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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Join us! #NAVBO #Symposium Tuesday, 2/17 2pm ET. Emerging Technologies to Investigate, Model, and Restore Vascular Function. Featuring Laura Niklason, Ying Zheng, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King! Organized by Jessica L. Teo. Register: tinyurl.com/ymt7m98a

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Join us! webinar with Dr. Joseph Wu, Stanford University School of Medicine, Feb 5 at 1 pm EST Dr. Wu will present his work in a talk titled, 'Stem Cells, Organoids, and AI for Drug Discovery' Register👉https://members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Register/wZFaXWwseCxCw

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#NAVBO Symposium! January 29, 2026, 1 PM ET Smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation in atherosclerosis🔥 Featuring: Dr.Huize Pan, Vanderbilt University Dr.Laura Shankman, University of Virginia Dr.Juyong Brian Kim, Stanford University members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Re...

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Journal Club! Join for the #NAVBO JC on this Thursday, Jan 22 at 1 PM EST Presenter: Edward Guzman, Ph.D Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Register: members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Re... Don't miss attending !!

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Join us today! Free for everyone who would like to attend.

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This settlement is the best case scenario for these applications at this point. Pushing back matters but real damage still done by illegal actions by the current NIH leadership. Thanks to everyone who helped make this settlement happen!

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Sex-resolved Plasma & Tissue Proteomics of 👤Calcified Aortic Valve Stenosis Tissue ♂️Fibrotic➡️Nucleotide & Cholesterol metab ♂️Calcified➡️Acute Inflamm, γ carboxyl ♀️Fibrotic➡️Platelet-Collagen Ad ♀️Calcified➡️Spectrin cytosk @markcblaser.bsky.social #ATVB 2025 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

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Marie Billaud @mariebillaud.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We have two suns out today in Massachusetts.

A frozen pond with rocks in the foreground and a tree line in the background. The sun is peaking through the layers of smooth clouds. The sun reflects on the clouds to the left of the picture, making it seem like there's a second sun.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 13/12/2025

ICYMI: A strategy for reversing age-related cardiovascular disease… @lwilsbacher.bsky.social & team show PAI-1 is important for vascular aging, reveal longer lifespan with its haploinsufficiency (in mice and humans), then reverse vascular damage in mice using a PAI-1 inhibitor: buff.ly/WFh2EHL

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

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Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!

YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#HutchinsonGilfordProgeriaSyndrome #SmoothMuscleCell Progerin transgene drives #EndMT #Atherosclerosis🐭 ⏫Aortic Endothelial Cell permeability ⏫Lesional EC infiltr▶️ColIV- & TGFβ1-rich plaque😮 Paracrine of progeroid aortic SMC?😆 #CircAHA 2024 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We mapped the whole human fallopian tube in 3D and at single-cell resolution via our CODA workflow. More about this work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Claire Dessalles @clairedessalles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📢Internships on cellular nematics! 🔬Come for the pretty images, stay for the cool physics: each project combines in vitro experiments with advanced microscopy and image analysis. 📧Feel free to DM or email me with any questions.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Lock-in-SIM, a new approach to reject background and minimize artefacts in structured illumination microscopy (SIM): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glad to see @esoubies.bsky.social's FlexSIM is the best opponent in side-by-side comparisons!

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JAMA @jama.com · 02/12/2025

#Microplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, with potential links to cognitive, cardiovascular, and inflammatory outcomes. 💡 Learn more in this JAMA Insights: ja.ma/44tEyub

A page from JAMA Insights titled "Microplastics and Human Health," published online October 15, 2025. The article discusses plastics production, microplastics, detection methods, and presence in human tissues.

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Teun Huijben @teunhuijben.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍

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Juanma García-Arcos @juanmagararc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

New paper from the @rouxlab.bsky.social on Nature Communications! We study how membrane tension is spatially organized in cells. Using the mechanosensitive probe Flipper-TR to visualize tension across the plasma membrane of adherent cells and to dissect the conditions needed for a gradient to happen

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Elisa Boscolo @boscololab.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

We made it to the cover page!! See our latest findings in TIE2 mutant endothelial cells in Venous Malformations in www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

“Any fun plans for tomorrow?” “No, we have people coming over.”

