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Erin Gibson

@erinmgibson.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @Stanford interested in how glia modulate neural circuits (with a circadian twist), mom of two amazing girls. Views are my own.

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RASopathies Network @rasnet.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
February is #Noonansyndrome awareness month AND the month when we recognize #RareDisease Day (Feb 28). We advocate for research and therapeutic progress 💊 for conditions caused by #RAS#MAPK signaling dysfunction. BTW, its not so rare. NS is ~1:2000 people! 🧪🩺🧬 #pedsky #medsky #cardiosky
February is Noonan Syndrome Awareness Month. Noonan syndrome is named for Dr. Jacqueline Noonan, a cardiologist who first recognized and published a paper with nine individuals who had cardiac anomalies, short stature, chest deformities, and pulmonary valve stenosis. More info from Noonan Syndrome Foundation at www.teamnoonan.org
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Beautiful work by a beautiful (and brilliant) friend! Congrats ⁦‪@soyonhonglab‬⁩ et
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Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut–brain axis - Nature
Muscularis macrophages, housekeepers of enteric nervous system integrity and intestinal homeostasis, modulate α-synuclein pathology and neurodegeneration in models of Parkinson’s disease, and understa...
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Excited to join!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/10/2025
Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Myelin injury precedes axonal injury and symptomatic onset in multiple sclerosis - Nature Medicine
Myelin damage in multiple sclerosis can be detected up to 7 years before symptoms, with early immune pathway activation and a 21-protein panel showing promise for presymptomatic diagnosis.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
In the wise words of my 9 year old: “Mom, your lab isn’t a group of good people…they are AWESOME people” #luckyPI
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Amanda Fanniff, PhD @amandafanniff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
@juliametraux.bsky.social is looking for scientists and medical doctors to discuss how inflammation is being misused under the MAHA umbrella. #academicsky #medsky #sciencesky #immunology #publichealth #hiscisky
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Excited to introduce the first ‘Dr.’ from the Gibson Lab! Congrats Dr. Mehl 👏🏻🥳👏🏻🥳👏🏻🥳👏🏻🥳👏🏻🥳👏🏻
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Transient gene melting governs the timing of oligodendrocyte maturation
Oligodendrocyte maturation is governed by an SOX6-dependent gene-melted chromatin state at multiple immaturity loci. Reducing SOX6 accelerates maturation, offering a potential strategy to regenerate m...
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Really going all-in for the ‘Worst NIH Director’ Award
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13
Dear Dr. Bhattacharya:

I have listened to your performance on the “War Room” podcast with Steve Bannon. The segment begins with a discussion of Secretary Kennedy’s recent cancellation of $500M worth of contracts related to mRNA vaccines.

