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Frankie D Heyward @frankiedheyward.bsky.social · 4h

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬
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Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling of mouse hypothalamic LepRb neurons reveals cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements linked to human obesity

Leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRHypo) are key regulators of energy balance, yet a comprehensive, cell type-resolved, chromatin accessibility map of these neurons is lacking. We pr...

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · 7h

YASS!! Let’s keep pushing open the doors to research assessment with preprints!!

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HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists – ASAPbio

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is requiring its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Sep 8

First lab meeting w/ 6 grad students UMBC!

Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congrats @needhibhalla.bsky.social
Well deserved!!!

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

@madhupai.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social @cpw-uaw4100.bsky.social @ucs.org @statnews.com @therealdrdukes.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @science.org @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

Yeah, this is a piece of labour, love, & mostly experience from our team.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

Two impactful pieces of data are:

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks, already?! Appreciate it. Indeed.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

This work is done with amazing folks: Payel Ganguly, Raquel Ferrer-Espada, & Michel Nofal @harvard.edu

Huge gratitude to HMPA and Office of Postdoc Fellows, Jim Gould.

And Thank You to all the postdocs who took part in our study.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Thrilled to share the first paper from ReForm Lab

Are you an international scholar on a visa? Faculty with international students in your lab and class? Student center workers? For the 1st time, we report data on visa burdens from over 700 ECRs.

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U.S. Visa Bureaucracy and Its Burdens Among Early Career Scholars

Foreign-born research scholars on temporary visas are essential to the U.S. scientific workforce and economy, yet they face systemic challenges shaped by restrictive immigration policies. While schola...

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · May 28

The Trump admin is eliminating research through cuts to the #NIH and #NSF. In this op-ed, @mayankchugh.bsky.social & @jacoates.bsky.social urge a shift to open science: a model based on transparency, equity, and free access to research.
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Learn more in The Scientist. ⤵️

Open Science: An Antidote to Anti-Science

Disappearing public datasets and funding cuts undermine US research. Can open science practices help researchers find stability?

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Apr 2

Science in the US is in turmoil—funding slashed, research censored, students shut out. How do we tell young scientists to stay when the system is pushing them away?

Students from @mayankchugh.bsky.social's ReForm lab are worried, but they march on. #StandUpForScience
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Science Under Threat in the United States: The impact on undergraduate students

Anti-science policies, funding cuts, scientific censorship and the US withdrawing from international commitments are worrying members of the ReForm Lab at the College of William & Mary.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Mar 26

My undergraduate students & I have been having discussions about what the current US policies mean for the science, their career aspirations, & public health.

Thank you @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @elifecommunity.bsky.social
for giving us a space to share our voices & fears.

Peter Rodgers @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social · Mar 26

Science Under Threat in the United States
The impact on undergraduate students
by @mayankchugh.bsky.social et al
Anti-science policies, funding cuts, scientific censorship and the US withdrawing from international commitments are worrying students.
elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: The impact on undergraduate students

Anti-science policies, funding cuts, scientific censorship and the US withdrawing from international commitments are worrying members of the ReForm Lab at the College of William & Mary.

elifesciences.org

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Mar 26

There are academics I’ve spoken to that still don’t understand the publishing process @elife.bsky.social & yet have opinions on why it ain’t great. 🙄

Here’s a clear step by step with video explaining how publishing/PRC model at eLife. 👇🏽

Have you got your understanding right? 🤨

eLife @elife.bsky.social · Mar 25

Frustrated with confusing or conflicting requests for revisions?

Our consultative review process means editors and reviewers discuss their reviews with each other before sharing their recommendations.

Learn more about peer review at eLife: buff.ly/sm1P4FL

Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Mar 26

This was spot on. Thanks for this!

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Mar 25

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social

“It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.”

“Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.”

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized

Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 20

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more:

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center

News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

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eLife Community @elifecommunity.bsky.social · Mar 5

2/ Dine Roseline Dzekem introduced the work of eLife's Global South Committee and for an overview of our Early-Career Advisory Group, we heard from members Laura Han, @mayankchugh.bsky.social, Charlotte Ayima and Diana López.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Feb 13

I got to collaborate with amazing @jacoates.bsky.social on this:

Calling open science community to be the guidepost & lead by example as science & scientists suffer in chaos.

Read here:

upstream.force11.org/open-science...

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open scie...

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you! @network-alba.bsky.social for having me to discuss challenges faced by postdocs and thank you to Katie for covering this for the @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Important than ever now

ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · Feb 10

If you attended our ALBA-IBRO social at #SfN2024, you heard
@mayankchugh.bsky.social discuss the systemic challenges postdocs face. He joins the broader conversation in this article, diving into the #neuroscience #postdoc crisis and examines the impact of stagnant pay and shrinking career prospects

Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Jan 7

Thank you @epimechfc.bsky.social for featuring and including us!!

epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · Dec 21

2. Hydrostatic pressure is one of the major drivers of lumen expansion and thereby tissue morphogenesis.

Check out the cool review by @mayankchugh.bsky.social et al.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 25

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS

Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Dec 11

So my first semester of undergraduate teaching ended and in the last class I got some sweet souvenirs from my students. I am so humbled. Awww.

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Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨ @mayankchugh.bsky.social · Nov 25

It indeed is quite nice here! :)

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