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Kara Marshall

@karalmarshall.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying mechanical interoception. Views are my own.

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Valeria Vásquez R @valeriavasquez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If you’re in the Houston area, the Astros are hosting a donation drive TODAY until 7 pm to support those affected by the devastating earthquake in Venezuela 🇻🇪 Items include first aid and medical supplies, Diapers, Baby food Please consider stopping by the stadium www.instagram.com/reel/DaQrQeE...
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omarvizquel13 on Instagram: "Tomorrow! HELP Venezuela at Daikin Park Union StationView all 52 comments"
Tomorrow! HELP Venezuela at Daikin Park Union Station
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Spent time today with students going over proposed rule changes from OMB, nicely summarized in this link. Anyone can do this, and students appreciated it! Remember this is open for public comment! We also shared ideas about explaining this to friends and family. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭
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Federal Grant Rule Comparison
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Excited to share a new preprint, led by @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social! It describes a mechanism and potential therapeutic avenue for treating the aging bladder! Thanks to the amazing collab from the Beyder lab, as well as @valeriavasquez.bsky.social, Lichtarge labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Wild! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions
Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You asked, we answered — this time for our united #FreemanHrabowski Scholars and #HannaGray Fellows programs. A warm welcome into who's eligible, how the programs connect, and more, from our very own Science Program team members Mary Bonds & Lucy Corcoran. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/fhs26 🧪
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Recent joy: getting to take half the lab to CSHL! It was so fun to finally have them meet and hear from all these scientists I admire, and for the field to meet them. We all learned so much!
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Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @brainbodylab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It was an absolute pleasure attending, presenting and learning at the @cshlnews.bsky.social Brain–Body Physiology meeting, organized by @karalmarshall.bsky.social , @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, and Asya Rolls. An amazing conference bringing science of brain–organ interactions together in one place.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
What an inspiring week at CSHL at the inaugural Brain Body Physiology meeting. Thanks to speakers and attendees for sharing incredible science! Thanks also to the best co-organizers around, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. Mark your calendar for next time, 5/ 16-20,2028!
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Taking a break for on here, maybe for now, or for good. Please text or email (and retry in case it gets buried). Let's catch up in real time! I want to see your typos and phrasing, gaze at your office art as you fumble with the share button on zoom, and hear about fun science and your life.
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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Deadline today! Submit and abstract and join us to discuss science in the exciting brain body interaction field!
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Please consider joining us for a wonderful meeting on Brain Body Physiology at Cold Spring harbor this summer, organized with @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. In CSHL tradition most talks are chosen from submitted abstracts. Abstracts due this Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
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Brain Body Physiology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 30/01/2026
A wonderful piece by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field. www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...
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PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places
The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I save most of these kinds of posts for another site, but please talk to friends and family about what ICE is doing. This is all horrifying and your voice matters. Masked federal forces performing extrajudicial kidnapping and murder requires a groundswell of opposition from all corners.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If anyone is looking for a summary outlining the encroaching fascism in the US, this collects it pretty well (despite the weak title). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Tests Presidential Power: Venezuela Operation, Iran Bombing and More (Gift Article)
A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It was so fun to celebrate a great year with the Marshall lab yesterday! We missed a few people, but we laughed, feasted, made onesies for Brandon’s sweet newborn, and discovered that our new lab member Cora is younger than Harry, my dog. It is a joy to work with these wonderful people!
Group photo, holding homemade onesiesHarry the dog is 18.5, and was born before Cora, a new undergraduate lab member. Cora is far more accomplished than Harry.A proud baby display to adoring onlookers.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
So excited for @alexchesler.bsky.social and the future of pain therapeutics! I’m also sad for the huge loss for NIH and our academic field.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Lots of great news from lab lately: so proud of @brityag.bsky.social for an amazing score on her AHA fellowship!
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
When overwhelmed by scope of tragedy, specifics can be important. Here is just one story. Thinking of all those affected by this weekend's tragedies at Brown and in Sydney.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Very proud that graduate student @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social and Undergraduate @catcalhoun22.bsky.social got awards in the multi-institutional Cooley Neuroscience Poster Session last weekend! So nice to see their hard work recognized.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
So proud of Yasmeen!
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Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Please join us at CSHL May 12-16 to dig deeper into brain body interactions! Abstract deadline is in February, and in CSHL tradition, most talks will be chosen from abstracts. Link below.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Check out this wonderful collection! Hanneke Verstegen and I contributed a review for anyone interested in how the brain senses and controls the bladder.
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This group is so incredible- amazing scientists and friends. An outstanding lineup of talks. What a legacy!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
As @sfn.org kicks off, here is some guidance to help you get the most out of it—plus a request for principal investigators to train students in “soft skills.” By @drnancypadilla.bsky.social #SfN25 #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Tips to navigate SfN as a trainee
As the mammoth annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience kicks off, here is some guidance to get the most out of it—plus a request for principal investigators to train students in “soft skills.”…
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Yalda Moayedi @yaldamoayedi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Are you a researcher in #touch #pain #itch #somatosensation or #interoception? Come join us at the Somatosensation and Interoception social at #Sfn2025! Co-hosted with @karalmarshall.bsky.social @sdavidson.bsky.social
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is a nice interview with a good message! Supporting people from all backgrounds is essential for great science.
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Want to see the impacts of FY26 budget cuts to science on YOUR community? Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts. scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Congrats to the winners! Its notable that Omar Yaghi was a refugee. Refugees and immigrants once again making American science great!
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Xin Jin @xinjin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Actively hiring! Video made by Sora-2 but the job post is 100% real. Apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Given the state of the world, sharing wins is important. I’m so happy to share the joyous news that Olivia Solomon, a postdoctoral trainee, is officially now an Assistant Prof at Prairie View A&M! It’s so exciting, and we are all so proud! What a gift to see people land their dream job.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A thoughtful essay for scientists about using AI-driven tools for writing. “writing, for all its flaws, is one of the most potent thinking tools humans have developed.”
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 02/09/2025
What an unprecedented and strong bipartisan voice to sound this alarm. Will the Republican Congress wake up and stop playing politics with the health of the American people?
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
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Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This work is incredible.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
What a legacy Jim leaves. His brilliance and love of science was palpable and inspiring. He was an incredible scientist- I teach his groundbreaking work on careful measurements of mechano ion channels every year. I’ll miss him. Here is a good memory with 3rd gen @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/08/2025
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
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TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US
TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Doesn’t this sound cool? Come join us at the Biosphere for the Gastronauts global symposium Oct 26-29! thinkgastronauts.com/biosphere2/
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Biosphere 2 Gastronauts 2025 - Gastronauts
Like the space-age pioneers who dreamt of self-sustaining worlds at Biosphere 2, Gastronauts invites you to this iconic venue to explore the future of food. This is an immersive experience, not just a...
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Here's how Houston-area residents and those across the state and country can help the Central Texas flood victims and their families. 
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How Houston residents can donate, volunteer to help Texas Hill Country flood victims
Several Houston-area groups are organizing fundraisers and donation drives for victims of the deadly floods in Central Texas. Donations also can be made directly to those in the Hill Country.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is sort of flying under the radar, but check out this list of amazing scientists! So excited to have them join the FHS program, and they should be celebrated! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 03/06/2025
Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S. “Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.” Read the article here. No subscription required: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
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