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/11/2025

A paper in Nature demonstrates a compound that enables the delivery of insulin through the skin in mice and minipigs. The findings suggest a potential alternative to injection for diabetes management and may support broader applications in other therapeutics. go.nature.com/4a2u5JT #medsky 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows skin permeability of OP.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.

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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Things I currently think you should be considering in your proposals. Although this thread will be NIH-centric, my guess is that some of this applies to NSF, etc. Much is synthesized from public information. Much of this is what we've advised all along, just with, um, more emphasis. Here we go:

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Ebrahim Lab @ebrahim-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab in @insight.jci.org, highlighting a role for the #septin #cytoskeleton in protecting against "leaky gut", by recruiting non-muscle myosin II and stabilizing the tight junction. Credit to @dominikrobak.bsky.social for the stunning cover image!

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

NIH FY26 might be worse than FY25. We have a CR and the NIH still citing the presidents budget request, an unofficial multi year funding mandate, apparently no paylines, IC leadership turnover, continued OMB/Vought interference, more shutdowns likely This is a recipe for total paralysis.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 21/11/2025

Xingchen Li, Christoph Ballestrem, et al. @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social show that multidomain interactions between talin and tensin3 regulate #integrin activity, fibrillar #adhesion formation, #fibronectin assembly, and mechanosensitive tensin3 phase separation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Getting journal rejections like

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gVasc research study @gvascstudy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🔬🧫🧬 How does gVasc use your samples and data for SCAD research? Swipe to see more information, key questions, and future directions ➡️ #SCAD #hearthealth #heartresearch #scadalliance #genetics #scadgenetics #womenshealth @scadalliance.bsky.social @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social @markelindsay.bsky.social

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Jeff Hsu, MD, PhD @jeffhsumd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Very proud to share our lab’s recently published work in AJP-Heart Early in my NIH K08 on #EndMT, we found an interesting signal in COL8A1 in athero, w/ biphasic response to TNF 🙏🏻 to ⭐️ postdoc Qian Li for leading us here (& @haoyin.bsky.social for summary!) journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Wanna be my colleague? We've got TT positions open! 1 in genetics/genomics jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638. 1 in biology education / open jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639. 1 in freshwater fisheries biology jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637 Date of first consideration is Jan 4 2026

Job add for genetics/genomics: text is https://jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638

Job add for freshwater fisheries biology. Text is at https://jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637

Job add for biology education position. Text is at https://jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639

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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Baym continues to make freakin' art. Must see thread/paper

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Me: "Taking vacation time is essential for emotional well-being, recovery from burnout, and future productivity. In all jobs but especially true in research, where mental focus is essential. Offering more vacation time should be required, and employees should take it" Also me: "But not me though"

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 20/11/2025

Actomyosin contractility and a threshold of cadherin cell adhesion is required during tissue fusion, say Camilla Teng @xsciteng.bsky.social, Jeffrey Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social and colleagues @ctbatucsf.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #Adhesion

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James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hey med students interested in CV research—consider applying to the Sarnoff research program for a fully funded year in an outstanding lab! Please RT

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Joe Italiano @megaman55.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Join us to pursue cutting-edge research at the interface of megakaryocyte biology and translational medicine. We have NIH-funded postdoc positions available to investigate platelet production and the broader functions of megakaryocytes. I’ll be attending ASH and would be happy to connect.

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Søren Grubb @sorengrubb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New on bioRxiv! 🚨 “Pericyte and Endothelial Primary Cilia and Centrioles have Disparate Organization Across the Brain Microvasculature” This project studying #microvascular cells took an unexpected turn when we discovered that #pericytes have primary #cilia! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 🧵1/8

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Dr. Hannah E. Jones, PhD @hejcell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Thrilled to share this last little bit of my thesis work w/ @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social! 🐭🧠 Generating the PDGFRa cKO line we use in this paper was no trivial task, spanning multiple years (& a pandemic!) We were extremely excited to see this phenotype & even more excited to share it with everyone!

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