Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one). 17720635
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I am often drawn back to X to follow politics. But I miss my science community!! 120
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaJeff Coller @jmcoller.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Ten months ago I had never written an op-ed. I believed the work spoke for itself. It doesn't. When the government calls a lifesaving technology unsafe and scientists stay silent, the silence becomes the story. A new @jhu.edu profile on why I stopped staying quiet: hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/24/j...hub.jhu.eduA staunch voice in support of scienceJeff Coller, a pioneering RNA biologist, has spent the past year vehemently advocating for the lifesaving promise of research in the face of federal cuts 15829
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaMiriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Don’t write, call. 5calls makes it easy. 121
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaTed Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025BOOM! www.nature.com/articles/s41... I think this is a big step forward for the field. Congrats to Lauren Donovan and @vivtawfik-mdphd.bsky.social and the whole Tawfik lab team.nature.comAging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia - Nature NeuroscienceThe authors describe a susceptibility of the peripheral nervous system to neuronal senescence with age or injury relevant for sensory dysfunction, such as chronic pain. 33217
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/05/2025Lux Capital providing funding opportunities for academic biomedical research aligned with interests 👏 www.luxcapital.com/news/our-hel...luxcapital.comOur Helpline for American Scientists 15932
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Happy Mother’s Day to all. May your love always shine bright. 000
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Miami friends! I'm looking forwarding to see you this Friday, May 9th, at my seminar on cellular adaptation in cancer and a Night Science mini workshop, on the Creative Scientific Process! Location: Sylvester Support Services Building Auditorium (1430 NW 11th Avenue) 132
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaRyan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Excited to share Benson’s and Maria’s work in collab w/Kostas Tzelepis: we found the nucleolar protein NPM1 is a marker of AML and can be targeted therapeutically connecting ‘cell surface RNA biology’ to cancer biology @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 36522
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025CALLING ON ALL ENTREPRENEURS at COM @UFMedicine!! We are going to have a Seeding Startups day on May 17th at 4PM at a local farm in Gainesville!! It will be family friendly- bring your spouses/children to hear of your latest and greatest ideas!! MARK YOUR CALENDAR! More details coming soon. 010
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This is pretty cool. Two RNA luminaries and some awesome socks!!! @darnelr.bsky.social and Adrian Krainer 😍 070
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 06/04/2025Good tutorial on how measles infections work, fortunately all of this is avoidable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated ChildWith falling vaccination rates and outbreaks that have caused more than 580 U.S. cases and at least two deaths, health experts expect hundreds or even thousands more to be infected in the coming month... 15818
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaDr. Shivani Ruparel @shivanibr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Had a blast speaking and catching up w/ Nicole Scheff, @flybottleescape.bsky.social @robgereau.bsky.social @laurenslosky.bsky.social et al at the Center for Adv PainTher and Res (CAPToR) @ufresearch.bsky.social.Thank you @khannalabuf.bsky.social and @maykhanna.bsky.social for hosting us. 182
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 27/03/2025We are seeking to hire a lab tech, this is an HHMI funded position, please share the job posting: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comLab Administration Research Technician- Bertozzi LabPrimary Work Address: Beckman Center, Stanford, CA, 94305-5323 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We are currently looking for a highly motivated Lab Administration ... 08777
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Everyone on this platform should also be on X. 120
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaDementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Next month we celebrate the 6th Anniversary of our service, and podcasts! So far we've published 303 episodes, and 11,735 minutes of top #dementia research content. Subscribe on YouTube or in your favourite podcast app! podfollow.com/dementia-res...podfollow.comPodcasts on DEMENTIA RESEARCHERA biweekly podcast for early career researchers, bringing together fantastic guests to discuss their research, careers + much more. 184
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaJohn Purdy @purdylab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Congratulations to @rmokry.bsky.social on her first pub from the lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 0102
