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Liz Heller

@eahellerphd.bsky.social
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it was the blurst of times #epigenetics #addiction #blm hosting.med.upenn.edu/hellerlab

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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Hyejung Won @hyejungwon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
1/ I am beyond thrilled to share our new paper in @CellCellPress! We explored the regulatory principles underlying pleiotropy in psychiatric disorders. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Massively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders
High-throughput experimental validation of genetic variants linked to eight psychiatric disorders reveals the regulatory mechanisms underlying variants with pleiotropic and disorder-specific effects.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“One set of projections from Epoch AI suggests that, under certain assumptions, the estimated depletion date could fall between 2026 and 2032.” hai.stanford.edu/assets/files...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 30/05/2025
Celebrating the goodness of the world by honoring Dolly Parton (@realdollyparton.bsky.social ). Her support of biomedical research is greatly appreciated, from donations to support scientists to encouraging folks to get vaccinated. Let’s all #MakeDollySmile today! youtu.be/OU6lpOf7Wjc?...
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Dolly Parton sings 'vaccine, vaccine' Jolene rewrite as she gets Covid-19 jab
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.
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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Kiara knocked it out of the park!
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚨Happy to share a new preprint from Lerner Lab led by graduate student @nadelneurosci.bsky.social! 🚨 “Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking” This has been a wholly impressive effort by Jacob; summary below 👇 #neuroskyence🧪
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Read this article, get excited, and come to the Epigenome Editing symposium! Marianne Rots, Charlie Gersbach, and Angelo Lombardo (all featured in the piece) will be there in person!! Registration only 50€, talks from abstracts, plus Paris 😜 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Epigenetic editing makes its mark
Researchers are rewriting the chemical tags on DNA and chromatin to tune gene expression.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So proud of Kiara!
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Super excited to be included in this - thank you Amber Dance and @nature.com.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Go slow and repeat things.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
FOMO of the highest order!! Have a great time all.
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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Live Science @livescience.com · 04/05/2026
Estrogen in both the male and female brain shapes responses to trauma, study suggests www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
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Estrogen in both the male and female brain shapes responses to trauma, study suggests
Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against such stressors, a mouse study finds.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
wish I was with you tallie send pics!!
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
back in the day people wrote their musings down in diaries to be published upon their deaths only after a lifetime of significant accomplishments
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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just a deer relaxing in a dog bed while the storm rolls in - to brighten your scrolling ⛈
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Although cohesin-sensitive, long-range enhancer activation is equivalent in nature to proximal activation. Cooperativity can arise from different levels of activation inputs operating on a non-linear response function. @eliasfriman.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Wilma Marlene Fine ✈️ @wmf5.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The supermarket that I shop at employs mentally challenged. They are greeters, baggers, and perform other functions. They are normally pleasant and happy to have a purpose. I like shopping there, it's a reminder that there's room in this world for all of us.
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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m recruiting a new lab manger! Please pass on to anyone who might be interested, and have them reach out to me once they’ve applied. Photo proof of awesome lab to join research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21793/r...
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Josh 🐦 @josh.uno · 02/05/2026
back when the internet was just all things like this
hippolas cage. nic cage poorly shopped onto a hippo
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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Postdoctoral openings to investigate how (i) experience-dependent actuators of inhibitory circuit plasticity mechanisms & neurogenesis contribute to memory operations (ii) how a novel lipid signaling mechanism mediates cognitive resilience and regulates healthspan. www.sahaylab.com/publications
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Nature @nature.com · 17/04/2026
The work could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females go.nature.com/48Flrzv
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Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity
Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks differ according to sex.
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And some love for the human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I like these zoom outs where you can see a whole structure - here, striatum. Green is MBP and outlining the white matter tracts, 🟣 is DRD1 and if you zoom in (see zooms in following posts) there is 🔴 for RXFP1 marking clusters of island cells.
Microscopy image of a section of human brain tissue at the level of the striatum with white matter fiber tracts outlined in bright green
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 14/04/2026
It shouldn't be a PlotTwist(tm) to reveal that nothing gross happened. This nice gent did not prey on me in any fashion, and I have since come to know more lovely dudes like him. (9)
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I’ve always said that submitting a grant proposal is an exercise in hope—not just in terms of being funded, but as a symbol of what it means to dream big and ask exciting questions. Despite everything happening to federal science over the last year, I’m holding on to that hope. Proposal submitted.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is there a database of the schools with graduate student unions? Didn't any of you make and share a Google sheet?!?! Please rt.
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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Had an amazing time at World Neuroscience Day yesterday interacting with patients & physicians. Was honored to share science on data-driven interventions for caregiver stress.
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Kevin Pruitt @dr-kevin-pruitt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
My student, Grace Stroman, was selected to present at the 9th Chromatin and Epigenetics Symposium. Her presentation was exceptional! Our keynote speaker @grewalsh.bsky.social was brilliant! Thanks to the organizers, @unclineberger.bsky.social, and @brianstrahl.bsky.social for a remarkable meeting!
Photo of Grace Stroman at podium prior to her presentation at UNC Chapel Hill. Her presentation focused on novel roles of MeCP2, DNA methylation reader which is a potent regulator of development. MeCP2 is most known for its cause of Rett Syndrome when mutated, but Grace is presenting some of the lab’s latest findings on the role of MeCP2 in cancer biology.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is why we keep going. #scienceisfreedom
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Favorite part of travel is connecting with amazing talented friends doing incredible research and training the next gen 🙌🤩🧬🔬🧫 In these tough times, it’s both inspirational and much needed 🥰
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This describes some of the 2025 NIH study section changes: public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...
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Evaluating Panel Quality in Review (ENQUIRE) New | NIH Center for Scientific Review
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
See public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...
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Evaluating Panel Quality in Review (ENQUIRE) New | NIH Center for Scientific Review
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Scott Russo @scottrussophd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Cross-Organ Neuroimmunology of Behavior". Xuanming Guo and I discuss a new framework that reconceptualizes behavior as an emergent property of a distributed, brain-body neuroimmune network. lnkd.in/eihqZ_ay. @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Extremely proud of Rachael @neurohoke.bsky.social and Kiara for this work. I have learned so much working with @talliezee.bsky.social and the whole team.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Comme un igloo Homewood campus, Johns Hopkins University
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
big ups to #eneuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social for Reviewer Consultation. Peer review is essential to generating rigorous science and communicating it clearly. Yet authors get bogged down with many requests. #eneuro's approach to address this using reviewer consultation and consensus is a win for all.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Thank you @ericjnestler.bsky.social and Marcelo Wood for the nomination 🤩
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
To our colleagues at Brown, my heart is broken. I send my deepest sympathy.
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Submitted my grant today for the December 8th deadline. Not Dec 10 - I don't have cs anymore since my ss was dissolved. Dec 8 would have been November 19th which would have been November 5th since I had study section on November 12th to 13th which is actually on January 12th to 13th. Any questions?
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
feeling very inspired serving on study section right now thank you to the pos/sros/etc that are working the long hours
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Tomorrow is the last day to register for our in-person event! Join us, and our incredible lineup of speakers, on the UCSD campus Nov 15 from 9am-1pm. Registration is free! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
@mikefeigin.bsky.social I miss very little about scitwitter but your bagel pics brightened my day! Here is my kids' lunches for today. You can't see the capers because they are tucked safely into the cream cheese UNDER the lox 😉
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