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@drishitachandel.bsky.social
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Post doctoral fellow at University of Iowa and formerly at HHMI

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please comment on this- they are trying to interfere with vaccines in so many ways
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University of Iowa Molecular Physiology and Biophysics @uiowaphysiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to @drishitachandel.bsky.social, recipient of Physiology's High-Impact Research Award! The award recognizes graduate students and postdocs who publish first-author papers in Nature, Science, or Cell. A well-deserved honor following her recent first-author Science paper.
Department Administrator Gabriella McDermott presents Dr. Ishita Chandel with a check in recognition of the High-Impact Research Award.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And there it is. As rumored, and as predicted by YHN from the gitgo, enhanced triage of NIH grants will continue. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Out now in @science.org Nonviral delivery of chemically modified tRNA rescues nonsense mutations in cystic fibrosis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Nonviral delivery of chemically modified tRNA rescues nonsense mutations in cystic fibrosis
Suppressor transfer RNAs (sup-tRNAs) can rescue disease-causing nonsense mutations by promoting readthrough of premature termination codons (PTCs). Their clinical translation is limited by suboptimal ...
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Barbara Moran @moranwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yikes: “I cannot do my best work in America,” said Zamore. “I can’t recruit the best people to help me do that, and I can’t promise them an environment where they’ll be safe.” www.wbur.org/news/2026/08...
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Why a UMass researcher is among the dozens leaving the U.S. for Canada
A renowned scientist at UMass Chan Medical School is moving his lab to Canada. The Canadian government named RNA researcher Phillip Zamore among the first recipients of awards that will total more tha...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fantastic from Ishita Chandel, graduate from my old department BioBio at Texas A&M
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University of Iowa Molecular Physiology and Biophysics @uiowaphysiology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Ishita Chandel, Dr. Kevin Campbell, and the Campbell Lab on their new paper in Science! Their discovery uncovers a new way dystroglycan controls its own function, providing important insights into diseases caused by defective dystroglycan activity. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Xylose phosphatase activity of dystroglycan self-regulates its receptor function
Dystroglycan (DG) is an extracellular matrix receptor crucial for tissue development and pathogen entry. DG harbors a long, complex glycan called matriglycan. Loss of matriglycan or reduction in its length disrupts DG function, causing ...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AcademicSky @nature.com
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drishitachandel.bsky.social @drishitachandel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m very excited to share my main postdoctoral work where we show that dystroglycan, a ubiquitous transmembrane receptor important for development, neuromuscular function and virus entry, regulates its own posttranslational modification by acting as a glycan phosphatase. #glycotime #neuromuscular
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Out now in @science.org Xylose phosphatase activity of dystroglycan self-regulates its receptor function www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Xylose phosphatase activity of dystroglycan self-regulates its receptor function
Dystroglycan (DG) is an extracellular matrix receptor crucial for tissue development and pathogen entry. DG harbors a long, complex glycan called matriglycan. Loss of matriglycan or reduction in its l...
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drishitachandel.bsky.social @drishitachandel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m very excited to share my main postdoctoral work now out @science.org #glycotime www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Xylose phosphatase activity of dystroglycan self-regulates its receptor function
Dystroglycan (DG) is an extracellular matrix receptor crucial for tissue development and pathogen entry. DG harbors a long, complex glycan called matriglycan. Loss of matriglycan or reduction in its l...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
No they are not. Stop it. The answer to any hint of legitimacy is “fund science better”. Stop wasting an R01 with every Patriot missile salvo in the Middle East.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026
I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.
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science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
That's it. That's the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about "gold standard science" and the
"reproducibility crisis" and funding "bold inquiry" for "transformational
breakthroughs". This is all bullshit, and it's important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-vou-
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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/07/2026
Exclusive: Satchidananda Panda, a prominent biologist known for his work on circadian rhythms, light sensing, and intermittent fasting, will resign next month after 22 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. scim.ag/4f9F5Yi
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Prominent Salk Institute biologist to resign following sexual misconduct investigation
Staffers complain that Salk allowed circadian rhythms researcher Satchidananda Panda to depart quietly, while the allegations and findings remain under wraps
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/07/2026
Two papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: scim.ag/3R2lLmf
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2026
Max Planck, a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics, had two papers retracted decades after his death for reasons that remain mysterious. Learn more: scim.ag/4exoz3T
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 31/05/2026
Congratulations to the teams at Palleon and Henlius, first patients dosed with B7H3-targeted sialidase immune therapy for ovarian cancer. Great partnership around glycan editing, an exciting new approach for immune modulation #glycotime www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really frightening.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
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Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@sholtodavid.bsky.social Have you seen this WB from ThermoFisher? Still anti-p53 antibody, but another clone (MA-12648 instead MA5-12557). It also looks like that the band in lane 3 was rotated and reused in lane 4. Moreover, it seems that same band was used for the 2 different clones.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/05/2026
Drawing on a large-scale dataset of more than 12 million scientists, a new #SciencePolicyArticle reports that early-career scientists may be more inclined toward transformative breakthroughs, whereas seasoned researchers excel at synthesizing and extending existing knowledge. scim.ag/3PhW7JD
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Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation
Aging researchers and the removal of retirement policies yield decreased disruptive innovation in science
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/05/2026
The more we learn about #glycotime, the more dramatic will be our revisions to textbooks on such basic principles as protein trafficking and organelle privileges www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nuclear N-glycosylation maintains H3K9me3 heterochromatin and genomic stability - Nature Cell Biology
Tang, Dai, Qing, Zhang and colleagues describe a role for N-glycosylation in the nucleus: N-glycans modify inner nuclear membrane proteins, and the modification is implicated in the maintenance of H3K...
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our paid, Presidential Fellows Program offers the chance to work directly w/leadership across science, AI, finance, strategy, comms, & more while helping to shape real decisions. Open to both outstanding recent graduates & those with advanced degrees — apply now! bit.ly/4nwUi8f. 🧪
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