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Brad Colquitt

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Assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, molecular mechanisms of birdsong neural circuit development, piano player, weird licorice eater. colquitt-lab.com

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Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Excited to share our lab's first preprint! "Gene regulatory co-option drives birdsong neural circuit specialization" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by grad student Arturo Marquez and a massive collective effort from the members of the lab.
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/09/2025
NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. scim.ag/3KlQkQk
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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
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Sosa Lab
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
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Assistant Professor-Neurobiology
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
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Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons
In the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu...
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫
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Anne West @ennatsew.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/06/2025
🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
Factsheet (from April 2025) detailing various statistics regarding the partnership between the University of California and the federal government.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
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Another casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careers
At least 24 UC and Cal State campuses lost science research training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of $12,000 or more.
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda. The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent." 🧪🔬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...
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Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Looking at grant funding time for all years from 2015-2025 Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_ 1/2
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
a word cloud of the titles of canceled NIH grants with gender and minority being that largest words
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2025
We have a pro- fraud regime
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“How are you going to reform how politics works in this country if you won’t reform how it works inside your own party?” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday. I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing. jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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NIH_since_1_20_25
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
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Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - Nature
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This gets to the heart of RIFs and impoundment. RIFs are supposed to eliminate unnecessary roles or functions. But who decides? For small cuts, defer to the executive. But when you are gutting the statutory purpose of agencies and its ability to spend money, surely Congressional intent matters.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Yesterday, the NIH abruptly terminated all grants focused on vaccine hesitancy. This kind of work is critical as vaccine misinformation proliferates on social media. One of my last papers showed that many people who refused the COVID19 booster did so because they had incorrect information.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/02/2025
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Bluetorial on Diversity Supplements A glimpse into my process in documenting the demise of another program aimed at increasing representation and diversity in the American biomedical workforce
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a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/02/2025
The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmj
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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n
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Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Phenomenal! I was very excited to see these preprints out. Looking forward to reading the finished versions.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.
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Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I've felt lost on how to react to the big funding changes announced Friday. I decided it's important to get my thoughts further outside of my science bubble. So I wrote a public Facebook post. Please share if you think your networks may benefit from this message. www.facebook.com/15500301/pos...
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Amy Orsborn
Hi folks, Important things are happening that motivate me to break my long hiatus on here. I am a scientist. A big part of my job is performing research to create technologies that can restore...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 08/02/2025
Great analysis of the indirect cost rate announcement by @stuartbuck.bsky.social
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Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Many scientists upset with HHMI's decision to stop funding and scrub websites of a program that promoted inclusive evidence and helped diversify STEM. The are listed as the second wealthiest philanthropic organization in the U.S. with an endowment of $22B. Private philanthropy will not save science.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@science.org EXCLUSIVE: In a radical break with tradition, the NSF has begun to search through billions of dollars of grants on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized... wreaking havoc across the academic research community.
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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome is hiring a Group Leader to work on Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation. This is a fantastic opportunity, please repost! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Rom...
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Group Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2025
Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck. This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever. AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH.
Proposal Review Panel for Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (1194) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Daniel McAdams, 703/292-4654 

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 12:00pm – 6:00pm 
Contact: Alastair Monk, 703/292-8050 

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 10:00am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Henry Ahn, 703/292-8050 

Proposal Review Panel for Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (1196) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 9:00am – 6:00pm 
Contact: Dominique Dagenais, 703/292-2980 

Proposal Review Panel for Engineering Education and Centers (173) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Jesus Soriano Molla, 703/292-7795 

Proposal Review Panel for Computer and Network Systems (1207) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Nan Zhang, 703/292-8950
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/01/2025
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
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The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Researchers at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social have demonstrated how long-read sequencing could improve detection of diseases that have eluded diagnosis, at a fraction of the cost. New clinical tests could be on the way. 🗞 news.ucsc.edu/2025/01/pate... 👏🏼👏🏿👏🏾 @khmiga.bsky.social @benedictpaten.bsky.social
Quote: Long read sequencing is likely the next best test for unsolved cases... It can serve as a single diagnostic test, reducing the need for multiple clinical visits and transforming a years-long diagnostic journey into a matter of hours. Shloka Negi, UC Santa Cruz
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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to see Moscot (moscot-tools.org) published in @Nature! We scaled Optimal Transport (OT) in single-cell genomics & added multimodality together with spatiotemporal trajectory inference, finding exciting new biology in the pancreas! 🚀 Read at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mapping cells through time and space with moscot - Nature
Moscot is an optimal transport approach that overcomes current limitations of similar methods to enable multimodal, scalable and consistent single-cell analyses of datasets across spatial and temporal...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/01/2025
So my son tells me that the TikTok generation has fallen in love with Stoner and it makes me inexplicably happy.
Cover of stoner by John Williams
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