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaNMR Online Limited @nmronline.bsky.social · 27/01/2025NMR QUESTION: Hi NMR spectroscopy friends, Does anybody have an ARTSY RDC dataset in NmrPipe format that we could use for software testing purposes? DM’s welcome. Thank you in advance. #NMR #NMRchat #NMROnline 043
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaJeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025 "Until we acknowledge that publish or perish is the natural consequence of the rankings obsession, we're not going to fix anything." New @nature.com, 62% of researchers in a survey attribute scientific irreproducibility to the 'publish or perish' culture. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisisSurvey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems. 1376
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaTed Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025BOOM! Big advance in our understanding of the pharmacology of CBD, CBN, and most importantly CBG. New work from the Waxman lab showing these "minor" cannabinoids act on Nav1.8: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.org 0105
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025@chen-zhao.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky my dear!! Good to see you here 😍. Follow this most awesome cryoEM scientist with a heart of gold ❤️ 130
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaTed Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Anyone working in the chemotherapy neuropathy field should read this proposed guidance from the FDA and provide comment if they have something to say about what is proposed: www.fda.gov/regulatory-i...fda.govPrevention and Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral NeuropathyPrevention and Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Developing Drug and Biological Products in Oncology 167
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This is so awful. I can’t even imagine the loss. 000
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaArdem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 12/01/2025In-depth article on chronic pain, with my friend @robgereau.bsky.social and Allan Basbaum heavily interviewed as scientists studying pain: ‘We die in pain, we don’t die of pain.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...nytimes.comChronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution.As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief? 04921
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/01/2025Childhood cancer death rates in the United States have declined six-fold over the last seventy years. 🧵 2242855
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/01/2025AND, at some point, we need to talk about how the fact that we are DETROIT means we're already at a recruiting disadvantage, and not just in sports! You gotta WANT to be in Detroit! That's why we have such a fierce love for each other AND for our city. Stand up and tell 'em you're from DETROIT! 6666
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaTed Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025This should be a terrific study that give substantial new insight into mechanisms of Rheumatoid Arthritis pain: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... Also (another) great example of the open science leadership of @denklab.bsky.social and colleagues.medrxiv.orgFibroblast-Neuron Interactions Driving Persistent Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis (FiND-Pain RA) - a study protocolIntroduction Pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an unmet clinical need. Targeting joint inflammation with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has not resulted in the anticip... 0173
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 24/12/2024It was such a pleasure ❤️ love seeing everyone come together to celebrate the holidays 😍❤️ 050
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024@hastingslab.bsky.social welcome!! Its good to see you here Michelle 😍 020
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaYael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024So excited to share our new paper working w/ David Lyden, Han Kim & Jackie Bromberg (WCM), led by the amazing Inbal Wortzel & Ifé Akano where we revealed a new & unexpected function for chromatin on the surface of exosomes in #cancer #metastasis @ Nature Cancer! www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comUnique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression - Nature CancerLyden and colleagues find that immune developmental genes, such as apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1 (APAF1), support DNA packaging on the surface of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles that ar... 78219
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024PLEASE TAKE OUR MONEY TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. Apologies in advance for spamming but I want to make sure there is reach on here and in bluer pastures. -$10K USD max per project -international projects accepted -deadline DECEMBER 25th; weekly rolling decisions -$41K left in grant pool rn 02812
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The Vilcek Foundation has opened its grantmaking. #Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for a grant of up to $20,000. The deadline to apply for a grant is June 30, 2025. vilcek.org/grants/?utm_...vilcek.orgGrants - Vilcek FoundationThe Vilcek Foundation accepts grant applications to support immigrant artists and communities, and diversity in the arts, sciences, and education. 04719
