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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

@ishmailsaboor.bsky.social
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Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors www.abdus-saboorlab.com

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: The anterior hypothalamic nucleus acts like a volume knob for stress, scaling the brain’s response to threatening events 🧠 Read the Cai Lab's latest paper, led by @zachtpennington.bsky.social, in @nature.com 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... More: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations @tessamontague.bsky.social! Major development in your research program.
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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Signal boost to our tenure track faculty search in "AI in Life Sciences". Broadly construed, so PLEASE apply!!
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, […]
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I see that @anthropic.com is now competing with PhD students in Biology/Bioengineering labs, whose biggest worry until now was being inevitably scooped by the Feng Zhang and Jennifer Doudna labs. Very different from Wild West days of RT discoveries in my PhD. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So well deserved! Congrats @dulaclab.bsky.social. Looking forward to celebrating at Rockefeller.
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Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi | 최승원 @ssebastianchoi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My department (Psychiatry) at UT Southwestern Medical Center has openings for TT faculty position! Our Neuroscience Research Division has diverse research programs, from genes to neural circuits to human brain imaging. UTSW has a vibrant/growing neuroscience community www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Neuroscience Faculty in Psychiatry - Assistant Professor - Dallas, Texas (US) job with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | 12864462
The Psychiatry Department at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is seeking outstanding neuroscientists.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wonderful interview of @drjkhokhar.bsky.social on a paper that changed his life.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks for having me, I had a great time! Wonderful community you have built with awesome science underway.
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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Faculty Job Alert 📣! The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developments to AI-enabled discovery. Please spread the word!
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026
Two scientists have identified a cause of the sleep disorder narcolepsy, which affects an estimated one in every 2,000 people in the U.S., after their research in animals laid the groundwork.
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Scientists Who Study Sleep and Narcolepsy Win Prestigious Lasker Award
Two researchers who study the debilitating sleep disorder have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their research in animals laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the conditions’s root cause.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great news @begumaydin.bsky.social!! Welcome to Columbia.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mind blowing. Glad to see this out. Congrats @mishaahrens.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apply to be our colleague 👇🏽
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Celebrating #HHMIInvestigator Bonnie Bassler, winner of the @royalsociety.org’s '26 Copley Medal. Her discovery that bacteria communicate & coordinate with each other, known as quorum sensing, is paving the way for therapies that fight infection by disrupting that communication: bit.ly/4zV2fKg.
2026 recipient of the Royal Society's Copley Medal
Bonnie Bassler
HHMI Investigator
Princeton University
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Science Magazine @science.org · 31/08/2026
Researchers studying hibernating Syrian hamsters have pinpointed for the first time a brain circuit that regulates an animal’s entry into hibernation. Learn more: scim.ag/4godAe4
Key brain circuit regulating hibernation found at last
Discovery in hamsters suggests path toward inducing hibernation in mammals that don’t do it naturally
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For too long, we have only had 2 sex-specifically spliced genes in the mosquito. Welcome to the world, MOSN! Males: big protein. Females: small protein. Fascinating new domain of unknown function. Congrats Yael Tsitohay + Nipun Basrur. Collab with Sean Eddy + Li Zhao www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evolution of MOSN, a novel sex-specifically spliced neuronal gene in the Aedes aegypti mosquito
Sex-specific RNA splicing is a conserved mechanism for generating sexual dimorphism in insects, with the best-studied examples being fruitless and doublesex. To ask whether additional sex-specifically...
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Yasmine El-Shamayleh @elshamayleh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Excited to share the lab’s first publication, co-led by talented postdoc Chuyi Su @chuyisu.bsky.social We leveraged cell type-specific optogenetics in the macaque cerebral cortex to elucidate the role of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in visual form processing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Optotagging in primate cortex uncovers excitatory and inhibitory neuron specializations in form vision - Nature Communications
This study leverages cell type-specific optogenetics in the monkey cerebral cortex to elucidate the unique functional contributions of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in visual form processing. The ...
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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For a few years the gates were genuinely open before being shut again — a kind of pulse-chase experiment. Even if the movement doesn’t survive this political moment, the scientists who earn tenure and do great work at top universities will prove the point: talent is universal, but opportunity is not
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I enjoyed reading this well-written essay on black tokenism in academia. However, the author missed important nuance in his argument. In saying this, I would not have enjoyed this essay as much with nuance. He did what good writers do and stuck to his main idea. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Why I Quit the Tenure Track
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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PAIN @painthejournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lim et al. find that children experiencing pain and exposed to adverse life events showed accelerated brain maturation in emotion- and pain-associated regions, demonstrating additive effects on brain development. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/3SnUAmF
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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)
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Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...
