Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026There is a new bonus Wordle game!! Who has tried it? Wordle in 1 Bonus September 2, 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 4:14 001
Reposted by Rajini RaoJason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Dinner: from the garden; Mexico style green chiles rellenos. 0101
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I’ve made this ratatouille inspired medley twice and it’s a keeper! The trick is to start with lots of good olive oil and add the diced onions, eggplant, zukes, peppers and tomatoes in layers, cooking slowly so that the flavors meld. Lots of fresh herbs. 🌿 great slathered on crusty bread 🥖 #foodsky 050
Reposted by Rajini RaoSassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Angie Nixon opens community center full of the books Republicans have banned in Florida. Nixon is currently the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Florida. Shero 🙌📚 jaxtoday.org/2025/07/02/t... 7141131062
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Our latest work linking the Golgi Calcium Pump to actin cytoskeleton defects in Hailey Hailey Disease keratinocytes has been accepted for publication in Am J Physiol-Cell Physiol. 🥳 Big thanks to our team and collaborators at UMich Skin Biol Diseases Res Ctr (UM-SBDRC) for making this happen! 🧪 171
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Creamy white bean dip with tahini, roasted garlic, olive oil and lemon 🍋 juice. Add some smoked paprika and cayenne for a kick. #foodsky 180
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Baked in a cast iron skillet by my daughter. Thunderstorms outside, cozy inside 😘 #foodsky 1152
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Wordle really scraping the bottom of the barrel today! Wordle 1,852 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 120
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Spanish tostada, a Catalan favorite, on this scorching hot Independence Day. Grate (yes, grate) a cut tomato into a bowl and heap it on a toasted baguette or crusty bread. Sprinkle salt and a generous drizzle of good olive oil. I rubbed a cut garlic clove on the bread right after toasting. #Foodsky 1121
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Falafel for dinner on a gorgeous summer evening. Served on a bed of baba ganoush and mohamarra. #foodsky 1284
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Most antibodies are rubbish. Western blots are the least productive scientific method and have shown no real advancement for decades. But now, companies charge hundreds of dollars for tiny aliquots of this garbage. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comScience sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogueScientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns. 1316
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026What a great idea, more of this in the US please! And yes, I was thrilled to see Freddie Mercury flash briefly on the screen. Freddie, born Farrokh Bulsara, had roots in the Parsi community of India that originally fled Iran, and came to the UK by way of Tanzania. #ImmigrationWin #FreddieForEver 093
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Journalists have been reduced to spineless booklickers. As an ordinary person, I would never allow this level of disrespect from anyone. 040
Reposted by Rajini RaoClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Science is good. We should fund it. 134125842516
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Thankful for providence for gifting me with this good boy who knows exactly how to pose when not one two legged member of my family will oblige #dogs #aussie #samwise 😂 0192
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Reviewer, review thyself! Not ONE of dozens of rubbish experiments forced on us by unpaid peer reviewers of our current manuscript in revision has made an iota difference to the conclusions. But it HAS wasted 2 months of two postdocs and $$$$$ that we can't afford. 1112
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 01/03/2026🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs. 6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills". Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful. www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb... 092
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026How did I miss this awesome tutorial on pH microdomains within organelles?! 🤩 🧪 2214
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Join us for a day long workshop on Human Organoids featuring cutting edge science, including our keynote talk by Prof. Dan Huh from U Penn. Registration is required, but free! Zoom link available on request. 🧪 192
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Congratulations, Raghu! You will be brilliant in this role 👏 140
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Welcoming the New Year with black eyed peas and a cheesy gratin of collard greens for good luck 🎉 Happy New Year #foodsky ! What are you celebrating with tonight? 1161
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Annual holiday tradition- Brie with caramelized mushrooms and onions, scooped up with toasted French bread #foodsky 6353
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 26/12/2025The best part of the holidays is that I can cook to my heart's content. Cornmeal blueberry pancakes for breakfast, udon noodles in a red curry soup with cabbage and carrot dumplings for dinner. Happy cooking! #foodsky 1150
