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Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 9d

Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA.
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

International F1 and J1 visa holders are a strategic national asset. They strengthen U.S. economic growth. I am a Professor of Pediatrics at a large public university in the USA. This proposed change would cause severe damage to science and innovation in the USA. PhD students and post-doctoral fellows, who conduct most of the experimental work in research labs across the USA usually spend more than 4 years in these positions. A PhD in biomedical research in the USA typically takes 5 to 6 years to complete. This continuity ensures adequate training in the complexities of current biomedical technologies and also enables these trainees to make significant new discoveries that are translated into better health outcomes for our population and new innovations that drive economic growth. Our labs attract the world's best foreign trainees because of the world-class state of the art research here in the USA. These foreign students and post-docs are not competing with USA citizens. Rather, they add to our research enterprise, enabling faster innovation and progress. Further, many stay here in the USA after completing their training and continue to help push forward science and innovation in our country. Establishing a short 4-year limit to these visas would dramatically reduce productivity our USA research enterprise, with significant negative economic impacts for our nation.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11d

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 11d

Very pretty but is it a time-lapse or single time point going through the z-stack?

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 11d

Ahhh, the late 90's were the best! 😊

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 14d

One thing to realize is that it's a patchwork of phenotypes, some cells with normal apical surface and some enlarged. We think many cells can succeed at abscission without Cep55, but the rate of failure increases. If p53 deleted, mistakes can add up over multiple cell cycles....

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 14d

Ooh, great questions! We haven't seen extra folds or noticeable ventricle shape changes. Tension could change but we don't have a good way to measure that. It does not appear that cells are extruded.

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Pleasantine! 😀 In a previous paper, we showed that preventing apoptosis in Cep55 ko via p53 dKO only partly rescued brain size and thickness, made other neurogenesis phenotypes worse. www.jneurosci.org/content/41/1... ...Relevant figure here: www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you so much!

Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 14d

Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cytokinetic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium affect apical membrane size and cilia

Cytokinetic abscission is the last step of cell division, during which the intercellular bridge between daughter cells is severed. While abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disord...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 21d

Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!
9-16-25! 😎📐🍰

Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Chair, Department of Cell Biology - Charlottesville, Virginia job with University of Virginia School of Medicine | 12844380

University of Virginia School of Medicine invites nominations and expressions of interest for the position of Chair, Department of Cell Biology.

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 28d

Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!

UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 28d

Important:

American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 28d

ICE and DHS have proposed capping F and J visas at 4 years, threatening international students and postdocs who drive U.S. research. Share your comments to oppose this harmful policy: www.ascb.org/science-poli...

White House Proposes Shorter F and J Visa Terms - ASCB

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have published a notice in the Federal Register proposing changes to regulations that would significantly s...

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 15

12. Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Nov 25

In case some mentors may want to read this. #Nature #PhD #scisky #student #mentor

Source:
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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Chair, Department of Cell Biology - Charlottesville, Virginia job with University of Virginia School of Medicine | 12844380

University of Virginia School of Medicine invites nominations and expressions of interest for the position of Chair, Department of Cell Biology.

www.nature.com

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · Jul 31

Did Axons Evolve by Activating Cytokinesis During Interphase? A Hypothesis on the Origin of Neurons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737258/

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · May 20

If you use novel mouse models in scientific discovery research, please complete this survey:

IMPC - International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium @impc-phenotypes.bsky.social · May 2

🚨 Calling the Scientific Community to Help Shape the Future of IMPC
The IMPC is at a funding crossroads and seeking community input.Take our 10-min survey to help us determine how we can best continue to shape the future of mammalian genetics research.Read: bit.ly/ReadIMPC
Survey: bit.ly/IMPCSurvey

IMPC survey: Completing the catalogue of mammalian gene function and defining future priorities

IMPC is currently evaluating its future production and phenotyping priorities. To date, IMPC has focused on protein coding genes with human orthologs and little to no functional annotation, also refe...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · May 20

Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 15

Another good use of 5 minutes of your time.

NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · May 15

Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations to our very own Ray Keller from UVA, and all the new members of the National Academy! 🤩 www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · Apr 30

"A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in research and development accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Apr 24

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest.

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · Apr 24

Can we please just call it Artificial Dumbness instead of Artificial Intelligence?

Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Apr 24

We live in stupid times: “The debacle that was the February 2025 bar exam is worse than we imagined. I’m almost speechless. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable.” apnews.com/article/cali...

California Bar discloses AI was used to develop some questions in problem-plagued February exam

The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.

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