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaJianhan Chen @umassmdlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Excited to share our new coarse grained model of dynamic RNA for phase separation simulations. The model is still evolving and any feedback is welcomed! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgAn Intermediate Resolution Model of RNA Dynamics and Phase Separation with Explicit Mg2+RNAs are major drivers of phase separation in the formation of biomolecular condensates. Recent studies suggest that RNAs can also undergo protein-free phase separation in the presence of divalent ion... 041
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 03/12/2024Cool new work from Jenn Prescher and coworkers @ucirvine.bsky.social, “RNA lantern” technology for bioluminescence imaging of RNA transcripts www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking - Nature CommunicationsStudying RNA dynamics in vivo often relies on fluorogenic approaches, but these can be hampered by factors such as limited sensitivity and sample autofluorescence. Here, the authors describe an ultras... 322759
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaDr. Benjamin Runkle @drbenrunkle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024 We're hiring at the U. of Arkansas! Asst. Prof. with the aim of a research program focus on circular bioeconomy systems, teaching, service, and mentoring graduate students and research staff. Tenure will accrue in Dept. Biol. & Agric. Engr. Apply: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/... 01212
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaMarta Olah, PhD @martikacska.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Super excited to be here and to start using this platform with a great news - check out the latest study from the Sher lab published in Acta Neuropathologica reporting on the effect of LINE-1 retrotransposons on microglial function in Alzheimer’s disease 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comElevated expression of the retrotransposon LINE-1 drives Alzheimer’s disease-associated microglial dysfunction - Acta NeuropathologicaAberrant activity of the retrotransposable element long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) has been hypothesized to contribute to cellular dysfunction in age-related disorders, including late-ons... 0214
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaSukrit Singh @sukritsingh92.bsky.social · 19/11/2024New preprint! We prospectively evaluate structure-based methods and measure how well they classify clinical kinase mutations as inhibitor–resistant or –sensitizing when compared against our NanoBRET assay. Alchemical methods are well-suited to modeling distal mutants! Link: doi.org/10.1101/2024...doi.orgProspective evaluation of structure-based simulations reveal their ability to predict the impact of kinase mutations on inhibitor bindingSmall molecule kinase inhibitors are critical in the modern treatment of cancers, evidenced by the existence of over 80 FDA-approved small-molecule kinase inhibitors. Unfortunately, intrinsic or acqui... 12810
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaLuciano A. Masullo @lumasullo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes! Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social [re-post from Twitter]nature.comÅngström-resolution fluorescence microscopy - NatureThe authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off... 925271
May (Mai) Khanna @maykhanna.bsky.social · 01/12/2024😍 go UMich!! Beautiful Detroit airport!! Heading home after a wonderful family gathering ❤️ 000
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaBeing Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. Support your local bookstores. #BookSky #BlackBookSky ☕️📚 298206333067
Reposted by May (Mai) Khannarangachari lab (vijay) @rangacharilab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A significant discovery elegantly demonstrated... www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comStereochemistry in the disorder–order continuum of protein interactions - NatureStudies on protein–protein interactions using proteins containing d- or l-amino acids show that stereoselectivity of binding varies with the degree of disorder within the complex. 042
Reposted by May (Mai) Khannaerzbergerlab.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Yeast ribosomes adapt to glucose starvation by tethering to mitochondria in hibernation. Prolonged depletion halts protein synthesis and remodels ribosomes to create protective ribosome arrays. #ribosomes #RNASky #RNABiology #translation rdcu.be/d1xqjrdcu.beRibosomes hibernate on mitochondria during cellular stressNature Communications - Cells adapt to low glucose by halting protein synthesis and altering organelle shape. Here the authors showed that hibernating ribosomes tether to mitochondria and form... 09931
Reposted by May (Mai) KhannaIshmail 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 May (Mai) Khannarangachari lab (vijay) @rangacharilab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Check out our chapter on "Amyloid Polymorphism" in the book "The Three Functional States of Proteins." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comStructural polymorphism in amyloids—states within proteins’ solid-stateProteins are functionally diverse molecules that exist in a plethora of conformations and structures or as disordered ensembles, depending on their pr… 041