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025🧪Our paper titled “The Christianson syndrome protein, sodium hydrogen exchanger isoform 6, is required for fat accumulation" was chosen by J Physiol Editor-in-Chief as the Editor’s Choice! 🥳 This is our 1st paper using a mouse model & venturing into adipocyte biology 😍 Open Access: lnkd.in/eGs6sPds 1134
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025✅Are you a Pre-Med student looking to boost your chances of getting into Med School? ✅Want to try an intensive research program before committing to a PhD? ✅Honing your skills for a competitive job in pharma/biotech? Apply to our MS in CMM program: cmm.jhmi.edu/index.php/ms... 020
Reposted by Rajini RaoEmily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025🍼 Milk: good for babies… and organoids too? Majood & Rao argue human milk—a living fluid rich in cells, bioactive molecules, & microbiome—could transform lactation biology & contamination research. 💡It's also a vital cell source for the development of 3D mammary #organoid models. 🧪 141
Reposted by Rajini RaoReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25/10/2025its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites 2677422016
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Here come the exceptions! news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...news.bloomberglaw.comForeign Grads Seeking H-1B Status Avoid $100,000 Trump Fee (1)Recent international college graduates who are sponsored for H-1B status while in the US won’t be subject to a $100,000 fee imposed on the program, according to new guidance from the Trump administrat... 072
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs. The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible. 🧪 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHarvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard CrimsonThe Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th... 1177
Reposted by Rajini RaoRicardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com · 18/10/2025I just want to leave this here, so you can block all the US.GOV accounts with a couple of clicks. bsky.app/profile/did:... 2188
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I saw a patch of evening sun on the Celosia and this good boy understood the assignment 📷🐾 1100
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Remembering the NYT obit of Yvonne Brill, NASA rocket scientist, which began "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children." 🤦♀️ 251
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Wrapping up a great conference on acid-base regulation in Copenhagen. Beautiful venue at the Royal Danish Academy. Our Canadian and European colleagues are aghast at the rapid dismantling of science and democracy in the US. 050
Reposted by Rajini RaoDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines. 570265507762
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Ladies and gentleman, this is the state of Goddard Space Flight Ctr of NASA today. Spouse just returned from a trip abroad to this 🤦♀️ 071
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Strawberry 🍓 crostata for 4 yo Rhys’ birthday next door 🎉 0141
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 23/08/2025If I wrote a book on the joy of picking tomatoes, would you read it? My writing style is irreverent, self deprecating humor 090
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Today's lesson in pointless security: Digitally signed PDFs cannot be merged w/o the signatures disappearing. Apparently, merging is a disallowed modification. How do I know this? NIH returned the merged Other Support docs on our multi-PI RPPR because the signatures had disappeared 🤡 121
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Nature forgives. Rabbits decapitated the seedlings, bugs destroyed the zucchini and heat made the basil bolt. But we persevered - added chicken wire fencing, more compost and plenty of TLC. This was today's haul. No bushels of tomatoes this year, but a small harvest is better than no harvest. 🙏 1604
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Too many cherry tomatoes? Arrange them cut side down on parchment paper lined skillet and pour corn bread batter over it. Voila! Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Courtesy of my daughter Anjana. #foodsky 4483
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The hypocrisy and political pandering from the NIH leadership is deeply disturbing and cannot be good for the future of evidence based scientific research in the US. 🧪 030
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful. Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing CostsNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH 33951
Reposted by Rajini RaoPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/07/2025few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history 14798336
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025One of the demands of being a 🌞morning person is a hot and savory breakfast. No cold muesli for me! By the time I’ve taken Samwise for a walk, tackled the most urgent and demanding jobs from work and checked on mom in India, I’m hungry! Thanks to Sammy 🐶 I made quick work of this pita melt #foodsky 0170
Reposted by Rajini RaoShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op 6445951388
Reposted by Rajini RaoGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Tell her, Hope!!comicsands.comHope Walz Perfectly Claps Back After Laura Ingraham Rips Her For Supporting Mamdani"Get well soon, Laura" 😭 367116972017
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Today's experiment - bagels! Easy and deliciously chewy recipe but not a winner in the looks department 😀 Next time, I'll try rolling the dough into a rope and closing it to make the hole. Also, I forgot the second (short) rise, oops! #foodsky 4240