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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 11h

Hailing Shi and her lab are advancing a powerful technique called spatial transcriptomics. To drive their research, Shi’s lab recently installed a customized microscope set-up. #genesky 🧬 med.emory.edu/departments/...

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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 13h

The director of our #newbornscreening follow-up program, Angela Wittenauer (3rd from right), won an award! The Judi Tuerck Newborn Screening Follow-up and Education Award From @aphl.org: www.aphlblog.org/aphl-honors-...

APHL Honors 2025 Newborn Screening Award Winners - APHL Blog

For Immediate Release Providence, Rhode Island, October 8, 2025 – At the 2025 Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Newborn Screening Symposium, APHL presented six awards to leaders who ha...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 12h

A country singer in his 80s who is known for having sung at Republican conventions

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 12h

My brain is boggling at how scientists are still finding clusters of neurons that they didn't know about before. In the parabrachial nucleus, no less. In my book I described the PBN as the fusebox in the basement #neuroscience

Nature @nature.com · 13h

The newfound ensemble of neurons could lead to therapies to treat persistent pain

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Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments

The newfound ensemble of neurons could lead to therapies to treat persistent pain, which affects roughly one of five people globally.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 16h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 1d

A preview of research from our department! Spatial transcriptomics from Hailing Shi's and Jian Zhou's labs. Mouse brain with expression of 14 marker genes visualized -- blue nuclear cloud = DAPI, yellow marker = somatostatin (inhibitory neuron) #neuroscience vimeo.com/1125227430/f...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, based on email bounceback, HHS #FOIA officers are furloughed (for example, the one from HRSA) -- any insights @marisakabas.bsky.social ?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

I am a fan of Isaac Chotiner's work as much as anyone, but he doesn't always eviscerate people. If his interviewee is not an ideologue or self-styled contrarian, it's often not contentious

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Matt, my younger daughter is interested in this kind of thing so I will pass it along to her.

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David Katz @katzlab.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share our very exciting story on how misinherited chromatin affects individual cells to cause a behavior defect in C. elegans (a thread👇) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

That is disturbing -- I drive by Cortland apartment developments every week

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taonf.bsky.social @taonf.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling overwhelmed by the political attacks on science, education, and civil rights?

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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ARIS (Advancing Research Impact in Society) @arisimpacts.bsky.social · 6d

This week's #BroaderImpactsThursday is Impact in Progress that highlights how Emory's inventors, creators & innovators are transforming lives in ATL (&around the world). Hosted by Kimberly Eck, MPH, PhD, Sr Assoc VP for Research at Emory, each ep is about a wide variety of topics: buff.ly/kCrVrpo

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Nature @nature.com · 5d

Nature research paper: Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis

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Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature

A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 5d

These universities need to stop answering the administration's phone calls. Let them do what they're gonna do because they were gonna do it anyway. Lawyer up and get ready for the fight instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Duke Was Paring Back Diversity Programs. Trump Targeted It Anyway.

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Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network @aiainetwork.bsky.social · 9d

We are hosting @vauhinivara.bsky.social at Emory on Thursday Oct 16 for the talk, “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Vara was a Pulitzer finalist for fiction in 2023. Her latest, Searches, investigates what is at stake for writing with the rise of AI.

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 5d

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Nature @nature.com · 5d

Autism that manifests in early childhood is distinct from autism diagnosed later in development

go.nature.com/46uGl3O

Early- and late-diagnosed autism are genetically distinct

Analyses of symptoms and genomic data indicate that autism that manifests in early childhood is distinct from autism that is diagnosed later in development.

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting how JAMA Open comments prompted some actual exchange

Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · 6d

🧪 🧪 How prevalent is direct exposure to mass shootings in the US? A survey study of 10,000 US adults, 7% reported having been present on the scene where 4 or more people were shot.

Read the comments section at the end. Two persons left very critical assessments of this study.

Direct Exposure to Mass Shootings Among US Adults

This survey study estimates the prevalence of direct exposure to mass shootings among US adults and identifies the sociodemographic groups most exposed.

jamanetwork.com

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 6d

If Vought tries to RIF federal workers, using the shutdown as an excuse, be ready to rally at OMB, his Fortress of Evil. We’ll announce it here. @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @safa-science.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 6d

Why does your conversation partner block people she does not know (I am harmless)?

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 9d

Submit a public comment today! You can help support biomedical research by ensuring the United States can keep recruiting the best and brightest young researchers from around the world.

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