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DrKatJ

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Education focused academic, biology education researcher with a PhD in neuroscience and focus on molecular cell biology and creativity. Views are my own. Love Science love art 🧫🧬🔬 🎨

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I’m having very strong feelings for/about a root I removed from my baked potato 😳
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Will I see you at HERDSA this year in Singapore? I'll be running a roundtable on "Implementation of Best Practices for Transnational Education Student Success" would love to have your input i. The discussion!
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Part 2 of our @isscr.org and Harvard Med School open access course is online! This one is on Parkinson's disease. Get some CME credits or take it to learn more :-)
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm featured in the Neurological Foundations 150th anniversary edition.. along with my science twin, another Kathryn Jones!!! Showing where science can take you if you choose to leave the lab behind :-) ebooks.edocumentonline.com/neurological...
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thoroughly enjoyed hearing @carlbergstrom.com speak yesterday at @aucklanduni.bsky.social looking forward to seeing where we can use some of these important ideas in teaching!
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We are hiring! Are you a plant pathologist looking for a permanent academic research+teaching role in NZ? Read more here: www.seek.co.nz/job/89090337...
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant Microbe Interactions - Faculty of Science Job in Auckland CBD, Auckland - SEEK
We invite scientists interested in Plant-Microbe interactions to join our team in the Te Kura Mātauranga Koiora | School of Biological Sciences
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
On NZ and Australia’s negotiations with Elsevier - Scientists & universities pay scientific journals for their work to be published. The journals can be very expensive (& hugely profitable). Here the universities are negotiating for a better deal for open-access publishing. It’s not going well 😔
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Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
First day done! Been fantastic so far catching up with old friends and making new ones!
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
So proud of the impact of our @ISSCR Education Committee course on Stem Cell Medicine! Look at what it has been used for! www.isscr.org/isscr-news/p.... Interested? it's free, why not upskill yourself :-)
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Professor Brings Global Stem Cell Medicine Course to PhD Scholars in Pakistan — International Society for Stem Cell Research
Dr. Asmat Salim, a faculty member at the University of Karachi , recently adapted the ISSCR’s continuing education course, Stem Cell Medicine: From Scientific Research to Patient Care, into a three...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Got interviewed by Harvard Medical School for an article on the free, open-access stem cell medicine course I was involved in. Read here: learn.hms.harvard.edu/insights/all...
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Distinguishing Hype from Hope: The Critical Role of Clinicians in Stem Cell Medicine | Harvard Medical School Professional, Corporate, and Continuing Education
The field of stem cell medicine is at a defining moment—brimming with potential, but also complicated by hype, misconceptions, and, in some cases, significant risk for patients. For health care profes...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New Zealand’s landmark university review has achieved its objectives by sparking “strategic thinking” in the sector, according to the chair of its panel, despite the government disagreeing with nearly a third of its recommendations #academicsky
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NZ university review ‘moved the dial’, says chair Gluckman
Exercise ‘triggered a lot of work that’s still got to be completed’ but succeeded in being ‘provocative’, according to country’s former chief science adviser
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Otago Biochemistry @otagobiochemist.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A rare job opportunity for a biochemist who wants to work in beautiful Dunedin. Will suit someone who enjoys lab-based work. otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Jennifer A. Doudna will receive the 2026 Priestley Medal, the highest honor given out by the American Chemical Society. She helped discover the gene editing technology CRISPR and has made many contributions to our knowledge of RNA chemistry. cen.acs.org/people/award...
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Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist
The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership
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Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Spare some time today to remember all those killed, injured and traumatised on this day twenty years ago in the London bombings, and recall the public service workers who responded to those horrific attacks with such bravery and dedication.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/07/2025
Here's the final episode of my podcast, the Future of Aging. I talk to a psychologist and an economist about how we, as a society, can we make the most of the extra decades of life we've ended up with. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/20Yb...
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Getting the Most From Our Extra 30 Years
Podcast Episode · The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging · 07/01/2025 · 34m
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2025
25 years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the U.S., a cluster of cases that began in West Texas expanded into one of the largest outbreaks in a generation, spreading through communities with declining vaccination rates as three people died and dozens were hospitalized.
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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
From a lone clinic in Texas to an entire school district in North Dakota, the virus is upending daily life and revealing a deeper crisis of belief.
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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 14/06/2025
NEW POST on AI, learning and why knowing stuff still matters. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NZ science This is an iconic study in Dunedin. In some ways Dr. Silva’s, & earlier Prof. Poulton’s, deaths illustrate the longevity of the study: it’s outlived them—as it should. You can read more about the study here, including how it began: dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Fabulous stem cell education meet up hub at #ISSCR2025 here in Hong Kong!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What a remarkable achievement--this atlas of zebrafish gill development will power new studies of branching morphogenesis at single cell resolution! 🧪
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I'll also be presenting a poster on our course in Hong Kong at the @isscr.org annual meeting next week. Come chat! Friday 4pm
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I am proud to have presented in the open-access ISSCR course, Stem Cell Medicine: From Research to Patient Care, jointly provided with Harvard Medical School! This resource is a major milestone for the field at such a pivotal time. Learn more: invt.io/1bxbesknhow
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I am a presenter in the ISSCR Continuing Education Course.
Learn more.
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ASM @asm.org · 02/06/2025
A growing body of evidence suggests infections are tied to dementia, and that vaccines may minimize the risk. What do we know about these emerging links, and what is still unclear? Read the article: asm.org/articles/202...
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Is Dementia Risk Shaped by Infectious Diseases? | ASM.org
A growing body of evidence suggests infections are tied to dementia, and that vaccines may minimize the risk. What do we know about these emerging links, and what is still unclear?
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Amy Engevik @amyengevik.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I feel like I barely made it to this #FluorescenceFriday
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I am proud to be hosting the Global Insights into Stem Cell Education Meet-Up Hub, together with Megan Munsie and Rosa McCarty at the @isscr.org 2025 Annual Meeting in Hong Kong on 11-14 June. Register now to join us!
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I'm heading to this in a few weeks, can't wait! Will you be there? let me know!
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It's all go at Interplanetary Records this morning. If you're in #Edinburgh this weekend, pop along for a sci-music-art cosmic fusion. 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👉 Sett Studios: 127 Leith Walk, 11-17 Sat, Sun & Mon
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Exciting event for our school tonight, the Sabre Celebration for our Bioscience Enterprise Graduates at Science Uni Auckland, NZ. Thanks to BioPacific Partners! Bring on the guests and the champagne 🍾
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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As Trump & Bukele use Oval to 🤣 Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” https://bit.ly/4j700KN

