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.

Learn more about these exceptional scientists:

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 27

We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities.

Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.

‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU

www.aclu.org

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · May 15

What a cute baby!!! I'm so happy decades of investment in biomedical research saved his life and lives of many other babies born with genetic disorders. And he'll likely be a future @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social fan - the best kind of fan 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Apr 28

Paul Nurse: Musk "has said and instigated things...destroying science...He has behaved in ways that have really damaged the scientific endeavour in the US” www.thetimes.com/article/e13f...

Musk should consider resigning from UK Royal Society, new president says

Musk’s attacks on publicly funded scientific research make his position as a member difficult, says Sir Paul Nurse

www.thetimes.com

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Apr 10

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · Apr 9

Please share www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
"How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk? As patients are cut off from clinical trials? I know I feel outrage" @ardemp.bskyverified.social

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

www.cnn.com

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Apr 8

Librarians at public libraries "are there to know books, get to know your kid, and find stuff that really supports your family throughout a child’s reading life and lifelong," says librarian Carrie Wolfson.

This #NationalLibraryWeek, we’re revisiting last year's top science books for kids.

Science Friday's Picks: The Best Science Books for Kids 2024

You asked for science book recommendations for the kids in your life. Two bookworm experts respond—and share their own favorites.

www.sciencefriday.com

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 8

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs

Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Apr 4

From a source at NIH:

“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Apr 1

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 27

Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...

Abruptly terminating clinical trials...

Ignorant and evil

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet

Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

www.theatlantic.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · Mar 28

I often wonder: what do MAGA people think that greatness means? One thing that makes us great, imho, is our scientific innovation, which really is the envy of the world.

Breaking it is relatively easy. Rebuilding it will be very, very hard.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 28

Powerful new Washington Post story up...

wapo.st/426d9fT

(Gift link)

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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.

NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.

wapo.st

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Mar 20

Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵

Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

www.theatlantic.com

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Mar 19

What codes for threat imminence in the brain?

Lots of places, including the hypothalamus it seems.
Very cool study.
(h/t @ajshackman.bsky.social )
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · Mar 18

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy.

taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · Mar 12

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette

Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

news.harvard.edu

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Mar 13

NIH is the best investment there is.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

www.forbes.com

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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · Mar 11

My friends at Columbia, Harvard, Pittsburg and Penn are fighting to find a cure your mom’s heart disease, your dad’s chronic pain, your niece’s cancer. This administration is fighting against these people, fighting against finding cures and destroying science in America.

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