Melike Eren
@neurowithmelike.bsky.social
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MSc. Neuroscience &MSc.Physiotherapy| Just a researcher, microglia lover |I hope to become a PhD student in neuroscience | Neuroscience, Anatomy & Exercise Physiology
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fabmusacchio.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #Neurons can communicate via a hidden network of #nanotubes. Chang et al. (2025) show dendritic nanotubes as #actin-based conduits transferring Ca²⁺ + cargo, rising before plaque deposition in 🐁 #cortex. This overlooked pathway may expand views of neuronal communication beyond #synapses.
Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dend...
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nest-initiative.org
We are excited to share this paper by Jiang et al. on advancing our understanding how astrocytes play a role in brain function and plasticity!

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Illustration of the biological mechanisms captured by the model framework for astrocytes
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gekko.bsky.social
GENOCIDE leaves a long tail of consequences in it's wake - not least, decades of trauma, both physical and mental

The direct fighting may stop but how much of this is going to be history repeated, of Amerika imposing a "peace" in a region it does not understand?

Real peace has not been established
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msf.ca
What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.

Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.
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mgupta108.bsky.social
Omar Yaghi - A Palestinian scientist who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan has been awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for his work developing a new form of molecular architecture which has the potential to limit the impacts of climate change.

An inspiration.
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.
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drtesutherland.bsky.social
Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
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douglaspdyer.bsky.social
So excited to share our first neuro focused paper from the lab, we show that CXCL4 (PF4) is transported into the brain by proteoglycans within the endothelial glycocalyx and that GAG binding also mediates the pro neurogenesis effects of CXCL4. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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plosbiology.org
Astrocytes help control #sleep & arousal. @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study showing that wake-promoting #histamine affects how #astrocytes respond to other signals, reducing awake time via astroglial histamine-1-receptors 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4gRj9Ap Primer: plos.io/47at1Sj
Astroglial H1Rs influence neuromodulatory integration and arousal.

How histamine modulates arousal via astrocytes was investigated in brain slices and mice with (left; green) and without (right; purple) histamine-1-receptor (H1R) expression in astrocytes of the primary visual cortex (V1). Panels below depict, from left to right, that H1R expression in V1 astrocytes: (1) attenuates astroglial calcium (Ca²⁺) responses to norepinephrine (NE) in brain slices; (2) suppresses astroglial Ca²⁺ events during wakefulness; (3) restricts the dynamic range of extracellular adenosine (Ado) around rapid eye movement (REM) sleep transitions (N, non-rapid eye movement sleep; W, wakefulness); and (4) reduces time spent in wakefulness.
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scinews.bsky.social
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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marcianobrito.bsky.social
Letter from kidnapped Thiago
Avila to all the children of Gaza

🧵323/...⤵️
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songulyabani.bsky.social
Crimsoneal Magazine adında yeni bir çevrimiçi dergi çıktı, İngilizce ama buralardan gençler çıkarıyor. "Gotik Edebiyat ve Karanlık" temalı ilk sayısında hem bir tanıtımım hem de mini bir söyleşim yayımlandı. Link derginin Instagram hesabında (IG: crimsoneal.magazine) mevcut.
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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msfireland.bsky.social
🔴Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe - it's the systematic destruction of a people.

MSF is clear: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Doctors can't stop this genocide. But world leaders can.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/42fRgvR
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msf.ca
MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Complete this sentence, "The brain is ...".
What's your favorite answer? I'm team cluster 17/18.

Taken from this delightful paper by Taylor Bolt and @lucinauddin.bsky.social; results of text in >4 million peer-reviewed articles + text analytic tools.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798046/
Figure from paper showing "The Brain is ..." at the top and answers in a 2D embedding space at the bottom.
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abcd-repronim.bsky.social
Want to learn more about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study?👀 Check out the ABCD-ReproNim course! The Fall 2025 course is going on NOW✨ Students may have the opportunity to participate in the 2026 hackathon in Miami🏝️ For more info: abcd-repronim.org 🎉
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boninlab.bsky.social
Doctors and researchers, please hear this plea. The collective silence on Gaza and resulting inaction have enabled / ignored unfathomable atrocities, including targeting children with gunshots — and we may not have seen the worst. It is time to break the silence.
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...