Reposted by Laura SeeholzerIngrid Fetter-Pruneda, Ph.D. @ifetter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Thrilled 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/ePNP8rdcu.beAge, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester antsnpj Aging - Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants 22610
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Now I'm excited to pay it forward and support the next generation of scientists! 🧬🔬 Never dreamed I'd make it here 010
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Feeling grateful for everyone who supported me during my PhD and post-doc training: my incredible mentors David Julius and Vanessa Ruta, my wonderful lab mates, and the amazing communities @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social and HHWF 121
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Interested in how our bodies sense the world around us, how these systems develop, or how we consciously control internal reflexes? Come join our team - we're hiring! Excited to recruit technicians, post-docs, and Stanford graduate students in any program! Please email me. #WeAreHiring #Stanford 121
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I'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 #neuroscienceneurobiology.stanford.eduFaculty 98410
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerHannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · 11/06/2025My 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 1027486
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerLeading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 27/05/2025We 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 616663
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerACLU @aclu.org · 27/05/2025We'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.aclu.org‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU 131180266
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025What 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... 030
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Paul 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...thetimes.comMusk should consider resigning from UK Royal Society, new president saysMusk’s attacks on publicly funded scientific research make his position as a member difficult, says Sir Paul Nurse 14312
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerAndreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 10/04/2025If 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 092102
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Please 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.socialcnn.comNobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNNDr. 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... 020
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerScience Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Librarians 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.sciencefriday.comScience Friday's Picks: The Best Science Books for Kids 2024You asked for science book recommendations for the kids in your life. Two bookworm experts respond—and share their own favorites. 4578148
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...thetransmitter.orgNIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programsMany of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities. 13128
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/04/2025From 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” 421835714
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerNBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/04/2025Sen. 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.” 79929291751
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects... Abruptly terminating clinical trials... Ignorant and evil www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comThe NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts YetEnding clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk. 281318599
Reposted by Laura Seeholzerhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I 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. 58821
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerEle Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Happy 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 🧵 317970
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Cost of the Government’s Attack on ColumbiaAmerican universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that. 030
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 19/03/2025What 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... 1323
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerSoragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 18/03/2025The 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...taggs.hhs.gov 19393239
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerJoe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025In 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...news.harvard.eduNIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard GazetteReport finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development. 8440871489
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerDenis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...forbes.comNIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New ReportNational 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. 5267132
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025My 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. 031
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerDavid A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Wow. "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. 21512215
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I 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... 18567308
Reposted by Laura Seeholzersteven 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...science.orgWhat's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF 02113
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerKara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I 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/...journals.biologists.comTransitions in development – an interview with Kara McKinleyKara 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... 08423
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerIshmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Just 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. 3718
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerIshmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024My 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. 2143156
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerKara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024The 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! 03620
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I 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." 010
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I 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... 2488
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I don't watch college football but your commentary on it/larger discussions of sports x culture were can't-miss-podcasting for me. Hope you have a new show in the works 110
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerMeike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 28/11/2023It’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! 5205
Reposted by Laura SeeholzerLeading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 10/11/2024If 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 59869