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Anne C. Hart

@ach-ceneuro.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, geneticist, educator, mentor, loves C. elegans, puns, birds, sci-fi/fantasy and kinda nerdy. You get my personal opinions here! 🌈

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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Position available to work on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; develop assays & test compounds using Hart lab #Celegans disease models. Ideal for scientist with Bachelors or Masters degree seeking mentorship, but previous at-the-bench experience is required. See REQ211438 on Brown Univ website.
C. elegans, various life stages
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So much summer research at Brown - this year, they had to split the Summer Research Symposium across 2 days with multiple sessions on each day. Five amazing students presented posters from the Hart Lab!
Five students with posters from the Brown Summer Research Symposium
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Scientists and family foundations working together on cutting-edge approaches to cure rare childhood diseases. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
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‘Too Rare to Care’? A New Center for Rare Diseases Hopes to Change That (Gift Article)
A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies — making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today is a great day to register for your Fall election mail-in ballots, especially if you can’t vote early or in-person…
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Victor Ambros @vambros.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268
Cover image from Dis Model Mech (2026) Volume 19, Issue 5 showing C. elegans population on a Petri dish, associated with article: https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052809
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New! C. elegans models for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; project led by Diana Wall, PhD at Brown University. All models show dominant defects, but each disease variant has unique defects…paralleling AHC patient allele differences #AHC #DMM #Celegans
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Caenorhabditis elegans models of alternating hemiplegia of childhood have dominant neuromuscular junction defects
Summary: We report the first C. elegans models of alternating hemiplegia of childhood. D801N, E815K, L839P and G947R AHC model animals have recessive development defects and dominant neuromuscular def...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2
Image of racks of zebrafish tanks. Credit to NC3Rs. https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/events/guide-refinement-fish-species
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
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An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea
OpenClaw is a breakthrough AI assistant. Moltbook, its new social network for agents, is a security catastrophe waiting to happen. Here's why you should avoid it.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Waiting to see if professional athletes in the USA have the courage to start protesting during the national anthem…
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a group of football players are kneeling on the field and one of them has the number 7 on his jersey .
Alt: Colin Kaepernick in a group of football players kneeling on the field during national anthem.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/01/2026
🧵1/4 🚨 WEEKEND APPEAL 🚨 We need hundreds more public comments on a harmful proposed rule. 🗓️ Due Jan 29 OPM (aka Vought 🤮💩) is proposing changes that make it easier to fire probationary employees and much harder to appeal. OPM = Office of Personnel Management 🔗 www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
50 years mortgages will massively increase profit for banks and give real estate developers so many opportunities to scam people and the IRS. No wonder Trump likes the idea…
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Bess Frost @bessfrost.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We are excited to announce a new open search for a tenure track Assistant Professor position within the Brown University Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175427
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Antebi Lab @antebilab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨New @biorxivpreprint: We model the splicing factor disease Verheij syndrome using C. elegans. Disruption of methionine and phospholipid metabolism drives growth defects; vitamin #B12 restores metabolic balance and rescues development! #metabolism #Celegans #RNAsplicing doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Vitamin B12 alleviates Verheij syndrome-like defects via phospholipid remodeling in a C. elegans PUF60 spliceosomopathy model
Verheij syndrome (VRJS) is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the poly(U)-binding splicing factor 60 (PUF60), a core component of the spliceosomal complex. VRJS triggers multiple congenita...
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Victor Ambros @vambros.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/09/2025
Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New #postdoc position focused on ALS/FTD available in the Hart lab! Join the collaborative Brown Univ. #neuroscience community! Experience with invertebrate genetics (like #Celegans) and/or neurodegenerative disease is welcome, but not required. Details at apply.interfolio.com/172914
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/08/2025
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Ask a C. elegans lab on the other side of the country for a strain & it arrives <48 hours later. Impressive, even for the 🪱 community - big thank you to Jihong Bai’s lab ❤️
Two plates of C. elegans, atop a FedEx shipping label
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Brown Univ just announced an agreement with the federal government. While not perfect, it is not awful. I like that it involves Brown paying $50million to Rhode Island, workforce development organizations, not the federal government!
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crankycyclist.bsky.social @crankycyclist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Good time to cancel those Paramount+ subscriptions and use the money to subscribe to PBS instead.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Let’s goooooo!!!!!!
