Neuroscientist doing cell bio/genetics/genomics in Drosophila/mouse/iPSC neurons @ U of Arizona. Wife and Mom of 2. Love endorphins, learning new things, and sunrises.
🧪🧬👩🔬 Please read the article. We have more work to do as scientists and as members of a democratic society.
Sam WangTo stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...
This is absolutely true. I think scientific societies are moving in the right direction (i.e. automatic delays in ESI status for having a child) but we can do more. Including standard paternity leave!
Karen Benjamin GuzzoFemale academics have kids later (male academics, not so much), and if they have kids earlier, they face career penalties.
Please read. And then tell your reps to use their voices.
Jacquelyn Gill🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
Thank you Kris Mayes. “On the day we file this lawsuit, much of Arizona is under an extreme heat warning…The science behind the 2009 Endangerment Finding is real and grounded in rigorous research. It is abundantly clear that greenhouse gas pollution has fueled climate change in our state.” 🧪👩🔬☁️
AZ Attorney General Kris MayesPutting the profits of the fossil fuel industry over the future of our planet is a failure of historic proportions and we will fight it with every tool we have. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
youtu.be/Tht-s3mCIQk Eric Lai and Tara Finegan perform an original song about fruit flies!! 🪰🧪 #science #drosophila #genetics #rockstars
Eric Lai & Tara Finegan perform "Don't you know that the Fly is fly!" at DROS26 MeetingYouTube video by douglasthepugyoutu.beWatch the movie Idiocracy, it will show you a society where people get dumber and dumber until no one can do anything except stare at screens all day. Let’s not get there.
404 MediaThe creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.
Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!
Max TelfordMy book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today. Available as book, on kindle and as audio. I would be really grateful for reposts. www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So... www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).
Congressman Steve ScaliseRepresenting the 1st District of Louisianascalise.house.govI agree.
Carolyn BertozziA university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.
Adelita for CongressSpeaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter
ground avelogroundavelo.orgRobert ReichJimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.
🧪🧠👩🔬 Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!
The American Journal of Human Genetics📣New from @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social & co! 📄Pathogenic variants in TMEM184B cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with alteration of metabolic signaling
🧠🧪👩🔬This is the answer to the new NIH public access policy. Let’s see if the big conglomerate publishers follow suit.
Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...
🧪👩🔬🐭New work from my PhD students!
Journal of Cell ScienceElizabeth Wright, Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social and colleagues discover that TMEM184B modulates endolysosomal acidification via the vesicular proton pump. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Rallies this weekend around the country to support Texas Dems and oppose the redistricting efforts! Info here: www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...
Fight The Trump Takeover Rally · Fight the Trump TakeoverThe Texas House Democrats are denying quorum to stop the Trump takeover of Texas and block his attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections. But Trump isn’t stopping in Texas. He’s targeting Missouri, Oh...www.mobilize.us