You say “You can’t have a platform where such a large percentage of the population distrusts the platform as we use it for vaccines and expect it to work.”  Later, you make comments that might explain why a large segment of the percentage distrusts this platform. For example, you say that the vaccine was not protective against contracting COVID and cite your own case on COVID after being vaccinated. However, you fail to cite the evidence for the clinical trials that led to the Emergency Use Authorization.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It’s Thursday…these things are supposed to happen on Fridays. Don’t they remember their schedule of screwing over science!
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Reconstructed cell-type-specific rhythms in human brain link Alzheimer’s pathology, circadian stress, and ribosomal disruption
Hollis, Sharma, et al. examine cell-type-specific diurnal rhythms in control and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-affected human brains. They find that AD preserves core clock function but disrupts output rhy...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This NIH grant Multi-Year Funding ploy really makes you wonder what equally obscure and equally harmful stuff Vought is advancing across all the other functions of federal government, doesn’t it?
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It isn’t even Friday….
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🪱 🧠
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 01/07/2025
This is a catastrophe in the making gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
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RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
An important reminder as to why basic research is important! We can’t get to clinical breakthrough without it! @marionbuckwalter.bsky.social
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Being part of the myelin field has been the most rewarding aspect of my scientific career ❤️
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Myelin–axon interface vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by subcellular proteomics and imaging of human and mouse brain - Nature Neuroscience
In Alzheimer’s disease (AD), disruptions in myelin and axonal structures occur, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors show that, at the myelin–axon interface, axon–glial ...
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Jens Hjerling Leffler @hjerling-leffler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Postdoc positions available in my lab @ki.se Sweden - exciting science, fantastic environment and great quality of life. I take mentoring seriously - 7/7 postdocs that left my lab has faculty positions today. Existing datasets and funds to build new ones available. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoc in Single Cell Genomics, Jens Hjerling-Leffler group, Karolinska Institutet
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The position is located within The Division of Molecular Neurobiology in the lab of Professor Jens Hjerling-Leffler at the Department of Medi
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 25/05/2025
Major strides in pediatric cancer treatments and cures, the results of decades of federal investment in basic biomedical research 💪
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For anyone not familiar with GRFPs: these are fellowships awarded TO THE STUDENT. They're NOT awarded to an institution or tied to a particular project. Many GRFPs are earned with an application written before a student has submitted any grad school applications.
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Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🧪 #neurology #neuroskyence tinyurl.com/bp5d8386 Another beautiful example of NIH-SPONSORED bedside to bench and back to bedside work from an outstanding clinician scientist. This work is producing some of the most compelling responses to treatment in what is arguably the worst pediatric brain tumor.
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‘The first experiments produced just jaw-dropping results’
Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje is pursuing a cure for a deadly pediatric brain cancer – and reshaping our understanding of how cancer and brain development intersect.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
DeLauro nails it. This is illegal impoundment. Every last dollar that was appropriated by Congress for the NIH that has been "saved" needs to spent on its intended purpose: scientific research for the benefit of the American people.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I cannot stress enough how amazing @soyonhonglab.bsky.social is as a scientist, mentor, and person! Do yourself a favor and apply! Heck, at the rate the US is going on the science front, I might be applying 😉
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I literally hate everything about that man…
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
NIH Director Jay Battacharya talking to Science magazine, right before the interview was cut short by an aide.
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On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations:
"No, that's false. There's going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money's going."
"I'm really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you're like, actually spreading rumors that you don't know anything about... Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that's not true."
"We're working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn't be reporting rumors. I know there's leaks all over here, but the leaks don't actually reflect what's happening. Don't write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic."
Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 06/05/2025
The current administration’s narrative that Harvard (and all universities) feel “entitled” to federal dollars misleads the public. Nor are these funds a “privilege” 1/n
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Trump's budget: We're cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 03/05/2025
President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. A feature in Nature examines the long-term impacts for the US and the world. #Academicsky 🧪
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Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts for the United States and the world?
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
We need more of this from our elected leaders….like A LOT more….like NOW
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
SB 829 would create a new state agency, the California Institute for Scientific Research, to fund research in biomedicine, public health, climate, oceanography, coastal ecosystems sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-g...
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As Trump Guts Federal Science Agencies, Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Create New Science Institute and Authorize Vaccine Purchase and Production
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true. The request released moments ago would: - Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget - Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC - Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas' There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🤯 Fridays are the worst day of the week these days…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 01/05/2025
Researchers transferred bacteria from the guts of multiple sclerosis patients and their healthy twins to mice. In susceptible mice, the microbes Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium caused multiple sclerosis-like disease. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A phylogenetic tree showing the 51 taxa nominally significant in at least one test in the study. The trend in the legend indicates changes in abundance in affected twins as compared to unaffected twins. Font color corresponds to the significance of the corresponding statistical test. Black indicates Chi-squared; orange indicates linear mixed models.
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RASopathies Network @rasnet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you study anything related to #RAS signaling or treat people with RAS-associated genetic conditions (Noonan syndrome spectrum disorders), we invite you to attend the 9th International #RASopathies Symposium JULY 25-27, 2025 #pedsky #medsky #oncosky #rare info: rasopathiesnet.org/symposia/
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Symposia - The RASopathies Network
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here's the video; thanks to folks who sent it to me. Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in. youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New: Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration
Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Ohio State University Faculty Council voted 35-11 on April 24, 2025 to join the Big Ten "mutual defense compact" that would support the defense of academic freedom. They join universities of IL, IN, IA, MD, MN, NE, OR, WA, WI, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC.
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just going to leave this here for awhile. Take note.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025
Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
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Northwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freeze
While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
No…just no
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