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Laura Herndon

@enchiladalaura.bsky.social
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PhD scientist, aging researcher, WormAtlas editor who loves to travel, read and enjoy nature whenever the opportunity arises.

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Laura Herndon @enchiladalaura.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This paper was written by my WormAtlas colleagues, Dave and Nate, in addition to 5 Nobel Prize winners. Hopefully more attention and funding will find its way to the invaluable C. elegans resources described in the paper.
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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.
wyomingnews.com
Fay: Cuts to research funding risk the collapse of U.S. science and technology
I started as an assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming in 2001.
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Laura Herndon @enchiladalaura.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It doesn’t get any more classic than this #worm25
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wormatlas.bsky.social @wormatlas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
WormAtlas has had a great time meeting so many new people and visiting with old friends. If you haven’t already, please come by and say hello on Tuesday afternoon. #worm25
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wormatlas.bsky.social @wormatlas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Very grateful to get to have such a helpful and informative in-person meeting of the WormAtlas Board this morning to discuss the current content and future direction of WormAtlas. #Worm25
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Melissa Bender @melissabender.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!” Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science. March 7, 2025 #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Laura Herndon @enchiladalaura.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In case anyone had any doubt as to Trump’s agenda…
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
February 19, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 19, 2025
The past week has solidified a sea change in American—and global—history.
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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
whyy.org/articles/res...
whyy.org
Academics in N.J., Philly protest Trump administration cuts to scientific research
Rallies in Center City and at Rutgers University were part of a nationwide day of action to speak out against Trump administration cuts.
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Savage-Dunn lab @cswormlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
www.insidernj.com/rutgers-univ...
insidernj.com
Rutgers University Scientists Stand up Against Trump Cuts - Insider NJ
Rutgers University scientists, educators and staff this afternoon called attention to the ravaging, destabilizing cuts.
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Scene from Rutgers "Hands Off Our Research" Protest. Professor Monica Driscoll - National Academy of Sciences member - rallies our undergrads, grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and community. The resistance is growing!!! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social #celegans
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Impossible to overstate the devastating impact this could have on NYC. Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk. The cruelty and chaos is the point. We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful. Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast. By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts. /fin
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/01/2025
Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything. Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
pymnts.com
Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans | PYMNTS.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Menopause affects or will affect 50% of us. There is a dearth of research-based information. Here's some 🧪 #womeninSTEM
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
January 24, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 24, 2025
“NUTS!”
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