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Kimberley Bruce

@drkimberleybruce.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Brain metabolism nerd, boy mom, pun and soup enthusiast.

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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sad that the summer conference season is almost over? Interested in #lipids and #lipoproteins? Save the date for the @Kern Lipid Conference 2026, and join us in beautiful Breckenridge, CO, on August 10th-12th, 2026. kernconference.org
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If this is true, it warrants a big 'ol Blur-Song 2- esque "Waahoooo"!! #nih #standupforscience www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
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Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut
Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Ozzy carries several hundred thousand variants that have never been seen by scientists,".... "It's going to be a while before we get enough data as a society to understand those variants." 🤘🏼RIP TPOD!🤘🏼 Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced share.google/vNY1FTuV947a...
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Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced
Genetic analysis of Black Sabbath star reveals he is more likely to experience hallucinations on marijuana and has increased risk of alcohol and cocaine addiction, researchers say
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Kinda obsessed with the new #maxcoleman murial @cuanschutz.bsky.social
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thank you @CUAnschutz for highlighting our work on the role of brain metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease 🧠👩🏼‍🔬 news.cuanschutz.edu/department-o...
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Fueling the Brain: How Metabolism May Hold the Key to Alzheimer’s Prevention
A CU researcher is exploring various links to Alzheimer's disease to find a cure.
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CU Anschutz Endocrinology @cuendocrinology.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Endocrine research conference: Dr James Hassell post doc. from @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social lab discussed his work targeting the fructose pathway in the CNS to treat neurodegenerative disease. @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
But don't worry, we will get new "government funded" journals 👀🫥
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
youtu.be/ev5ckFLaR38?... Congratulations #MaryRouse on graduating yesterday, and for all your hard work!! 🧠 💪🏻
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A Graduate's Dream in Advancing Alzheimer's Research
YouTube video by CUPharmacy
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Has finding for WHI been restored? #SWRH #WHI #NIH swhr.org/swhr-stateme...
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SWHR Statement on HHS Decision to Restore Women's Health Initiative Funding - Society for Women's Health Research
SWHR is delighted to hear that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made the decision to restore funding for the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Regional Center contracts.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Things are tough. So relieving the joyful parts of prof life: This morning I remembered the time I was teaching metabolism 101, and posed the question, "What are the three main dietary energy sources?", and was met with a very serious "Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner?".
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trem2 is more flexible than we thought, and likes to bind to ApoE4! Congrats #EmmaLietzke and #KaylaSprenger on your work! It's a privilege to work with you!! @cuendocrinology.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Synergistic reduction in interfacial flexibility of TREM2R47H and ApoE4 may underlie AD pathology
BACKGROUND The strongest genetic drivers of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) and TREM2R47H. Despite their critical roles, the mechanisms underlying their interaction.....
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Here's my action figure! I didn't even need to "prompt" chatGPT to make the "unpublished data" folder the most prominent item 😅
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Big congrats to #MaryRouse for successfully defending her Masters thesis! Excited for next steps on this project! @cuendocrinology.bsky.social @cupharmacy.bsky.social #LPL
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com
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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am beyond thrilled to co-organize this FASEB #LipidDroplet conference with Mike @hennelab.bsky.social in 2026! Check out the lineup and plan to participate - you do not want to miss this one!! #lipidtime
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Acute TREM2 inhibition depletes MAFB-high microglia and hinders remyelination www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thank you @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social for rallying us together, and not dividing us apart! #denver #fightoligarchy
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
He does! Also, who wants a grown up sized one for their next meeting/conference? 🙋🏼‍♀️ #fridaypuns #academicparents #axolotl
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
New review from the lab! Do #microglia metabolize #fructose in #Alzheimers Disease? rdcu.be/edIRM Big congrats to the first author @AnnaliseSturno for all her hard work 💪🏻👩🏻‍🔬💪🏻
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dear #RFK JR, "Riboflavin" is Vitamin B2. While I agree foods contain many unnecessary ingredients in the united states, please consider consulting a scientist to avoid spreading misinformation.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
More than ever we need to talk about the importance of our "basic research" in public and political forums. Kudos to #AnnaliseSturno and @neurohassell.bsky.social for getting out there and sharing their work on fructose metabolism and Alzheimers Disease at #Denver #Capitol
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv.org/introducing-... @openrxiv.bsky.social
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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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hasselljames.bsky.social @hasselljames.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@lindseyforco.bsky.social & @shannonbird4co.bsky.social I live in y'alls district and will be talking about the link between sugar on the 🧠 and Alzheimer's in @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social 's lab at @cuanschutz.bsky.social with @projbridgeco.bsky.social. Hope to see y'all there!
Title of the brochure is STEM poster day at the capitol. Text below reads, Colorado scientists will be presenting their research to legislators and members of the public. The event is open to everyone, and we invite you to atrend! When, March 11th, 2025 9:30 am- 12:00 pm, where, Colorado state capitol, wedt foyer, who, ooen to the public!
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I continue to be blown away by the sub-cellular resolution that our new #Nanolive 3D explorer allows. Look at these #microglia go!
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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Sarah Senese @ssenese.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Denver @standupforscience.bsky.social did that.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Sarah Senese @ssenese.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thanks for showing up! Just the beginning.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Women are twice as likely to get Alzheimers Disease! WE NEED TO KNOW WHY? But the words "women" and "female" are banned from NIH grant applications. Shout this from the rooftops on International Womens Day! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stand up for science Stand up for truth Stand up for democracy Stand up for America #denver #colorado
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Sign created! #standupforscience2025 #denver #colorado
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
East steps of the Capitol, #Denver! #colorado #StandupforScience!!
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
'What historical figure do you want to dress as?' 'The person that invented medicine' (After some research 😅) Here is John Nicholson, who helped to invent Ibuprofen. The research chemist who worked as a team, and didn't make much money from his major discovery.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
#CELLebrate all wins, despite the chaos: "Reviewer 2 The authors have carefully, thoroughly and kindly responded to all of my comments. Congrats to the authors - this is a wonderful review article and I hope the journal's readers will enjoy it as much as I did"
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
They may try, but anyone who has ever executed an experiment in the last 10 years knows there massive sex differences at a molecular level that predict disease risk. We will continue to study, and review favourably, these critical differences!!
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Me when the #NIH funding inevitably dries up 🥒🎩🥒
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/02/2025
How we're feeling today... Join us to #standupforscience2025 on March 7th—and share any sign ideas you have below! 👇
white background, black and white mouth cutout that says "I shouldn't have to make a sign that defunding science is wrong... but here we are" and the standupforscience2025.org link.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/02/2025
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️ MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL! Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard! SEE YOU THERE! www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the  Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#ChristopherNolan, you might be into this plot. The evil billionaires fire all the scientists, just as a major asteroid is hurtling to earth. In the last moments they regret everything, but it's too late. Only molluscs survive.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Breaking News; the chance of the major asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the earth is now higher than NIH paylines, 3rd percentile. #NIH #2024yr4
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A local science museum looking for support for a "Girls in Science" event, since the previous supporters have pulled out. #womeninscience #womeninstem
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If realizing that science, nature, culture, the environment, education, safety, and protections for our most vulnerable, are all being deprioritized in favor of profits and "efficiency" makes you feel physically ill, then you are simply human with a functioning frontal cortex.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Kimberley Bruce @drkimberleybruce.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Heavy traffic on @pubmed? On a sunday? I smell a rat!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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