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Lindsay🧠 @neuromelody.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Best news ever- I have finally earned my PhD in Neuroscience!!🧠 My thesis was completed in the lab of Dr. Gregory Corder @flybottleescape.bsky.social & is titled: “Opioidergic Organization of the Nociceptive Medial Thalamus & A Behavioral Model of Placebo Analgesia”
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks @khallaf.bsky.social for presenting your amazing paper in our lab meeting today. We are all quite excited about these discoveries.
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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scientists have long debated whether neurons are jacks of all trades or tend to specialize in one thing. Now @stefanofusi.bsky.social, @lorenzoposani.com & Liam Paninski present new evidence in @nature.com shedding light on how the brain performs complex tasks. tinyurl.com/yj3ew8en
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Congratulations @khallaf.bsky.social. What an important discovery!
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#FreemanHrabowski Scholar Bianca Jones Marlin is uncovering how sensory cues like a pup’s cry activate oxytocin & reshape neural circuits, enabling caregiving — even in mice that have never given birth. Her research also suggests some experiences may be biologically inherited: bit.ly/4pjJISL
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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 08/07/2026
A new study from Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social in @nature.com finds that parenting behavior in ants—who are highly attuned to their young—appears to have evolved in by repurposing ancient neural circuits rather than inventing entirely new brain systems. 🔗: bit.ly/4vUY6Uc
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New paper from the lab on the molecular regulation of parenting in ants. Spearheaded by postdocs Alex Paul and @tomaskay.bsky.social
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735
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UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
UAB's Heersink School of Medicine is actively recruiting neuroscientists at early stage and established investigator levels to help grow basic research in this school-wide priority area. Apply below! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/27132 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/27135
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Heersink School of Medicine-Open Rank (Investigators)-Neuroscience
The University of Alabama at Birmingham* (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM)** is recruiting up to 16 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the Neurosciences to build on a stro...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A new tool lets researchers probe brain circuit function without requiring some kind of external stimulation as in optogenetics and chemogenetics. #neuroskyence By Simon Makin www.thetransmitter.org/synapses/des...
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Designer synapses edit brain circuits in living animals
The approach could help elucidate relationships between circuit structure and function, as well as the role of natural electrical synapses.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Big news! Congrats and welcome to ZI @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social. Everyone is very excited for you to join us 😎
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Could we reprogram the immune system to fight the effects of aging? #FreemanHrabowski Scholar Corina Amor Vegas & team engineered CAR-T cells to recognize & destroy "zombie cells" that accumulate during aging & drive inflammation, frailty, & metabolic decline: bit.ly/4xkeeQh
Corina Amor Vegas in her lab
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Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How did animal senses evolve? Max Coyle et al. used choanoflagellates to uncover TRPW, ancient ion channels predating animal somatosensory receptors. TRPW links microbial prey ecology to evolution of receptor structure, sensory organelles, & multicellular processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A glowing profile of my post-doc advisor. As @yvetteefisher.bsky.social says in the piece, Rachel is truly "...one of these generational scientists who thinks extremely incisively about both the details and the big-picture frameworks." magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/stu...
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By Studying Fruit Flies, Rachel Wilson Is Changing How We Understand the Brain
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
According to @edvardmoser.bsky.social, director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, the four recipients of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience challenged what had long been regarded as a central dogma in neuroscience. By Alissa de Chassey www.thetransmitter.org/awards/four-...
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Protein synthesis pioneers garner Kavli neuroscience prize
Their research revealed how neurons synthesize proteins in previously unrecognized places.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 McKnight Scholars! Great to see many friends amongst this cohort! www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...
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2026 McKnight Scholar Awards
The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it has selected ten neuroscientists to receive the 2026 McKnight Scholar Award.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What if our need for the company of others is just as vital as hunger or thirst? I wrote for @knowablemag.bsky.social about the concept of social homeostasis: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪 featuring @dulaclab.bsky.social @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social et al.
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Why we crave company
Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Great visit back to UPenn today for distinguished lecture series. Saw so many old friends and mentors. Doing your PhD and postdoc at the same school also means you can go to dinner with your grad school advisor (Meera Sundaram) and postdoc advisor (Wenqin Luo).
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Jennifer O’Chan @chanjenerational.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - Nature
Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Beautiful new paper from Jennifer O'Chan in the Maze lab at Mount Sinai!
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Yasmin Hurd, PhD @neurovoice.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Huge congratulations to @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social on her successful thesis defense 🥳 It has been a joy to serve on her thesis committee alongside @dr-autumnivy.bsky.social. We are glad to have you in the community of Black women neuroscientists, Ashley! 🧠✨
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
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A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature
Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What a fun evening! Thanks @rubenlgonzalez.bsky.social for all of your support as our Dean of Science.
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