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UCSF PROPEL @ucsf-propel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

UCSF PROPEL will partner with 4 PROPEL programs this year for the first ever National Matchmaking Event. Meet faculty looking to hire postbac scholars on Jan 30th propelscholars.org/matchmaking-event

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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The work winning this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is science-fiction-like-materials-wizardry, but this insight about people from one of the winners (also a UCB alumnus!) is particularly profound: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

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The Allard lab @allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

1/3 It's official, our grants from the NIH/NIEHS have all been suspended. We were aiming to understand how arsenic, a chemical that millions of Americans are exposed to at high levels, is disrupting the epigenetic machinery.

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 21/05/2025

We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord. This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators. 🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Scientists design gene delivery systems for cells in the brain and spinal cord

NIH-funded breakthrough could enable targeted therapies for many neurological disorders.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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María M. Hincapié Otero @mariamhincapie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨ We’re currently collecting nominations! This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/05/2025

Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/05/2025

I did a 1 year fellowship at Harvard University. I'm an immigrant. My faculty advisor at Harvard was Dr. Ali Asani. He's an immigrant. Trump's move to ban Harvard from accepting foreign students is yet another example that it was never about merit—it was always about protecting white mediocrity.

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Xin Jin @xinjin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Despite the trying times, thrilled to share our @natprot.bsky.social Nature Protocols on massively parallel in vivo Perturb-seq: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Grateful for the excellent primer by Christopher Bock and Eugenia Pankevich: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Massively parallel in vivo Perturb-seq screening - Nature Protocols

This protocol leverages tailored adeno-associated virus vectors for effective delivery of pooled CRISPR-based genetic perturbations in live animals combined with single-cell gene expression readout of...

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Dena Dubal @denadubal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"We could all use a little more X!" Thrilled our new study is out. Aging "wakes up" the silent X chromosome in the female brain - and this contributes cognitive resilience. Spearheaded by @margaretgadek.bsky.social in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Aging activates escape of the silent X chromosome in the female mouse hippocampus

Aging activates the silent X chromosome, increasing escape expression, and potentially cognitive resilience, in the female mouse.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students.

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

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