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Laura Seeholzer

@lauraseeholzer.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor - Stanford University - Department of Neurobiology - Julius and Ruta Lab Alum

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Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Ph.D. @ifetter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thrilled to share the first full paper from @AntLabUNAM! 🐜💥 Our paper examines how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. Check it out! rdcu.be/ePNP8
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Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants
npj Aging - Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f... #stanford #newPI #neuroscience
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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Text reads "Congratulations to the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows" followed by the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org. Below are the headshots and names of the 40 new Leading Edge Fellows. They are 
Cel	Welch
Lianna	Wat
Maria	Toro Moreno
Sarah	Talley
Xulu	Sun
Ines	Sturmlechner
Virginia	Savy
Amelie	Raz
Kali	Pruss
Caterina	Profaci
Sarah	Pierce
Melissa 	Pamula
Kehinde	Odufowora
Patricia	Nano
Ariana	Musa de Aquino
Nour El Houda	Mimouni
Kathleen	Martin
Brea	Manuel
Mable	Lam
Miri	Krupkin
Elaine	Kouame
Megan	Kirchgessner
Sumin	Kim
Shubhangini	Kataruka
Geraldine	Jowett
Andrea	Jones
Leanne	Iannucci
Emily	Heckman
Allison	Girasole
Florencia	Fernandez Chiappe
Tonie	Farris
Hannah	Elam
Erin	Doherty
Xiaoyun	Ding
Maria	Bustillo
Julia	Brunner
Debadrita	Bhattacharya
Lorena	Benedetti
Ashley	Anderson
Krisha	Aghi
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/05/2025
We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities. Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.
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‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What a cute baby!!! I'm so happy decades of investment in biomedical research saved his life and lives of many other babies born with genetic disorders. And he'll likely be a future @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social fan - the best kind of fan 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Paul Nurse: Musk "has said and instigated things...destroying science...He has behaved in ways that have really damaged the scientific endeavour in the US” www.thetimes.com/article/e13f...
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Musk should consider resigning from UK Royal Society, new president says
Musk’s attacks on publicly funded scientific research make his position as a member difficult, says Sir Paul Nurse
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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Please share www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h... "How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk? As patients are cut off from clinical trials? I know I feel outrage" @ardemp.bskyverified.social
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Librarians at public libraries "are there to know books, get to know your kid, and find stuff that really supports your family throughout a child’s reading life and lifelong," says librarian Carrie Wolfson. This #NationalLibraryWeek, we’re revisiting last year's top science books for kids.
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Science Friday's Picks: The Best Science Books for Kids 2024
You asked for science book recommendations for the kids in your life. Two bookworm experts respond—and share their own favorites.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...
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NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs
Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/04/2025
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects... Abruptly terminating clinical trials... Ignorant and evil www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I often wonder: what do MAGA people think that greatness means? One thing that makes us great, imho, is our scientific innovation, which really is the envy of the world. Breaking it is relatively easy. Rebuilding it will be very, very hard.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵
Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What codes for threat imminence in the brain? Lots of places, including the hypothalamus it seems. Very cool study. (h/t @ajshackman.bsky.social ) #neuroscience doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 18/03/2025
The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My friends at Columbia, Harvard, Pittsburg and Penn are fighting to find a cure your mom’s heart disease, your dad’s chronic pain, your niece’s cancer. This administration is fighting against these people, fighting against finding cures and destroying science in America.
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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to. Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen." www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I had a fun conversation with @dev-journal.bsky.social about my scientific trajectory 🧪, my thoughts on the academic job market, @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social, and the joys and challenges of #newpi life. Thanks to Saanjbati for the interview! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Transitions in development – an interview with Kara McKinley
Kara McKinley is an Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kara's group studies the ute...
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just yesterday @drnancypadilla.bsky.social's lab published a paper showing that a common behavioral paradigm in systems/behavioral neuroscience, produces distinct results/outcomes in different strains of mice. We should study a diversity of animals/strains and be humble about over generalizations.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The Leading Edge Fellows starter pack is now up to 101 Leading Edge Fellows! If you haven't checked it out recently, there are lots of fabulous new postdocs and new PIs to follow!
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I truly love @sfchronicle.bsky.social weather coverage "Thanksgiving is just over a week away, but something big is being cooked up off the coast of the Pacific Northwest right now. On the menu? A powerful low-pressure system — a feast of weather unlike anything we’ve seen so far this season."
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Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I was honored to be selected as this year's winner of the Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology. Please check out my essay: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... And the essays of the two other finalists: www.science.org/content/page...
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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
It’s been a few months since I have started using this colorful to-do-list to stay on top of the many tasks of a starting PI. I think much of my relative remained sanity is due to this organization of the seemingly never ending list of tasks. And I’ve been able to cross so many tasks of the list!
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
If you want to follow awesome women and non-binary early career scientists, the starter pack of Leading Edge Fellows is here! go.bsky.app/He3EAcq
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