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 13/06/2025
Clearly, Trump cannot live up to this standard.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
More complete analysis of NIH outlays (or lack thereof) from grant-watch.us grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
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Trends in NIH outlays: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern funding drops to $0 – Grant Watch
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Okinawa Institute of Technology is offering safe haven from USA immigration policy madness; they are accepting applications from PhD and Masters students accepted/currently at USA institutions. The scientists and resources there are top-notch, and the campus is beautiful. www.oist.jp/admissions/s...
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Special Application Deadline for Students Accepted or Studying in the United States
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Happy to spend today with my amazing mom. In 1956, she told the NYU MBA program she couldn’t attend unless they gave her a full ride - because her family in a small midwestern town couldn’t afford to pay her way. They did! My 3 siblings and I were raised by a gutsy lady…
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies. @sarareardon.bsky.social reports www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I love, love, love using @paperpile.com for citation management, including managing my downloaded PDFs. But…today they sent a poll asking how adding something like ChatGPT to Paperpile would help! 😲🙄😥 Please, please, please - don’t force me to use an LLM. And, you add one, let me turn it off!!
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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 28/04/2025
“I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to DO my job.” —Andrew Shepherd, “The American President” Too many of our lawmakers are worrying too much about keeping their jobs and not nearly enough about DOING their jobs, if they worry about that at all. It needs to stop.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
BIG crowd protesting in Rhode Island!
Rhode Island State House - with crowd of peaceful protesters on 20April25
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/04/2025
This is some sick shit
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Bess Frost @bessfrost.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ help fight disease and aging?
The first clinical trials are testing inhibitors of transposons, DNA sequences that hop around the genome on their own
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOGE was never about efficiency. It’s a smash-and-grab theft of data from every government agency… “Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data” www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Interesting. Let’s hope this is true and extends into other aspects of NIH operations www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Here's another sign Musk's power is waning
The National Institutes of Health is the latest agency to break from Trump’s billionaire adviser.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
NIH freezes *all* research grants to Columbia. Going for the throat now. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This poem will always have same ending…doesn’t matter which group they target first.
Text of Niemuller famous poem, which starts “First, they came for the socialists,” and ends”there was no one left to speak for me”
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Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com · 06/04/2025
Ben Stein, a commentator on political and economic issues, taught about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Watch it tonight on the MLB Network.
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Ben Stein Teaches Tariffs in Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Solzy at the Movies
Ben Stein, a commentator on political and economic issues, taught about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I finished reading “it Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis last night. This short novel from 1935 (about an elected US President becoming a dictator) is weirdly relevant to our current situation… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%...
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It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More attacks in Universities. Rumours that Trump set to hack at Brown’s funds because they had the temerity to stand up for academic freedom.
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Trump reportedly threatening to freeze $510m in grants from Brown University
University says it has not yet been notified, but school was among dozens warned of academic crackdown
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Expected this to happen eventually… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
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Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University
The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Faculty across the country are watching. Will Harvard step forward, as the leader they claim to be— and fight back? Capitulation may doom us all… www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Loved the dissertation talk on how hypothalamic neurons help balance hunger versus parental behaviors by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social, mentored by @mikekrashes.bsky.social Great science, and a poised presentation!
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Excellent piece today in NYT on the importance of free thought and academic freedom, and why Columbia’s capitulation harms us all. One thing to add: #NIH’s special sauce has been the interaction of the in-house (intramural) research program with the university grants program. 🧵
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Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 13/03/2025
It's #BrainAwarenessWeek! Today, we're spotlighting the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans—a tiny but mighty model organism in #neuroscience research. With just 302 neurons & a fully mapped nervous system, C. elegans provides insights into neural development, behavior and aging. #KavliNeuro #BAW
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Missy Hubbard @missy-ubermom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Marching for Science in Providence, Rhode Island. Chilly, but worth it!
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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New! Brown University now has a Computational Neuroscience undergraduate B.S. degree! Fun read on how this was developed on the @carneyinstitute.bsky.social website. carney.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
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A new computational neuroscience concentration, powered by Brown undergrads and Carney affiliates, arrives with spring
With the launch, Brown becomes one of a handful of U.S. universities with an undergraduate curriculum that marries neuroscience with computer science and math.
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