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We continue praying together the Holy Rosary for the health of #PopeFrancis  this evening at 9 PM in St. Peter’s Square, The prayer today will be presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization. #pope #PopeFrancis
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#PrayForThePope #GoodNews: The Holy See Press Office has announced that Pope Francis' health is improving. Let us pray together for his full recovery 
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  Be strong, We are looking forward to seeing you again soon at St. Peter's Square.
#WeLoveOurPope
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Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration
From americamagazine.org
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JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others https://ncronline.org/node/292716 via 
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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's new preprint day! We asked students to **draw** what they thought learning was like in a studio-format introductory physics for life science course. Then, we used network analysis to get a holistic view of what they depicted. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2505.02681 🎢 #AcademicSky #EducationResearch
A network diagram with a set of large central nodes and smaller nodes around the periphery. Nodes are color-coded based on Practice, Member, and Goal categories, with Practice the most dominant and Goals diffused around the periphery. Nodes are connected by edges of varying weights.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Abiotic origin of the citric acid cycle intermediates www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
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Abiotic origin of the citric acid cycle intermediates | PNAS
The molecular framework for protometabolism—chemical reactions in a prebiotic environment preceding modern metabolism—has remained unknown in evolu...
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Stunning work from Hideyuki Okano's group! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells
Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If your brain’s super tired & you’re struggling to get going but you have stuff to do so don’t have the option to hibernate then hi, me too. This photo’s for your brain-if you pause on it for a few moments it’s likely to dial down your stress hormone & trigger dopamine release: a small mind hack 🐚
A collection of shells arranged neatly by colour-browns and pinks in lower right hand corner shifting through paler pinks & yellows towards white in each the top left hand corner.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Complete madness
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Since the USDA launched its Bird Flu milk testing strategy in December, 28 states have enrolled, representing nearly 65% of the nation’s milk production. And there's a dashboard. This was a long time coming but an impressive start. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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National Milk Testing Strategy | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Today is Monday here in NZ
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
These are a highlight of the year for me when they happen. Been a while ar my uni!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My favorite books, 2024
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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
5️⃣8️⃣ Karolin Luger (1963- ) 🇦🇹🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social Austrian biochemist & structural biologist. CU Boulder distinguished Professor & avid hiker. Internationally renowned for her work on chromatin and the resolution in 1997 of the 3D structure of the nucleosome. lugerlab.org
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant 📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
A collage of four pairs of holly leaves, each from a single plant. The leaves are dark green and glossy with a prominent midline vein of pale green or yellow. Each pair juxtaposes a leaf that has spines along its edge against a leaf with perfectly smooth edges. Credit: Carlos M. Herrera & Pilar Bazaga 2013 https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article-abstract/171/3/441/2416188?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Excellent study by my Penn-CEIRR colleagues showing that a single HA substitution in H5 (at same exact residue that changed in the British Columbia case!) enables efficient H5N1 binding to receptors in the human upper airway. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 30/11/2024
watch Hundreds of Beavers and you’ll believe in art again. it’s a deeply humanist film… even if most of the actors are people in mascot suits www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...
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This bizarre movie about beavers is a clarion call for human creativity in the age of AI
Why do we create anything ourselves, when a machine could do it faster? Watch this bizarre, fun movie to see why.
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#educators I'm looking for a good app or software to do curriculum mapping. Any recommendations?
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Does this mean the price of olive oil will start to come back down? Haven't bought it in a year it got so pricey here in NZ
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Phenomenally useful and interesting comparison of the timescale of different events inside cells! 🧪
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
While our bodies seem static, our cells are constantly changing shape or on the move during tissue homeostasis or wound repair & even more dramatically during embryonic development, during events like gastrulation. Defining how cellular machines mediate these events is a key task for our field 1/n
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
PIEZO ion channels are to human physiology as GLP-1 drugs are to treating many diseases science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
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PIEZO-dependent mechanosensing is essential for intestinal stem cell fate decision and maintenance
Stem cells perceive and respond to biochemical and physical signals to maintain homeostasis. Yet, it remains unclear how stem cells sense mechanical signals from their niche in vivo. In this work, we ...
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DrKatJ @drkatj.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
thespinoff.co.nz/partner/29-1...
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Behind the scenes of New Zealand arts funding
We all appreciate the arts – but how well do we know how they’re funded, or what’s needed to support the creative ecosystem?
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