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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Leaving this here for anyone upset about Lupita Nyong'o being cast as Helen of Troy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African...

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African Greeks - Wikipedia

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I suggest the “wheels on the bus” test for politicians everywhere. If you can’t do it because you come across as creepy, weird or awkward, then you shouldn’t be allowed to run. I guarantee that all the problems in the world would disappear if those who failed the test were kicked out of office.

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ok this bougainvillea bonzai is pretty sick

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Who says that scientists don't make jokes?

Screenshot of a paper titled 'Cross-Species Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Binding Proteins Reveals Some Animal Models Are “More Equal” than Others.'

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/03/2026

An advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry has recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. scim.ag/4bj5iBw

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Stem cell therapies ‘come of age’ with two conditional approvals in Japan

Induced pluripotent stem cells could help treat diseased hearts and brains

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/01/2026

Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

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Gan Lab @liganlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Proud to announce our collaboration with @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social & the Paz lab showing that transplanted human iPSC-derived microglia in a PGRN KO mouse model restores progranulin in microglia and rescues pathology, circuitry, and behavior. Preprint out now: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Transplantation of Human IPSC-derived Microglia Ameliorates Neuropathology and Circuit Dysfunction in Progranulin-Deficient Mice

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a major cause of early-onset neurodegeneration characterized by progressive behavioral, emotional, and cognitive decline. Progranulin haploinsufficiency, a leading gen...

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

She didn't try to run anyone over. And there was no reason why they couldn't have just shot her tires if they wanted to apprehend her. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A friend my age recently died from a respiratory infection, and many other friends and family have reported getting sicker than usual. Get vaxed if you can!

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Nathan Lewis @natelewis3.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Why do some recomb proteins express better than others? After expressing >2000 proteins from the human secretome in CHO cells, we identified the protein features and host cell pathways linked to poor expression w/ @JohanRockberg lab. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2025

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

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Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree

Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants

The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

As White Americans we must disabuse ourselves of the "elderly white hippie savior" myth.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

There should be some way to stop a president from singlehandedly turning the US economy into a pump and dump shitcoin scheme.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one

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Theresa Cheng @tcheng.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Errors. Call them errors ffs. They're not hallucinations they're not lies. Call them errors. This dumbass personification of a fancy prediction tool is only reinforcing the idea that these things really are intelligent and not just a computer program.

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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging. I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉 🧪

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

really great talk!! and the trainee turnout sends a very clear signal that there is a growing interest for improving science communication skills for Spanish-speaking communities 🔥

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#skymusings: how can we shift the narrative away from “blaming physicians” to advocating for change in the challenging health care systems in which we work when we are trying to always do what is best for the patients even when outcomes are not what we wanted or expected #medsky

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a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

Alt: a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is NOT a real journal. No such thing as The Academy of Public Health. Creation of RFK et al to allow false nonscientific claims to the public to support their bias without peer review or factual data. As they now control all communications out of NIH, CDC, FDA, this is dangerous to US health.

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Journal of the Academy of Public Health

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

THIS is outrageous and scary! RFK making his own journal that appears to be associated with a medical society.There is no such thing as the Academy of Public Health! They can use this to make false claims in medicine and science, including for vaccines. These are not peer reviewed nor scientific!

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Proud of my home state of Louisiana for voting down all four of these proposed amendments yesterday. www.notothemall.org

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NO to them ALL, Y'all

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Black people are more likely to have systemic lupus, so why do I meet so many people of African descent who are struggling to be taken seriously by their healthcare provider? This is why Black doctors are so critical.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I feel like there should be more of an effort to get more aggressive messaging out there about this. In five years I think most Americans would rather have a cure for their or their child's cancer than a big tax cut for Elon Musk and no treatment options.

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David Beckett @iamdavidbeckett.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This aged badly

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I think my favorite part of the news yesterday is that this is an administration that has mercilessly attacked and portrayed DEI as a blight on meritocracy, and yet the highest officials in the country displayed the single greatest incompetence I've seen from the White House in my entire life.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I wish every American could watch Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film. It helped me understand that American Democracy succeeded for so long because it was treated as a fragile experiment that everyone had to work together to uphold.

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New York, A Documentary Film (1/9)

YouTube video by A Taurus Knows Best (Documentary Fiend)

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This one is giving "Salk Institute." Art by www.instagram.com/lordess.foud...

Sci-fi art with glowing rectangles organized like the Salk Institute, a glowing red moon in the center, water for the floor, and a hologram of a person on either side. The caption says "THEY CAN UNISTALL (sic) OUR MEMORY BUT THEY CAN NEVER UNDO WHAT WE'VE DONE."

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Psychologist Alberta Banner Turner was born 116 years ago today. She specialized in clinical approaches to helping youths in the criminal justice system, and developed organizations to recognize the achievements of Black women. #WomenInSTEM #BlackWomeninSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth #PsychSky

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Enbies who grew up watching the X Files are more likely as adults to have STEM-related careers and also believe in aliens.

Picture of Dana Scully from the X Files with the text 'Girls who grew up watching the X Files were more likely as adults to have STEM-related careers. This is known as "The Scully Effect."'

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